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Duplicate links for Album Contribution			bug	Data	I just discovered a couple of cases where the Album Contributions property on Musical Artist has duplicate links to the same album. Bob Dylan www.metaweb.com/metaweb/combinedView.html?id=/wikipedia/en_id/3345 David Rawlings www.metaweb.com...
WYSIWYG editor has issues with newlines			bug		For the first paragraph in a text box (like this one) hitting return at the end of the line inserts a return but keeps the cursor on the same line.Hitting return a second time will put the cursor on the next line, rather than two lines down. It's...
Main interfaces need consistent "working" indicator			feature		At least on my box (a laptop a couple of years old running Windows XP and Firefox 1.5.0.10), the various interfaces like view and filter often take a number of seconds to come up. It's very hard to tell when the app is actually done working, so I...
Query editor too tall			feature	General	The query editor is too tall to fit without scrolling even when maximized on my 1400x1050 screen using normal browser settings. It should at least fit on a 1280x1024 screen, and it would be great if the layout were flexible enough to accommodate a...
Query editor should not resort query by key			feature	General	Although key order doesn't make any difference to the API, you can see in the docs that changing key order can make the query clearer. Unfortunately, the query editor automatically sorts the keys in alphabetical order on submission. In addition to...
Want to monitor my discussions			feature	General	So that I can particpate actively in discussions, I'd like to be able to monitor three sorts of discussions:Ones I have commented in,Ones I on topics I have created or contributed to (like this one), andOnes that are interesting to me.I think the...
Type editor should not offer forbidden options			feature		For types where I have no rights, the type editor still offers me the option to change things. Only when I try to change them will it tell me that I'm not allowed. This includes just trying to look at the options for enumerated types.Rather than...
Starting a document should be double-clickable			feature		To enter this text, I have to click, "You can add it." For other data entry, I double-click on the grey italic text. This is inconsistent, and I often end up double-clicking on "There is no user-contributed description for [topicname]". It'd be...
Filter titlebar should mention location			feature		When filtering on a type (as when viewing the ticket list), the page titlebar should mention the locaiton in the same way the page header does. That makes it easier to tell which window or tab is which.
Viewing an invalid user gives blank page			bug	General	Viewing an invalid user gets a page that is blank except for a couple of images. For example:http://www.freebase.com/view/user?id=/user/sadfIt's not a big deal, as people shouldn't be hand-editing URLs, but it would be better if it there were some...
Want page like Wikipedia's "Recent Changes" and "My Watchlist"			feature		A problem with any large collaborative effort is knowing what is going on. Wikipedia has two features that help with that. I think both of these features are important for Freebase to implement early on, as they help draw people into involvement and...
WYSIWYG editor generates non-working links if http omitted from URL			bug		Desired outcome: an external http URL link. Actual outcome: an internal freebase URL link because of the "other" type Example: Good URL Example: Bad URL Additional information: to edit the bad URL, the editor must delete the text, unless he knows...
Would like an easy way to see what type a property is from			feature		For a topic with multiple types, it's hard to figure out how the topic gets a particular property. It'd be great if the pulldown next to the property said what type it was from, and had an option to view the type definition directly.
Query editor: saved queries and multiple query tabs			feature		In using the query editor, it would be great to have multiple tabs so that I can have different queries going at the same time. I want this both when I'm trying to a mental stack push and when I want to compare the results from two different...
Incorrect error message in query editor			feature		If I put in a query where I've forgotten a comma, the query editor says:"SyntaxError: missing } after property list"Since the query actually has the right number of braces, a better message would be, "comma missing between properties". It would be...
Query editor should accept queries from documentation			feature		In the documentation, most of the examples are of the form:[{ "id\|=":["/type/type", "/type/property", "/type/key"], "id":null, "/type/type/properties":[] }]But to make them work in the query editor, you need to enter:{ "query":[{ "/type...
Query editor doesn't propertly handle query errors			bug		If running a query causes some sort of internal error, the page title changes to indicate an error, but the interface otherwise looks like it is stuck running a query.Sorry I can't give more info on this, but it happened to me when the sandbox went...
png thumbnails fail to generate			bug	General	thumbnails for png image uploads seem to fail to generate. See Watt steam engine for example. I see only a little white rectangle, but the full image displays fine.
Various issues with history			bug	page history	I see a few issues with the topic history screen:History doesn't show document changesIf you take a look at the history for this page, you should see several changes to this text, as I've edited in in a few passes, with changes to the other fields...
App-friendly authentication API			feature	API	In thinking about applications I'd like to build, I'd don't want to make people authenticate through my app. There's no reason for people to trust me with their pasword, and I'd rather not even know it, so that I can't possibly leak it.In the web...
Type "user profile" contains properties also included in "person" that should be identical but are independent.			bug	Data	The type "user profile" contains properties, such as birthday, which are also in "person", a property of "user profile". These properties are independent and can be different. They should be synchronized or removed from "user profile".
Easy way to filter on non-empty value?			feature	Filter	There's probably some way to do it with wildcard syntax, but there have already been a few times when I wanted to filter a list of topics in a given type by ones that had a given field set to a non-empty value.  (My motivation for this was to...
Link dialog in description editor should be prefilled with selected text			feature	Data	When editing a description, to add a link I highlight text and click the "link" icon.  Usually I end up having to immediately retype the text I just selected into the metaweb link field.  Seems like it might make sense to pre-fill that...
Random failures during article updates			bug	General	When updating article properties, the Ajax update indicator sometimes gets stuck. Refreshing the page seems to be the only way to clear the condition. Sometimes the database update has actually completed, and the refresh shows the new...
Can't link to users in text editor, favorite topics			feature	General	I'd like to be able to link to users as internal Metaweb links. But at least when I try it for my two accounts ("/user/william" and "/user/querybuilder_bot") the autocomplete can't find them, both in the text editor link tool and in the "favorite...
Registrant who mistypes email cannot complete registration			bug	Account Management	Steps to reproduce Current user invites new use: newguy@example.com New user receives email, clicks on link New user registers, but mistypes email as newguy@exampel.com New user receives no emailNew user returns to site to log in, is told "you must...
RSS feeds for Discuss pages			feature	General	It would be great to have an RSS feed set up for each of the Discuss pages.
Unexpected list of irrelevant types			bug		When I gave focus to "Where I grew up" and typed in the first few letters of the location, the system offered me the choices illustrated in the accompanying screenshot, the types include "Book", "Person", "Musical Artist" "Person, Deceased Person",...
Terminological confusion					The image addition facility refers to the location of the image to be uploaded, e.g. "Freebase image", "Select an image on your drive. JPG, GIF, PNG formats preferred.", etc. Once uploaded, the edit options include: "Image location". This is...
MJT example fails with IE7, needs Allow Cookies set			bug		IE7 is blocking Freebase.com cookies.Using IE7, the MJT example which accesses Freebase fails witherror: browser could not contact the server you may need to sign in.Work-around:In IE7, Internet Options / Privacy / Sites / freebase.com = Always...