Thanks for your Freebase Typewriter votes

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    1. skud Metaweb Staff
      Jun 26, 2009
      skud says:

      Hi riffraff!  Just saw your name on the Typewriter leaderboard at http://typewriter.freebase.com/

      I guess you saw my recent blog post on typing authors and books? http://blog.freebase.com/2009/06/24/typing-authors-and-books/  Right now any authors or books typed in Typewriter will have a multiplicative effect as we'll use that information to help in more data loads.  So, thanks!

      Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions about Typewriter. 

      K.

      2. skud Metaweb Staff
        Jun 26, 2009
        skud says:

        Oops, too many tabs open at once!  I mean to say, "Hi deleteme" but got confused :-/  My apologies.

        K.

      3. deleteme
        Jul 3, 2009
        deleteme says:

        Hi skud,

        Yeah, I am subscribed to the freebase blog and started playing with the typewriter app. It's a clever way encourage crowdsource behavior.

        Personally, I can only stand to do a small handful of them before I get tired of it.

        Here is a suggestion:

        If Freebase is trying to get a large chunk of data (books/authors) analyzed by people using Typewriter, it would be encouraging to have a progress bar showing how close Freebase is to having the data set analyzed. It could be a big picture thing, kinda like how Wikipedia asks for donations and will show how much money they still need, or it could be smaller, instead showing how much further a person needs to go before they overtake the person in front of them.

        I am in love with the concept behind Freebase and would like to submit a few use cases and some deficiencies I've experienced with the service. Who could I send this to or where would the best place be post?

      4. sprocketonline Top Contributor Freebase Experts
        Jul 3, 2009
        sprocketonline says:

        Hi deleteme, you're doing good on the typewriter game - keep up the great work.

        The progress bar would be simple enough, (I think - not that I'm the developer!) - I'd guess it would show the number of books still to go in typewriter, against the total count of all books.

        Are you on the data-modellers or developers email lists?  Quite a lot of things get discussed there.  Also, the feedback form can be found at http://www.freebase.com/site/feedback

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