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Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page
meta=wbcontentlanguages (wbcl)
- This module requires read rights.
- Source: WikibaseClient
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Returns information about the content languages Wikibase accepts in different contexts.
Specific parameters:
Other general parameters are available.
- wbclcontext
The context in which the content languages should be valid.
- term
- The terms (label, description, aliases) of an entity.
- monolingualtext
- A monolingual text value in a statement.
- term-lexicographical
- The terms of a lexicographical entity (lemmas of a lexeme, representations of a form, or glosses of a sense).
- One of the following values: monolingualtext, term, term-lexicographical
- Default: term
- wbclprop
The properties that should be returned about each language.
- code
- The language code.
- autonym
- The autonym of the language, that is, the name of the language in that language. May not be known for all languages.
- name
- The name of the language in the current language (specified via the uselang parameter), with language fallbacks applied if necessary. Usually, at least an English name is known for all content languages Wikibase accepts.
- Values (separate with | or alternative): autonym, code, name
- Default: code
Examples:
- Get the valid language codes for the terms of an entity.
- api.php?action=query&meta=wbcontentlanguages [open in sandbox]
- Get the valid languages, with language code and autonym, for monolingual text values.
- api.php?action=query&meta=wbcontentlanguages&wbclcontext=monolingualtext&wbclprop=code|autonym [open in sandbox]