Author: wikibugs
Description:
If i search Wikipedia for something like "cain abel" the results are ordered:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=cain+abel&fulltext=Search
The top-page is what i'd expect.
This returns articles in the same order via the API:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&redirects&list=search&srlimit=10&srsearch=cain%20abel :
"query": {
"searchinfo": {
"totalhits": 705
},
"search": [
{
"ns": 0,
"title": "Cain and Abel",
"snippet": "<span class='searchmatch'>Cain</span> and <span class='searchmatch'>Abel</span>. (הֶבֶל ,קַיִן. Qayin, Hevel) were, according to the Book of Genesis , - two sons of Adam and Eve . <span class='searchmatch'>Cain</span> is described as a crop <b>...</b> ",
"size": 36249,
"wordcount": 5321,
"timestamp": "2014-07-21T17:49:45Z"
},
{
"ns": 0,
"title": "Cains & Abels",
"snippet": "<span class='searchmatch'>Cains</span> & <span class='searchmatch'>Abels</span> is a musical group originally from Grand Rapids , Michigan currently based in Chicago , Illinois . The band consists of <b>...</b> ",
"size": 2956,
"wordcount": 353,
"timestamp": "2013-03-20T09:54:19Z"
},
...,
{
"ns": 0,
"title": "Abel Cain",
"snippet": "<span class='searchmatch'>Abel</span> <span class='searchmatch'>Cain</span> (formerly Sons of El Topo) is a stalled film project written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky . It is being produced and <b>...</b> ",
"size": 5560,
"wordcount": 791,
"timestamp": "2014-07-05T14:21:17Z"
},...
If i now want further info about each of the pages i can use a generator like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&redirects=&indexpageids=&prop=info|categories&clcategories=Category:Disambiguation%20pages&generator=search&gsrlimit=10&gsrsearch=cain%20abel :
"query": {
"searchinfo": {
"totalhits": 705
},
"pageids": [
"30350202",
"192648",
"31398296",
"430215",
"24807625",
"25433348",
"4215000",
"29923085",
"30158033",
"23087052"
],
"pages": {
"30350202": {
"pageid": 30350202,
"ns": 0,
"title": "Abel Cain",
"contentmodel": "wikitext",
"pagelanguage": "en",
"touched": "2014-07-05T14:21:18Z",
"lastrevid": 615697869,
"counter": "",
"length": 5560
},
"192648": {
"pageid": 192648,
"ns": 0,
"title": "Cain and Abel",
"contentmodel": "wikitext",
"pagelanguage": "en",
"touched": "2014-07-24T10:18:49Z",
"lastrevid": 617875627,
"counter": "",
"length": 36249
},...
The generator seems to re-order the pages by title. The first result now is not what i'd expect anymore :(.
If you reduce the gsrlimit to 1 you can observe that the underlying search seems to have passed the correct page first.
Is there any chance the pageids could be ordered as returned by the providing function?
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