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From: S Page <spage(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:04 PM
Subject: Search API documentation
To: search-tech <search-tech(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>rg>, Brad Jorsch <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
Hey, James Douglas talked to me about search APIs. I started an overview of
what's available at mw:API:Search_and_discovery
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search_and_discovery> that links to
existing API pages and the generated MediaWiki API help. In particular the
API pages have a link to [try in ApiSandbox] so you can load them up and
play around with the MediaWiki API search modules. I added a link to this
overview on your team's top-level mw:Search and Discovery page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search_and_Discovery> page.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search_and_Discovery>
I'm also writing articles for a planned "Data and developer hub" to
encourage third-party developers to use Wikimedia data and APIs.
Fortuitously two of the early articles are about how desktop and mobile use
search, "Page info in search results" and "Showing nearby wiki
information", so API:Search and discovery links to these as well.
Though I'm on the Reading team I'll do what I can to document your stuff,
particularly what it can do for third-party developers.
Cheers,
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=S Page WMF Tech writer