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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?

Peter Mortensen
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rbrayb
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    Check out [Extract the first paragraph from a Wikipedia article](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4460921/extract-the-first-paragraph-from-a-wikipedia-article-python). – martineau Dec 16 '10 at 22:28

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MediaWiki's API is running on Wikipedia (docs). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself.

More information.

Ross
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Wikipedia is built on MediaWiki, and here's the MediaWiki API.

Hank Gay
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If you want to extract structured data from Wikipedia, you may consider using DbPedia http://dbpedia.org/

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 http://www.kozlenko.info/blog/2010/07/20/executing-sparql-query-on-wikipedia-in-net/

There are some SPARQL libraries available for multiple platforms to make queries easier

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JWPL - Java-based Wikipedia Library -- An application programming interface for Wikipedia

http://code.google.com/p/jwpl/

Oliver Ferschke
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Here are 2 from infochimps.com:

http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/wikipedia-articles-abstract-search

http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/wikipedia-articles-title-autocomplete

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