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        1.  

          Don't merge

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          1 post, latest post: pak21, Nov 18, 2009
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          1. pak21 Freebase Experts
            Nov 18, 2009
            pak21 says:

            A person is not their representation in fiction (or at least, that's what Jeff says :-) ); they should be linked via the Person Or Being In Fiction type instead.

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          Provenance?

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          5 posts, latest post: cheunger, Jul 27, 2009
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          1. tfmorris Top Contributor Freebase Experts
            Apr 20, 2009
            tfmorris says:

            Anyone know where all these given name variations came from?  For example, 27,000 were loaded from somewhere in this operation  http://www.freebase.com/tools/explore2/user/mw_prop_bot/attr/10 but the data load operation doesn't say anything about where it came from.

            1. tfmorris Top Contributor Freebase Experts
              Jul 23, 2009
              tfmorris says:

              Bump

            2. cheunger Metaweb Staff
              Jul 24, 2009
              cheunger says:

              /user/mikeshwe would be the one to talk to.

            3. mikeshwe Metaweb Staff
              Jul 27, 2009
              mikeshwe says:

              passing the buck to /user/robert, who assembled the data set we loaded.

            4. cheunger Metaweb Staff
              Jul 27, 2009
              cheunger says:

              /user/robert wasn't added to this discussion.

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          general drug use

          1 post, latest post: spencermountain, Mar 14, 2009
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          1. spencermountain Freebase Experts
            Mar 14, 2009
            spencermountain says:

            hey robert, can you comment on this>

            http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000b150aa4?domain=/celebrities

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          Airliner Accident -> Disaster

          3 posts, latest post: sprocketonline, Feb 13, 2009
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          1. sprocketonline Top Contributor Freebase Experts
            Feb 12, 2009
            sprocketonline says:

            Robert,

             As you are an administrator of the Aviation commons, could I ask for a schema change to the Airliner Accident type to include the Disaster type?

            I raised this previously here: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000aab8a5c

            Thanks

             Iain 

            1. skud Metaweb Staff
              Feb 12, 2009
              skud says:

              Are airliner accidents necessarily disasters?  I think they probably are.

               We can raise a ticket in Jira to do this.  It's not just a simple co-typing, as there is duplicate data there.  We should probably remove the redundant properties on airline accident and make sure the data is moved into the relevant places on Disaster and/or Event.

            2. sprocketonline Top Contributor Freebase Experts
              Feb 13, 2009
              sprocketonline says:

              Depends how you use 'Airline accidents'.  If you are noting very minor accidents, such as a blown tyre on landing, which have no further consequences then, no, disaster is not appropriate.

              At the moment 'airliner accident' is used only for major accidents (and not-so-accidents, such as terrorism) then disaster is very appropriate.

              At the moment, only major crashes are typed as 'airline accidents', so it makes sense to automatically include the disaster type, and bring in some very useful properties.

              If someone comes along with a list of minor mishaps involving planes, then this can be revised at such a future date.

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          Special day

          1 post, latest post: carmenmfenn1, Dec 26, 2008
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          1. carmenmfenn1 Top Contributor
            Dec 26, 2008
            carmenmfenn1 says:

            Happy anniversary !

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          Billionaires

          4 posts, latest post: robert, Nov 18, 2008
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          1. narphorium Top Contributor Freebase Experts
            Nov 17, 2008
            narphorium says:

            Hi Robert,

            I just finished loading some billionaires into my Wealthy Person type and I did a quick search of Freebase and turned up your new Billionaires base.  Would you be interested in collaborating on this data? I planned on using the Wealthy Person type to model notable millionaires as well but billionaires could easily be shown as a saved view.

            1. robert Metaweb Staff
              Nov 17, 2008
              robert says:

              You've done the model right, I think, so I'll defer to you.  I have a spreadsheet of more people from the March 2008 Forbes list, but I'm not sure it will add much to what you already have.

              What I like about this is I can now create billionaire lists in my existing bases.

            2. narphorium Top Contributor Freebase Experts
              Nov 18, 2008
              narphorium says:

              Thanks. The data that I loaded was mostly Forbes data from Wikipedia (which makes it easier to reconcile). However, Wikipedia only lists the top 100 from 2008 so if you have the full list it would be great to have that loaded as well.

            3. robert Metaweb Staff
              Nov 18, 2008
              robert says:

              OK.  I'll see what I can do.

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        7.  

          Is this image copyright free?

