Jim, you already can do it using geosearch as a generator[1], e.g. [2]
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[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Generators
[2]
http://tr.im/29XHc
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:05 PM, jim andrews <jim(a)vispo.com> wrote:
Do you know if there are any plans to include an
article summary in the
list=geosearch results? That would be terrific. I’ve been using the
geonames.org API for retrieving Wikipedia articles, and it returns a
brief (350-400 character?) article summary which seems to be the first
350-400 characters (or so) of the Wikipedia articles. This is very useful
in search results, of course. The user can use that information to decide
which of the several links to click. The title alone is often rather
mysterious. It often does not provide enough info for the user to make a
decision as to which link to click, if any.
Currently, the info I get back from your service (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData#API ) has these fields:
<gs pageid="167267" ns="0" title="City Lights Bookstore"
lat="37.7976"
lon="-122.407" dist="1331" primary="" />
I’m suggesting it also include a ‘summary’ field consisting of the first
350-400 characters of the article.
Is that feasible?
What I currently do is use geonames as first choice and if that fails, I
use your service. It would be nice to be able to use your service as first
choice.
Thanks,
Jim Andrews
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