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				<title>Sort order of results in Wikipedia Bounding Box request</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hello,

could someone clarify how the results are ordered when requesting wikipedia entries with a bounding box? If the number of entries exceeds maxRows, will only those entries nearest to the center of the bbox be returned? Or is some sort of relevance factor used (e.g. cities, churches, museums first; then schools pubs etc)?

I would greatly appreciate some clarification.

Yours,

Felix]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:01:12]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Sort order of results in Wikipedia Bounding Box request</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Felix

It is sorted by some kind of relevance. The types are not very reliable so the relevance needs to be based on other factors like length of article, number of links etc.

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:02:32]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Sort order of results in Wikipedia Bounding Box request</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hello Marc,

thanks for the clarification. That is the sorting I was hoping for. However, I wasn't too sure as the Cologne Cathedral often does not make the cut when viewing the articles around Cologne in German. I suspect the article about the Cologne Cathedral to be among the largest and most relevant ones. Other articles that are less important and shorter are included.

Is that a problem specific to Cologne?

Yours,

Felix]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:42:44]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Sort order of results in Wikipedia Bounding Box request</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Felix

You are right this entry was having and empty relevance. I have updated the db with a new relevance that covers all records. Let me know if the result is fine with you.

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:05:13]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Sort order of results in Wikipedia Bounding Box request</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Thanks form looking into this. Unfortunately it seems that this has not been fixed for the german version of the entry.

Could you look at this again? ]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:23:18]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Sort order of results in Wikipedia Bounding Box request</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ You are right, I have found another issue. For performance reasons the result was not sorted under some circumstances. I have improved the query so that it will be better sorted, though not perfect. There might still be situations where the sort will miss some more relevant articles.


Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:58:33]]> GMT</pubDate>
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