Evidence-backed facts
- The MediaWiki Action API supports structured query, search, parse, revision, category, link, user, authentication, and separately authorized edit workflows on MediaWiki sites. informative
- Many read modules allow anonymous access, while write actions require the target wiki's authentication, rights, CSRF token, and policy checks. informative
- Clients must bind target wiki, action and module, properties, namespace, titles or search terms, limits, format version, and continuation tokens and obey site-specific max limits. informative
- Wiki content is community-edited, revisioned, licensed per project, and potentially disputed or vandalized; an API response is not independent factual verification or universal reuse permission. informative