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          7 posts, latest post: skud, Aug 29, 2008
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          1. Aug 28, 2008
            benjaminhill says:
            Looks similar to the corporate stock photo, so I wanted to double-check the copyright status. Thanks!
            1. skud Metaweb Staff
              Aug 28, 2008
              skud says:
              I suspect it was uploaded under the terms of fair use, but for some reason the image page doesn't say so.  I'll check with the guy who uploaded it (I'm copying his user profile on this thread.)
            2. Aug 28, 2008
              benjaminhill says:
              Thank you for looking into it!  Fair use for me is a bit different than copyright free (or some CC flavor) because it would impact the commercial use possibilities.
            3. skud Metaweb Staff
              Aug 29, 2008
              skud says:
              Yup, that's certainly true.  If you're looking for stuff that's absolutely OK for commercial use, I suggest you use a MQL query to look into the license on an image, and limit it to those which have licenses that fit for your purposes (i.e. PD, CC-BY, or whatever).  I can help you with that if you're unfamiliar with how to do it.
            4. Aug 29, 2008
              benjaminhill says:
              Totally unfamiliar, but I do know other similar languages, so if you had an example that was close, I could disect and repurpose it.  Thank you!
            5. crism Metaweb Staff
              Aug 29, 2008
              crism says:

              There are examples and documentation in the help center. If you only need to look at a couple of images, you can do it manually; the licensed pictures have a little license icon at the bottom. Unfortunately, some of the older images (like this one) were loaded before we required a license assertion for each one.

              If you are loading many images at once, I would imagine that your application would require some other MQL usage anyway just to find them.

            6. skud Metaweb Staff
              Aug 29, 2008
              skud says:

              benjamin, here are two queries I threw together yesterday which might help you.

               The first one gets a bunch of topics and any images associated with them, then tells you the license those images are under:

               

              [
               {
                 "/common/topic/image" : [
                   {
                     "/common/licensed_object/license" : [],
                     "id" : null,
                     "name" : null
                   }
                 ],
                 "id" : null,
                 "limit" : 20,
                 "name" : null,
                 "type" : "/people/person"
               }
              ]

              This second one is roughly the same, but excludes licenses of a certain type -- in this case Fair Use:

              [
               {
                 "/common/topic/image" : [
                   {
                     "/common/licensed_object/license" : [
                       {
                         "id" : null,
                         "name" : null
                       }
                     ],
                     "id" : null,
                     "name" : null,
                     "nofu:/common/licensed_object/license" : [
                       {
                         "id" : "/en/fair_use",
                         "optional" : "forbidden"
                       }
                     ]
                   }
                 ],
                 "id" : null,
                 "limit" : 20,
                 "name" : null,
                 "type" : "/people/person"
               }
              ]

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        8.  

          Concert Hall

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          5 posts, latest post: carmenmfenn1, Aug 28, 2008
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          1. carmenmfenn1 Top Contributor
            Aug 28, 2008
            carmenmfenn1 says:

            Cris,

            we need the "Concert Hall" Type and a list of concert halls, please. There are practically hundreds of them in the world

            1. crism Metaweb Staff
              Aug 28, 2008
              crism says:
              Take a look at Micah’s draft Performance Venue type and Robert’s draft Performance venue as well. A concert hall is a kind of performance venue; what additional properties would it need that these Performance venue types don’t have?
            2. carmenmfenn1 Top Contributor
              Aug 28, 2008
              carmenmfenn1 says:
              I am not thinking of any new properties, I only need the list at the moment
            3. crism Metaweb Staff
              Aug 28, 2008
              crism says:
              Go ahead and create a type in your own domain, then, as a prototype. We have generally eschewed types in the Commons that have no properties, but it is possible that your type will evolve. I would recommend that you include Structure and Location in your type.
            4. carmenmfenn1 Top Contributor
              Aug 28, 2008
              carmenmfenn1 says:
              Ok, thank you

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        9.  

          Loved D/Generation Game - Thanks Robert!

          2 posts, latest post: robert, Jul 23, 2007
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          1. thadguidry
            Jul 20, 2007
            thadguidry says:

            I used to play D/Generation on the Amiga 500 I think and also PC version ? Never got past level 16, damn droids! I wonder if Danny ever got that far ? hahaha. I was part of the Cracking Group for it as well, back in the day. (I did buy a personal copy, however!) My how times change for us, eh ? Here we are building Freebase together...

            1. robert Metaweb Staff
              Jul 23, 2007
              robert says:

              I never actually saw the Amiga version. I have a hilarious cracking story for the Commodore 64 version of Karateka -- I spent about a week putting in really nasty protections that probably bought me 3 weeks of additional protection. I am glad that we've entered the era of openness. Glad we're both here doing this now.

