Bug / Feature Request

Bug / Feature Request: Airport ICAO Code

2008-07-09T14:36:33.0000Z

Thanks for the info. I'll wait to add smaller airports until the codes come in -- it should make it a lot easier to keep track of (some airports(some have multiple names and it gets confusing!).

Bug / Feature Request: Airport ICAO Code

2008-07-08T21:59:57.0044Z

Hi evening,

See http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/authority/icao/ESSX#/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000089b3836 . The long and short of it is that we've updated the property to be an property enumeration with a more restrictive permission. We hope to be loading some more airport data soon, so stay tuned!

Bug / Feature Request: Airport ICAO Code

2008-07-08T20:49:35.0012Z

I can't enter a value for the ICAO field under Airports. When I try to save the value I get a message saying I don't have authorization. Is this a bug, or by design?

an example code is FMMI for Ivato Airport in Madagascar

'List of' entries from Wikipedia are typed as their constituents: Thanks for reporting this

2008-06-25T14:16:21.0018Z

There are also a huge number of Wikipedia lists which aren't titled with 'List of' but are worded differently e.g. 'Characters in' or 'Maps of' etc. etc.

Date range of fact. Facts of facts.: Interesting idea

2008-06-21T23:00:37.0012Z

It looks like start and end date is possible with the right type property.

http://www.freebase.com/help/tutorial/whats-new.html shows
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/fallingwater which has a field for
http://www.freebase.com/tools/schema/architecture/ownership

Bug / Feature Request: freebase suggest is not working anymore

2008-06-19T17:25:59.0000Z

Great,

this was fixed by Willi Moffat.

If you experience the same problem, bellow Willi's response on the question in the developer mailing list

Thanks a lot Willi

martin

----------
OK, the examples should be fixed now. http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/
You can see the changes I made: http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/source/detail?r=100

Basically this:
$('#example2').freebaseSuggest( {ac_param:{type: '/music/album',
category: "instance", get_all_types: "0", disamb: "1", limit: "10",
strict:1 };

Should be:
$('#example2').freebaseSuggest( {ac_param:{type:'/music/album'}} );

Most of the arguments have been depreciated and 'strict' no longer
takes 1. I've removed strict as well because the default behaviour
seems fine to me, if you want to experiment then see the search API
docs here:
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ad84c9

Bug / Feature Request: freebase suggest is not working anymore

2008-06-19T07:42:41.0012Z

Good morning,

just discovered that he freebase suggest is not working anymore in some cases

For example

http://mqlx.com/~willmoffat/libs/freebase-suggest/examples/suggest_demo2.html

or also on my web site

http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/

Any quick fix highly appreciated

cheers

martin

Date range of fact. Facts of facts.: Interesting idea

2008-06-17T22:59:53.0006Z

Attaching new properties to existing property relationship (ad hoc) is certainly something we've discussed, but its pretty complicated in practice. Thanks for the suggestion.

Motorcycle search returns nonsense domain blob: Partially fixed

2008-06-17T22:55:28.0000Z

Thanks Dan!

Long edit list out of view: Still having this problem?

2008-06-17T22:39:10.0005Z

I'm not able to recreate it, exactly. Even with a small browser window, I can generally get to the end of the list with the browser scroll bar.

If your value is highlighted in red, its still possible to place the cursor back at the end of the string and continue typing.

Motorcycle search returns nonsense domain blob: Partially fixed

2008-06-17T22:33:57.0012Z

The preview blurb now behaves properly. Tuning the ordering of relevance results in search autocomplete is a delicate proposition... we're definitely looking into ways to make domains and types move up in results.

'List of' entries from Wikipedia are typed as their constituents: Thanks for reporting this

2008-06-17T21:47:55.0012Z

our data team will take a look at it...

function should be allowed as a type or property of a type: issues with reserved words

2008-06-17T21:42:25.0012Z

Agree that not being able to use reserved words is frustrating - and its not clear why they can't be used within a user's namespace.

At the very least, however, the schema editor should provide clearer errors when users attempt to use reserved words.

There should be a way to delete your own account: Makes sense

2008-06-17T21:31:55.0005Z

We'll add this as a new work item in our new bug tracking system. Not sure how soon we'll have this feature but agree we should.

Bug / Feature Request: F8 & Explore Command

2008-06-13T23:47:48.0007Z

Thanks.

