API:Web APIs hub

 What is this? = Equip your projects with free knowledge =


 * 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.

= Inspire =

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.

= Explore =

Request HTML of Wikimedia articles with our RESTBase interactive API


= Build =
 * the MediaWiki PHP action API (documentation) is a collection of API modules on each wiki that let you query and manipulate its content.
 * 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.

There are many other ways to contribute to MediaWiki.