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 &lt;jim(a)vispo.com&gt; 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 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

Jim, try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=coordinates|extrac… The documentation for extracts is here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TextExtracts#API . 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 &lt;jim(a)vispo.com&gt; 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 &lt;maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 &lt;jim(a)vispo.com&gt; 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

Hi Jim, I don't see anything that would do that in the documentation for the geosearch module.[1] Frances [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData#list.3Dgeosearch On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 7:30 PM, jim andrews &lt;jim(a)vispo.com&gt; wrote: > Thanks very much, Frances. I am receiving that info OK. I note that it does not include the distance from the location in the query to the article’s location. Is there a way of getting the query to return that info also? > > ja > > On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Frances Hocutt &lt;frances.hocutt(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> Jim, try this: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=coordinates|extrac… >> >> The documentation for extracts is here: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TextExtracts#API . 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 &lt;jim(a)vispo.com&gt; 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 &lt;maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com&gt; 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 &lt;jim(a)vispo.com&gt; 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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mediawiki-api mailing list >>>> Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best regards, >>>> Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mediawiki-api mailing list >>>> Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mediawiki-api mailing list >>> Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api