MediaWiki API help
This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page
list=growthtasks (gt)
- This module is internal or unstable, and you should not use it. Its operation may change without notice.
- This module requires read rights.
- This module can be used as a generator.
- Source: GrowthExperiments
- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
Get task recommendations suitable for newcomers.
Suggests a set of articles which have some outstanding issues easy enough for a new editor to tackle.
Specific parameters:
Other general parameters are available.
- gttasktypes
Task types to limit results to. Leave empty to receive all suggestions.
- expand
- Expand short articles
- link-recommendation
- Add links between articles
- Values (separate with | or alternative): expand, link-recommendation
- Default: (empty)
- gttopics
Article topics to prefer in task suggestions.
- architecture
- Architecture
- art
- Art
- comics-and-anime
- Comics and anime
- entertainment
- Entertainment
- fashion
- Fashion
- literature
- Literature
- music
- Music
- performing-arts
- Performing arts
- sports
- Sports
- tv-and-film
- TV and film
- video-games
- Video games
- biography
- Biography (all)
- women
- Biography (women)
- business-and-economics
- Business and economics
- education
- Education
- food-and-drink
- Food and drink
- history
- History
- military-and-warfare
- Military and warfare
- philosophy-and-religion
- Philosophy and religion
- politics-and-government
- Politics and government
- society
- Society
- transportation
- Transportation
- biology
- Biology
- chemistry
- Chemistry
- computers-and-internet
- Computers and internet
- earth-and-environment
- Earth and environment
- engineering
- Engineering
- general-science
- General science
- mathematics
- Mathematics
- medicine-and-health
- Medicine and health
- physics
- Physics
- technology
- Technology
- africa
- Africa
- asia
- Asia
- central-america
- Central America
- europe
- Europe
- north-america
- North America
- oceania
- Oceania
- south-america
- South America
- Values (separate with | or alternative): africa, architecture, art, asia, biography, biology, business-and-economics, central-america, chemistry, comics-and-anime, computers-and-internet, earth-and-environment, education, engineering, entertainment, europe, fashion, food-and-drink, general-science, history, literature, mathematics, medicine-and-health, military-and-warfare, music, north-america, oceania, performing-arts, philosophy-and-religion, physics, politics-and-government, society, south-america, sports, technology, transportation, tv-and-film, video-games, women
- Default: (empty)
- gttopicsmode
Matching mode for topics.
- One of the following values: AND, OR
- gtlimit
Maximum number of task suggestions to return.
- Type: integer or max
- The value must be between 0 and 250.
- gtoffset
When more results are available, use this to continue. More detailed information on how to continue queries can be found on mediawiki.org.
- Type: integer
- The value must be no less than 1.
- gtdebug
Add debug data to the output.
- Type: boolean (details)
- gtexcludepageids
Page IDs to exclude from the query.
- Type: list of integers
- Separate values with | or alternative.
- Maximum number of values is 1,000.
Examples:
- Get task recommendations for copy-editing-type tasks for the current user.
- api.php?action=query&list=growthtasks>tasktypes=copyedit [open in sandbox]
- Get task recommendations for the current user, with extended information about the pages.
- api.php?action=query&generator=growthtasks&ggtlimit=max&prop=info|revision [open in sandbox]