Collaborate/API
All Wikimedia sites have an open, documented, evolving API (a machine readable interface) allowing other sites or apps to search, and extract data from, many millions of resources.
Anyone making a search tool can take this opportunity to cross-search relevant articles and media.
Queries can be restricted to specific categories (for example a subject area or a particular quality level) and to specific types of resource (such as media files or articles).
For general documentation of the API see MediaWiki:API.
DBpedia has a Linked Data view of facts and figures extracted from Wikipedia allowing rich, database-like queries.
Some tools made with these APIs are listed at Wikipedia:Tools.
If you have something specific you want to do with the API, get in touch with Wikimedia UK who can help:(info
wikimedia.org.uk).[1]
Footnotes
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