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| x 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
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David Rawlings
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x 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... |
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| x 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.
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| x 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...
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| x 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... |
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| x 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...
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| x 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.
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x 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... |
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| x 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...
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| x 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.
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| x 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... |
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| x 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...
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| x 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".
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| x 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... |
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x 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...
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| x RSS feeds for Discuss pages | feature | General |
It would be great to have an RSS feed set up for each of the Discuss pages.
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| x Unexpected list of irrelevant types |
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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",...
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| x Terminological confusion |
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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...
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| x 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...
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| x Mass Import | feature |
It would be great to be able to have some kind of mass import functionality when we are setting up our profile pages. For example, using the API tie into Last.FM to grab your favorite artists (just as an example), and maybe something similar for...
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| x Add a 'report bug' link in the header | feature | General |
I understand, that there's the 'Feedback' link at the page bottom. But this part of the page is often not visible without scrolling. At least during Alpha and Beta stages, it's important to make it as simple as possible to give feedback.The feedback...
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| x Software Tickets should have a Browser/OS property | feature | General |
After running into a couple bugs last week that only occured on IE6, it might be a good idea to add a browser and OS property to the Bug ticket type. Might be protocol, but it could help for people like me that wouldn't ordinarily think to...
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| x Usability of type selection dropdown list | feature | Autocomplete |
In some cases, the autocomplete entry can be frustrating to use.For instance, if "Web Site Category" has been selected as a type, and I want to correct it to "Web Site", then I cannot just delete the word "Category" and hit enter -- this just re...
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| x MQL/JSON comments | feature | API |
Hello --As a newbie to the wonderful world of MQL, JSON and freebase, please excuse if this is a silly request.In putting together and/or reading nested MQL queries, I often find myself wishing for the ability to add english-language comments to the...
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| x Expected type for reciprocal link should be only type that populates drop down | feature | Type Editor |
If I add a property to a type, and the expected type of that property is another type that has a limited number of topics, then only the topics of that type should be searched when you are filling in a value. As an example, there's a beer entry here...
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| x Broken account | bug | Account Management |
samuel.morello@gmail.com apparently already has an account, but can't use it when I try creating a new invite I get a database error
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| x Signup hint when username is not allowed should be enhanced |
When a new user is signing up, he can get the message
The username YOURCHOICE is not available
for various reasons e.g. it's already taken, or it contains not allowed characters. The warning / error message should be more specific.
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| x Email address change validation token generates database error |
The error is this:Database failure: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'
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| x Filtering out | feature | Filter |
It would be nice to be able to filter out results of a certain type - that is, to narrow a list of results to those which do not have a particular type.
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| x Wikipedia article in place of the description by default |
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In many cases Freebase adds an excerpt from a Wikipedia article as a default description for any newly created object. How does it work? Because when I try to create the same logic in my own user-defined types or even try to create a new object of a...
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| x Exemplary topics to illustrate type properties | feature |
Might it be a good idea - as a complement to whatever documentation of a type is produced as description - to illustrate the properties of a type with a topic in which all (or as many as possible) properties of the type were completed - and to keep...
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| x Random topic | feature |
Perhaps this is a whimsical suggestion, but might there be a random topic or random type button somewhere? Wikipedia has a random page facility. It has a non-frivolous use, which is to make a tiny sample of the site & get a feel for coverage,...
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| x Save Button Doesn't seem to work on Profile pages--can't add "New York City" as a location, for example | ||||
| x Date/Time field needs a few special cases | feature | Data |
I can't find a way to enter special cases to the Date/Time field for "Unknown" or "to present"/"now". This would be particularly useful when entering the dates of a marriage. (Oddly, an end date is required for marriages, but not for...
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| x The prompt "double-click to add xxx" is misleading - you only need to use a single click on typical browsers such as IE or Firefox | ||||
| x Improvements for browing through a list of topics |
I suggest the following improvements for browsing through a list of topics.When there are more than 30, it would be helpful to have the Previous : Next buttons at the top of the list as well as at the bottom, to save having to scroll down each time...
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| x Can't enter (very) small float values | bug | General |
I can't set the value for Weightmass in Kilograms for Planck mass , either to2.17645e-8 or 0.0000000217645 . Instead, it sets it to NaN.
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| x Adding an included type to a type should add the included type to existing topics of that type | feature | Type Editor |
If a type Type1 already has included type Included1, then when I add Type1 as a type for a topic, Freebase also adds Included1 as a type (which makes sense). But now suppose I add Included2 as an included type to Type1, Freebase should add Included2...
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| x Feature to convert a topic into a type (to fix instance-of vs. subclass-of confusion) |
Right now, the topic Horse is incorrectly a topic of (instance of) the type Animal. Rather, there should be a type Horse which includes (is subclass of) Animal. Why? So I can say that Seabiscuit has type Horse and this will automatically...
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| x Geolocation display is confusing - should show latitude, longitude | feature | General |
For example, the location for Van Nuys shows "-118.433333333 - 34.1833333333" but normally, the latitude is displayed first as "34.1833333333, -118.433333333".Also, using a dash between the two numbers is confusing because the second...
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| x Need links between the type overview and schema view | feature | Type Editor |
For example, need links to move between these two views:http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=/film/film http://www.freebase.com/view/schema?id=/film/film
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| x Show "user friendly" names for topics in compound data type overview | bug | General |
For example, the compound data type for US Political Office Held looks good here:http://www.freebase.com/view/government/us_political_office_term,but here we just get the id in the Topic list on the right:http://www.freebase.com/view/schema?id=...
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| x Error when adding to a property that has a one-value master_property. | bug | General |
The property is controlled by a master_property. I tried to add a new topic for the property, and usually Freebase does the reverse by adding this topic as a value for the master_property. But this gives an error if the master_property...
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| x A tabular, sortable list of topics | feature | General |
It would be useful to have the option of a tabular listing of topics, similar to the detailed view of files in a directory or the lists of emails in one's email Inbox. For topics, the columns could be:display name;type(s);creator;creation...
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| x Image and Description-style properties | feature | General |
I'd like to be able to define one or more properties that can hold one or more images (rather than putting all images into the single flipbook currently provided for a topic). I've tried setting a property to be of type Image, but the...
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| x Show topic description when selecting from a type with "Display as Enumerated List" | feature | General |
When adding a property, Freebase has this neat feature while doing the autocomplete that if you hover the mouse over one of the suggested topics it displays a little window with the topic description. But if the type of the property is "Display as...
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| x MQL prefix bug | bug | API |
{ "query":[{ "/government/us_politician/political_party":null, "name":null, "presidency_number":null, "type":"/government/us_president", "vice_president"...
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| x Immediate access to relevant Types when browsing Topics |
I'd like to be able to see a list of relevant Types when I'm looking at a particular Topic. For example, to see the Type 'Film' when looking at a particular Actor (not just the films that actor was in). Two ways of achieving this come...
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| x Tagging Topics | feature | General |
Freebase's data modelling approach has been contrasted with that of tagging/folksonomies (e.g. Kurt's blog article http://blog.freebase.com/?p=18).However, I think there is value in combining the two approaches. If we consider an individual...
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