Which information to get:
- general
- Overall system information.
- namespaces
- List of registered namespaces and their canonical names.
- namespacealiases
- List of registered namespace aliases.
- specialpagealiases
- List of special page aliases.
- magicwords
- List of magic words and their aliases.
- statistics
- Returns site statistics.
- interwikimap
- Returns interwiki map (optionally filtered, optionally localised by using $1inlanguagecode). ;dbrepllag:Returns database server with the highest replication lag. ;usergroups:Returns user groups and the associated permissions. ;libraries:Returns libraries installed on the wiki. ;extensions:Returns extensions installed on the wiki. ;fileextensions:Returns list of file extensions allowed to be uploaded. ;rightsinfo:Returns wiki rights (license) information if available. ;restrictions:Returns information on available restriction (protection) types. ;languages:Returns a list of languages MediaWiki supports (optionally localised by using $1inlanguagecode).
- skins
- Returns a list of all enabled skins (optionally localised by using $1inlanguagecode, otherwise in the content language). ;extensiontags:Returns a list of parser extension tags. ;functionhooks:Returns a list of parser function hooks. ;showhooks:Returns a list of all subscribed hooks (contents of [[mw:Manual:$wgHooks|$wgHooks]]).
- variables
- Returns a list of variable IDs.
- protocols
- Returns a list of protocols that are allowed in external links.
- defaultoptions
- Returns the default values for user preferences.