GeoNames Forum

Kindly help me on this queries for the application using this Webservice.

For Solomon Islands,
http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaSearch?q=solomon%20islands&title=solomon%20islands
doesn't return results specific to Solomon Islands.

Same goes for Myanmar, the official name of Burma.
http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaSearch?q=myanmar&title=myanmar
is not ok while
http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaSearch?q=burma&title=burma
is ok.

Thank you in advance.

Arlene

The wikipedia search is searching over geocoded wikipedia articles and it can only find articles that are geocoded.

The title parameter searches for articles with the search term in the title. Myanmar does not seem to be in the title of any article. But you find it with the q parameter:
http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaSearch?q=myanmar

Whether 'Myanmar' is the 'official' name is controversial. The name is not recognized by many countries as it was imposed by the military junta.

Marc