https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73623
--- Comment #20 from Nik Everett <neverett+bugzi...@wikimedia.org> --- (In reply to Brad Jorsch from comment #19) > (In reply to Nik Everett from comment #17) > > The list shouldn't drastically change but it will change some. How drastic > > are > > the changes? > > The changes don't seem to be very drastic; in some quick checking, it seems > to mainly be in the ordering of the results. For example, in one query using > only list=prefixsearch "Fisherman's Atlantic City Wind Farm" was at #14 > while it dropped to #16 when the query was repeated, with no change in the > relative order of any of the other 24 results. Cool. That's pretty much what I expect. > > > Also, are there things from the search results that you need that you can't > > get by using it as a generator? As in, if we allowed generators to return > > things in order somehow would that be enough for you to only make a single > > call? > > Allowing generators to return things in order isn't likely to happen. More > likely is that generator=prefixsearch would be able to add an 'index' field > into the hashes inside the 'pages' hash, so the client could sort based on > that field's value. > > More thoughts on this are at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API/Architecture_work/ > Planning#Allow_generators_to_provide_data Cool. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
