[Mediawiki-api] advanced search method

[Andrew Nagy]

Hello - I am mainly working with wikipedia's api and am struggling to get accurate data from wikipedia through the mediawiki API.  Here is my example:

I am looking  for an author by the name of Michael Jackson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_%28writer%29) however when I do an api search for him I get redirected to Michael Jackson the pop star.  I know this isn't an easy problem to solve, however if I could specify additional information in the search other than just a title, I could probably get pretty accurate.  For example, I know this guys birth year - it would be nice if I could do something like:
?title=michael jackson&birthdate=1942

Is there any way I could do this now?  If not, any chance this might get included into the mediawiki api in the future?

Thanks!
Andrew
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