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# Platform: MediaWiki
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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
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- Edit count per user
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- Pages created per user
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- Bytes added (where available)
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## How to collect
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MediaWiki public API. No authentication required for public wikis.
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Base URL: `https://{wiki-host}/api.php`
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Example endpoints:
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- `?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuser={username}&format=json` — contributions by user
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- `?action=query&list=allusers&format=json` — user discovery
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- `?action=query&prop=revisions&titles={page}&format=json` — page revision history
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## General concerns
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- Edit quality varies widely; raw count is a blunt signal
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- Bots and automated edits should be filtered
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- Username mapping to other platforms requires manual or heuristic matching
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