Hi Thad
Freebase simply decided to not keep Wikipedia topic pages that simply
held "lists of entities", but instead Freebase liked to easily
generate those same "lists of entities" by using queries. There was
no need to have hand coded lists in Freebase. It was a graph database
and could generate all kinds of lists programmaticlly for a user, and
keep those lists as views against our user profile for easy tweaking
or re-use when we wanted to. (stored user queries)
We also plan to have "Query" entities once (in a dedicated namespace).
They will be equivalent to current Wikipedia List articles but will be
generated automatically by some kind of (SPARQL?) query. [1]
What we might consider is adding sitelinks to those entities as well and
allow linking to Wikipedia pages that use this Query. This way we would
still be able to serve Wikipedia's needs of linking corresponding pages
on different sites while they are in a place where they semantically
make sense and don't conflict with "real" items.
Best regards
Bene
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary#Entities.2C_items.2C_properties_and_queries
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