WebRequest to connect to the Wikipedia API

Question

This may be a pathetically simple problem, but I cannot seem to format the post webrequest/response to get data from the Wikipedia API. I have posted my code below if anyone can

Answer 1

You seem to be pushing the input data on HTTP POST, but it seems you should use HTTP GET.

From the MediaWiki API docs:

The API takes its input through parameters in the query string. Every module (and every action=query submodule) has its own set of parameters, which is listed in the documentation and in action=help, and can be retrieved through action=paraminfo. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats