Wikimedia Commons API call
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	Susannaanas
	May 18 2019, 7:56 AM

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Description

Wikimedia Commons API call should read subcategories and structured data

Structured data

Development of Structured Data on Commons is tracked on Phabricator.

Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons is powered by the Wikibase software. Data can be accessed via API; see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API for documentation.

Requirements for the API call

The request must query the linked Wikimedia Commons category and its subcategories recursively. The query must take into account possible loops. (MediaWiki API)
Text based search results will be added to the result set (MediaWiki API)
SDC query results will be added to the result set. (SPARQL)

Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T212770 Architecture
Open	None	T210230 MediaWiki tasks
Open	None	T223358 Structured Data on Commons tasks for Wikidocumentaries
Open	None	T210300 API tasks
Open	None	T223675 Enhancements and corrections to current APIs
Open	None	T223679 Wikimedia Commons API call
Open	None	T223404 Wikimedia Commons API call should read structured data
Open	None	T262056 Change Wikimedia Commons image retrieval to read the largest possible jpg instead of tiff