Hi Jim,

I don't see anything that would do that in the documentation for the
geosearch module.[1]

Frances

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData#list.3Dgeosearch

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 7:30 PM, jim andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks very much, Frances. I am receiving that info OK. I note that it does 
> not include the distance from the location in the query to the article’s 
> location. Is there a way of getting the query to return that info also?
>
> ja
>
> On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Frances Hocutt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Jim, try this:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=coordinates|extracts&format=json&colimit=10&exchars=300&exlimit=10&exintro=&generator=geosearch&ggscoord=51.507222%7C-0.1275&ggsradius=1000&ggslimit=10
>>
>> The documentation for extracts is here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TextExtracts#API . It is less
>> resource-intensive to only fetch extracts from the introductory
>> section so the limits for queries that use the exintro parameter have
>> higher limits than queries that require the whole page to be parsed.
>>
>> -Frances
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:37 PM, jim andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Thanks, Max. I read the URL you cited and visited the API sandbox, but I 
>>> don’t understand how to get an article summary. Could you please give me an 
>>> example URL?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jim Andrews
>>> http://vispo.com
>>>
>>> On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jim, you already can do it using geosearch as a generator[1], e.g. [2]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Generators
>>>> [2] http://tr.im/29XHc
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:05 PM, jim andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Do you know if there are any plans to include an article summary in the 
>>>> list=geosearch results? That would be terrific. I’ve been using the 
>>>> geonames.org  API for retrieving Wikipedia articles, and it returns a 
>>>> brief (350-400 character?) article summary which seems to be the first 
>>>> 350-400 characters (or so) of the Wikipedia articles. This is very useful 
>>>> in search results, of course. The user can use that information to decide 
>>>> which of the several links to click. The title alone is often rather 
>>>> mysterious. It often does not provide enough info for the user to make a 
>>>> decision as to which link to click, if any.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, the info I get back from your service ( 
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData#API ) has these fields:
>>>> <gs pageid="167267" ns="0" title="City Lights Bookstore" lat="37.7976" 
>>>> lon="-122.407" dist="1331" primary="" />
>>>>
>>>> I’m suggesting it also include a ‘summary’ field consisting of the first 
>>>> 350-400 characters of the article.
>>>>
>>>> Is that feasible?
>>>>
>>>> What I currently do is use geonames as first choice and if that fails, I 
>>>> use your service. It would be nice to be able to use your service as first 
>>>> choice.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jim Andrews
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