JSON objects e.g. "pages":{} in this example have arbitrary sorting.

I'm pretty sure mobile web gets the same JSON response as you but the
browser parses it into the object that gets rendered. You'll notice if
you search for 's' on Firefox San Francisco is the top article not
Spain as it is in Chrome.

Mobile web should probably alphabetize them.. anyone want to raise a bug? :)

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Monte Hurd <mhurd@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hey Max, I'm trying using the same generator query that mobile web uses, but
> I'm getting a different results order as well.
>
> The first result of the following (searching for "s") returns San Francisco
> as the first result, but when I search using mobile web the first result is
> Spain.
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?piprop=thumbnail&pithumbsize=144&format=json&gpssearch=s&generator=prefixsearch&prop=pageimages&action=query&gpsnamespace=0&pilimit=24&gpslimit=24
>
> Do you see any problems with the query?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> They're powered by the same code, producing identical results, web uses
>> prefixsearch because it can be used as a generator. However, the order of
>> results might be different because the API has its own ideas about sorting
>> of page set returned by generators. Maryana, we already discussed this
>> briefly before WM, do you want me to work on this after my vacation?
>>
>> 11.08.2014 18:47 пользователь "Dmitry Brant" <dbrant@wikimedia.org>
>> написал:
>>>
>>> I was just looking at the Mobile Web search functionality, and I noticed
>>> that the drop-down list of search results in Mobile Web is different from
>>> the list in our native apps for the same search term. It looks like Mobile
>>> Web uses prefixsearch, whereas the apps are using opensearch.
>>>
>>> I'm curious what was the rationale for using a different API in the apps?
>>> (Wouldn't we want the search results to be consistent between the Apps and
>>> Mobile Web?)
>>>
>>>
>>> -Dmitry
>>>
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