MediaWiki is automatable through its Action API

MediaWiki is automatable today through the Action API on each wiki. The endpoint is api.php, for example https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php. The default format parameter is jsonfm, and json and xml are documented formats. The login module logs in and returns authentication cookies. For authenticated cross-origin calls, the API documents a CSRF-safe session provider such as OAuth. Ordinary cookie sessions do not support that authenticated CORS mode. The Action API page says it allows access to some wiki features, including authentication, page operations, and search. MediaWiki 1.35 and later also includes a REST API, which this pass did not open page by page. Import from another wiki or from XML is an Action API module. Professional Wiki publishes mediawiki-mcp-server, a maintained third-party server for reading and editing pages, uploading files, and OAuth helpers. Writes follow the wiki user's rights. This pass did not find a Wikimedia page that says Wikimedia ships no first-party MCP server, so first-party ownership stays unknown. Zapier, Make, Power Automate, and n8n were not opened. Computer-use viability is unassessed. The Action API scores 7. The third-party MCP server scores 4. The API is the best path because it is part of MediaWiki and does not require a separate server.

Best path today: api · Overall automatability: 7/10