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

[Kurt Bollacker]

I guess Brian beat me to that suggestion.


On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:01:33PM +0000, Kurt Bollacker wrote:
> 
> 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 :-)
>