Re: [Wikidata-tech] [Wikidata-l] [Pywikipedia-l] wbsearchentities()

2013-09-13 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all! We have to impose a fixed limit on search result, since search results can not be ordered by a unique ID, so paging is expensive. The default for this limit is 50, but it SHOULD be 500 for bots. But the higher limit for bots is currently not applied by the wbsearchentities module -

Re: [Wikidata-tech] [Wikidata-l] [Pywikipedia-l] wbsearchentities()

2013-09-13 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 13.09.2013 18:24, schrieb Benjamin Good: Daniel, Even 500 seems like a very low limit for this system unless I'm misunderstanding something. Unless there is another way to execute queries that return more rows than that, this would negate the possibility of a huge number of applications

Re: [Wikidata-tech] [Wikidata-l] [Pywikipedia-l] wbsearchentities()

2013-09-12 Thread Andrew Su
Since this is potentially a blocker on Chinmay's GSoC project, I'm cc'ing wikidata-tech... -andrew On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Merlijn van Deen valhall...@arctus.nl wrote: On 11 September 2013 20:31, Chinmay Naik chin.nai...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I am trying to retreive wikidata items by