Hi Brad, ahhh - that makes sense! Many thanks for the tips, that's great!
Bjoern On 2 May 2017 at 15:19, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Bjoern Hassler <bjohas...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> not sure whether this is an API issue, or something to do with the way >> coordinates are stored. >> > > Neither. > > >> If you look at this query, you'll see that for some of the pages >> coordinates are listed, for others they are not: >> >> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=coordin >> ates&generator=categorymembers&gcmtitle=Kategorie:Ur-_und_ >> Fr%C3%BChgeschichte_(Menorca)&gcmlimit=500 >> <https://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=coordinates&generator=categorymembers&gcmtitle=Kategorie:Ur-_und_Fr%C3%BChgeschichte_%28Menorca%29&gcmlimit=500> >> > > That's because you're leaving colimit at its default of 10 and there are > more than 10 pages with coordinates in the request, so you'll need to use > query continuation to fetch the rest of the data and merge it in. See > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries. You might > also specify a larger limit, e.g. colimit=500 or colimit=max, to reduce the > need for continuation. > > Another thing to watch for is that there are two types of coordinates, > "primary" and "secondary". By default, only primary coordinates are > returned. If you need secondary coordinates as well, you'll need to specify > coprimary=all > in your request. > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Senior Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >
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