[Developers] Question about wpid and freebase id

[Brian Karlak]

On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:46 AM, Shug Boabby wrote:

> However, although the WEX
> dumps have the wpid table, I am not able to find the Wikipedia Names
> anywhere.

The Wikipedia Names for all articles and redirects that map to a  
freebase topic can be found as keys in the /wikipedia/en namespace:

   {
     "id" : "/en/barack_obama",
     "key" : [
       {
         "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en",
         "value" : null
       }
     ]
   }

Remember, all punctuation is urlencoded in the returned keys.

However, as Chris notes, the WPID is the more robust and stable  
identifier to use when linking to Wikipedia, especially if creating a  
URL link.

Brian


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