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| x No |
No is an English/Old English word indicating rejection, disagreement, refusal or making a negative response or exclamation. In most cases it is the opposite of yes.
In English, no is used more broadly than yes. No stands by itself as a grammatically...
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| x Yes | RSVP status |
Yes is an English word indicating acceptance or agreement, or making a positive response or exclamation. It may refer to the following articles:
In music:
Other uses:
All pages beginning with Yes
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| x Type Administrators |
Why be an administrator? Because you're passionate and
knowledgeable about the topic area and want the best possible
information to be available about it.
A type administrator has three main responsibilities:
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| x Find Information Faster |
Freebase is a large, open knowledge base of user-contributed information. It’s built with a new technology that stores data in a structured way, making it easier to search than information saved in standard web pages.
For example, imagine trying...
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| x Contribute what you know |
Radically open – a “wiki” database, open for anybody to edit.
If you’re familiar with Wikipedia, you know that it is radically open – everyone is encouraged to contribute. Freebase has a similar philosophy, but with a different kind of information...
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| x Getting started |
Topics represent things in the world that we like to talk about -- people, place, things or ideas. In Freebase, topics are represented as kinds of database records made up of many smaller elements called properties. Properties can be thought of as...
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| x The Metaweb Vision |
We aspire to be the center of a new Web by being a critical piece of infrastructure for businesses, organizations and people that want to use, present and manipulate information. We've started by building a working system and a single example...
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| x Freebase = Free + Database |
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We're rebranding the Metaweb application you've been using to become "Freebase.com". Yes, it's irreverent, but it's also very descriptive and memorable. Freebase is the 'free' part of Metaweb -- all data is open source, and...
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| x FAQ - Using Freebase.com | ||||
| x Greasemonkey for Freebase |
Greasemonkey is an add on for Firefox that allows you to enhance existing websites through simple scripts.We have begun to create some Greasemonkey scripts that enhance the Freebase UI, particularly for data input. The first one makes the full...
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| x Data Growth |
This graph shows the growth in data on Freebase.com (OTG) and sandbox.freebase.com (sandbox).
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| x Freebase Outage |
July 24, 2007An explosion in downtown San Francisco knocked the power out at our data center. Several high profile web sites were affected. Unfortunately, as part of the recovery, we had to roll Sandbox to yesterday's replica of Freebase, so...
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| x FAQ (frequently asked questions) | Help Topic | |||
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| x Menu options |
Some additional menu options you can use to navigate are:
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| x Filtering |
Filtering allows you to narrow a list of results down by type or property. Its one of the ways that Freebase differs from traditional search engines or content sites. All of the data within Freebase is typed and organized by properties that can be...
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| x Alpha Notes |
Welcome Alpha Users! Thanks for taking the time to have a look. We have a few key objectives for alpha:
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| x Roadmap of future features |
This page is no longer being updated. Refer to our public site at https://bugs.freebase.com site for the latest
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| x Roadmap of future data loads |
Recent data operationsHighlights can always be found on the Domains & Types pageFor a detailed list of recent loads, see the Mass Data Operation Type Upcoming data operations Data cleaning - Merge duplicates, remove delete candidatesPeople - gender,...
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| x Release Notes |
This page is being discontinued. For the latest release notes, see the blog. Release 3.11 (Dec 11, 2007) Release 3.10 (Dec 5, 2007) Release 2.23 (Apr 17, 2007) Release 2.21 (Apr 2, 2007) Release 2.20 (Mar 27, 2007) Fixed memory leaks: should...
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| x Report a bug for alpha |
If you've run into an issue that you think is a bug, please post it here
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| x State of the Release | Help Topic | |||
| x Screencasts | ||||
| x Firefox browser tools and tips for Freebase |
We're assembling tools and tips for making the most of your Freebase experience.Freebase Search Engine - click to download Keyword Search - to add instructionsGrease Monkey - click to download (to add)
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| x DRAFT FAQ (frequently asked questions) | ||||
| x Spoilers Policy | ||||
| x Topics |
New Addition Autumn 2008: post-conflict reconstruction specialist Lesley Abdela A Woman in Post-Conflict Reconstruction – from Kosovo to Nepal, 1999-2008 The UK’s Lesley Abdela has become one of the world’s most experienced Gender...
