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## MediaWiki Action API: success codes that aren't
- maxlag failures return HTTP 200, not 4xx/5xx, with a JSON {"error":{"code":"maxlag",...}} body; maxlag=-1 reliably forces this and carries a real Retry-After: 5 header even though the status itself gives no hint anything failed [obj_01M3QYQF62RX71Z8X8VCDFT4HA][obj_01M45KQ37HRNDV73EB10BXMCCM].
- Pagination is continue-token based (list= queries return a continue object to pass back whole), not offset-based; formatversion=2 flips query.pages from an object keyed by pageid to a plain array [obj_01M3QYQF62RX71Z8X8VCDFT4HA][obj_01M45KQ37HRNDV73EB10BXMCCM].
- A blank User-Agent is rejected with HTTP 403 ("set a user-agent and respect our robot policy") on both the Action API and the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint [obj_01M3QYQF62RX71Z8X8VCDFT4HA][obj_01M3QYRDZ5R1DBEGFX00FW7BCM].
- wbgetentities silently caps at 50 ids; 51 returns HTTP 200 (not 400) with a toomanyvalues error body that itself documents a highlimit:500 for privileged callers an anonymous one can't reach [obj_01M45KQ9W7KQXKWMWXP3DWGE0V].
- A cross-platform finding ties this pattern together: Overpass (OSM) and the MediaWiki/Wikidata Action API both prefer a 200-wrapped error body over an honest HTTP status for operational-limit failures [obj_01M45KRCM0DAV8AH31ATXVARPW].

## Two REST surfaces, two different redirect/error behaviors
- Wikipedia now ships two parallel REST APIs on the same wiki: the older /api/rest_v1/ ("REST v1") silently resolves redirect titles and serves the target's summary with no redirect flag, while the newer /w/rest.php/v1/ ("core REST") returns the redirect explicitly and leaves resolution to the client [obj_01M45KQ1MSVJ8RSB19G2NVJ9D1].
- REST v1's 404 for a nonexistent page carries the generic body {"status":404,"type":"Internal error"} with no further context — the same generic shape Wiktionary's REST API returns for an ordinary not-found [obj_01M45KQ1MSVJ8RSB19G2NVJ9D1][obj_01M45F1JG28MAW286JAG86YS6R].
- REST v1's summary endpoint needs no auth and carries a content timestamp for freshness [obj_01M3D9RMPCQYP8SGECEFM5XJJB].
- Wiktionary's /page/definition returns raw HTML inside the JSON definition field (not plain text), pinned to a schema version via a profile= URI in the content-type [obj_01M45F1JG28MAW286JAG86YS6R].

## Wikidata: three endpoints, three different contracts
- The classic Special:EntityData/{Q}.json dump needs no auth and returns the full entity plus a modified freshness timestamp [obj_01M3Q3BX692KV5P7TBP5GSCZFG].
- The newer REST API (wikibase/v1) lets sub-resources (labels, statements) be fetched and cached independently with their own ETags, and uses two-tier id validation: malformed ids get 400, well-formed-but-absent ids get 404 [obj_01M45CE595N7AK3CRE90TJCF7V].
- The SPARQL query service (WDQS) defaults to XML, not JSON — format=json or an Accept header is required to get the familiar bindings shape [obj_01M3QYRDZ5R1DBEGFX00FW7BCM].

## Pageviews, EventStreams, and Commons depth
- The Pageviews API returns HTTP 404 (not an empty array) for a syntactically valid date range with no data yet, and a precise 400 for a malformed timestamp; the YYYYMMDDHH format requires a trailing zero hour even at daily granularity [obj_01M45KQ4WECZCMYSDTC2Q9PPNP].
- Wikimedia EventStreams' stream catalog isn't at an intuitive /v2/stream/ listing (which 404s) but at the root ?spec OpenAPI document, which also shows legacy short aliases (recentchange) still working alongside canonical names [obj_01M45KQ6HA53WDBWN3VJDPK5G7].
- Commons' prop=imageinfo appends Wikimedia's own UTM tracking params to every returned url field, still emits a continue token even for a single-file query, and iiurlwidth snaps to the nearest available thumbnail rung rather than the exact requested width [obj_01M45KQ874AGFW9HSGYFSXRP65].

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