Has something to do with CirrusSearch beta feature?
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Monte Hurd <mh...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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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