Board Thread:API Discussion/@comment-9605025-20190916235123

So, I already know in general how to do this, but I have the two following questions: The specific message I am interested in is MediaWiki:Wall-message-loadmore which appears to include some HTML tags. DE example | EN example 
 * 1) Is it possible to get multiple language versions in a single request? It seems that the API immediately falls back to English if the requested language isn't available. I would like to be able to created a longer fallback chain that tries the page language and the the wiki language before using English. I know I could do this by separate requests but is there a way to do this in a single request?
 * 2) How would you decode HTML entities without using the DOM? I am looking for the inverse of mw.html.encode. I have searched online other places and can only find the following type of solutions.
 * 3) Use JQuery and the DOM - I already did this for one of my other scripts but people on other sites are saying it is not advisable because it relies on browser-specific behavior
 * 4) Use someone else's library/function - I doubt Wikia would have it
 * 5) Write your own function - seems like this should not be necessary