User:DKinzler (WMF)/API URL Guidelines

This document provides guidelines for the URLs under which APIs are exposed on Wikimedia sites. It is designed primarily for the use with REST APIs, but may be applied to other types of APIs as well. It does not apply to the MediaWiki action API.

The Examples section below provides information on how this applies to existing and new APIs.

Existing APIs
This section explains how this guideline relates to pre-existing API.