I've missed some of these "advanced" topics. Is there a place where items like this are discussed in more detail?

Thanks,
biosopher

Bug / Feature Request: F8 & Explore Command

2008-06-13T17:01:30.0007Z

When you hit F8, a Dev Tools footer should appear on the bottom of the page. There are a number of links, with one of them being Explore. You can also get to it by http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/fb_id where fb_id is the freebase id of a topic.

Bug / Feature Request: F8 & Explore Command

2008-06-13T15:59:57.0005Z

I've seen talk about an explore mode accessible by the F8 key I see hints about such an option when I do a google search on "freebase explore mode f8" but nothing shows up when I view the results.

It would appear the the Explore mode only accessible to certain people with special privileges. Any recommendations on accessing the Explore mode or what it is?

Thanks
biosopher.

Bug / Feature Request: PHP documentation

2008-06-13T01:24:39.0005Z

The example for the metaweb PHP class at

http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e139#metaweb.php

is cut off at the top as well as the top of albumlist.php in example 4.6.

I know it's not a bug, but I wasn't sure where else to put this.

Bug / Feature Request: Bug in trans query for article summaries

2008-06-12T22:38:25.0000Z

Thanks gmackenz,

What's the explore mode with F8 key? I see hints about it when I do a google search on "freebase explore mode f8" but nothing shows up when I view the page.

Is the Explore mode only accessible to certain people with privilege or ...?

Thanks
biosopher

Bug / Feature Request: Bug in trans query for article summaries

2008-06-12T17:45:15.0002Z

This one works for me in the client:

http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000239081

This one returns full summary stored.

http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000239081

This one returns the smaller summary (an excerpt of an excerpt, heh)

The other two do return an error, as the GUID is for the topic that is Sann Quentin Prison and the GUID I use is for the common/topic/article (I got from explore mode (the 'F8' key):

http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000023907a

Bug / Feature Request: Bug in trans query for article summaries

2008-06-12T15:53:28.0012Z

I'm getting a unexpected error when retrieving summaries for some article guids. For example these trans queries for San Quentin return errors:

http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000023907a
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000023907a

The San Quentin article does have a summary though:

http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000023907a

And I know these queries work for other guids such as these for RadioHead and Uma Thurman:

http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000008c306
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000008c306
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/raw/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004c272
http://www.freebase.com/api/trans/blurb/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004c272

Any advice on whether this is a bug or why the Uma & Radiohead would work but not the San Quentin?

Thanks,
biosopher

Bug / Feature Request: problem adding URLs

2008-06-10T17:06:30.0005Z

I can't seem to add a URL lately. Every time I try I get an error (looks like a server timeout?). Happened over the weekend and again today (haven't tried in between).

Also, I can't see to ever edit the other fields other than URL, is this on purpose?

Bug / Feature Request: Content Licensing from Wikipedia?

2008-06-09T17:31:20.0007Z

Looks like you and spatialed are collaborating - that's great! Once you become familiarized with freebase, you can create a schema to fit your dataset, and then you can use our API to load the data. We can talk more once you have an idea of what you want to load.

Bug / Feature Request: Content Licensing from Wikipedia?

2008-06-08T09:56:14.0000Z

I created a Naturalist domain with some types that may be useful for you and wrote a slightly longer description of the domain in your namespace.

Bug / Feature Request: Content Licensing from Wikipedia?

2008-06-08T03:54:10.0000Z

Thanks for the follow up. I had noticed that the license was correctly listed as cc-by-sa which is great. So I guess that implies that this license is permitted for Freebase which makes me happy! :-)

I'm definitely interested in getting my data into Freebase and have begun figuring out how to do that.

Bug / Feature Request: Content Licensing from Wikipedia?

2008-06-06T05:48:35.0007Z

It looks like we correctly marked the image you posted as CC-BY-SA, but please let us know if you see any otherwise. Regarding the attribution, good point - we are working to improve that. Pulling in the creator data programmatically is often difficult because the Wikipedia page is not structured. While we explore better ways of doing that, we're looking to at least link to the WP image page that has all of the detailed information, including the original attribution. In the meantime, we'd love your help in adding the attribution and/or your data to Freebase.

Bug / Feature Request: Content Licensing from Wikipedia?

2008-06-04T05:15:49.0000Z

Hi and welcome to freebase! I don't think I can provide you with an answer to your licensing question, but I've forwarded your post on to folks that can. Hopefully, you'll hear from them soon.

