Hi!

@ Oliver, 
about A/B test I refer to the email of 13 Jan 2016
by Deborah Tankersley 
[discovery] New A/B testing on Wikipedia Portal page

however, yes I would like tobe included in A/B tests in general, not a particular one.
I m mostrly interested in full text search, knowledge discovery and discovery of topics' context.

@Luca Nemo

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Generators
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search

Not much clear to me yet, sorry.

I will rephrase my question:
I would like to do a full-text search (FTS) query, have the pageids and decorators.

I also would like to have results hit (I see them in API:Search, list=search); I would like to access the page_Ids of articles (see them in generators). 

I would like to understand if the backend between two is different, since I've read list=search use an ElasticSearch instance, and it seems to me it is faster and better FTS (not tried extensively, through).
Also, list=search offers a snippet and may be less expensive for wiki server instead of quering an exerpt - is it the case?

I pass:
params = {'action':'query', 'generator':'search', 'gsrnamespace' : 0, 'gsrsearch' : keywords, 'gsrlimit' : 20 , 'prop' : 'pageimages|extracts', 'pilimit' : 'max', 'exintro' : '', 'explaintext' : '', 'exsentences' : 3, 'exlimit' : 'max', 'redirects' : '' }

would like to do the same with list=search.

Could you please show an example of FTS with list=search ? 

Not clear to me how coudl I pass a list to a generator, if it is the case.

Thank you.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Which A/B test are you referring to? We have tried quite a few :). Or
do you just generally want to be included in the A/B tests?

On 26 January 2016 at 03:44, Luigi Assom <itsawesome.yes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have few question for discovery portal and API:
>
> - possible to be included in the 0.05% who tried the A/B test?
>
> - do you have or plan to have a feature for discovery *between* topics? E.g.
> suggestions connecting two topics.
> I ve been working on this.
>
> - Which is the difference in API:Search between:
>  list=search and generator=search ?
> The first seems to be faster to me.
>
> - I need to fetch the pageIDs of the results, and have them already
> redirected and decorated with images and snipped/excerpt.
>
> With generator=search I could do it, I can't with list=search
> Could you help in grasping query parameters?
>
> #generator=search
> params = {'action':'query', 'generator':'search', 'gsrnamespace' : 0,
> 'gsrsearch' : keywords, 'gsrlimit' : 20 , 'prop' : 'pageimages|extracts',
> 'pilimit' : 'max', 'exintro' : '', 'explaintext' : '', 'exsentences' : 3,
> 'exlimit' : 'max', 'redirects' : '' }
>
> #list=search
> params = {'action':'query', 'list':'search', 'srsearch' : keywords,
> 'srlimit' : 20 , 'srprop' : 'size', 'indexpageids' : 1 } ??
>
> I m trying with sand box with no success, only search results are hit, no
> matter of
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&list=search&format=json&srsearch=Albert%20Einstein&srnamespace=0&srinfo=totalhits%7Csuggestion%7Crewrittenquery&srprop=redirecttitle%7Credirectsnippet&indexpageids=&generator=images
>
>
> - I also found 0&formatversion=2' is another param used in search=list
> Has it a special meaning?
>
>
>
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