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 - all of ours in particular. If we want to say, request something like "all human genes" (about 20,000 items), how would we do that? Within Wikipedia, we do this via the mediawiki API based on contains-template or category queries without any issue. Certainly wikidata will be more useful for queries than raw mediawiki??? I'm certain I am missing something, please clarify. This is currently standing in the way of our GSoC student completing his summer project - due next week. A little disappointing for him.. thanks -Ben On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Daniel Kinzler &lt;daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de > 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 - > that's > a bug, see <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54096>. > > We should be able to fix this soon. Please poke us again if nothing > happens for > a couple of weeks. > > -- daniel > > Am 12.09.2013 12:12, schrieb Merlijn van Deen: > > On 11 September 2013 20:31, Chinmay Naik &lt;chin.naik26(a)gmail.com> > > >> Can i retreive more than 100 items using this? I notice the > >> 'search-continue' returned by the search result disappears after 50 > items. > >> for ex > >> > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=wbsearchentities&am… > >> > >> > > The api docs at https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php explicitly state the > > highest value for 'continue' is 50: > > > > limit - Maximal number of results > > The value must be between 0 and 50 > > Default: 7 > > continue - Offset where to continue a search > > The value must be between 0 and 50 > > Default: 0 > > > > which indeed suggests there is a hard limit of 100 entries. Maybe someone > > in the Wikidata dev team can explain the reason behind this? > > > > Merlijn > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata-l mailing list > > Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >

OK, thanks for your reply. We will watch for new developments and incorporate them into our work as they are ready. Keep up the good work on this important project! -Ben On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Daniel Kinzler &lt;daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de