Wikimedia

Wikipedia summaries and Wikimedia Commons media for reports and illustrated pages.

Module	@tablette/module-wikimedia
Tools	wikimedia_search, wikimedia_summary, wikimedia_commons_search
Mode	Sketch
Services	Wikipedia Action API, Wikipedia REST summary API, Commons Action API
Auth	none
CORS	yes for GET with origin=*
Writes	none

Wikimedia is separate from Wikidata so the licenses stay separate:

Source	Content	License	Module
Wikidata	labels, claims, coordinates, sitelinks	CC0	wikidata
Wikipedia	article text and summaries	CC BY-SA 4.0	wikimedia
Commons	images, diagrams, photographs	per file	wikimedia

Why a separate module

A research report needs context, not just facts: what does "logement social" mean, what does a constituency look like, is there a photograph? Wikidata supplies facts; Wikipedia supplies prose; Commons supplies media.

Keeping them separate means a report can use CC0 facts without implying that CC BY-SA text is CC0, and every Commons image can carry its own credit.

Tools

Tool	Purpose
wikimedia_search	Search Wikipedia articles; return titles, URLs and snippets
wikimedia_summary	Fetch a bounded intro (2–8 sentences) with canonical URL and license
wikimedia_commons_search	Search Commons; return thumbnail, file page, artist, credit, license and license URL

wikimedia_commons_search only returns files with a known license. An unknown license is skipped.

Endpoints

https://<lang>.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
https://<lang>.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/<title>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php

Language is part of the host: fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, and so on. Commons is multilingual; its metadata is mostly English.

User agent

The module identifies Tablette with:

tablette/4.0.0 (https://tablette.bimr.net)

The Api-User-Agent header is accepted by the API. Wikimedia asks clients to be identifiable and polite: one request per tool call, bounded payloads and no bulk crawling.

Example prompts

Add context

Ajoute un paragraphe de contexte sur le logement social au rapport, avec la
source Wikipédia et sa licence.

Expected: wikimedia_search → wikimedia_summary; the report cites the canonical URL and CC BY-SA 4.0.

Licensed image

Ajoute une photo sous licence libre de l'Assemblée nationale au rapport.

Expected: wikimedia_commons_search → report_build with a gallery section carrying the file page, artist, credit, license and license URL.

Deputy profile

Fais une fiche sur la députée Cyrielle Chatelain : biographie courte, groupe,
circonscription et une photo sous licence libre.

Expected: Canutes for the parliamentary facts, Wikimedia for the summary and a licensed image. The photo credit is per file.

Licensing

Wikipedia

Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA 4.0.

• cite the article and link to the canonical URL;
• name the license;
• if you reuse a long passage, keep the share-alike terms in mind.

Wikimedia Commons

Commons files have per-file licenses. The module returns:

• the file page URL;
• the artist or uploader;
• the credit line;
• the license name and URL;
• a thumbnail URL.

Never use an image whose license is unknown. Never strip the credit.

Wikidata

Wikidata is CC0 1.0. The courtesy credit is Données : Wikidata (CC0).

Integration with reports

The report module renders a gallery section:

{
  kind: "gallery",
  title: "Illustrations",
  images: [
    {
      url: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/...",
      alt: "Assemblée nationale",
      credit: "Photo: …",
      license: "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      sourceUrl: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:..."
    }
  ]
}

All five fields are required. The report footer repeats the source credits.

Guardrails

• Do not fetch full articles.
• Do not call Wikipedia or Commons at report runtime.
• Do not use an image with an unknown license.
• Do not omit the credit or the license.
• Keep requests bounded and identify the client.

Next steps

• Reports — render the summary and gallery.
• Wikidata — facts and coordinates.
• Canutes — the French parliamentary data.