[Developers] freebase-suggest modification

Thu May 15 18:50:45 UTC 2008

Hi Faye --

I was going to answer this, but I didn't know a key part of his  
question ... how do you "tweak freebase suggest" to do this?

Just curious ...

Thanks,
Brian

On May 15, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Faye Li wrote:

> Since many articles are entered/edited by the Freebase community and  
> not
> imported from Wikipedia, Wikipedia keys are a better indicator for
> identifying those that are. Sounds like the query you want is asking  
> for
> only things that have wiki keys.
>
> -- Faye
>
> Zodiac Seven wrote:
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Would there be a way to tweak freebase suggest to only show topics
>> which exist in wikipedia - I guess I have to not get results which
>> have article:null? I can't find the MQL query which it uses  
>> anywhere...
>>
>> On 5/15/08, *Brian Karlak* <zenkat at metaweb.com
>> <mailto:zenkat at metaweb.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>    The wikipedia title and ID are stored as the /wikipedia/en and
>>    /wikipedia/en_id keys on the topic, and can be retrieved by the
>>    following MQL:
>>
>>      {
>>        "a:key" : [
>>          {
>>            "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en",
>>            "value" : null
>>          }
>>        ],
>>        "b:key" : {
>>          "namespace" : "/wikipedia/en_id",
>>          "value" : null
>>        },
>>        "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f800000000009216a"
>>      }
>>
>>    Currently, all valid titles and redirects for an article are
>>    stored in /wikipedia/en.  The /wikipedia/en_id key, however,
>>    should point to the most recent wikipedia ID for the topic.  You
>>    can access the wikipedia page with this ID using the following  
>> URL:
>>
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=82976
>>
>>    Brian
>>
>>    On May 15, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Zodiac Seven wrote:
>>
>>>    Okay, i guess i will make the results var global and access it
>>>    from the callback.
>>>
>>>    Is there a freebase api to get the name of the article in  
>>> wikipedia?
>>>    so if I have the id as "/en/taj_mahal" and the guid as
>>>    "#9202a8c04000641f800000000009216a", name as "Taj Mahal"
>>>    I guess there must be a way to find out the wikipedia article
>>>    name which is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal
>>>
>>>    On 5/15/08, *Dae Park* <daepark at metaweb.com
>>>    <mailto:daepark at metaweb.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>        I am unaware of any methods invoking something cross domain
>>>        synchronously. Even if it's possible, I doubt you want the
>>>        browser to
>>>        be "blocked" while you are waiting for your response.
>>>
>>>
>>>        -dae
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        On May 14, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Zodiac Seven wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dae,
>>>>
>>>> $.ajax is using a async callback too. Isn't there an
>>>        approach which
>>>> will
>>>> work synchronously like XmlHttpRequest?
>>>>
>>>> On 5/14/08, Dae Park <daepark at metaweb.com
>>>        <mailto:daepark at metaweb.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You should be able to $.ajax with "jsonp" as the dataType to
>>>>> accomplish what you want.
>>>>>
>>>>> -dae
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 13, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Zodiac Seven wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This is more of a javascript question then a freebase one but
>>>>>> hoping someone here can help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to make a call to a webservice in freebase suggest
>>>>>> (http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/)
>>>>>> This means I call a web service for every suggestion and
>>>        depending
>>>>>> on that i display the suggestion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> freebase.suggest.js Line 528.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> p.list_receive = function(input, txt, o)
>>>        {//fb.log("list_receive",
>>>>>> input, query, o);
>>>>>> // handle errors
>>>>>> if (o.status !== '200 OK') {
>>>>>> fb.error("list_receive", o.code, o.messages, o);
>>>>>> return;
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> var url = 'http://somesite/webservice?
>>>>>> callback=mycheckfunction&term=' + suggestKeyWord;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> // Create a script tag, set its src attribute and add it
>>>        to the
>>>>>> document
>>>>>> // This triggers the HTTP request and submits the query
>>>>>> var script = document.createElement("script");
>>>>>> script.src = url;
>>>>>> document.body.appendChild(script);
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> // further logic to add/remove the item
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My problem is that i'm using
>>>        document.createElement("script" and
>>>>>> since that is async i have no idea of knowing the response
>>>        of my
>>>>>> web service.
>>>>>> I could move the further logic into the callback but is
>>>        there a
>>>>>> 'synchronous' way to wait until i get a response from my web
>>>>>> service.
>>>>>> I can't use xmlHttpRequest because of the cross domain
>>>        restriction.
>>>>>>
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