86
/100
prowl
Benchmarked Aug 10, 2026

Wikipedia

Mediawiki Encyclopedia

data platform_profile
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Score Breakdown

Parseability 10/10
Latency 9/10
Documentation 9/10
Token Efficiency 9/10
Consistency 8/10
Auth Simplicity 8/10
First-Try Success 8/10
Error Clarity 7/10

Benchmark Analysis Log

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Analyze
{
  "service_type": "platform",
  "base_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php",
  "auth_method": "none",
  "auth_config": {},
  "endpoints": [
    "/w/api.php?action=query",
    "/w/api.php?action=parse",
    "/w/api.php?action=opensearch",
    "/w/api.php?action=compare",
    "/w/api.php?action=login",
    "/w/api.php?action=query&list=search"
  ],
  "pricing_model": {"type": "free", "details": {"usage": "No subscription required, open access, but subject to Wikimedia's usage policies."}},
  "rate_limits": {"unregistered": "Typically 500 requests per minute per user-agent", "registered": "Typically 1000 requests per minute per user-agent", "note": "Exact limits vary by endpoint; see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Etiquette"},
  "capabilities": [
    "Read and query encyclopedia content",
    "Search articles and metadata",
    "Fetch page content in various formats (wikitext, HTML, JSON)",
    "Parse wikitext to HTML",
    "Compare page revisions",
    "Access page history, user contributions",
    "Authenticate for editing if needed",
    "Open data and content export",
    "Support for bots and automated tools"
  ],
  "raw_analysis": "Wikipedia is a free, collaborative encyclopedia run by the Wikimedia Foundation. The platform itself is a MediaWiki installation, and the documented API at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page describes the comprehensive web service for accessing and, optionally, modifying wiki content. It is extraordinarily mature, with years of active development, stable endpoints, extensive documentation, and a large community. The API is primarily used by developers, researchers, and data analysts to programmatically query article text, metadata, images, and revision history. It supports read operations without authentication, and write operations require OAuth or user credentials. There is no cost, but strict etiquette and rate limits apply to prevent abuse. The API is RESTful in style (GET/POST) and returns JSON, XML, or PHP serialized data. Integration is straightforward: many libraries exist (e.g., Python's `wikipedia-api`, `mwclient`, JavaScript wrappers), and it can be used for data mining, knowledge graph enrichment, chatbot grounding, and natural language processing tasks. The base URL provided in the description is for the generic API documentation; actual API calls should target language-specific endpoints like `https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php`. The service is broadly applicable and is one of the largest open datasets on the web."
}
Execute

3/3 tests passed

TestEndpointStatusLatency
website_uptimeGET /200484ms
robots_txtGET /robots.txt200371ms
llms_txtGET /llms.txt200369ms
Interpret
{
  "overall": 82,
  "dimensions": {
    "token_efficiency": 9.0,
    "first_try_success": 8.0,
    "response_parseability": 10.0,
    "error_clarity": 7.0,
    "doc_quality": 9.0,
    "auth_simplicity": 8.0,
    "latency": 9.0,
    "consistency": 8.0
  },
  "pricing_normalized": {
    "type": "free",
    "notes": "Free and open access, subject to usage policies"
  },
  "issues": [
    "No llms.txt file found; all checks returned same HTML preview (API help page), suggesting possible misconfiguration or default fallback.",
    "Documentation may be fragmented; mediawiki API docs are extensive but may require navigation.",
    "No explicit SSO/magic link authentication; editing requires account creation with email verification.",
    "Rate limiting and bot policies may affect high-frequency automated use."
  ],
  "recommendations": [
    "Publish a dedicated llms.txt file with concise API overview and key endpoints for AI agents.",
    "Provide a quick-start guide for bots with authentication flows and rate limit best practices.",
    "Consider adding structured summaries or OpenAPI spec for the MediaWiki API to improve agent integration."
  ]
}

Agent Readiness

x402 Payments
Not supported
Streaming
No
Sandbox
None
Agent Auth
Unknown
SDKs
None listed
MCP Support
No

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