# Wikipedia / MediaWiki

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/wikipedia/  
**Website:** https://www.wikipedia.org  
**APIs profiled:** 33

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.

## Kin Score — 37.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 21.9 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 42.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 33.5 (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 | yes |
| 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 (33)

- **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 languages API** — Metadata
- **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 namespaces API** — Metadata
- **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 projects API** — Metadata
- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Wikipedia Agentic Access** — 125 operations · 49 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Wikipedia Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Wikipedia Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Wikipedia Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Wikipedia Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Open Data, Public APIs, Open Knowledge, Encyclopedia, Knowledge Graph, Open-Source, Non-Profit

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