{
  "id": "mediawiki-action-api",
  "name": "MediaWiki Action API (Wikipedia)",
  "category": "apis",
  "summary": "The MediaWiki Action API used by Wikipedia and other wikis to query and retrieve page content and metadata.",
  "url": "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page",
  "docs": "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_APIs",
  "tags": [
    "knowledge-base",
    "wikipedia",
    "encyclopedia"
  ],
  "pricing": "free",
  "status": "active",
  "agent_access": {
    "auth": "none",
    "notes": "Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Agent&format=json (send a descriptive User-Agent)."
  },
  "related": [
    "wikidata-query-service"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Agent&format=json"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-02",
  "updated": "2026-10-02",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-02",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Wikimedia Foundation",
  "longform": [],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/mediawiki-action-api/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/mediawiki-action-api.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/mediawiki-action-api.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/apis/mediawiki-action-api.json"
  }
}