Core Platform Team/Initiatives/API Platform

Group:	Platform Engineering
Team members:	Will Doran, Bill Pirkle, Nikki Nikkhoui, Wendy Quarshie, Alex Paskulin
Backlog:	#api_platform
Lead:	Virginia Poundstone

Vision

For API producers and consumers, internal and external to Wikimedia, who need to create, manage, discover, and use APIs, the API Platform is a set of tools, processes, and best practices that empowers APIs as a method for creating and sharing free knowledge.

Different from existing APIs, our product breaks down barriers to entry for consumption and contribution to Wikimedia APIs

Context

The API Platform is a product that empowers API producers and consumers to discover, leverage and expose access to Knowledge as a Service. The API Platform workstream will:

Define API principles and streamline processes for consistent user experiences
Amplify high impact capabilities by concentrating APIs
Design interfaces for producer and consumer to discover and publish APIs

Notes

Team members should be adding to our collective set of notes along the way

Artifacts

API Portal OAuth2.0 video explanation