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Yes, it's been filed before and WONTFIXed because parsing dozens or hundreds of pages in one request is kind of scary performance-wise
but clearly it would be more resource efficient than issuing 30 separate additional requests... maybe we could enable it with a low row return count say 30 ? It should be able to grab the output from the parse cache no?
With my use case of returning search result descriptions...it does not really need html it just needs striped wikitext or even a striped segment of wikitext.
So here are a few possible ways forward:
* I can switch on 30 extra requests if we need to highlight the problem.... * I could try and use one of the javascript wikitext -> html converters * Maybe we could support the output striped wikitext (really what we want for search results) ...
It appears Lucene and the internal mysql store the index in striped form if we could add access to that from the api that would be ideal way forward I think.
--michael