how do you add a person
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i just don't where to start its very confusing
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okay i added a list of people, trying to make a database of the irish government matched the politicians, but i don't see them listed, where i added them http://www.freebase.com/edit/topic/en/members_of_the_30th_dail
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it seesm the politicians are lsited so how to i make them members of 30th dail?
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Hi Dublinstreams,
To add politicians to Freebase, go to Politician and click on the "Add More Topics" button (upper right). Enter each name, or else click on "Go to the import tool" to paste in a list. Once you've added them, you can edit each one to specify which governmental body they're part of. You should do this using the "Government positions held" property; the 30th Dail would be under "Legislative Sessions".
You could also start from 30th Dail and edit "Members" there. If you wanted to import a list, you could click on the little arrow next to the "Edit" button and choose "Import list".
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ok that set me off in the right direction hopefull i've add them right or messed it up, one of the two,
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Not to discourage you from learning about Freebase, but there's a mass import of politicians in process as we speak (errr, type). You might want to wait a bit to see what the results of that are before investing a lot of time in loading up TDs. Teachta Dála wasn't correctly typed as a Government Office or Title, but I fixed that in the last day or two which should hopefully trigger the right thing happening with the automated processing. This should pull in not only the 30th Dáil, but any who ever served (as long as they have the appropriate infobox on their Wikipedia article).
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okay, might do a bit more fiddling in sandbox to learn instead of here, now that i found it, you don't make it easy to find your help content... or basic start advice.
so will you pull in their constituency and positions and date of assumed office too? dob etc etc
I was wonder having connected to the wiki, why you didn't pull in the other info too...
the problem is that the infoboxes on wikipedia most poltician pages, they have "assumed office" for both the date they win an election and they date they are appointed to particular position in government or party, which is quite unclear... i was hoping to scrap the info for timeline, but even dbpedia uses termstart for both coming from wikipedia... as will you's i suspect...
have to say how long should i wait, often website promise something soon as years pass by
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You're preaching to the choir as far as the "Getting started" docs go. Another good source of information which you may not be aware of is the archives for the 'developers' and 'data-modeling' lists. The wiki is new, so it's not well populated yet. The good news is - it's a wiki, so as you find stuff that you think should have been there, go ahead and add it. It's hard to replicate the viewpoint of a fresh set of eyes.
As far as timing goes, the developer who's working on the politicians already did a trial load on the sandbox (although it didn't include the TDs because the topic wasn't typed correctly yet), which usually means things are pretty close. I'd guess closer to days than months, but I'm not speaking for him.
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