How do I create a new page in a MediaWiki via the API?

Question

I'd like to create a new page in a MediaWiki via the API. According to the documentation this should be accomplished by setting the action to edit and then specifying a set of parameters, e.g. like this:

• bot = false
• contentformat = "text/x-wiki"
• contentmodel = "wikitext"
• createonly = false
• minor = true
• nocreate = false
• recreate = true
• summary = ""
• text = "........"
• title = "SomeTitle123"

And of course the CSRF-token.

However if I try to create a page using these parmeters I get the following error response:

• code: "missingtitle"
• info: "The page you specified doesn't exist."

It seems that in contrast to the API documentation the API rejects my attempt to create a page. What am I missing here? How is it possible to create a new page in MediaWiki using the API?

Answer 1

Basically the data specified in the question is already the correct data to send to the API for creating a new wiki page.

Unfortunately a simple but very important detail has to be considered: The MediaWiki API recognizes boolean variables not by their value but by their presence. That means: If you specify nocreate = false literally in your data structure that means nocreate = true for the API.

The correct way to specify data for the MediaWiki API is to leave out any boolean variable that contains false.

Therefore the correct data to send to the API is the following:

• contentformat = "text/x-wiki"
• contentmodel = "wikitext"
• minor = true
• recreate = true
• summary = ""
• text = "........"
• title = "SomeTitle123"