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on October 02, 2020

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Ahh. I'm finally getting a blog. This is nice. Now... what to post?

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Working with the Fandom API

So recently I have been pretty active on Fandom , a wiki community site powered by MediaWiki . Plain MediaWiki runs on PHP and has a built in web API where almost all actions can be done through it. Fandom adds many, many social features like their discussions and message walls. These all have a separate API, codenamed Nirvana. What is Nirvana? Nirvana is an application framework which consists of controllers and methods (also known as templates). It can be accessed via the /wikia.php or /api/v1 endpoint on every wiki for on-wiki things. There is also a central Fandom API which takes care of more global things like notifications which can be accessed at services.fandom.com . Most of the Fandom API is currently not documentated, which is very unfortunate. It's like a game of guess the controller and see what methods it has, and then guess what parameters it takes and what it does. Controllers Here is a list of controllers and templates I have been able to find. Most controlle...

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