[Developers] type checking?

[Dan Milbrath]

This suggestion is a good one and would probably help.  This, along  
with Robert's idea for cleanup, are enhancements that we will  
definitely consider for an upcoming release.

In general I'd like to avoid adding a confirmation step into the  
flow. We want to make it as easy as possible for people to contribute  
data and add types to topics in the system. I think this thread has  
highlighted the need for better tools to correct mistakes, but I  
don't think the general input case should be made more complex. If 9  
out of 10 people are applying types correctly using the current UI,  
I'd rather not have everyone have to click a confirmation button  
after each edit to prevent that 10% case (the error rate is almost  
certainly much lower). With respect to the case referenced earlier  
this thread, its certainly possible that zip codes can be typed as  
people, but as with Wikipedia we hope that the community will quickly  
find and correct obvious data errors like this.




On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Daniel Renfer wrote:

> How about (if possible) making it blatantly obvious that the Topic  
> being selected has already been typed the appropriate type and de- 
> emphasizing the other Topics that match the search, but have not  
> yet been given the expected type. Even just moving that type to the  
> beginning of the list of types and bolding it would help.


Robert Cook wrote:
 > This is my philosophy as well: Default to very open input in the
 > spirit of Wikipedia rather than that of a strict database.
 >
 > Regarding the particular problem that was frustrating Arthur, I think
 > there might be a simple solution we could incorporate into the
 > Freebase application.  If a user removes a property value and he had
 > created that property himself and the referenced topic (the topic on
 > the other side of the link) was typed at the same time, then detype
 > that referenced topic.
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