Thanks, Max. I read the URL you cited and visited the API sandbox, but I don’t understand how to get an article summary. Could you please give me an example URL?

Thanks,
Jim Andrews
http://vispo.com

On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:05 PM, jim andrews <jim@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.
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> 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="" />
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> I’m suggesting it also include a ‘summary’ field consisting of the first 350-400 characters of the article.
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> Is that feasible?
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Jim Andrews
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