Changelog

2025 March

• Parsed References and Quality Models
• Added: Structured Contents beta endpoints introduce parsed references and citations
• Added: Reference Need & Reference Risk scoring models in On-demand API & Snapshot API in German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), and Portuguese (PT)
• Changed: “infobox” to “infoboxes” in Structured Contents endpoints

2024 October

• Added: SDK Python released (github)

2024 September

• Snapshot API gets Structured Contents beta
• Added: Structured Contents Snapshot API beta endpoint in 6 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), and Portuguese (PT)
• Added: English and French Structured Snapshots released as beta on Hugging Face
• Changed: Snapshot API chunk sizes to max 2.5GB

2024 June

• Realtime API improvements
• Added: Parallel streaming connection support
• Added: Streaming restart support

2024 May

• New article version metadata
• Added: version.noindex
• Added: version.maintenance_tags
• Added: version.is_breaking_news
• Added: version.scores Revert Risk model
• Removed: version.scores ORES model

2024 April

• Parsed Article Body Sections
• Added: On-demand API beta endpoint article_body sections & short description field

2023 September

• Introduction of Structured Contents beta
• Added: On-demand API beta endpoint v2/structured-contents/{name}
• Added: Article infoboxes parsed into structured data in JSON
• Added: SDK Go released (github)

2023 April

• April feature release article
• Added: Underlying architecture improvements for speed and future development
• Added: Abstract field added
• Added: Image object added
• Added: Additional Credibility Signal metadata added
• Added: NDJSON now available on request for On-demand and Realtime APIs
• Added: Parallelized binary file downloads
• Added: Filtering response data
• Added: Metadata endpoints for available project codes and languages

2021 June

• Hello World, From Wikimedia Enterprise
• Initial public API release with Snapshot API (HTML dumps), On-demand REST API, Realtime streaming API