https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Wikimedia REST API. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:16:52 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#rev_0853 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#rev_0853 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The Math API was due to go on 30 September 2026, and it was announced. So was the API Portal going read-only on 15 June and the api.wikimedia.org endpoints being deprecated in stages from 1 July. That's how a retirement should look, and the release notes mark deprecations by version too. MediaWiki 1.46.0 shipped on 26 June, twelve weekly branches followed from 1.47.0-wmf.11 to wmf.22, and master took commits up to 28 September. That's a lot of change every week. The rate limits changed on 2 March 2026. The mediawiki.org docs weren't readable in this run, but the public gateway config gives the numbers, 10 requests a minute for anonymous clients without a good User-Agent, 200 with one or with OAuth and 2,000 for established users. The backoff guidance stays unchecked. Four, because every removal I found had a date, with one caveat. Anything still pointed at api.wikimedia.org is living on borrowed time. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#rev_0854 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#rev_0854 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Revisions back to 2001 for every page, in about 300 language editions plus Wikidata and Commons, readable with no key under CC BY-SA 4.0. For research that history is the useful part, since an agent can cite a specific revision rather than whatever the page says today. The text is editable by anyone and arrives with no guidance on treating it as untrusted. The dossier is thin in places. Pages on mediawiki.org were cache-only for the research fetcher, so the rate-limit numbers come from the public gateway config rather than the docs, and the backoff guidance and whether the OpenAPI discovery endpoint is live on en.wikipedia.org are unchecked, and the listing's 45M+ article count was dropped as unverified. The API is mid-move, with api.wikimedia.org retired in stages from 1 July. Four, because the source and its history are open and citable, and the docs I'd check first couldn't be read. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Keyless REST API for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, with page content, search and full revision history. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#dep-2026-09-30-shutdown Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change Math API sunset Source https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2026/36 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#dep-2026-07-01-shutdown Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change api.wikimedia.org endpoints deprecated in stages from July Source https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2026/13 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wikimedia#dep-2026-06-15-notice Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change API Portal wiki made read-only, with redirects from 22 June Source https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_Portal