Wikipedia

MediaWiki API

Accessing MediaWiki programatically

https://ca.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

MediaWiki Perl Libraries

• MediaWiki::Bot
• MediaWiki::API

Wikidata

Wikidata

Wikidata

Triples and RDF

SPARQL and L(O)D

Similar to SQL, but for the Semantic Web

Linked Open Data

SPARQL queries examples

• Children of Spanish politicians
• Art Noveau in Catalonia

Wikidata Client Libraries

• wdq
• Catmandu::Wikidata