Wikimedia update feed service

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Wikimedia offers an update feed service for near-real-time updates of page data and image uploads from Wikipedia and related sites.

[edit] Availability and pricing

Due to the stress this can place on the databases, at present this update feed is restricted access; the service is targetted primarily at search engines and similar bulk analysis/republishing.

Please contact us at feed-sales at wikimedia.org for details on service pricing.

[edit] Technical requirements

The update service is implemented using the OAI-PMH harvesting protocol. We provide a custom plugin for MediaWiki to update a local database from this feed; alternatively a client could provide their own OAI harvesting software and work with the page text in another manner.

The plugin requires appropriate versions of PHP and MySQL to run MediaWiki, and should work cross-platform. In addition to standard requirements, PHP's 'domxml' module must be installed.

Please contact Brion Vibber (brion at wikimedia.org) for technical issues.

A new release of the OAI client for MediaWiki 1.7, offering best compatibility with current Wikipedia data rendering, is scheduled for late July 2006.

[edit] Other data availability

Full text and metadata of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis are made available to the internet at large for bulk download, updated roughly every couple of months.

See data dumps for details.