MediaWiki has an API
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 by Dave Winer.
I was talking with Doc Searls today, he's interested in using the OPML Editor to create and edit pages on a Berkman-hosted Media Wiki. 
I wondered if they have an API, and sure enough, they do.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
I have a couple of questions...
1. Has anyone done any coding to the API? What's been your experience? Is there glue? For what languages?
2. Do you have a server I could try writing some code against to test it out? I don't want to experiment with Doc's site for fear of doing some damage and also disturbing his users.
Any help would be much apprecicated. TIA. 
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