Hello! Sorry for my bad English.
Through the implementation of the current API impossible to get a random article in category. This greatly reduces the potential of education like API, and Wikipedia as a whole. This is usually not a problem withcategories in which less than 500 catmembers, but to select a random article in categories, wich have more than hundreds of thousands of catmembers becomes impossible! Special: RandomInKategory is not a convenient solution for the developer, since it does not allow to receive pageid and makes writing a lot of redundant code to get things that are otherwise easily accessible via the api.
Can we expect that this feature will be available through the API?
Il 22/04/2016 06:56, Anonymous ha scritto:
Hello! Sorry for my bad English.
Through the implementation of the current API impossible to get a random article in category. This greatly reduces the potential of education like API, and Wikipedia as a whole. This is usually not a problem withcategories in which less than 500 catmembers, but to select a random article in categories, wich have more than hundreds of thousands of catmembers becomes impossible! Special: RandomInKategory is not a convenient solution for the developer, since it does not allow to receive pageid and makes writing a lot of redundant code to get things that are otherwise easily accessible via the api.
Can we expect that this feature will be available through the API?
I don't know, but if you'd like to be notified of updates then follow this ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63840
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