Hi All, Following up from the blog post about how crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/> and the sessions we had in the Wikimedia Hackathon – Responsible Use of Infrastructure <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392904> (slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Responsible_Use_of_Infrastructure.pdf>) and the Future of MediaWiki APIs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392077> (slides <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025_-_Future_of_Wikimedia_APIs.pdf>), I wanted to share a blog post that Halley Coplin (our product manager for the APIs) just published:
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/06/12/apis-as-a-product-investing-in-the-current-and-next-generation-of-technical-contributors/ The blog post summarizes many of the points discussed at the Hackathon and touches on the conversations we’ve had with the API listening tour <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Artifacts/KR_5.5:_API_Listening_Tour_Summary> earlier this year. Many thanks to Halley <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:HCoplin-WMF> for all her work on this, and to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts, ideas and pain point stories at the listening tour and at the Hackathon <3 If you have additional input on the APIs, feel welcome to use the talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Artifacts/KR_5.5:_API_Listening_Tour_Summary&action=edit&redlink=1> of the listening tour summary to comment & get in touch! Birgit P.S. More links: Giuseppe presented <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pcdNweh8oA> about the impact of crawlers at the recent MediaWiki users and developers conference, including also a few tips for operators of smaller websites on how they could deal with the scraper problem on their own sites. -- Birgit Müller (she/her) Director of Product, MediaWiki and Developer Experiences Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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