[Data-modeling] State of the commons - summary/conclusions

[Iain Sproat]

Spencer, Paul;I'd like to point out that the freebase help pages are
topics<http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore2/en/creating_views_for_a_base>-
but they are displayed differently from normal topic pages, with
formatting and full text display. It would seem that part of the freebase
client is already set up for displaying full text articles.
If we could somehow utilise this existing functionality on the freebase
website then there wouldn't be a need for a new app, or externally hosted
app, in order to work with community contributed help/wiki pages.

Iain

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Spencer Kelly <spencerkelly86 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Paul Mackay <pauljmackay at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> There is also this http://freebase.wikia.com/wiki/Freebase_wiki but that
>> is totally separate from Freebase.  A Mediawiki engine at
>> wiki.freebase.com (or similar) would be very cool. Then lots of community
>> generated docs could be added.
>>
>> ah, paul, you're good. I made that wiki a few months ago, but wikia is
> such trash. it throws up ads and things.  i was thinking i was being clever
> for using freebase to host it- writing wiki-script in the topic description
> and all -  and we could add meta-data to pages too? i mean, if thats
> helpful, which maybe it isn't. if you wanna be the mediawiki hosting guy,
> i'll support you. i think a freebase wiki would be good.
>
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