Guides

Task-focused walkthroughs for reading, searching, page structure, history, feeds and metrics, geo, Wikidata, and the XML dumps.

Each guide takes one area of wiki and shows how to get real work done with it, with copy-paste examples and the flags that matter. Start anywhere; they do not depend on each other.

Reading articles: text, Markdown, HTML, wikitext, summaries, sections, and pipelines.
Searching and discovering: full text, suggestions, random, and related pages.
Page structure: links, backlinks, categories, media, references, languages, info, and citations.
History and diffs: revisions and unified diffs.
Feeds and metrics: featured, on this day, top, and pageviews.
Geo: articles near a coordinate or near another article.
Wikidata: entity lookups and SPARQL.
Dumps: list, download, and stream the public XML archives.

Reading articles Render any article as text, Markdown, HTML, wikitext, or a summary, by section or revision, for reading or for pipelines. Searching and discovering Full-text search with CirrusSearch operators, prefix suggestions, random articles, and related pages. Page structure Explore the graph around a page: links, backlinks, categories and their members, media, references, interlanguage links, info, and citations. History and diffs Walk a page's revision history and compare any two revisions as a unified diff. Feeds and metrics Browse the daily featured feed and on-this-day events, list the most-viewed articles, and chart pageviews over time. Geo Find articles near a coordinate or near another article. Wikidata Look up structured entities by id or article title, and run raw SPARQL against the Wikidata Query Service. Dumps List, download, and stream-parse the public Wikimedia XML dumps with resume, sha1 verification, and constant memory.