[Developers] Too Many Writes Error

[Scott Meyer]

Michael Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I seem to have reached some sort of quota on writes to Freebase and now 
> get the error :
> 
> "result status not okay: /api/status/error; error: Too many writes"
> 
> each time I try a write.  Will this be reset eventually?  If so, when.  
> What is the limit?

10,000 graph primitives per day, I believe.  If you have a large amount
of data to load, the usual procedure is to debug it in the sandbox and
then get an exemption from the 10K limit when performing the upload.

http://www.freebase.com/view/helptopic/%239202a8c04000641f80000000041e92b0

> I am curious about the long term intent of the Freebase team for the 
> database.  Is it intended to be a Wikipedia alternate, with more 
> formalized and flexible relationships between its instances, or is the 
> value going to lie in external applications that use the data in 
> Freebase?

Um, both.  Actually Wikipedia, being basically text, owns the flexible
end of the spectrum, we're more structured.  The advantage of structure
is that both humans and computer programs can find what they want.
Supporting external applications is definitely important to us.

> External applications will often have need of grafting their own types 
> onto Freebase instances in order to flag them or add meta data that 
> would not be of interest to the general public browsing Freebase.

Currently, any user can create a type and use it to type existing
objects.  In fact, we would much rather you do that, than create
duplicate objects.  Is that what you want?

-Scott