[Developers] freebase-suggest modification

Zodiac Seven zodiac.seven at gmail.com
Thu May 15 18:52:10 UTC 2008


Yes, that sounds like what I need, where should i start modifying freebase
suggest to do this?

On 5/16/08, Faye Li <faye at metaweb.com> 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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