[Data-modeling] Wikipedia disambiguation pages

[Tom Morris]

Thanks for the reply Brian.  I see tons of them.  How 'bout I open a
Jira bug report and append batches of them as I come across them?
Will that work for you guys?

Tom

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Brian Karlak <zenkat at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Tom --
>
> Disambiguation pages are not supposed to be included in Freebase.  We
> strip out articles with the WikiMedia {{disamb}} template, as well
> that those that have "(disambiguation)" in their titles, before we
> create topics.
>
> Are there specific examples of disambiguation pages that you are
> currently seeing?  If so, please let us know so we can clean them up.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>
>> This is not a pure data modeling topic, but hopefully it's close
>> enough.
>>
>> Is there information value in keeping topics derived from Wikipedia
>> disambiguation pages in the database?
>>
>>> From my point of view, they seem to be more trouble than their worth
>> since they provide the opportunity for users to pick the
>> disambiguation page itself instead of the correct topic.  Although
>> they might theoretically have some value in being able to trace things
>> back to WP, I've never seen this be useful in practice.
>>
>> Can we just get all the disambiguation page topics deleted in a mass
>> purge?
>>
>> Tom
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