# MediaWiki Action API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/wikidata/mediawiki-action-api/  
**Provider:** Wikidata — https://apis.io/providers/wikidata/  
**Base URL:** https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php  
**Documentation:** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API

MediaWiki Action API is one of 9 APIs that [Wikidata](https://apis.io/providers/wikidata/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include MediaWiki, Entity Retrieval, and Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The MediaWiki Action API provides batch entity retrieval, editing, and search for Wikidata via wbgetentities, wbsearchentities, wbeditentity, and other actions. Supports up to 50 entities per request. Accessible at wikidata.org/w/api.php.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API
- **SDKs** — https://pypi.org/project/pywikibot/
- **SDKs** — https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikibase-sdk
- **SDKs** — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Wikidata_Toolkit
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wikidata/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Wikidata APIs (8)

- [SPARQL Query Service](https://apis.io/apis/wikidata/sparql-query-service/)
- [Linked Data Interface](https://apis.io/apis/wikidata/linked-data-interface/)
- [Recent Changes Event Stream](https://apis.io/apis/wikidata/event-stream/)
- [Wikidata Descriptions API](https://apis.io/apis/wikidata/wikidata-descriptions-api/)
- [Wikidata Items API](https://apis.io/apis/wikidata/wikidata-items-api/)
- [Wikidata Labels API](https://apis.io/apis/wikidata/wikidata-labels-api/)
- [Wikidata Properties API](https://apis.io/apis/wikidata/wikidata-properties-api/)
- [Wikidata Statements API](https://apis.io/apis/wikidata/wikidata-statements-api/)

## Tags

MediaWiki, Entity Retrieval, Search

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