For Special:UnconnectedPages in particular, we designed the underlying page property so that it can be efficiently sorted or filtered by namespace (see T300770 for details), so the fact that it starts with main namespace pages is intentional and guaranteed by the current code; I’d say this is unlikely to change soon, but I also don’t think we consider it covered by the Wikidata Stable Interface Policy.

For other query pages, it depends on the particular page; for instance, Special:PagesWithProp sorts by page_id and Special:ShortPages by page_len, if I’m reading the code correctly.

Am Do., 22. Feb. 2024 um 06:36 Uhr schrieb Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com>:

Hi,
I query special pages through API (concretely Special:UnconnectedPages), and I noticed that main namespace articles are yielded first.
It seems that pages are ordered by namespace numbers.
Is it a guaranteed behaviour?

(If so, I can break from the loop at te first page not in 0 namespace which would be nice.)

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