What the response contains
Try Naruto, Kyoto, and Albert Einstein and use the returned fields to identify the right record.
Fields worth checking
- Title
- Excerpt
- Page size
- Date
Wikipedia Search
Title · Excerpt · Page size · Date
Live lookup
Type a real query, scan the cards and confirm the key details before opening the full source.
Quick examples
Title and snippet help separate similar pages
MediaWiki search returns searchinfo and a search list. A result can include title, pageid, size, wordcount, snippet, and timestamp. On this page the request searches the English Wikipedia, so use title and snippet to choose the likely page before opening it. snippet is an extract around the matching terms and can contain highlight markup; size and wordcount describe page length, not content quality or accuracy. searchinfo.totalhits tells you how many matches the search found, but it does not replace reading the selected page.
- Compare title, snippet, and pageid when topics or names are similar.
- Open the article to check context, sources, and date before using information from it.
- Treat timestamp as result-update data, not a guarantee that the whole article is current.
