[Developers] a bot interface

[Jason Douglas]

On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:26 AM, spencer kelly wrote:

> forgive me if this has already been discussed or is obvious, but has  
> anyone made their own bot? or has freebase considered letting users  
> add rules to theirs?
> i'm thinking of things like 'if hockey_position is left winger,  
> 'shoots' = left handed.'
> Theres inferences to be made and it'd be nice for a way to add/ 
> suggest new ones-
> an acre app waiting to be made?

The logic for doing that should be pretty straight-forward in an acre  
app -- get some number of left wingers where shoots == null, iterate  
over them building up your mqlwrite, then execute the mqlwrite.

However, we don't currently have a mechanism for triggering gardening  
tasks in acre... everything is in response to a user action.  I  
suppose you could just have your own cron to ping the acre script once  
a day or so... especially once you've done an initial clean-up and are  
only looking for new changes.  I think you'd also want to use the  
"write data as" feature (see 'Web Services' tab in the app menu) to  
avoid having to manage oauth credentials client-side.

Somewhat related... we are working toward having a generally-available  
queing mechanism to be able to thow the results of a mql query into a  
queue for human review.  That's how genderizer works -- it registers a  
query for 'instances of /people/person where gender is null' with a  
prototype of this queing system and then presents each of the results  
for review:

	http://genderizer.freebaseapps.com

-jason