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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

This shows the API results that search results use to display additional information about articles, including a lead image and a description of the article's subject from Wikidata.

Showing nearby wiki information

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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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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This page is part of the MediaWiki action API documentation.

MediaWiki APIsAPI:Main page

• Web APIs showcaseAPI:Web APIs hub
• REST content API
• Wikidata query APIWikidata query service

MediaWiki action API

• Introduction and quick startAPI:Main page
• FAQAPI:FAQ
  • Etiquette and usage limitsAPI:Etiquette
• FormatsAPI:Data formats
• Error reportingAPI:Errors and warnings
• Restricting usageAPI:Restricting API usage
• Cross-site requestsAPI:Cross-site requests
• Authentication
  • LoginAPI:Login
  • LogoutAPI:Logout
  • Account creationAPI:Account creation
• QueriesAPI:Query
  • Meta informationAPI:Meta
  • PropertiesAPI:Properties
  • ListsAPI:Lists
• Searching (by title, content, coordinates...)API:Search and discovery
• Parsing wikitext and expanding templatesAPI:Parsing wikitext
• Purging pages' cachesAPI:Purge
• Parameter informationAPI:Parameter information
• Changing wiki contentAPI:Changing wiki content
  • Create and edit pagesAPI:Edit
  • Move pagesAPI:Move
  • Merge pagesAPI:Mergehistory
  • RollbackAPI:Rollback
  • Delete pagesAPI:Delete
  • Restore deleted revisionsAPI:Undelete
  • (Un)protect pagesAPI:Protect
  • (Un)block usersAPI:Block
  • (Un)watch pagesAPI:Watch
  • Mark revisions of watched pages as visitedAPI:SetNotificationTimestamp
  • Send emailAPI:Email
  • Patrol changesAPI:Patrol
  • Import pagesAPI:Import
  • Change user group membershipAPI:User group membership
  • Upload filesAPI:Upload
  • User optionsAPI:Options
  • TokensAPI:Tokens
  • Page languageAPI:SetPageLanguage
  • More...API:Changing wiki content
• Watchlist feedAPI:Watchlist feed
• WikidataWikibase/API
• ExtensionsAPI:Extensions
• Using the API in MediaWiki and extensionsAPI:Calling internally
• MiscellaneousAPI:Other services
• ImplementationAPI:Implementation Strategy
  • LocalisationAPI:Localisation
• Client codeAPI:Client code
• AssertingAPI:Assert

• 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.