Agency/docs/sites/platforms/mediawiki.md

Platform: MediaWiki

MediaWiki is an open source wiki platform (the software behind Wikipedia). It exposes a full public API (api.php) with no authentication required for reading public content.

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Available signals

• Edit count per user
• Pages created per user
• Bytes added (where available)

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How to collect

MediaWiki public API. No authentication required for public wikis.

Base URL: https://{wiki-host}/api.php

Example endpoints:

• ?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuser={username}&format=json — contributions by user
• ?action=query&list=allusers&format=json — user discovery
• ?action=query&prop=revisions&titles={page}&format=json — page revision history

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General concerns

• Edit quality varies widely; raw count is a blunt signal
• Bots and automated edits should be filtered
• Username mapping to other platforms requires manual or heuristic matching