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Feed api is down

When I try to fetch this api endpoint https://api.wikimedia.org/feed/v1/wikipedia/en/featured/2025/03/28 it gives me error like this:

{ "type": "https://mediawiki.org/wiki/HyperSwitch/errors/not_found#route", "title": "Not found.", "method": "get", "uri": "/en.wikipedia.org/v1/feed/featured/2025/03/28" } Alamin (talk) 07:35, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Alamin, Thanks for catching this! I was able to replicate the behavior you're seeing, have identified the issue, and have opened a bug report (phab:T390317). I expect we'll be able to get a fix out next week; I'll post again here to confirm once the fix is deployed. In the meantime, you can access the feed endpoints through the wiki URLs. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/featured/2025/03/28 --APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 20:55, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

This is now fixed! Let me know if you run into any other issues. APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Well it works now but the news articles data is still missing in this api which was available before. Alamin (talk) 18:35, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, The news data is only available for the current day, not for any past days. For example, https://api.wikimedia.org/feed/v1/wikipedia/en/featured/2025/04/17 has the news data for today. APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 19:06, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Feed API example is not visible

The endpoint example for curl, Python, PHP, JavaScript are not being shown. The title is there but the example endpoints are not visible. Actually, it shows up for a few milliseconds at the beginning of page load, but then it vanishes. Here is a screenshot of where the problem is: Screenshot link Alamin (talk) 09:47, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Alamin, Can you share the browser and the MediaWiki skin that you're using? --APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 16:17, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

I've updated the gadget, and the examples are visible for me now. Let me know if the examples still aren't working for you. APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 22:34, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Announcement: API Portal shutdown

The Wikimedia Foundation has decided to shut down the API Portal wiki as part of a new strategy for Wikimedia APIs. We’re still working on exact plans and schedules, but here is a general idea of what to expect:

• Endpoints: api.wikimedia.org endpoints will continue to work as currently documented until at least June 2026. Starting in the second half of 2026, api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be migrated to new routes and eventually deprecated.
• API keys: Most API keys created through the API Portal will continue to work. You can manage your API keys through Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration on Meta-Wiki.
• Docs: Documentation from the API Portal will be consolidated and moved to other technical documentation wikis.

We’ll be providing more details about the planned shut down in the next couple of months. To get the latest updates, add this page to your watchlist or subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list. We’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to the API Portal for being part of this community! We hope you'll continue to follow API projects in the future.

Background

In 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation Platform Engineering Team wanted to create a home for Wikimedia API docs that was similar to other popular API docs sites, and that allowed developers to more easily create and manage API keys.

Building the API Portal as a standalone wiki benefits from the advantages of MediaWiki:

• Ease of editing
• Ability to translate content
• Community collaboration through talk pages, watchlists, and other features

However, using a standalone wiki for the API Portal also has disadvantages:

• Administration: Each new wiki needs a community of administrators, page patrollers, and other functionaries. A new wiki adds work for the Wikimedia technical community.
• Technical complexity: MediaWiki is a complex ecosystem. Since the API Portal works differently from other Wikimedia wikis, we often find bugs that come from interactions with extensions, skins, and other wikis.
• Visual inconsistency: The API Portal’s simplified visual design makes it difficult to access wiki features like special pages. In addition, global skin preferences can override the API Portal’s visual design entirely, making the site difficult to use.

Wikimedia Foundation’s Product Management, MediaWiki Interfaces, and Tech Docs teams have decided that the disadvantages of implementing the API Portal as a standalone wiki outweigh the advantages. In 2026, we’ll be working on plans to overcome these disadvantages and reimagining ways to make API docs easy to find, use, and create. --APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 16:49, 22 January 2026 (UTC)