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danm for the Freebase Commons
These items are bugs and feature requests that have been addressed and closed.
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| x WYSIWYG article editing |
Key must-have capabilities:
editing should happen inline, not on a separate page
carriage returns
bold
italics
ordered lists
unordered lists
links (external)
links (internal - some simple linking convention to Metaweb concepts)
Nice-to...
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| x Component - select lists |
There are many cases where a user wants to create a property with a restricted (enumerated) list of options. For instance, a property called 'Days of the Week', 'Album Release Type' or 'Gender'
Suggested requirements:
add a checkbox option to...
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| x Component - addresses |
Requirements as follows:
use specialized component when user selects 'mailing address' as an Expected type
when submitted, address should be co-typed as a location
geolocation service should interpret address and populate geolocation properties on...
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| x Component - URLs |
Standard component for inputing a webpage (URL) along with a title. The title should link to the URL. If the title is not filled in, use the URL.
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| x Page history doesn't show all edits |
History page doesn't currently show edits to incoming links or compound value types.
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| x Image upload fails in IE7 |
In Internet Explorer 7.0
When uploading an image using the new template, the UPLOAD button stays disabled even after entering a file from the BROWSE menu/caption and title. You have to click on the filename text box to get it to enable. Also,...
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| x HTML in title field |
Clicking on "Amy Millan" here:
http://www.metaweb.com/metaweb/typeView.html?id=/wikipedia/en_id/1539807&typeId;=/music/artist
brings up this page:
http://www.metaweb.com/metaweb/typeView.html?id=/user/metaweb/datasource/MusicBrainz/name/LAA33059...
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| x Entering birthdays off by one |
When you try to edit the birth date in your user page, it ends up off by one. To repro, type "1 oct 1972" and you get October 2, 1972.It has a "closed- fixed" ticket, but still seems to be off. . .
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| x Pages of bad albums |
When browsing albums, there are pages of bad entries. They just say Musical AlbumNo description available.Musical AlbumNo description available.Musical AlbumNo description available.And are not clickable. A few ids:9202a8c04000641f8000000003be2b20...
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| x Adding New books to author |
Disregard - when I closed the "favorites" window, I was able to add Books.
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| x Broken Link -- "A Company" |
On the page:http://www.freebase.com/view/filter?id=%2Fbusiness%2FcompanyThe is the text:'A Company'
(or corporation) is a legal entity formed which has a separate legal
identity from its members, and is ordinarily incorporated to undertake...
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| x linking album to artist |
when viewing the entry for the band Lavender Diamond, I double-clicked to add albums. the first album I tried to add, "The Cavalry of Light," came up as already existing, so I selected that and got the following error:{
"messages":[{
"info":...
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| x Documentation for PHP is missing variables | ||
| x Error generated when adding image from URL | ||
| x Setting "linked in as" to the property | ||
| x Expected Type Subject Sticks on Page in Created Properties |
In Edit Type, I selected one of my User Created Properties and clicked the 'add' button to fill in Expected Type.After typing a letter or more, and letting autocomplete key up a subject, I hit cancel.If autocomplete hadn't cued up the subject's...
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| x Page Header duplicated on Documentation page |
When logged in and visiting the API documentation page, the header appears twice. The first header is the standard header that appears at the top of every page, but the second header appears with no "My Profile" link.The affected page is included in...
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| x Image language input error |
I have tried to add language info for a picture what I have uploaded but this is what I received:{
"messages":[{
"info":{
"user":"/user/nesquick",
"userguid":"#9202a8c04000641f8000000004f2313b"
},
"message":"User /user...
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| x Profile birthdate does not properly save |
I tried entering my birthdate in several different formats, but the autocomplete shows the date that I entered +1 day. After saving that anyway, the stored data is my birthdate +2 days.This looks similar to the bug Date entry off by one which...
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| x Dated Integer off by one |
The date of a Dated Integer is shown as off by one.I entered 2006 as the date of the company revenue of ImecThe Change Log correctly shows 2006.But when you view the property you see an off-by-one value of 2007 instead of 2006.This looks...
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| x Better bug report UI |
The edit box that pops up when creating a software ticket is confusing since it is not clear what to type in it (the name of the bug). Once, they do figure that out,
it really not clear to most users what to do with Ticket type, Category, etc...
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| x Freebase red banner appears twice on API documentation page |
The banner/nav-bar appears twice at the top of http://www.freebase.com/view/documentation/ when viewing the MQL API.
