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= 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.

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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.

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 * The MediaWiki 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.
 * You can search wiki content using various modules in the action API, and Wikidata has its own Wikidata query service. Search and discovery provides an overview.

There are many other ways to contribute to MediaWiki.