[Developers] Freebase and the Politics of Groups

[Kurt Bollacker]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:46:10PM -0400, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> Quoting Rich Morin (rdm at cfcl.com):
> > Moreover, I'd contend that Freebase differs quite a bit
> > from Wikipedia in the ways in which it will be used.  If
> > I'm reading a Wikipedia article, I may be able to guess
> > that some misinformation has been inserted.  However, if
> > I'm doing data mining on Freebase, the misinformation may
> > be obscured by the processing.
> 
> I'm not going to comment on the issue directly, but one thing that
> Wikipedia has that Freebase needs is a comprehensive "diff" system so you
> can see not just who edited what, but also what changed.  

The Freebase Web UI does not have a diff feature for text articles,
but property additions/deleteions/updates are shown in great detail on
a topic's history page. e.g. The history page for our current US
president:

http://www.freebase.com/view/history/topic/en/george_w_bush

Certainly, this info is also available through the MQL API. 

							Kurt :-)



 
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