Verified Sourcepaths · REST API

Wikipedia Action API siteinfo

healthy

Publisher
Wikimedia Foundation
Human landing
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
Artifact URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&format=json
Auth
none recorded
Rate limit
User-Agent identifying the client is required by Wikimedia policy. Unidentified clients are limited to about 10 req/min; a compliant UA is allowed about 200 req/min. A python-requests default UA returns 403.

Evidence

encyclopedias · open-knowledge

Publisher identity: Wikimedia Foundation Artifact relationship: official domain Automated access: plain GET succeeded Integrity hash: not yet hashed Parseability: valid Effects: read Licensing: CC BY-SA for Wikipedia content; this row is API metadata, not article text. Freshness: Sep 17, 2026, 7:10 PM PDT

Notes

Research listed https://www.wikimedia.org/w/api.php, which 404s. The live Action API is per-wiki; this measures English Wikipedia siteinfo JSON. Siteinfo payloads change across fetches, so the checker omits content_hash.

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