Bug / Feature Request: Content Licensing from Wikipedia?

2008-06-04T03:43:22.0005Z

I recently started exploring Freebase and was delighted to discover that a number of my Creative Commons licensed mushroom images had found their way into your database. It looks like they got there via wikipedia, but I noticed two potential issues with the way they were imported.

First, the original images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (cc-by-sa) license. However, according to the Freebase licensing policy this is not a permitted license but Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) is. Is the Freebase licensing policy wrong or is this something the Wikipedia data import needs to be smarter about?

The second problem is that the attribution information was not maintained. Here's a concrete example that I haven't fixed:

http://www.freebase.com/view/wikipedia/images/commons_id/1710275

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Agaricus_subrufescens.jpg

In the case of my own images, I have no problem relicensing them under cc-by, but I would really like the attribution information to be correctly maintained.

Bug / Feature Request: peers of influence nodes dealt differently

2008-06-01T03:36:39.0007Z

Great! BTW, spectacular work on your app - it is quite addictive.

Bug / Feature Request: peers of influence nodes dealt differently

2008-05-31T05:20:53.0008Z

Hello Cheunger,

thanks al lot for the reply.

I recently discovered the |= contraint and changed my query strategy so that I only need one subquery level. By that I can avoid duplicate subqueries, so my question here is not anymore of pratical relevance.

Thanks again

martin

Bug / Feature Request: peers of influence nodes dealt differently

2008-05-26T20:26:55.0007Z

Yes, you could infinitely nest subqueries to find peers of peers of peers of peers, etc. There could be a point where an influence node no longer has peers and then the response would be null. What result are you trying to achieve? Finding information about an influence node's first level peers seems reasonable and relevant, but peers of peers of peers, etc.?

Bug / Feature Request: peers of influence nodes dealt differently

2008-05-23T20:10:01.0000Z

Hello Cheunger,

thanks a lot.

I have a following up question regarding this. I am doing nested queries and the result of your suggested query includes also Carl Jung since it is as you pointed out a compounded value type.

Now to stay with the example, let's say I need also the peers of the peers. The following works

{
"influenced" : [],
"influenced_by" : [],
"name" : "Carl Jung",
"peers" : [
    {
      "peers" : [
        {
          "id" : null,
          "name" : null,
          "peers" : [
            {
              "peers" : [
                {
                  "id" : null,
                  "name" : null
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
],
"type" : "/influence/influence_node"
}

but there are a lot duplicate subqueries. The query gives my the required information but this seems to unnecessary struggle your DB (and my actual query is quite elaborate)

Any suggestions highly appreciated

Cheers

martin

Bug / Feature Request: peers of influence nodes dealt differently

2008-05-23T18:35:28.0007Z

Peer relationship is a compound value type. You'll have to modify your query to something like this:

{
"influenced" : [],
"influenced_by" : [],
"name" : "Carl Jung",
"peers" : [
    {
      "peers" : [
        {
          "id" : null,
          "name" : null
        }
      ]
    }
],
"type" : "/influence/influence_node"
}

Bug / Feature Request: peers of influence nodes dealt differently

2008-05-23T16:57:34.0005Z

Good morning freebasers,

hope your great work is joyful.

I am just about to discover freebase playing around with influence nodes. While doing that I came across something strange

The following query
{
"influenced" : [],
"influenced_by" : [],
"name" : "Carl Jung",
"peers" : [],
"type" : "/influence/influence_node"
}
]

doesn't return Carl's peers.

I got some hints that this is due to general technical limitations of the freebase framework but I just would like to address it here hoping this will be solved soon. I guess a symmetric relation like in this example "being peers" is something quite common.

cheers

martin

A tabular, sortable list of topics: Yes, this is in the works

2008-05-22T22:58:15.0000Z

This would be an extremely useful feature

A tabular, sortable list of topics: Yes, this is in the works

2008-05-21T19:50:43.0001Z

Hi Robert, we're doing usability testing on this feature now. Would you be available at any time in the next few days for 45 minutes or so to do a screenshare test with us? I'll see if I can drum up an email address for you as well -- would love to get you involved.

- Dan

Bug / Feature Request: Request: More control when editing a list

2008-05-21T18:05:36.0000Z

If your are in the edit mode, you can move items manually with your mouse. I thought there might be a demo of this on site (but could well be mistaken, as some new features haven't been documented as they have just now been stabilized).

