Routing to discovery@ where all the search people are.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 2:43 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <
kaarticsivaraam91196(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any MediaWiki API that could be used for a proper
> case-insensitive category title search? Or is this still something that
> doesn't exist yet?
>
> For some context, I'm asking this for a feature request[1] in the
> Commons Android app that asks for a case insensitive category title
> search. In case you're wondering where category search comes into
> picture in the app, adding appropriate categories for an image is part
> of the upload flow.
>
> I wonder that such an API doesn't exist yet for the following reasons:
>
> A) The exhaustive search for such an API wasn't fruitful. The closest we
> got was using `generator=search` with `srsearch=intitle:$SEARCH_TERM`
> and `srnamespace=14` (14 is the id for category namespace in Commons).
> But it's not a proper category search as it is essentially a search for
> pages existing in Category namespace. See [2] for why it's not a proper
> category search.
>
> B) I saw "T59302 Suggest case insensitive results when searching for
> categories to add"[3] which is still open. In particular the comment in
> the ticket pointed to by [4].
>
> So, is my understanding that an API for case-insensitive category title
> search doesn't exist correct? Or am I missing something?
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/3179
> [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59302#2707969
> [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59302
> [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59302#3977813
>
> Hoping you're safe,
> Sivaraam
>
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