Core Platform Team/Initiative/API Gateway/Initiative Vision

Vision: Easier-to-use APIs, accessed and managed in a consistent way Easier-to-create APIs, including support for cross-property and non-core APIs Improved API stability, better able to withstand attacks and high traffic levels
Target Group(s): Traffic Product Infrastructure Analytics Internal developers External developers Search	Needs: our existing APIs require immersion in Wikimedia culture and use techniques unfamiliar to modern client developers no satisfactory way to create cross-project or non-core APIs no comprehensive way to protect our infrastructure from excessive API traffic	Product: Single API domain at api.wikimedia.org, with associated documentation Ability to publish APIs regardless of implementation technology Ability to limit rates across APIs, leveraging appropriate monitoring and authentication technologies	Aligned Goals: Knowledge as a service Increase ease and speed of feature development Increase the stability of the platform