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          Software: Protocol

          3 posts, latest post: aseem, Jun 28, 2007
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          1. Jun 28, 2007
            mm_aa says:

            robert,

            Could you please fix software category and remove protocol from general software? It looks like communication software should be used for this.

            1. robert Metaweb Staff
              Jun 28, 2007
              robert says:

              Mike -- I'm not sure which types you're talking about.

              1. aseem Metaweb Staff
                Jun 28, 2007
                aseem says:

                I believe he's talking about /computer/software
                http://www.freebase.com/view/schema?id=%2Fcomputer%2Fsoftware

                I looked at it and I am not sure what the purpose of both the protocol fields in that type is. I can sort of understand that a large number of software applications (except purely desktop applications with no auto-update like feature) do communicate with external applications and machines in some way, however in a lot of cases IMO its not quite proper to categorize non-communications software with communications software.

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          Thanks

          3 posts, latest post: robert, May 29, 2007
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          1. seanabrahams
            May 28, 2007
            seanabrahams says:

            Thanks for the welcome Robert. It's good to know there is some efforts for community fostering taking place. Let the warped mine convention commence! Cheers :-).

            1. seanabrahams
              May 28, 2007
              seanabrahams says:

              Of course, I mean to say "mind", not "mine". Where's the edit button?

              1. robert Metaweb Staff
                May 29, 2007
                robert says:

                We have the 'edit my own discussion' feature request in the queue.

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        12.  

          Scientific Classification infobox load

          4 posts, latest post: frakilk, May 10, 2007
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          1. frakilk
            May 9, 2007
            frakilk says:

            Hi Robert,

            Is there any chance of performing a "Scientific Classification" infobox load in the near future? This would cover a massive area of data which is largely overlooked at present. I am planning a tool to browse through the Plant Kingdom. I'm sure others would find the data really useful too.

            An example of the infobox can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily

            Kind regards,
            // Frank

            1. robert Metaweb Staff
              May 10, 2007
              robert says:

              Frank - We're putting some very deep thought into how to model species taxonomies. Wikipedia infoboxes do a pretty good job, but may not hold up well for the many purposes they might be used.

              JG is working on this now and I'm not sure of the ETA. We would love to help you build a browser tool. I'll rope him into this conversation.

            2. jg Metaweb Staff
              May 10, 2007
              jg says:

              Frank,
              Yes, we plan to type 300,000+ items including all the wikipedia plants soon.
              There is some debate about whether to start with ITIS or NIH Taxo etc.
              It will be resolved in 1-2 weeks and the data should be available then.

            3. frakilk
              May 10, 2007
              frakilk says:

              Thanks Robert and Jg, I'm so very pleased to here this. I definitely understand that adding this data is not a trivial matter and appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing.

              I'll keep a lookout for the new items and brush up on my MQL skills.

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          How to add a type to Finance?

          2 posts, latest post: robert, May 3, 2007
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          1. May 2, 2007
            jasonc says:

            Hello, just learning how to add things here.

            I want to create a top level type within Finance, an area you administer. The proposed type is "Index" (or Sector, or both), to hold the typical financial groups of companies (SP500 etc). It was not clear to me how to create something at that level (lower down is easy enough).

            1. robert Metaweb Staff
              May 3, 2007
              robert says:

              Jason - do you just want to hold companies? Is this a securities index you want or do you ultimately want indices for other kinds of things such as bonds? Also, companies may have multiple issues.

              My question is, what's your goal with the type?

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          Date entry

          2 posts, latest post: robert, May 1, 2007
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          1. Apr 30, 2007
            weel says:

            About the date entry thing: yes, I enter one thing, and something else shows up. Then I try to figure out what the relationship between the two is, correct for that, and something else shows up that is different from what I typed in in a different way than it was last time.

            1. robert Metaweb Staff
              May 1, 2007
              robert says:

              OK. This is now filed as a bug. It should be fixed in a release sometime soon.

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          architecture typing

          2 posts, latest post: robert, Feb 2, 2007
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            Feb 2, 2007
            brendan says:
            I'm looking into programatically finding your architecture properties and shifting them over to the public types. I think I could safely do it with mql queries, let me know your thoughts on this.
            1. robert Metaweb Staff
              Feb 2, 2007
              robert says:
              You mean from my private architecture domain? I don't think there would be an easy way to do it. There's really not that much data in any case -- it took me less than an hour to key all of that in.

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          Who is this guy?

          1 post, latest post: robert, Dec 20, 2006
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          1. robert Metaweb Staff
            Dec 20, 2006
            robert says:
            I've never seen this guy before.

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