. It is less
resource-intensive to only fetch extracts from the introductory
section so the limits for queries that use the exintro parameter have
higher limits than queries that require the whole page to be parsed.
-Frances
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:37 PM, jim andrews <jim(a)vispo.com> wrote:
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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim, you already can do it using geosearch as a generator[1], e.g. [2]
>
>
> ---
> [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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