An API (Application Programming Interface) is an interface that enables external programs or systems to communicate with the software. The API defines how to access and how to define requests. Some APIs are created specifically for certain programs, others follow industry standards.<br>
An <ahref="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php ">API</a> (Application Programming Interface) is an interface that enables external programs or systems to communicate with the software. The API defines how to access and how to define requests. Some APIs are created specifically for certain programs, others follow industry standards.<br>
We used MediaWiki's API to organize and bundle a large amount of material and later in the process also to export the search queries from the Wiki user interface and then, using <ahref="#query2html">query2html</a>, converted them to HTML.
We used MediaWiki's API to organize and bundle a large amount of material and later in the process also to export the search queries from the Wiki user interface and then, using <ahref="#query2html">query2html</a>, converted them to HTML.
Python is a highly abstract (high-level) programming language in which logical and clearly structured codes for projects of various sizes have been written since 1991. It is equipped/comes with a significant amount of libraries that simplify complex tasks.<br>
<ahref="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> is a highly abstract (high-level) programming language in which logical and clearly structured codes for projects of various sizes have been written since 1991. It is equipped/comes with a significant amount of libraries that simplify complex tasks.<br>
We used the Python library Mwclient to interface with the <ahref="#mediawiki">MediaWiki</a><ahref="#api">API</a> in order to extract the results of semantic queries.
We used the Python library Mwclient to interface with the <ahref="#mediawiki">MediaWiki</a><ahref="#api">API</a> in order to extract the results of semantic queries.