On my Wikipedia user page, I run a Wikipedia script that displays my statistics (number of pages edited, number of new pages, monthly activity, etc.).
I'd like to put this information on my blog.
Is there an API that would allow me to do something like this?
5 Answers
MediaWiki's API is running on Wikipedia (docs). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself.
Wikipedia is built on MediaWiki, and here's the MediaWiki API.
If you want to extract structured data from Wikipedia, you may consider using DbPedia
It provides means to query data using given criteria using SPARQL and returns data from parsed Wikipedia infobox templates
Here is a quick example how it could be done in .NET
There are some SPARQL libraries available for multiple platforms to make queries easier
JWPL - Java-based Wikipedia Library -- An application programming interface for Wikipedia
Here are 2 from infochimps.com:
