https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67131
Bug ID: 67131
Summary: Results order when using generator=search
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: API
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: artur.beka...@gmail.com
CC: bjor...@wikimedia.org, bryan.tongm...@gmail.com,
roan.katt...@gmail.com, s...@reedyboy.net
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I am trying to use search as a generator, and get summary of every article
found, effectively replicating functionality of the Special:Search page. That's
what I am doing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=search&gsrsearch=vector%20space&prop=extracts&exintro&exlimit=10&exsentences=1&explaintext
It works nicely, apart from one thing: it appears that the results are sorted
by title. It's a shame, because Lucene does a decent job at ranking the
results, as you can see if you just return a list of results:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=vector%20space&srprop=
So the only way around that I've came up with is to do two requests: query with
list=search to get search results, and then query with prop=extracts to get
summaries of the titles found previously. It seems to work, but you probably
understand that it's not a very reliable/efficient/beautiful solution.
In the comment for another bug
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14859#c1) it has been explained
that respecting the original order of titles is not feasible/desirable.
Generators are basically a different way of providing a list of title, so I can
see why you might not be keen on implementing that. However, I am still keen on
opening this ticket, for two reasons:
1. It seems like a quite basic use case.
2. The problem makes generator=search useless for most people.
I am using the latest API version as installed on Wikipedia wiki.
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