For Special:UnconnectedPages in particular, we designed the underlying page
property so that it can be efficiently sorted or filtered by namespace (see
T300770 <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300770> for details), so the
fact that it starts with main namespace pages is intentional and guaranteed
by the current code; I’d say this is unlikely to change soon, but I also
don’t think we consider it covered by the Wikidata Stable Interface Policy
<
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy>.
For other query pages, it depends on the particular page; for
instance, Special:PagesWithProp
sorts by page_id
<
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/5fc28ecc5b/includes/specials/SpecialPagesWithProp.php#207>
and Special:ShortPages by page_len
<
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/5fc28ecc5b/includes/specials/SpecialShortPages.php#158>,
if I’m reading the code correctly.
Am Do., 22. Feb. 2024 um 06:36 Uhr schrieb Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I query special pages through API (concretely Special:UnconnectedPages),
> and I noticed that main namespace articles are yielded first.
> It seems that pages are ordered by namespace numbers.
> Is it a guaranteed behaviour?
>
> (If so, I can break from the loop at te first page not in 0 namespace
> which would be nice.)
>
>
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