Have you seen this recently on our topic pages?
If you’re logged in to Freebase and visit a topic page that has no types (other than /common/topic), you may be asked a question like this one. This feature uses the same backend as our Typewriter game, and the guesses at types are sourced from Wikipedia’s categories.
That was the only significant, user-visible change to our website this week, but you if you’re interested in other bugfixes and the like, you can see the full list of changes in Jira.
June 4th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I saw one the other day, and it’s pretty neat. It would be neater still if it wasn’t for untyped topics only though :(
June 5th, 2009 at 2:54 am
I saw a couple of instances this morning where I was being asked if a topic already typed as a Computer Game should also be typed as a Computer Game Version. Is this a bug? Sorry, can’t remember which topics, but I guess you guys will have some logs of this. You probably know my user id :-)
[ There's also a secondary issue that things which are Computer Games definitely shouldn't also be Computer Game Versions ]
June 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Phil, you might also be interested in deTypewriter (http://detypewriter.freebaseapps.com/) which uses our understanding of incompatible types to ask people to detype when that happens.