diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/util/Language.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/util/Language.scala
index 61edc3eb95..46fc69c80c 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/util/Language.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/util/Language.scala
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ import org.dbpedia.extraction.ontology.RdfNamespace
  * Use propertyUri.append("xy"), not string concatenation. 
  * @param baseUri URI prefix for this wiki, e.g. "http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org",
  * "http://commons.wikimedia.org", "http://mappings.dbpedia.org".
- * @param apiUri API URI for this wiki, e.g. "http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org/w/api.php",
- * "http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php", "http://mappings.dbpedia.org/api.php".
+ * @param apiUri API URI for this wiki, e.g. "https://be-x-old.wikipedia.org/w/api.php",
+ * "http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php", "https://mappings.dbpedia.org/api.php".
  */
 class Language private(
   val wikiCode: String,
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ object Language extends (String => Language)
         new DBpediaNamespace("http://"+code+".dbpedia.org/resource/"),
         new DBpediaNamespace("http://"+code+".dbpedia.org/property/"),
         "http://"+code+".wikipedia.org",
-        "http://"+code+".wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
+        "https://"+code+".wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
       )
     }
     
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ object Language extends (String => Language)
       new DBpediaNamespace("http://commons.dbpedia.org/resource/"),
       new DBpediaNamespace("http://commons.dbpedia.org/property/"),
       "http://commons.wikimedia.org",
-      "http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php"
+      "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php"
     )
     
     languages("wikidata") =
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ object Language extends (String => Language)
       new DBpediaNamespace("http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/"),
       new DBpediaNamespace("http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/property/"),
       "http://www.wikidata.org",
-      "http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php"
+      "https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php"
     )
 
 
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/util/WikiApi.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/util/WikiApi.scala
index 4ca9a3ab8a..e40c75cb25 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/util/WikiApi.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/util/WikiApi.scala
@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ class WikiApi(url: URL, language: Language)
     def retrievePagesByNamespace[U](namespace : Namespace, f : WikiPage => U, fromPage : String = "")
     {
         // TODO: instead of first getting the page ids and then the pages, use something like 
-        // ?action=query&generator=allpages&prop=revisions&rvprop=ids|content&format=xml&gapnamespace=0
+        // ?action=query&continue=&generator=allpages&prop=revisions&rvprop=ids|content&format=xml&gapnamespace=0
         // -> "generator" instead of "list" and "gapnamespace" instead of "apnamespace" ("gap" is for "generator all pages")
  
         //Retrieve list of pages
-        val response = query("?action=query&format=xml&list=allpages&apfrom=" + URLEncoder.encode(fromPage, "UTF-8") + "&aplimit=" + pageListLimit + "&apnamespace=" + namespace.code)
+        val response = query("?action=query&continue=&format=xml&list=allpages&apfrom=" + URLEncoder.encode(fromPage, "UTF-8") + "&aplimit=" + pageListLimit + "&apnamespace=" + namespace.code)
 
         //Extract page ids
         val pageIds = for(p <- response \ "query" \ "allpages" \ "p") yield (p \ "@pageid").head.text.toLong
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class WikiApi(url: URL, language: Language)
         {
             for(group <- ids.grouped(pageDownloadLimit))
             {
-                val response = query("?action=query&format=xml&prop=revisions&"+param+"=" + group.mkString("|") + "&rvprop=ids|content|timestamp|user|userid")
+                val response = query("?action=query&continue=&format=xml&prop=revisions&"+param+"=" + group.mkString("|") + "&rvprop=ids|content|timestamp|user|userid")
                 processPages(response, proc)
             }
         }
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ class WikiApi(url: URL, language: Language)
         {
             for(titleGroup <- titles.grouped(pageDownloadLimit))
             {
-                val response = query("?action=query&format=xml&prop=revisions&titles=" + titleGroup.map(formatWikiTitle).mkString("|") + "&rvprop=ids|content|timestamp|user|userid")
+                val response = query("?action=query&continue=&format=xml&prop=revisions&titles=" + titleGroup.map(formatWikiTitle).mkString("|") + "&rvprop=ids|content|timestamp|user|userid")
                 processPages(response, proc)
             }
         }
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ class WikiApi(url: URL, language: Language)
      */
     def retrieveTemplateUsages(title : WikiTitle, namespace: Namespace = Namespace.Main, maxCount : Int = 500) : Seq[WikiTitle] =
     {
-        val response = query("?action=query&format=xml&list=embeddedin&eititle=" + title.encodedWithNamespace + "&einamespace=" + namespace.code + "&eifilterredir=nonredirects&eilimit=" + maxCount)
+        val response = query("?action=query&continue=&format=xml&list=embeddedin&eititle=" + title.encodedWithNamespace + "&einamespace=" + namespace.code + "&eifilterredir=nonredirects&eilimit=" + maxCount)
 
         for(page <- response \ "query" \ "embeddedin" \ "ei";
             title <- page \ "@title" )
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ class WikiApi(url: URL, language: Language)
         var appropriateQuery = "";
 
         do{
-          appropriateQuery = "?action=query&format=xml&list=embeddedin&eititle=" + title.encodedWithNamespace +
+          appropriateQuery = "?action=query&continue=&format=xml&list=embeddedin&eititle=" + title.encodedWithNamespace +
                               "&einamespace=0&eifilterredir=nonredirects&eilimit=" + maxCount;
           //Since the call can return only 500 matches at most we must use the eicontinue parameter to
           //get the other matches
diff --git a/server/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/AbstractExtractorWikipedia.scala b/server/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/AbstractExtractorWikipedia.scala
index b7a87c0ab4..0340010996 100644
--- a/server/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/AbstractExtractorWikipedia.scala
+++ b/server/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/mappings/AbstractExtractorWikipedia.scala
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ class AbstractExtractorWikipedia(
   extends AbstractExtractor (context)
 {
 
-  override def apiUrl: String = "http://" + context.language.wikiCode + ".wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
+  override def apiUrl: String = "https://" + context.language.wikiCode + ".wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
 }