Editing Courses/Wikis-Publishing Platforms (section)

==Decomposing an API request== 
 http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php? format=json & action=query & titles=Colophon & prop=revisions & rvprop=content 

* <code>http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?</code> - '''endpoint''' - the home page of the MediaWiki web service. It can be found by going to the [[Version:Special]] page of a wiki a searching for the API entry point 
* <code>format=json</code> - the format of the output. Can either be JSON of XML, although XML is being phased out
* <code>action=query</code> - what action to you want to performed. [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query query] is the most used, but there many more available options, such as editing and deleting pages.
'''Then comes the action specific parameters'''
* <code>titles=Colophon</code> - the page queried 
* <code>prop=revisions</code> - what [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties properties] you want from of a page: revision. As no particular revision is specified the latest will be returned
* <code>rvprop=content</code> - what specific properties you want from the page revision in question: content. You could also ask for the <code>user</code> who created the last revision, or the <code>comment</code> left by the user. These properties can be combined in a single request. <code>rvprop=content|user|comment</code>