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> On the other hand, I'm not sure exactly the details of wikipedia's api TOS https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Et
by bawolff 2y ago
> On the other hand, I'm not sure exactly the details of wikipedia's api TOS
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette
You are basically allowed to do whatever as long as it doesn't cause an operational issue, you dont have too many requests in-flight at one time , and you put contact info in the user-agent or Api-User-Agent header. (Adding a unique api-user-agent header is probably the most important requirement, since if it does cause problems it lets operations team easily see what is happening)
I think the wiktok thing is exactly the sort of thing wikimedia folks hope people will use the api to create.