[Developers] how to associate an originally created article with a Wikipedia article

John Giannandrea jg at metaweb.com
Fri Feb 27 02:20:21 UTC 2009


there is a duplicate.  the original one is here:  http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000008125e4c
I have marked them for merge.
-jg

On Feb 26, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Raymond Yee wrote:

> My understanding is that a lot of freebase topics are associated  
> with a
> wikipedia link because the description of the topic was originally  
> drawn
> from the wikipedia. My question is what I should do if the topic was  
> not
> associated with a wikipedia article but I'd like to tie the article  
> back
> to the corresponding wikipedia article.
>
> For example,
>
> California’s 8th Senate District is represented as
> http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006f5c69d  
> -- I
> see that it's not tied to the corresponding wikipedia article
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_8th_State_Senate_district
>
> I just edited the freebase article description by copying the
> description over and pasting in a link. Do I associate the freebase
> article with the wikipedia article by writing to
> /common/document/source_uri property of the topic?
>
> -Raymond
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