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Your tokens are shown only once when the client is created — copy the access token right away, as you cannot view it again later. Register the client as owner-only so it is approved automatically and usable immediately by your own account.

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Register an owner-only OAuth 2.0 client on Meta-Wiki

A Personal API Token is the access token issued by an owner-only OAuth 2.0 client on Meta-Wiki. An owner-only client is approved automatically and is usable immediately by the account that created it, and the access token it issues is long-lived (it does not expire).

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Enter the application details

Sign in to your Meta-Wiki account, then open the OAuth 2.0 client registration form. In the New OAuth consumer application form, describe your client.

  • Application name: enter a descriptive name — for example, StackOne.
  • Consumer version: leave as 1.0.
  • Application description: briefly describe how the client is used.
OAuth consumer registration form with the Application name field highlighted
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Enable owner-only access

Check This consumer is for use only by [your username]. Selecting this option causes the client to be automatically approved and accepted for use by your account, so no administrator review is needed.

OAuth consumer registration form with the owner-only consumer checkbox checked and highlighted
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Check the read permissions

Under Applicable grants:, Basic rights is enabled by default and is sufficient for reading Wikipedia content. Leave the other, higher-risk grants unchecked.

Applicable grants table with the Basic rights row highlighted
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Accept the policy and submit

Check the application policy acknowledgement — the By submitting this application, you acknowledge… statement — then click Propose consumer. This checkbox is required; the form will not submit until it is ticked.

Policy acknowledgement checkbox ticked with the Propose consumer button below it
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Copy your access token

Meta-Wiki shows Your OAuth 2.0 client has been created. with Your tokens are: listing the Client application key, Client application secret, and Access token.

  • Copy the Access token value and paste it into the Personal API Token field in StackOne Hub.
  • The tokens are displayed only once and cannot be retrieved later — record them now.
  • The access token is long-lived and does not expire, so no periodic renewal is required.
Client creation result screen with the Access token highlighted and the token values redacted

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Find your language code

Your language code selects which language edition of Wikipedia this connection reads from.

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Find your language code

The Language Code is the subdomain of the Wikipedia edition you want to read from.

  • Check the subdomain — the part before .wikipedia.org.
  • Example: if your URL is https://en.wikipedia.org, your Language Code is en.
  • Common values: en (English), es (Spanish), fr (French), de (German), ja (Japanese).
  • Enter this value in the Language Code field in StackOne Hub.

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Linking the Account from the Hub

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Navigate to the Hub

Use one of the three Linking Account Methods to access the Hub.
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Fill out the fields

Fill out the following fields using details from your provider:
  • Personal API Token
  • Language Code
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Connect

  • Click Connect
  • If applicable, the provider will redirect you to a sign-in or authorization page. Complete the provider’s authorization flow.
  • Once authorization is successful, you will see a confirmation popup

If the account linking is successful, you will see the newly linked account in your Accounts page.