Hi,
On 14 April 2020 00:54:13 GMT+05:30, Erik Bernhardson
wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:41 AM Guillaume Lederrey
>
>wrote:
>
>> Routing to discovery@ where all the search people are.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:43 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <
>> kaarticsivaraam91...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any MediaWiki API that could be used for a proper
>>> case-insensitive category title search? Or is this still something
>that
>>> doesn't exist yet?
>>>
>>
>To my knowledge this is something that doesn't exist yet.
>
Ok.
>>
>>> For some context, I'm asking this for a feature request[1] in the
>>> Commons Android app that asks for a case insensitive category title
>>> search. In case you're wondering where category search comes into
>>> picture in the app, adding appropriate categories for an image is
>part
>>> of the upload flow.
>>>
>>> I wonder that such an API doesn't exist yet for the following
>reasons:
>>>
>>> A) The exhaustive search for such an API wasn't fruitful. The
>closest we
>>> got was using `generator=search` with
>`srsearch=intitle:$SEARCH_TERM`
>>> and `srnamespace=14` (14 is the id for category namespace in
>Commons).
>>> But it's not a proper category search as it is essentially a search
>for
>>> pages existing in Category namespace. See [2] for why it's not a
>proper
>>> category search.
>>>
>> B) I saw "T59302 Suggest case insensitive results when searching for
>>> categories to add"[3] which is still open. In particular the comment
>in
>>> the ticket pointed to by [4].
>>>
>>
>This all seems correct to me. The comment linked here ([4]) still holds
>true today, ...
Thanks for the confirmation/clarification!
> ... to perform this search we would need to add lowercased
>prefix
>indices somewhere.
>
Yeah, that would be helpful. What would be even more helpful is an API that
allows to search the list of categories in a way similar to the `search` API
with `intitle:`. The prefix only search is a bit limiting as it requires the
user to either know or guess the prefix of a relevant category. Thus it makes
it difficult to find appropriate categories. Just sharing a thought :)
>So, is my understanding that an API for case-insensitive category title
>>> search doesn't exist correct? Or am I missing something?
>>>
>>> Footnotes:
>>> [1]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/3179
>>> [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59302#2707969
>>> [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59302
>>> [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59302#3977813
>>>
>>> Hoping you're safe,
>>> Sivaraam
>>>
>>>
Thanks,
Sivaraam
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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