Awesome! Well done Gabriel & team & everyone!! Victoria > On Apr 6, 2017, at 4:17 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > It is official: The Wikimedia REST API > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/REST_API>, your scalable and fresh source > of Wikimedia content and data in machine-readable formats, is now ready for > full production use. The 1.0 release means that you can now fully rely on > the stability guarantees set out in the API versioning policy > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_versioning>. Read more about the > stability levels, use cases, as well as technical background on how the > REST API integrates with our caching layers in our blog post: > > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/06/wikimedia-rest-api/ > > > We are looking forward to your feedback at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:REST_API, or here on-list. > > > This release was made possible by the hard work of many. First of all, > the Services > team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Services> (Marko Obrovac, > Petr Pchelko and Eric Evans), created the general API proxy and storage > functionality, and curated the API documentation > <https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/>. The actual end points are > co-designed with, and largely backed, by services developed by the > following WMF teams: Editing (Parsing > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing> and citoid > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid>), Reading > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading> (Infrastructure > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Reading_Infrastructure_team> and > Web <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web>), and Analytics > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics>. Volunteer Moritz Schubotz and > the MathJax <https://www.mathjax.org/> community contributed the math end > points, and the PDF end point is powered by the open source > electron-render-service <https://github.com/msokk/electron-render-service> > project. Finally, the WMF techops team > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Operations> runs the > excellent caching infrastructure that makes this API scale so well, and > have helped with many aspects from hardware procurement to firewalling. > > > Thank you all for your hard work! > > > We are looking forward to continuing to work with you all on making this > API an even better platform for building user experiences, services, and > tools. > > > Cheers, > > > Gabriel and the Services team > > > -- > Gabriel Wicke > Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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