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	~~What's here: API documentation~~ for software like ~~mediawiki~~, ~~drupal~~ and web services. Both API documentation and API tools. OS and Internet API references.		Commentary and examples of using the APIs for software like [http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Using+the+API CiviCRM], MediaWiki, Drupal and web services. Both API documentation and API tools. OS and Internet API references.

	[[wp:ApplicationProgrammingInterface\|Application Programming Interface]] ([[wp:API\|API]]) is the information about the exposed or 'public' variables, methods and objects or classes that a system makes available to the developer who wishes to interface with the system programmatically. If you make an API, documenting the API is a critical software development function. In documentation terms, the API must almost be treated like a separate piece of software within or "attached" to the main program.		[[wp:ApplicationProgrammingInterface\|Application Programming Interface]] ([[wp:API\|API]]) is the information about the exposed or 'public' variables, methods and objects or classes that a system makes available to the developer who wishes to interface with the system programmatically. If you make an API, documenting the API is a critical software development function. In documentation terms, the API must almost be treated like a separate piece of software within or "attached" to the main program.