[Freebase-discuss] Correcting related website errors

[Chris Caceres]

Thanks for this quick solution, Jason.

-Chris




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From: Jason Douglas <jason at metaweb.com>
To: Freebase.com discussion list <freebase-discuss at freebase.com>
Sent: Fri, April 30, 2010 10:25:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Freebase-discuss] Correcting related website errors

On Apr 30, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Jason Douglas wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Shawn Simister wrote:
> 
>> The related websites are stored in Freebase as keys (or Web IDs). With a little bit of MQL magic you can delete a misplaced key which in-turn will remove the web link. For example:
>> 
>> {
>>  "id": "/en/vincent_van_gogh",
>>  "key": [{
>>    "namespace": "/authority/facebook",
>>    "value":     "Maradona",
>>    "connect" : "delete"
>>  }]
>> }
>> 
>> ​If anyone has the time and the inclination, it should be pretty simple to create a Acre tool to carry out these types of operations on keys. You could clone my Weblink Annotator tool as a starting point.
> 
> Yeah, not being able to fix those in the UI is annoying.  Some keys are in protected namespaces and would actually break data loading if they were changed, which is one of the reasons this capability has not been generically exposed, but it is being worked on as we speak.
> 
> In the meantime, I will hack together a quick and dirty editor for at least three open namespaces -- Facebook, MySpace and Twitter as Shawn suggests and post it to the list later today.

Like I said, quick-and-dirty, but hopefully it helps for at least this use case:

    http://social-keys.freebaseapps.com/

More permanent solution for freebase.com down the road...

-jason
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