# Wikimedia

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/wikimedia/  
**Website:** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page  
**APIs profiled:** 20

Wikimedia provides REST APIs for accessing Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and other Wikimedia project content including page summaries, search, media files, page revision history, and usage metrics. The suite includes the MediaWiki Action API for bot and edit operations, the MediaWiki REST API for modern content access, and the Wikimedia Enterprise API for commercial-scale high-volume data reuse across 920+ datasets and 360+ languages.

## Kin Score — 44.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 57.6 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 30.6 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (20)

- **MediaWiki REST API** — The MediaWiki REST API provides a modern RESTful interface for reading and writing wiki content including pages, revisions, file metadata, search, and content transformation bet...
- **Wikimedia articles API** — On-demand API
- **Wikimedia batches API** — Realtime Batch API
- **Wikimedia Citation API** — generation of citation data
- **Wikimedia codes API** — Metadata
- **Wikimedia languages API** — Metadata
- **Wikimedia Math API** — formula rendering
- **Wikimedia Mobile API** — The Mobile API from Wikimedia — 3 operation(s) for mobile.
- **Wikimedia namespaces API** — Metadata
- **Wikimedia offline API** — The offline API from Wikimedia — 2 operation(s) for offline.
- **Wikimedia Page content API** — page content in different formats
- **Wikimedia projects API** — Metadata
- **Wikimedia Reading lists API** — Private lists of selected pages
- **Wikimedia Recommendation API** — contribution recommendations
- **Wikimedia snapshots API** — Snapshot API
- **Wikimedia structured-contents API** — (Beta) Structured Contents On-demand API
- **Wikimedia structured-snapshots API** — (BETA) Structured Contents Snapshot API
- **Wikimedia Talk pages API** — The Talk pages API from Wikimedia — 2 operation(s) for talk pages.
- **Wikimedia Transforms API** — convert content between HTML and Wikitext
- **Wikimedia wikidata API** — The wikidata API from Wikimedia — 3 operation(s) for wikidata.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Wikimedia Agentic Access** — 99 operations · 41 acting

## Security (3)

- **Wikimedia Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Wikimedia Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Wikimedia Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Wikimedia Enterprise**

## Tags

Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Encyclopedia, Open Knowledge, Content, Search, Reference

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/wikimedia/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.