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• Extract, publish, edit, and monitor information in real time using the Wikimedia web APIs.
• Analyze in detail our entire Wikimedia datasets.
• Extend and contribute to hundreds of Wikimedia free software projects.

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Page info in search results

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This shows how to query the MediaWiki API for nearby articles

• More: the WikimediaKiosk cycles through a variety of interesting projects and data visualizations.

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Make requests and see results in the MediaWiki API Sandbox

Request content and metadata of Wikimedia articles with our REST API

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• The MediaWiki action API (documentation) is a collection of API modules on each wiki that let you query and manipulate its content.

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MediaWiki Action API
Basics All Query modules Get properties of pages List pages matching a criterion Get module parameters information Get meta information about the wiki and user Authentication Get tokens for data modifying operations Login Logout Assert user Accounts and Users Create an account Block or unblock a user Get info about the current user Get the current user's watchlist as a feed Change user options Change user group membership Send an email Page Operations Parse content of a page Create and edit a page Upload a file Import a page Delete a page Watch or unwatch a page Purge cache for page(s) Rollback a page Move a page Patrol a page or revision Restore revisions of a deleted page Change a page's protection level Change a page's language More... Search Search for a title or text Fetch results in an OpenSearch format Search for wiki pages near a location Search for a language Perform a prefix search for page titles Developer Utilities Access libraries Cross-site requests Creating an API module in an extension Using the API in MediaWiki and extensions Restricting API usage Localisation Implementation Strategy Tutorials Action API Tutorial Article ideas generator Nearby places viewer Picture of the day viewer

• The Wikidata API (documentation) consists of several such modules running on Wikidata wiki that let you query and manipulate language-independent information.

• The RESTBase content API (generated documentation) runs on each wiki so you can retrieve page content quickly and easily.
• You can search wiki content using various modules in the action API, and Wikidata has its own Wikidata query service. Search and discovery provides an overview.

There are many other ways to contribute to MediaWiki.