Web APIs hub

The mission of Wikimedia Foundation is to collect, develop and disseminate free knowledge, and its projects have various repositories of free and open datasets and its APIs available. These APIs and the documentation for accessing and using them are currently scattered all across several projects and there is no central location where people can learn about, access and get inspired to use and build other works with these available datasets. This proposal is for a central "API Documentation and Developer Hub" which will house all Wikimedia developer community related content. Once built, the project can be hosted at dev.wikimedia.org.

Goals

 * 1) To inspire developers everywhere to build new things using data available from Wikimedia projects.
 * 2) To be the central resource where developers can find a way to  contribute to  Wikimedia projects and build new things on top of the Wikimedia data.
 * 3) To be a friendly and inviting sandbox environment where new and experienced developers can try out different Wikimedia APIs.

Showcase

 * A curated collection of projects created using data from Wikimedia projects.
 * Means of submitting a project to be considered for showcase.

Documentation

 * Documentation at different technical levels.
 * An organized list of APIs and datasets available.

Community

 * Way of requesting new datasets and/or APIs.
 * Related news, features, and announcements.
 * A way for the community to get in touch with WMF folks for help on projects.

Areas of focus

 * Project showcase, examples and sandbox
 * Data sets
 * AOuth
 * APIs
 * Documentation
 * Related news and announcements

Documentation

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data#API
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid#The_Parsoid_web_API
 * http://gdash.wikimedia.org/
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute

Data Sets

 * https://www.quora.com/Data/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to-the-public (big list)
 * http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets (another big list)
 * https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
 * http://www.data.gov/
 * https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/publicdata/

Other Internal(ish) Projects

 * http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editdistribution
 * http://infodisiac.com/
 * http://seealso.org/

Programmable Web

 * http://www.programmableweb.com/

Twitter

 * https://dev.twitter.com/
 * https://dev.twitter.com/docs
 * https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1
 * https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis

Google

 * http://developers.google.com
 * https://developers.google.com/products/
 * http://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/
 * https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
 * https://developers.google.com/maps/

Facebook

 * https://developers.facebook.com/
 * https://developers.facebook.com/docs/
 * https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/
 * https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/apis/

Evernote

 * http://dev.evernote.com/
 * http://dev.evernote.com/doc/
 * http://dev.evernote.com/doc/reference/
 * http://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/authentication.php

LinkedIn

 * https://developer.linkedin.com/
 * https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/authentication
 * https://developer.linkedin.com/rest

GitHub

 * http://developer.github.com/
 * http://developer.github.com/v3/
 * http://developer.github.com/guides/

Amazon

 * https://developer.amazon.com/
 * http://aws.amazon.com/
 * http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/

Dropbox

 * https://www.dropbox.com/developers
 * https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync
 * https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore
 * https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core
 * https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/chooser/js
 * https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/saver

Instagram

 * http://instagram.com/developer/
 * http://instagram.com/developer/authentication/

Stripe

 * https://stripe.com/docs
 * https://stripe.com/docs/api/curl

Paypal

 * https://developer.paypal.com/
 * https://developer.paypal.com/docs/
 * https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/

Tumblr

 * http://developers.tumblr.com/
 * http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v2

Last.fm

 * http://www.last.fm/api
 * http://www.last.fm/api/intro

Twillio

 * https://www.twilio.com/
 * https://www.twilio.com/docs
 * https://www.twilio.com/docs/api
 * https://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart

Vimeo

 * http://developer.vimeo.com/
 * http://developer.vimeo.com/apis
 * http://developer.vimeo.com/apis/simple

Pinterest

 * http://developers.pinterest.com/
 * http://developers.pinterest.com/api_docs/