<br>hi all, as we get ready for email notifications (<a href="https://bugs.freebase.com/browse/CLI-7693">https://bugs.freebase.com/browse/CLI-7693</a>) i think we will soon see people taking more responsibility in maintaining their types. This will also bring about situations where users formally abandon their types, for whatever reason, allowing a metaweb coup-d'etat. <br>
<br>My comment is this- users that don't want total responsibility, (partial interest, freebase beginners, people just experimenting ...) why not let them express this - by bringing these options out of the metaweb basement and into the ui? I have often found people to be not only welcoming help from others with schema design (which we must admit, is tricky), but even surprised to find out they are alone in making changes to their schema. <br>
I know freebase isn't wikipedia, but we should let people express this, their degree of desired ownership. It will let us be more playful with types that we are experimenting with, let us better harness the 'long-tail' of user contribution, and help reduce the jira-report-queue when a user moves to jamaica.<br>
<br>We have no way of inviting contribution, even when users encourage it - which from my experiance, they often do. <br><br>example options:<br>*I have invested alot of work in this and i have a clear vision of what i want this type to represent....<br>
*I am trying to contribute to the project and I welcome help from staff&experts<br>*I just noticed you didnt have a 'snowboarder' type. feel free to take this over, change it, rename it if you find its usefull. ladeeda.<br>
<br>thoughts? I think we are going to develop headaches when we start emailing users, begging them to return; I think we will find quite quickly that there is a use for this feature. <br>-good day:)<br><br>