Just mouse over the the left within list of instances contained within a property (a small square made up of dots) and you'll note the mouse cursor change to a little hand with the little help flyout informing you can move type up and down.

We may introduce additional keyboard controls to match once we are into Beta.

Bug / Feature Request: Import list reorders items

2008-05-21T17:59:22.0007Z

This is a known annoyance/bug. As it is a rather low priority bug there is no ETF at this time...Hopefully soon in the next month.

Bug / Feature Request: Import list reorders items

2008-05-21T09:10:20.0007Z

Sorry for the double-post. Several times the Firefox crashed while submitting a post.

Bug / Feature Request: Request: More control when editing a list

2008-05-21T09:06:09.0012Z

Currently there's only Delete and Move to the Top when editing a list. Could you please add more controls like you have in other website areas, i.e. Move to Bottom, Move One Up, and Move One Down?

Bug / Feature Request: Import list reorders items

2008-05-21T09:03:06.0005Z

Input list

Item 1

Item 2

Item 3

results in

Item 3 (the last item moved to the top)

Item 1

Item 2

A tabular, sortable list of topics: Yes, this is in the works

2008-04-23T16:42:38.0007Z

Thanks for keeping me informed. If you'd like me to have a look before you release it, I'd be happy to oblige.

A tabular, sortable list of topics: Yes, this is in the works

2008-04-21T15:15:45.0007Z

Hi Robert, an update - we are definitely incorporating all of these ideas into what we're building. Its getting closer to being ready - I'd guess it should be available in mid May. Cheers.

Want page like Wikipedia's "Recent Changes" and "My Watchlist": Should be easy...

2008-04-21T03:56:56.0007Z

For the record, this query shows you the latest new links, which corresponds to recent changes:

[{
    "*" : null,
    "sort" : "-timestamp",
    "timestamp" : null,
    "type" : "/type/link"
}]

Can't edit a weblink: Editing weblinks

2008-03-21T22:57:47.0012Z

Hey Jack, thanks for the note. We've recently changed weblinks so that they show any property value where the expected type is a URL (e.g. the wikipedia link, a musical artist's homepage, a blogger's blog) all in one place.

One downside of this is it makes it more complex to know how edit should work...and so as a short term, we've reduced most weblinks to adding and deleting.

We do expect to reenable this at some point in the not too distant future.

Cheers,
Jeff

Duplicate links for Album Contribution: Data is correct; UI is confusing

2008-03-12T00:28:30.0007Z

I believe that this is working properly now in the UI, see album contributions by David Rawlings. At this point it does look like a data issue as we should figure out a way to merge the same artist onto one CVT with multiple roles.

A tabular, sortable list of topics: Yes, this is in the works

2008-03-05T20:32:02.0000Z

That's great, Dan, glad to hear that it's in hand.

My original posting suggested having columns for Topic metadata (creator, creation date, etc). I agree that including Type properties, as you indicate, is equally desirable. Having both will potentially lead to quite a large number of columns in the table. I guess this will require that the user has the choice as to which metadata properties and Type properties are actually displayed as coumns in the table - existing columns can be hidden, and hidden columns opened up.

Perhaps thought can be given to increasing the amount of page width available - perhaps allowing the Filter area to be minimised?

A tabular, sortable list of topics: Yes, this is in the works

2008-03-05T18:36:39.0007Z

Now that we have finished work on the new topic view, we are turning our design attention to updating the type filter page. Our plan is to display data on this page in a tabular format, with column headings for each of the properties that can be sorted and filtered upon. We hope to have this functionality available sometime in May if not before. As these designs become more mature, we'll definitely post them to the Freebase blog to solicit input and reactions.

A tabular, sortable list of topics: Yes, this is in the works

2008-03-05T11:56:09.0000Z

It would be nice to have an update on when this feature might be added. Frankly, it is the killer reason that is stopping me promoting Freebase within the research community that I work in (environmental modelling). If I knew it was coming in (say) the next 3 months, then I'd be prepared to commit the time populating some Types with more Topics, and inviting others to do likewise. But if not, not.

Happily to engage in an offline discussion if you'd like more detailed thoughts on this request.

A tabular, sortable list of topics: Yes, this is in the works

2007-08-07T15:34:10.0011Z

Not sure how soon we will be able to provide tabular views that work more or less as you describe, but we are definitely planning to support them.