[Freebase-discuss] Update frequency from wikipedia

[Gordon Mackenzie]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Shawn Simister <simister at google.com> wrote:

> Yeah, it looks like this data was entered separately from our Wikipedia
> pipeline. I believe that there are new features in the works to import
> date-mediated values like this but for now you'll need to update them
> manually.


Ah, yes, I remember it well... It was a one-off data load for the *then* new
client consumer topic page design. A subset of cities were chosen and the
data hand-written.


>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Gordon Mackenzie <gmackenz at google.com>wrote:
>
>> If the data on a topic's types/properties is edited by a user, the
>> wikipedia infobox import process will not process for those types/properties
>> as it is presumed user edits have more value. We are investigating means
>> of programmatically inserting newer values from Wikipedia but cannot promise
>> any immediately resolution to this issue.
>>
>> Note, this sounds like an excellent project for Google Refine to scrape WP
>> for the statistics post 2009 and reconcile against then update Freebase. ;)
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Tommy Chheng <tommy.chheng at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed a few outdated facts:
>>> New York City http://www.freebase.com/view/en/new_york reports a
>>> population of 8,363,710 (2008)
>>>
>>> while
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City reports 8,175,133 (2010)
>>>
>>> Is freebase data synced with wikipedia on a 2 week basis and this is
>>> parsing bug? or is there some other reason why there is ~3 yr data?
>>>
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