Core Platform Team/Initiatives/Movie API

Movie API

Product Owner:	Evan Prodromou
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Status:	Declined
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Initiative Vision

Vision: A read-write API to access Wikimedia’s huge corpus of movie and television data Establish a pattern for vertical APIs concentrating on developers’ needs
Target Group(s): Movie-focused application developers Data scientists	Needs: Alternative to undocumented IMDB private API Film production metadata Cast and crew listings Localised titles Localised plot summaries Localised quotes Localised production notes Cast and crew filmographies Liberal API terms of service Royalty-free data license	Product: CRUD API for movie objects, assembled from Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikiquote content CRUD API for cast and crew, assembled from Wikidata, Wikiquote and Wikipedia content Movie search by title People search by name All integrated into Wikimedia Public API platform, including unified authorization, documentation and API limits	Aligned Goals: Increase reuse and distribution of content Increase feature parity among clients by structuring content and providing a full featured API. Increase ease of developing data driven applications and features. Reduce the complexity of the platform. Increase ease and speed of feature development.