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| x Permissions |
Some operations are limited to users with domain edit privileges. Typically all topics are editable by any user with the exception of user profile pages. Types, however, have more limited access. You will find that you can freely add or remove...
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| x Report Vandalism or Spam |
We're all about good, clean data. Automated algorithms (in development) will alert Metaweb
administrators to suspicious behavior who will fix problems and punish
the offenders. We also rely on our user community to help find and
remove inappropriate...
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| x Freebase Blogs and Coverage |
Here are a couple of weblogs by Metaweb employees about the Metaweb technology and Freebase application:Freebasics : A weblog by Robert Cook, Metaweb co-founder, covering high-level ideas and designMetaweb Development Blog: Deep coverage of...
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| x Beginner's Guides | Help Section | |||
| x Uploading Data | Help Section | |||
| x Sort people by date of birth | Help Topic | |||
| x Step by step MQL with Jimi Hendrix | Freebase Application |
When I show developers Freebase and the
query language MQL, the first thing they often try to do is extract all
the info they can out of the database for a generic topic. This is actually quite a good learning experience, as you have to learn lots of...
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| x Query for special characters | Freebase Documentation | |||
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| x HTML encoding with write | Freebase Documentation | |||
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| x The Freebase Glossary | Help Topic |
This glossary provides basic definitions for important Freebase terms. For more detailed information, follow the links associated with the terms. Send suggestions for terms to include, or definitions, to phil@metaweb.com. Blob Any block of...
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| x Autocomplete |
A convenient feature in Freebase is called 'autocomplete'. You may have noticed as you were keying into many of the fields in Freebase that it was trying to match your result for you. You can expect a field to autocomplete for you whenever you see...
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| x Acre Reference |
Acre is a scripting language developed by Metaweb Technologies for use in our hosted application development environment. With Acre you can create dynamic, browser-based applications that draw upon Freebase data and can output in CSV, XML, HTML, RSS...
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| x Editing Topic Properties |
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If you're reading this topic it's probably because you've been looking around Freebase and have found a topic that has some information missing; maybe it's a character from your favorite novel, the writer for a TV show, the musical genre for your...
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| x Adding a Type to a Topic |
Sometimes you'll find a topic that is missing information and none of the types associated with it contain the properties you want. For instance, imagine you're viewing the actress Jennifer Lopez and you notice that there isn't any information...
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| x Performing a Bulk Upload |
Looking for some bulk import tools? Perhaps a way to import data from Excel or a CSV file? We are too. We do have plans to provide bulk import utilities from Excel and Tab Separated Variable files in the future. There are versions of these tools...
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| x Beginner's Guide: Loading Data |
What sort of data? What sort of data belongs in Freebase? In general, Freebase is best suited to factual information which is of ongoing interest to an audience of more than just yourself. See our contribution guidelines for...
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| x Beginner's Guide: Contributing to Freebase |
Freebase is a free database of the world's information. By contributing to Freebase, whether it's a single piece of information or a week's work, you are contributing to the world of open data. Open data means that people can gain knowledge...
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| x Creating and Publishing Personal Domains |
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This topic contains information on how to set up a personal domain, add types and topics to it, and then publish your domain and types. A personal domain is an area where you can develop types and topics around your own interests, and then...
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| x About Personal Domains and Type Visibility |
Domains are collections of types. When viewing a topic in Freebase, the properties (or facts) are organized by types on the page. For example, see Justin Timberlake or Wait! Wait! Don't Tell me. These types are grouped by domain and each group of...
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| x How to Add Other Administrators to a Domain |
Let's say you want to collaborate with another Freebase user on designing a domain/type in your user area. If you go to the domain's page, click F8 to view the developer tools, then use the Admin View link, you’ll see that the domain has...
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