wikipedia api search titles generator - search

Trying to search tiles through the api using a generator.
I notice that there are two possible generators, with both I have problems:
prefix search - doesn't work well if I have multiple words and the order is reversed in the query (for example "brian adams" would return an answer, however "adams brian" does not
search - seems to not allow searching by titles, only by text which returns low-quality results.
Anyone knows of a way around this?

"srwhat=title" is disabled, so you should use "intitle:" in your search query:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=0&srprop=timestamp&&srsearch=intitle:adams%20brian
for more info please check this page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search

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Even though I am a paying customer, there is no support available. And the API documentation did not help either.
I would think it should be super easy to provide a verbatim search option. Is there one that I did not see?
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Try the API:Search documentation.
For doing what you want to do, also, you'd probably need to find the articles that have those keywords and then parse the text to check if they are in the first paragraphs.
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We've got Solr sat behind one of our client's Drupal 7 websites, and while it's working well, it returns too many results for what should be quite specific queries. (It also has relevance/weighting problems; but I'm hoping that solving this problem will remove the - literally - irrelevant results.)
For example, searching for the phrase 'particular phrase in london' should return the node with that as its title, quite high up; I don't even think that any other content should be returned. But I find that it's returning lots of content, purely on the fact that it mentions "London"!
Frivolously, searching for the ridiculous phrase 'piecrusts in london' returns a lot of results too, apparently just because they mention London. No content on the site mentions actual piecrusts.
When I search for 'particular phrase in london', here are the parameters that end up in the catalina.out log on the server (whitespace added for clarity):
{spellcheck=false&facet=true&f.im_field_health_topic.facet.mincount=1
&facet.mincount=1&f.ds_created.facet.date.gap=%2B1YEAR
&spellcheck.q=particular+phrase+in+london
&qf=taxonomy_names^2.0&qf=path_alias^5.0&qf=content^40&qf=label^21.0
&qf=tos_content_extra^1.0&qf=ts_comments^20&qf=tm_vid_3_names^200
&facet.date=ds_created
&f.ds_created.facet.date.start=1970-01-01T00:00:00Z/YEAR
&f.bundle.facet.mincount=1&hl.fl=content,ts_comments
&json.nl=map&wt=json&rows=10&fl=id,entity_id,entity_type,bundle,bundle_name,
label,is_comment_count,ds_created,ds_changed,score,path,url,is_uid,
tos_name,tm_node,zs_entity
&start=0&facet.sort=count&f.bundle.facet.limit=50&q=special+phrase+in+london
&f.ds_created.facet.date.end=2012-01-01T00:00:00Z%2B1YEAR/YEAR
&bf=recip(ms(NOW,ds_created),3.16e-11,1,1)^150.0
&facet.field=im_field_health_topic&facet.field=bundle
&f.im_field_health_topic.facet.limit=50&f.ds_created.facet.limit=50}
hits=1998 status=0 QTime=14
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This corresponds to the following URL, if entered directly in the browser:
http://example.com:8081/solr/CLIENT/select?spellcheck=false&facet=true&f.im_field_health_topic.facet.mincount=1&facet.mincount=1&f.ds_created.facet.date.gap=%2B1YEAR&spellcheck.q=particular+phrase+in+London&qf=taxonomy_names^2.0&qf=path_alias^5.0&qf=content^40&qf=label^21.0&qf=tos_content_extra^1.0&qf=ts_comments^20&qf=tm_vid_3_names^200&facet.date=ds_created&f.ds_created.facet.date.start=1970-01-01T00:00:00Z/YEAR&f.bundle.facet.mincount=1&hl.fl=content,ts_comments&json.nl=map&wt=json&rows=10&fl=id,entity_id,entity_type,bundle,bundle_name,label,is_comment_count,ds_created,ds_changed,score,path,url,is_uid,tos_name,tm_node,zs_entity&start=0&facet.sort=count&f.bundle.facet.limit=50&q=particular+phrase+in+London&f.ds_created.facet.date.end=2012-01-01T00:00:00Z%2B1YEAR/YEAR&bf=recip(ms(NOW,ds_created),3.16e-11,1,1)^150.0&facet.field=im_field_health_topic&facet.field=bundle&f.im_field_health_topic.facet.limit=50&f.ds_created.facet.limit=50
This URL returns nearly 2000 results - that's most of the content on the site! I've experimented with removing each query parameter at a time, and the only one to make any difference seems to be qf and q: if I remove qf, zero results; if I remove q, I get more results back!
I guess there are two questions here:
Is there anything in these parameters that tell Solr "don't worry if 'particular phrase', or 'piecrusts' appears: just collate the results for 'london'" and then order by relevancy? I would add that I think 'in' is mentioned in the stopwords file, so we can probably ignore the effect of that (?)
Or is this something in the (standard Drupal) schema that I need to change?
I appreciate that sometimes search is better for the visitor if it's inclusive; Google does return results even if it doesn't find perfect matches. But, stopwords and stemming aside, the client does require that searches return only results where all words appear in the content.
As mentioned in the post at http://drupal.org/node/1783454, the Apache Solr Search Integration module makes use of the mm param, which is more or less configured to effect rankings by how closely the keywords are in the dataset. Looking through the docs there are other ways you can use the parameter to effect rankings as well. Therefore the results produced by Apache Solr Search Integration are weighted more closely to the AND operator even though it will return more results as you add more keywords. The benefit of this param is that in cases where the user enters keywords that are too restrictive, results will still be returned. Displaying no results is a really quick way to guide people away from your site.
How are you displaying the search ?
Maybe you could solr views to limit the search range ?
http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr_views
thanks
Nick

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