Files & storage
Set up MediaWiki
Connect a MediaWiki wiki — the engine behind Wikipedia and countless internal engineering and company wikis. Every article in the chosen namespaces becomes a document, rendered to clean text; redirects are skipped. Read-only.
Before you start
- Find the wiki's API address: usually the wiki's URL plus /w/api.php, or /api.php at the root. The wiki's Special:Version page names the exact address under Entry point URLs.
- The wiki must allow reading without a MediaWiki sign-in — open to anyone, or reachable through a reverse proxy's own username/password gate. Signing in with a MediaWiki account isn't supported yet.
- Documents → MediaWiki, paste the API address into API URL.
- If the wiki sits behind a reverse proxy's basic-auth gate, fill HTTP Basic username and HTTP Basic password with those credentials; leave both blank for an open wiki.
- Optionally list namespace numbers under Namespaces (Advanced) — 0 is the main articles, 4 is Project: pages, and so on; blank reads the main namespace only.
- Choose access groups, Test, then Sync.
What comes in
- Every non-redirect article in the chosen namespaces becomes one document, rendered from the wiki's own parsed HTML down to text.
| Namespaces | Optional namespace numbers, one per line, under Advanced. Blank reads the main article namespace (0) only. |
|---|---|
| HTTP Basic username / password | Optional — only for a wiki behind a reverse proxy's own password gate. Sent only when a username is set. |
Access
MediaWiki exposes no per-article viewer list through this connector, so every article read is visible here to the access groups chosen on the source. Allow-only throughout.
Each article's revision id is the change signal, so only edited articles re-read on later syncs. A wiki larger than 5,000 articles keeps its already-synced pages rather than treating the overflow as deleted — narrow Namespaces if that cap is a problem for your wiki.
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Last updated 20 Sep 2026