MediaWiki API result

This is the HTML representation of the JSON format. HTML is good for debugging, but is unsuitable for application use.

Specify the format parameter to change the output format. To see the non-HTML representation of the JSON format, set format=json.

See the complete documentation, or the API help for more information.

{
    "compare": {
        "fromid": 1,
        "fromrevid": 1,
        "fromns": 0,
        "fromtitle": "Home",
        "toid": 2,
        "torevid": 2,
        "tons": 0,
        "totitle": "Alcove",
        "*": "<tr><td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\" id=\"mw-diff-left-l1\" >Line 1:</td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"diff-lineno\">Line 1:</td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">'''MediaWiki has been successfully installed</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">'''</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">As early as 1787, Americans recognized the alcove as a distinct garden feature that could follow one of two types: an ornamental building in a garden or a recessed niche cut into live plant material</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u00a0</td><td class='diff-context'></td><td class='diff-marker'>\u00a0</td><td class='diff-context'></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Consult </del>the [<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">//meta</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wikimedia</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] </del>for <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">information on </del>using the <del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wiki software</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">As a garden building, an alcove could be a freestanding or semidetached structure, typically possessing three sides and housing a seat. Alcoves provided shelter from the sun in summer but were particularly welcome in the northern winter, since they were often enclosed against </ins>the <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">winds and open to the sun. As sheltered sun-catchers, alcoves were logical appendages to bathhouses as indicated in Samuel Vaughan\u2019s 1787 plan of Berkeley Springs, Va. (later W.Va.) </ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">461]</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Like other garden buildings, such as summerhouses and pavilions, alcoves provided shade and gave visual and physical structure to the garden by serving \u201cas terminations to grand walks,\u201d as Eliza Caroline Burgwin Clitherall (active 1801) and Bernard M\u2019Mahon (1806) both explained</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">Alcoves, situated at the end of long walks or avenues, created visual focal points and secluded destinations </ins>for <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">people </ins>using the <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">garden [1007, 1688]</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u00a0</td><td class='diff-context'></td><td class='diff-marker'>\u00a0</td><td class='diff-context'></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">== Getting started ==</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td class='diff-addedline'><div><ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">When conceived as a recessed niche, an alcove was typically set into or cut out of densely planted vegetation, such as privet. Alexander Walsh\u2019s 1841 account of diminutive alcoves exemplifies this second type </ins>[<ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">935</ins>]. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">In Walsh\u2019s plan, the alcoves act as portals between the ornamental pleasure ground and compartments devoted to flowers and culinary vegetables (see also M\u2019Mahon 1806)</ins>. <ins class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">These portals were elevated, much like those described in the Horticultural Register of 1837, and thus provided both enclosure and privacy as well as a vantage point from which to view the landscape</ins>.</div></td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* </del>[<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list</del>]</div></td><td colspan=\"2\">\u00a0</td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* [//www.mediawiki</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]</del></div></td><td colspan=\"2\">\u00a0</td></tr>\n<tr><td class='diff-marker'>\u2212</td><td class='diff-deletedline'><div><del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">* [https://lists</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">wikimedia</del>.<del class=\"diffchange diffchange-inline\">org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]</del></div></td><td colspan=\"2\">\u00a0</td></tr>\n"
    }
}

Retrieved from "https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php/Special:ApiHelp"

History of Early American Landscape Design contributors, "Special:ApiHelp," History of Early American Landscape Design, , https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php/Special:ApiHelp (accessed March 18, 2026).