[Developers] Query with : in id string returns an error

[John Bäckstrand]

Somewhat related: How will/do you handle wikipedia renames? Is there a
dbdump from wikipedia with all renames between dumps, or would I have to
download the full history for that? Faviki uses dbpedia for example, and I
have already stumbled upon renames when tagging there. Although wikipedia is
much less important in Freebase I guess it could be nice to have up-to-date
wikipedia links,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Christopher R. Maden <crism at metaweb.com>
wrote:

> Robert Cook wrote:
> > By the way, the english freebase keys were automatically generated only
> > when the topic display name was unique.  For "2001: A Space Odyssey",
> > most likely there was no key created because there were at least two
> > topics with that name.
>
> As the Discordians say, this is true in some sense and false in some sense.
>
> In the /wikipedia/en namespace, every English Wikipedia article title
> has a key.[*]  An article with multiple titles (via Wikipedia redirects)
> results in a Freebase topic with multiple keys.
>
>     [*] This is also true in some sense and false
>         in some sense; articles we have ignored
>         completely do not have keys.
>
> However, in the /en namespace (also known as /topic/en), we have
> promoted some titles to keys.  This is what Robert is talking about;
> only unique (unambiguous) titles were promoted.  These keys are all
> lower case and have no punctuation, and are primarily there for easy
> access and URL prettiness.
>
> ~Chris
> --
> Christopher R. Maden
> Data Architect
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
> <URL: http://www.metaweb.com/ >
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