[Developers] write grammar questions: question 1 -- user-defined types

[Alec Flett]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 12:47 PM, David Flanagan wrote:

>>
>
> As a MQL programmer I find it disorienting to use the freebase.com
> client.  I've gotten used to using ids everywhere, but the client  
> wants
> (and displays) names everywhere.  So I'm not surprised to hear that
> you'd enter a name that looks like an id!
>

Where are some places that it would be useful to see IDs on  
freebase.com?

At the moment pretty much any link allows you to see the ID in the url  
when you hover the mouse over it, but obviously we can do better than  
that.

In the case of types/properties, we're working on a rev of the schema  
editor and trying to expose IDs where appropriate - sometime just in  
the form of title= attributes.. but there are a zillion places they  
could be exposed, and it would be helpful to know some specific places  
that you miss them.

Alec


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