Wikipedia / MediaWiki
Wikipedia is the free, multilingual online encyclopedia operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. The platform exposes its content and structured data through several public APIs: the original MediaWiki Action API (action=query|edit|parse|upload), the MediaWiki Core REST API (page CRUD, search, transforms), the Wikimedia REST API (page summaries, mobile HTML, math, citation, reading lists, recommendations), the Wikidata Query Service SPARQL endpoint (structured knowledge graph queries), and the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs (commercial Snapshot, On-demand, Realtime). All free APIs are governed by the Wikimedia API usage guidelines: contactable User-Agent, serial requests, maxlag for bots.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Wikipedia / MediaWiki the way a machine reads it — 289 machine-readable artifacts across 33 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Wikipedia / MediaWiki scores 52.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 52/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Wikipedia / MediaWiki
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Wikipedia / MediaWiki. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 33
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki articles API
On-demand API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Authentication API
Login, logout, token retrieval (action=login, clientlogin, logout, query&meta=tokens)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki batches API
Realtime Batch API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Citation API
generation of citation data
Wikipedia / MediaWiki codes API
Metadata
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Edit API
Create/modify page content (action=edit)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Files API
Media file metadata
Wikipedia / MediaWiki History API
Page revision history and edit statistics
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Links API
Page relationships - language and media links
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Math API
formula rendering
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Meta API
Metadata operations (action=opensearch, action=feedrecentchanges)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Mobile API
The Mobile API from Wikipedia / MediaWiki — 3 operation(s) for mobile.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki offline API
The offline API from Wikipedia / MediaWiki — 2 operation(s) for offline.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Page content API
page content in different formats
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Pages API
Page metadata, HTML, source, create, update
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Parse API
Wikitext parsing (action=parse)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Patrol API
Mark edits as patrolled (action=patrol)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Query API
Read-only data retrieval (action=query) — pages, revisions, links, search
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Reading lists API
Private lists of selected pages
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Recommendation API
contribution recommendations
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Revisions API
Individual revision retrieval and comparison
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Search API
Title and full-text search
Wikipedia / MediaWiki snapshots API
Snapshot API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki SPARQL API
SPARQL 1.1 query endpoint
Wikipedia / MediaWiki structured-contents API
(Beta) Structured Contents On-demand API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki structured-snapshots API
(BETA) Structured Contents Snapshot API
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Talk pages API
The Talk pages API from Wikipedia / MediaWiki — 2 operation(s) for talk pages.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Transforms API
Wikitext <-> HTML transformation
Wikipedia / MediaWiki Upload API
File upload (action=upload)
Wikipedia / MediaWiki wikidata API
The wikidata API from Wikipedia / MediaWiki — 3 operation(s) for wikidata.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Wikipedia Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Wikipedia Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 6
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Wikipedia Context
JSON-LDWikipedia Rest V1 Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Wikipedia / MediaWiki API Rules
SPECTRALWikipedia / MediaWiki API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 81
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ActionApiError
JSON SCHEMAActionApiWriteRequest
JSON SCHEMAActionResult
JSON SCHEMACompareResponse
JSON SCHEMACreatePageRequest
JSON SCHEMAEditCounts
JSON SCHEMAFile
JSON SCHEMAHistoryResponse
JSON SCHEMALanguageLink
JSON SCHEMAPage
JSON SCHEMARevision
JSON SCHEMASearchResponse
JSON SCHEMASearchResult
JSON SCHEMAUpdatePageRequest
JSON SCHEMAcx_dict
JSON SCHEMAcx_mt
JSON SCHEMAlist_entry_read
JSON SCHEMAlist_entry_write
JSON SCHEMAlist_read
JSON SCHEMAlist_write
JSON SCHEMAlisting
JSON SCHEMAmedia_item
JSON SCHEMAmedia_list
JSON SCHEMAmorelike_result
JSON SCHEMAoriginalimage
JSON SCHEMAproblem
JSON SCHEMArecommendation_result
JSON SCHEMAresult
JSON SCHEMArevisionIdentifier
JSON SCHEMArevisionInfo
JSON SCHEMArevision
JSON SCHEMArevisions
JSON SCHEMAsummary
JSON SCHEMAthumbnail
JSON SCHEMAtitles_set
JSON SCHEMASparqlResults
JSON SCHEMAarticle_body
JSON SCHEMAarticle_namespace
JSON SCHEMAarticle
JSON SCHEMAbatch
JSON SCHEMAcategory
JSON SCHEMAcitation
JSON SCHEMAcode
JSON SCHEMAeditor
JSON SCHEMAentity
JSON SCHEMAevent
JSON SCHEMAfilter
JSON SCHEMAimage
JSON SCHEMAlanguage
JSON SCHEMAlicense
JSON SCHEMAlink
JSON SCHEMAmaintenance_tags
JSON SCHEMAnamespace
JSON SCHEMApart
JSON SCHEMAproject
JSON SCHEMAprotection
JSON SCHEMAredirect
JSON SCHEMAreference
JSON SCHEMAreferenceneed
JSON SCHEMAreferencerisk
JSON SCHEMArevertrisk
JSON SCHEMAscores
JSON SCHEMAsize
JSON SCHEMAsnapshot
JSON SCHEMAstructured-content
JSON SCHEMAtable
JSON SCHEMAtemplate
JSON SCHEMAthumbnail
JSON SCHEMAversion
JSON SCHEMAvisibility
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_article
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_property
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_qualifier
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_reference_part
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_statement_reference
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_entity_value
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_labels
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_sitelinks
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_statement
JSON SCHEMAwikidata_statements
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JSON Structure 81
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Mediawiki Action Api Action Api Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Action Api Action Api Write Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Action Api Action Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Compare Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Create Page Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Edit Counts Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest File Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest History Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Language Link Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Page Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Revision Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Search Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Search Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediawiki Core Rest Update Page Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Cx Dict Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Cx Mt Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 List Entry Read Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 List Entry Write Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 List Read Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 List Write Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Listing Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Media Item Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Media List Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Morelike Result Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Originalimage Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Problem Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Recommendation Result Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Result Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Revision Identifier Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Revision Info Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Revision Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Revisions Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Thumbnail Structure
JSON STRUCTURERest V1 Titles Set Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikidata Sparql Sparql Results Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Article Body Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Article Namespace Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Article Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Batch Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Category Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Citation Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Code Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Editor Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Entity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Event Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Filter Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Image Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Language Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise License Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Link Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Maintenance Tags Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Namespace Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Part Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Project Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Protection Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Redirect Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Reference Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Referenceneed Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Referencerisk Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Revertrisk Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Scores Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Size Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Snapshot Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Structured Content Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Table Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Template Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Thumbnail Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Version Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Visibility Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Article Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Entity Property Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Entity Qualifier Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Entity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Entity Value Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Labels Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Sitelinks Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Statement Structure
JSON STRUCTUREWikimedia Enterprise Wikidata Statements Structure
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Examples 79
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Rest V1 Cx Dict Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Cx Mt Example
EXAMPLERest V1 List Read Example
EXAMPLERest V1 List Write Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Listing Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Media Item Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Media List Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Problem Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Result Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Revision Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Revisions Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Summary Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Thumbnail Example
EXAMPLERest V1 Titles Set Example
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Wikipedia / MediaWiki — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 14
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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