[Developers] Spam and accountability, was Re: Blog properties and ping idea

[Kirrily Robert]

Christopher wrote:
> > I presume this data is stored in the backend, but are there any plans
> > to expose this information via the Freebase UI?
>
> You may have missed the "Page History" link in the top right of every topic display page.

Ah, I did!  I was misled by the information underneath it into
thinking it was just a heading.  And yes, that is the sort of history
I was expecting.

Is there a per-user changelog?  I couldn't find anything via my profile page.

> This is something where I think Freebase is superior to Wikipedia; in Wikipedia, the article is a monolithic text, and tweezing out the specific changes made by different contributors is difficult.  (Sure, there are diffs, but it really requires a human to discern what *information* was changed.)  With Freebase, the data is much more quantized, and therefore more easily undoable.
>
> And so this goes to help answer the spam question as well.  Since we don't (and won't) allow anonymous edits, abusive users can be locked out and all their changes undone, without having to go through the kind of reconciliations that make undoing an old Wikipedia edit difficult.

All that is true, and sounds good to me.  I'll just be interested to
see how it plays out in reality.  I think one of the most interesting
things in WP is how they've had to develop a whole bunch of social
constructs around moderating the information, and I'm sure it will be
fascinating to see how that evolves on Freebase.

K.

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