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| x Source of image |
What type of data is to be placed in the "Source" property for an image? If I upload an image I took, do I use myself as the source? Or is there a specific topic type for image sources? In other words, would there be a topic for me...
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| x Two "Championship" properties in "Hockey Team" |
While editing the topic "New Jersey Devils," I noticed there's two properties named "Championships". This didn't make sense to me, so I went up to "Hockey Team (rcheramy's types)" and tried to Edit the Type. Unfortunately, there's only...
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| x Duplicate parent object error |
I was trying to update an item (Musical Artist: Brother) that had been erroneously added in duplicate. When trying to add "album" items (that already existed) to one of them I got cryptic error messages. I had a look around and found the...
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| x Topic title with Ampersand |
When putting an ampersand in a title of a topic, it displays as & (the html code for displaying an ampersand) instead of &. For an example, see the topic for "D. G. Yuengling & Son". It displays as "D. G. Yuengling &...
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| x Text Clipping |
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This is fairly conspicuous: displayed field names for topics appear clipped in Firefox 2.0.0.1/Ubuntu.Attached screenshot.
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| x Can't change registered email address |
I can't find a way to change the email address registered with Freebase. Shouldn't that be on this page?http://www.freebase.com/view/account
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| x "Problem saving your input" |
I was doing some additional work on last week's "Alec's data task for the week" and was specifically entering album data for Jon Finn. The wikipedia article referenced two alboums so I entered one called "Don't Look So Serious" which auto...
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| x Image upload hangs when file path is invalid |
For any topic, begin to upload an image.Select "local file" or "URL".Enter an invalid path (e.g. a URL for the file path, or a typo in the url).click upload.Result:User sees You have chosen to open form_upload_image application/json from freebase.com...
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| x Date entry off by one |
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When I type "Mar 8, 1897" into a date field, it gets displayed as "Mar 9, 1897" right underneath.I added 2 screenshots showing that this bug is still present. The birthday was entered as May 1, 1978 but it is shown as May 3, 1978 --willmoffat
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| x On Edit Type page for Software Project, Included Types won't let user Jeffrey include Project, a type created by judell |
Jon created a Project type, I thought it would be more specific to have Software Projects, so I created Software Project. I'd like Software Project to include Project, but apparently I don't have permission to do this.I'm not sure if this is a...
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| x PDF Content-type is wrong |
http://www.freebase.com/view/documentation/DevelopingMetawebApps.pdf is sent by the server with Content-type text/html, and therefore shows up as gibberish in my browser window rather than triggering the appropriate outside viewer. This should just...
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| x "Discuss ..." link does not update |
When I change the title of an entry, the "Discus ..." link does not get changed along with it. Looks like small a UI glitch to me.
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| x Can't delete accidentally-created topic |
I accidentally created a topic with the same name as an existing one, when I intended to link to the existing one. I'd like to delete this spurious topic, but all the "delete", "mark as duplicate", etc. options at the top are grayed out for me...
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| x Plus in search box |
If you use a search URL like this:
http://www.metaweb.com/metaweb/search.html?query=foo+bar
(note the plus instead of %20) the search happens right but the search box ends up with "foo+bar" in it instead of "foo bar" as expected.
I discovered...
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| x Invite list doesn't work past 14 |
Minor snag - I've used 14/15 invites, but I no longer see the text field for using that last invite. Looks like the list of sent invites has squeezed it out.
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| x Mangled wikipedia imports |
Looks like import by page title is borked. Could it be the page was renamed?See the web link for more details.
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| x Wikipedia article title should be decoded on topic page |
Look for example at the Freebase page for Midnight's Children. It claims the Wikipedia article for this is called "Midnight$0027s_Children". It would be better to decode that to "Midnight's Children".
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| x Incorrect error message in query editor |
In the query editor the error message for unbalanced curly braces is incorrect. With a query of "{}}" the error message is "SyntaxError: missing ) in parenthetical". Instead, the error message should be something like: "SyntaxError: missing {" or ...
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| x Interface slow and memory footprint large on Firefox 1.5 and WIndows XP |
Using Firefox 1.5.0.10 under Windows XP Professional SP2 on a Thinkpad T42 with a 1.7 Ghz Pentium M with 1.5 GB of RAM, the freebase interface is pretty slow. 5-10 second page rendering times are common, and it seems to get slower the longer the...
