API
If you're here, you're probably aware that an API is an Application Programming Interface, or a way for one software application to talk to another.
A little context
WikiRate's API, like its underlying data structure, is a little unconventional. But if you understand why and how the structure is unusual, the API design will make sense. So let's start there.
First, WikiRate is, as it's name implies, a wiki. It is built with an open-sourced wiki platform called Decko, which uses wiki-inspired building blocks called cards to create complex web systems. Pretty much everything you interact with on WikiRate is a card: Company, Metric, Answer, Project, Data Set, Topic, etc. –– they're all cards. What's particularly unusual is that the substructures of these pages are cards, too. The logo of a company, the formula of a metric, the topic tags on a data set... it's cards all the way down.
The embrace of this wiki card concept helps WikiRate live up to its values of transparency. Since everything is a card, and every card stored has a revertible revision history, the WikiRate platform is deeply transparent, and it exposes not just current data but also data histories to its API.
Read the latest WikiRate API User Guide to learn more about: