Whoa you're right! In Firefox when I search for "color" the color article
is first, but in Chrome "colorado" is first...
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <mh...@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.w...@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" <dbr...@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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