Congratulations! On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Victoria Coleman <vcole...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Jiang BIAN This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
