Reconciliation API modules: `recon-suggest-entity`

Service for suggesting wiki pages, with options, e.g. to restrict one's search to a MediaWiki category/categories or namespace.

Parameters

Get pages based on a configuration profile:

api.php?action=recon-suggest-entity&profile=...&substr=...

Parameter name

Description

source

mw (for MediaWiki) or smw (for Semantic MediaWiki).

profile

Page ID of the configuration profile in the Recon namespace.

concept

Used only when source=smw. [...]

property

...

substr

The substring to autocomplete on.

substrpattern

Substring pattern... May be used to override the pattern set in the profile page.

cat

Used only when source=mw, the category or categories (comma-separated, without namespace prefix) to be searched.

ns

Used only when source=mw, the namespace or namespaces (comma-separated) to be searched, e.g. Main,Help.

displaytitle

Used only when source=mw. Set to 1 to search pages by display title; 0 to search by page title.

{{#recon-sitesearch: |apiurl=https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/api.php |apiurlparams=action=recon-suggest-entity origin=* source=mw ns=Subject substr= |targeturl=https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Search?search= |dev=true }}

Shows the issue when using display title, formatted with italics (em or i), to search text.

{{#recon-sitesearch: |apiurl=https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/api.php |apiurlparams=action=recon-suggest-entity origin=* source=mw cat=Mabinogion substrpattern=allchars substr= |targeturl=https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Search?search= |dev=true }}

@todo: maybe drop additional source param (mw or smw, which is implicit from other params or data).

To get pages from a MediaWiki category or namespace:

api.php?action=recon-suggest-entity&source=mw&ns=...&substr=...
api.php?action=recon-suggest-entity&source=mw&cat=...&substr=...