[Developers] Freebase and the Politics of Groups

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at xcski.com
Sun Sep 16 21:45:31 UTC 2007


Quoting Kurt Bollacker (kurt at metaweb.com):
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:46:10PM -0400, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> > 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

Which is what I already described as "who edited what".  That is not
adequate to determine who vandalized a topic unless it's a topic that you
visit after every edit.

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Yeah, we vote "moral issues" too.


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