[Data-modeling] Distilled & blended spirits

[Tom Morris]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Christopher R. Maden <crism at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Tom Morris wrote:
>> Actually, I realized after reading up a little bit on Freebase i18n
>> (there isn't any)
>
> Where did you read that?

Roadmap of Future Features

"Right now, using the user interface, you cannot create strings
labeled as anything other than English. You can do this directly using
the query editor or the API, but then no users will see the result.
In brief: the underlying data model is multilingual, but right now the
UI only shows and manipulates the English data.
crism Jun 28, 2007"

> Check out <URL:
> http://blog.freebase.com/2007/12/04/internationalization-in-freebase/ >.

Yup, saw that.  To me saying non-English data needs to be entered
using MQL is the same as saying English-only.  Can't be that big a
deal to put a little language selector on the entry form though,
right?  That would at least prevent capturing lots of mistagged data
that's just going to need to get cleaned later.

Switching gears slightly to Fortified Wines, this topic was populated
solely with a couple dozen ports.  I've added Port wine, Sherry,
Marsala, and a few others.  Am I correct in thinking that the portos
should all get bumped down to the Port wine type?  And what's the deal
with the descriptions?  They read more like reviews or marketing
blurbs.  If they're reviews, shouldn't they be credited to wherever
they cribbed from?  If they're marketing blurbs, it'd be good to see
them toned done to the facts.

Tom

p.s.  Agree with Jeff about the extra properties for Blended Spirit.