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| x Search stuck on certain queries |
Whenver an unsupported Lucene search is done, such as a search with a wildcard as the first character, the search is stuck on "Search in progress" forever. As an example, try a search for *base. Also, it does not seem to be possible to Lucene...
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| x Discussion link needed on schema editor |
In looking at a type, you have to use the schema editor, even if you aren't interested in edting it. However, from there there's no easy way to get to the discussion about the type. That link is available both on /view and /view/filter, but not on ...
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| x WYSIWYG editing doesn't close links |
The WYSIWYG editor can get stuck entering text as link in a way that's hard to get out of.Steps to reproduce:Start a new document.Enter a phrase to link, like "Link Me".Highlight it and link it to something.Continue adding text.The result will be...
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| x "Double-click to add image" doesn't work |
Just above this box is an area for images that says "double-click to add image". That doesn't actually work. You have to mouse into the box and click the green circle to actually add an image.
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| x Signed-out user viewing home page gets mangled UI |
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A signed-out user visiting the home page can get a mangled UI. See photo for details.This has happened to me today on both www.freebase.com and sandbox.freebase.com, but it doesn't happen every time. Reloading the page results in a redirect to...
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| x Discussion comment confirmation hides new post |
When entering the first discussion comment for a topic, the "your post has been added" message obscures the post itself. It's also hard to tell how to make the message go away. Since I want to see how my message looks, this is frustrating.My...
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| x Mangled title bar when viewing mangled record |
Bad records yield very strange title bars. On this link:http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000003bcf5d6The title bar starts with some bad characters and goes on to say "<div component="EditableMetawebLabel" and a fair bit more....
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| x Password recovery coughs up JSON on bad email address |
If you try to recover your password and type in an unknown email address, the UI doesn't change, but the brower will open up the JSON text below.This is using Firefox 1.5.0.10 on Windows XP Profesisonal SP 2.{ "status": "400 Bad request", ...
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| x Attempt to recover password redirects to signin page |
At the signin screen I clicked on "recover password". Nothing appeared to happen. What actually was going on was a redirect from the recover password URL back to the signin page.The actual client/server exchange is below.GET /recoverPassword.html...
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| x Properties need descriptions |
It's sometimes not clear what a property is supposed to represent just from its name.For example, type 'Location' has property 'USBG Name'. According to Google this is the United States Bartenders Guild (or Botanic Garden). It took some serious...
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| x Each property should have help text |
Although many properties are self-explanatory, others are mysterious to the casual editor. It would be great if each property's pulldown menu in the topic viewer had a way to get more information on what the property is and how best to use it.
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| x Invitation Interface is totally counter-intuitive |
The Freebase Invitation Interface is totally counter-intuitive! Listing Unsent Invitations on the right is totally hard to parse for those that speak left-to-right languages. Moving the list on sent and unsent invitations to the left would make much...
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| x "Jump to type" search does not work if not signed in |
To see this bug, sign out and go to the Data page. Then type something in the "Jump to type" search field. It does not give any results, but I expect that it should let you search if not signed in.
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| x Can't make my own Types/Topics into favourites |
You can set "Favorite Domains", "Favorite Types" and "Favorite Topics" on your home page. However, the drop down list for each of these does not include my own Types or Topics. As an alpha tester, these are what I'd like to work with...
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| x More obvious link to "Bug/Feature Request" |
It is vital that Freebase alpha testers have a "community space" in
which they can share ideas about Freebase functionality, user
interface, etc. The "Bug/Feature Request" type provides this space,
but it's pretty hard to find. The...
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| x Internal Server Error on 'Imageshack' page |
The page: http://www.freebase.com/view/imageshackShows:Sorry! We were unable to handle your request.
The error was:
Internal Server ErrorFurthermore, I took a look at the properties via mql, and they aren't...
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| x Several Pages giving 500 errors | ||
| x No auto-complete in Firefox 3 |
In the current pre-release of Firefox 3, autocomplete doesn't work, including in the main search box. (Firefox 3 will be released soon and has a new Javascript engine, maybe part of the problem.) The Firefox 3 pre-release is called Gran Paradiso....
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| x Next page button should only appear when useful |
When filtering data, you'll often see "viewing 1-10 of 10+". If you click on "Next" you will get a page with no results and a "no items" note. It's frustrating to click for nothing, especially when page rendering is so slow.If fetching an actual...
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