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From: Roan Kattouw [mailto:roan.kattouw@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:33 PM
To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] search results
2010/3/11 Will Preston <Will(a)olsonkundigarchitects.com>om>:
Hello. I have an intranet set up that is using
mediawiki behind the scenes
for content. I set up a search box on the intranet pages, that calls the
api query module twice, first for title, then for text. I then take all the
text matches and call the index.php render module to get the page text, so I
can parse it for the searched term and highlight it in the results. I then
sort all the title and page text matches alphabetically by the page titles.
This all kind of works as intended, but seems like a crazy amount of
hackery, so I'm hoping there's a better way.
list=search has an
srprop=snippet parameter and other goodies in srprop.
1) The highlighted search results include html and
wikitext code because
it's produced by index.php's render. Using strip_tags() helps a little, but
only when the matched string has both brackets ( < > ).
... which solves that.
2) Categories show up as page title matches if I
search on the regular
wiki page, but not when I go through the api. I assume the wiki code is just
also doing a category search and displaying it in the page title section?
This is because srnamespace defaults to 0 (main namespace only).
I think I'm also going to split up my title and
text search results. I had
them combined as that's what the users are used to in a previous system, but
I think that just destroys whatever ranking system the search is using.
Right?
I have no idea how the search code works internally, I only know about
the code that reformats its results into an API response.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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Thanks, that sounds good. I found the bug report and the linked example, but does that
only work in the bleeding edge release? My wiki is version 1.15 and srprop isn't
available. Wikipedia's version is apparently 1.16alpha-wmf. Do you suggest I get
that, or would something in between be better?
- Will
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