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Technical Questions & Issues

General API Questions

  • What data besides the article content is supported in the API?
  • Where can I find the documentation?
  • What is a namespace and how do I use it?
  • What is in the page-visibility-change stream?
  • What is in the page-update stream?
  • What is in the page-delete stream?
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Snapshot API

  • How do I get all of the articles in the Wikimedia dataset onto my system?
  • What do you receive in the Snapshot API?
  • What are the advantages of using the Snapshot API? 

On-demand API

  • What is included in the On-demand API?
  • What are the advantages of using the On-demand API? 

Realtime API

  • When I use the Realtime Streaming with the "since" parameter, it is returning page updates that are prior to the defined time frame, what is happening?
  • Is the current data structure for each feed item guaranteed to remain the same ie: Is it guaranteed that "each feed item has 3 lines, separated by \n"?
  • Some of the content that came through the Realtime feed was vandalized and now I have bad content on my site for my users to see. How do I address this?
  • The Realtime API is returning revisions with timestamps that are not current? Are the events out of order?
  • My Realtime streaming connection broke and I may need to go back to get revisions I’d missed. How do I do that?
  • What is included in the Realtime batch API?
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