Wikipedia article text : Help

Freebase doesn't store wikipedia articles. Freebase provides the wikipedia key so that you can get the article from wikipedia.

For example, /topic/en/radiohead has property "/wikipedia/topic/en_id" : "38252"

that fetches:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=38252

Wikipedia has several ways to get their full text:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=38252&action=render

More options are available via their API:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

Note that you'll need a way to convert the wiki formatting to valid HTML.

Note also that not all Freebase topics have an equivalent Wikipedia article (Freebase topics should e considered a superset of Wikipedia articles) so make sure your code can handle a case where there is no wikipedia article. This query can be used to see if a Freebase article exists:

{
   "/common/topic/alias" : [],
   "/common/topic/article" : {
     "id" : null
   },
   "id" : "/topic/en/radiohead",
}

See also the related topic, Retrieve the Wikipedia URL for an object with a GUID.

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typo in help article

Metaweb Staff

"Thanks for the catch! It looks like a couple characters were backspaced over and is now corrected..."

by philg Dec 8, 2008

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