the best we'd have is the same thing we already have
with Mediawiki API search.

Ah, so there isn't a way to combine full-text results and SPAQRL results? That was the point of my original discussion with the fellow from OCLC, so if that's not possible, then, yeah, there's no point.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi!

> I'm at WikiConference NA today, and I was chatting with someone from
> OCLC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC>, and he mentioned that
> BlazeGraph can be configured to call out to a full-text search engine.
> It looks like it only works with SOLR out of the box, but the
> documentation
> <https://wiki.blazegraph.com/wiki/index.php/ExternalFullTextSearch> mentions
> that Elasticsearch is a candidate search endpoint.

Technically it is possible, and I looked into it, but given that we have
a gateway to Mediawiki API (which can do the same search, essentially) I
decided not to pursue this for now. We'd have basically to duplicate the
work we've done in Mediawiki to compose proper Elastic queries, parse
results, etc. and the best we'd have is the same thing we already have
with Mediawiki API search. So I decided not to duplicate efforts for now.

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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@wikimedia.org