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.

Goals

 * 1) To inspire developers everywhere to build new things using data available from Wikimedia projects.
 * 2) To have a showcase of projects built using data from Wikimedia projects.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4) To be a friendly and inviting sandbox environment where new and experienced developers can try out different Wikimedia APIs.

Areas of focus

 * Examples/Playground
 * Data sets
 * AOuth
 * APIs
 * Documentation

Showcase

 * Live (inspiring) examples of examples uses of wikimedia data
 * Means of submitting visualizations
 * Means of embedding visualizations in wikipages (data.wikimedia.org?)
 * Limn or similar for building visualizations

Documentation

 * Documentation at different technical levels
 * Clear list of APIs and Datasets available

Community

 * Community element
 * Way of requesting new datasets and/or APIs

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/