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Opened Dec 23, 2020 by Thomas Tanon@Tpt

Use Wikipedia Summary REST API instead of the action API

Wikipedia "action" API which is currently used to display the POI image and Wikipedia description mights puts some load on Wikipedia servers because it requires a hit to MediaWiki. Wikimedia provides an equivalent REST API action that is used to display the link snippet on Wikipedia itself. It is stable, faster (CDN cache), widely used and should cover the existing Gnome Maps usage.

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Reference: GNOME/gnome-maps#320