[Developers] /wikipedia/en_id not giving results for redirected ids

[Kurt Bollacker]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:40:38PM +0100, Shug Boabby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The following query will return the Freebase GUID for a Wikipedia
> article with the given WPID (this corresponds to the "Spock" page).
> 
> {
>   "guid" : null,
>   "key" : {
>     "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en_id",
>     "value" : "53571"
>   }
> }
> 
> However, the following returns null (this ID corresponds to the
> "Mr_Spock" page, which redirects to "Spock").
> 
> {
>   "guid" : null,
>   "key" : {
>     "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en_id",
>     "value" : "3462975"
>   }
> }
> 
> Why does this happen? How do I fix it?

If you store "Mr_Spock" beside "3462975", you could use:

{
  "a:key" : {
    "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en_id",
    "value" : null
  },
  "guid" : null,
  "key" : {
    "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en",
    "value" : "Mr_Spock"
  }
}

Which returns:

{
  "a:key" : {
    "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en_id",
    "value" : "53571"
  },
  "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f8000000000068479",
  "key" : {
    "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en",
    "value" : "Mr_Spock"
  }
}

You now get the numeric wpid of the actual article and the freebase
GUID.  


								Kurt :-)