Hi everyone,

We're excited to announce that the Wikibase REST API will officially move to a stable v1 version, going live today, November 11, 2024. This new version will adhere to the stable interface policy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy, ensuring reliability.

It's important to note that the older v0, which has been live on Wikidata since early 2023, will remain available for a *four-week *transition period until mid-December 2024 in order to avoid unnecessary maintenance costs.

We encourage all users to migrate to the new v1 API during this time to ensure that their applications can continue to work seamlessly. In almost all cases, this should just require replacing v0 in the routes with v1.

Please refer to the Open API swagger documentation https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/js/rest-api/ for detailed information about the v1 API, including all endpoints, parameters, errors, request and response formats. Additionally, you can find all the background information and relevant links curated on our project page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API.

If you encounter problems or want to request a new feature, please create a ticket on our Phabricator board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikibase_rest_api_wpp/. If you have questions or want to leave feedback, please do so on the project talk page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:REST_API#Wikibase_REST_API_is_now_on_version_1! or reach out to Ifrah Khanyaree https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ifrahkhanyaree_WMDE, the product manager for the REST API.

Cheers,