https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56748
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Bug ID: 56748
Summary: API action=wbsearchentities should have an option to
return sitelinks too
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: WikidataRepo
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
We're planning on implementing search in the Wikipedia app based on Wikidata,
rather than OpenSearch. As the user types, he gets results based on
wbsearchentities, and upon tapping a result, is taken to that particular
article on the wiki they have chosen in settings.
Current API Call sequence:
1. Call action=wbsearchentities with what I want to search for.
2. Get id of what item I'm interested in
3. Call action=wbgetentities with the id of the item I'm interested in, with
parameters sites=<wiki-i-want>&ids=<id-i-want>&props=sitelinks
4. I get back *all* the sitelinks, and I just pick the one I want and ignore
the rest
5. I parse the exact article title from the sitelink, and navigate the user to
that.
This is slow and wasteful. Ideally,
1. Call action=wbsearchentities with
search=<term>&language=<lang>&sitelinks=<wikiname>
2. I get results, where the sitelink for the wiki(s?) i specified are also in
the results
3. I parse the exact article title from the sitelink, and navigate the user to
that.
Just one network call, and a lot less data transfer too.
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