Hi Julius,

I have also a pointer on the Rest API topic (in development) since August 1st . I would like to help you in your investigation, but first at all I have to make sure we do focus on the same project.

I started with the mail posted on August 1st from wikidata-tech mailing list (see after). This project is a new Rest API version (a re-design) of an existing one (since 2020) with the goal to access the wikibase structure (items & properties, referenced as wikidata)

[Wikidata-tech] You can now check out the current development state of the upcoming REST API for Wikibase

So do we focus on the same set of functions ?

Dominique L.

Le mar. 27 sept. 2022 à 09:51, Julius Hamilton <juliushamilton100@gmail.com> a écrit :

Hey,

This seems to be the homepage for the "REST API": https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_REST_API

but I don't see any documentation there for API parameters.

For example, someone gave me this example API call: https://en.wikisource.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Little_Essays_of_Love_and_Virtue

But I don't see information in the first link above that you should append "page" and "html" to the wikisource API endpoint.

Is there documentation for this API?

Also, is this API an attempt to replace the old one or something? How does it differ from the MediaWiki Action API and the MediaWiki REST API?

For example, do they fetch different kinds of information or something?

Also, would the "parse" prop in the Action API be a good way to get plaintext from a Wikisource book?

Thank you,
Julius
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