Wikipedia reliability

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    1. Working with the wikipedia data and making it reliable is a lot harder than entering it correctly from scratch. The information I have entered has actually been validated by Ten Thirteen Productions. In other words, it's reliable and professionally written. Mixing the good data with the bad data (wiki data) made entering and tracking good data difficult. If you just want to use the fan-generated info on wikipedia let me know. What I'd like to see is Freebase not just be wikipedia screen-scraped and formatted into a database. The wikipedia info is great if you have nothing else, but to be honest, the data there is subjective, sloppy and unreliable. In this case, I actually have official information from the people who care most about it's accuracy. On the other hand, they are the people least likely to use Freebase. It's easy enough for me to create a web site with it's own database using the accurate and complete info instead of mixing the good with the bad. I really did not add all the data to mix it with what was on wikipedia, but to provide a better alternative to what's on wikipedia and has been duplicated over and over by many sites and wiki clones. The intent was to give people a better resource for reliable data.

      1. I agree with you that the data in Wikipedia is low quality. We've imported a lot of that sloppy data, and tried to fix it up. You've done a great job of cleaning up the X-Files data. I'm not asking that you favor Wikipedia data over your data. Much of the Wikipedia data is wrong, and it needs to be fixed. What I'm asking is that you change the data on the existing Wikipedia-based records in Freebase instead of creating brand-new records. The Wikipedia-based records can be linked back to Wikipedia, even after you fix or replace the article and data, and this lets Freebase make this data available back to Wikipedia. Creating brand-new records means that it will be difficult for Wikipedia to ever pull that data back in. We really appreciate what you're doing. Keep up the good work! Thanks Colin

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