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Duplicate links for Album Contribution
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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WYSIWYG editor has issues with newlines
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...
Viewing an invalid user gives blank page
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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WYSIWYG editor generates non-working links if http omitted from URL
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...
Query editor doesn't propertly handle query errors
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
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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Various issues with 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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Type "user profile" contains properties also included in "person" that should be identical but are independent.
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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Random failures during article updates
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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Registrant who mistypes email cannot complete registration
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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Unexpected list of irrelevant types
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",...
MJT example fails with IE7, needs Allow Cookies set
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...
Broken account
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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Can't enter (very) small float values
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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Show "user friendly" names for topics in compound data type overview
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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Error when adding to a property that has a one-value master_property.
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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MQL prefix bug
{ "query":[{ "/government/us_politician/political_party":null, "name":null, "presidency_number":null, "type":"/government/us_president", "vice_president"...
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Can't add a property named "id"
When I'm editing a type, I tried to add a property named "id". It didn't give me any feedback positive or negative, and it took me a couple of attempts before I realized that it didn't like the name, even though there were no other visible...
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Web Link property with a path and no Title displayed incorrectly
When I create a Web Link and fill only the URL without a Title, the output does not correspond to the content if I provide a specific path in addition to the host name.For example, home page for the national Microsoft rep. in Finland is http:/...
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Adding user profile type to a person broke that person
I created a page to correspond with myself: http://www.freebase.com/view/%239202a8c04000641f8000000005bce24c
After adding some information, I wanted to reflect the fact that I'm
also a user of freebase. I clicked to add a type, input "user" and...
Date of birth get +1 when viewed
dont know if it is time zone related, but when i view items which has dates in them (like my person type http://www.freebase.com/view/%239202a8c04000641f8000000005b87d75) the date, in my example, my birth date, is displayed as Fab 6, but when i...
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Viewing user's home page
Is this actually supposed to happen? type in: http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=/user/<any username> whether you're logged in or not and you see that user's created/edit topics, that user's discussions and links to edit public profile,...
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Page in Search Results Not Found
Thutmose - the first result for the search Thutmose, gives a 404 error.
Existing property prevents property being added to type
A few days ago, I was working on /time/event while my Internet connection was flaking out. I tried to add a property, "Location", but nothing happened -- presumably because the connection timed out. Later, I tried again, and got an error...
Make the type breadcrumb trail indicate a private domain
When I clicked the type for a topic, I got to this page. At the top, the breadcrumb trail says "Domains & Types - Gender - Gender identity". I assumed that this was an official type because it looks like a top-level domain, similar to "...
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Incorrect Autocomplete Preview for Topic With Removed Description
I was looking to add Physics as the subject of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The preview in the dropdown autocomplete section for this topic begins "Physics covers the AB portion of the Advanced Placement exam..." however on the page for...
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Text for a Topic Description is Backwards
The description for Shigeru Miyamoto's topic is backwards.It begins with a unicode character that renders all of the text following it (within the same html block of the page I think) backwards. The description for the page looks like it's...
Auto-complete for a Topic With a Forward-slash Loads Forever
On this
page a friend was attempting to add a job to the employment
history. When he got to the 'title' part, he attempted to use
"Interim Network Programmer/Analyst", and the autocomplete waited on
"loading..." indefinitely.I have...
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View Schema crashes Firefox 3 Beta 1
To reproduce:Run Firefox 3 Beta 1 on Windows XP (haven't tried other operating systems). Download from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b1/win32/en-US/Go to Organism Classification.Click View Schema.I can View Schema for some other...
Edit currently not implemented
I added a motorcycle model property to 2000 BMW F650. If I try to change the value I get the error "Edit currently not implemented". This happens to a couple of my types and seems to be associated with disambiguation.
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Long edit list out of view
I've been adding content to the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve topic in the Contains property. The list reaches the bottom of my screen and, depending on the number of matches, I'm unable to see the last items or even the option to create a...
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'List of' entries from Wikipedia are typed as their constituents
Many entries from "List of" topics from Wikipedia are typed as their constituents. For example, 'List of Chief Ministers of Assam' is typed as /people/person, and 'List of cities in the Netherlands by province' is typed as a location....
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Freebase's "favicon.ico" is a GIF, not an ICO
I had some problem displaying the FreeBase "Favicon". This is the little 16x16 graphic that shows up in the tab of a web browser to indicate which site that tab is for. A bit of research and I learned the trouble I was having...
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IMDB entry - film actor property
tried to add the Film actor to the following entry: http://www.freebase.com/view/en/chris_hemsworth i am asked, is i thought, to enter just the number of the imdb URL. but after a few refresh, i found out that the Weblink which was created was missing...
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Bad character in Friesengeist 2: Regelm...
in the topic /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006dac2e5 there's a bad character that wrecks API, but more critically, the quadruple datadumps...
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Cant query for values for guid in mqlwrite
when i write using mqlwrite i get: "code" : "/api/status/error", "messages" : [ { "code" : "/api/status/error", ...
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confusing signin workflow
I forgot my password; asked for a recovery email; then I saw what my username really was. So I went from https://www.freebase.com/signin/recoverPassword2and clicked 'sign in' at the top. I signed in, and got redirected back to the recoverPassword2...
