Just signal-boosting this mailing list post from Iain (sprocketonline), one of the Freebase Experts team:
If anyone has some spare time today, we could do with your help with voting on delete/merge tasks. Please head over to http://www.freebase.com/tools/pipeline/showtask and contribute some clicks.
There are loads of topics waiting to be voted on. They were flagged for delete in bulk and been a bit too keen, so there is now a bit of backlog to be worked through.
Some of the topics for deletion are lists – the names of which fit the pattern “National Register of Historic Places in {location}” and “{country} films of {year}”.
And others are topics about topics e.g. “History of x”, “Economy of x”, “Politics of x”, “Communications in x” etc. – the data in these really belongs on the topic x itself, but they can be dealt with later.
Hopefully a bit of crowdsourcing will get the backlog down to usual levels, so please help out at http://www.freebase.com/tools/pipeline/showtask.
Thanks,
Iain
October 26th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
so, can you point to guidelines about whether these should be deleted? If I can point to a rationale — even if it’s not easily automated — it’s much easier to vote in a way that’s useful.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Trochee: http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Review_Queue has some guidelines for what should be deleted. Basically anything that is not a single topic or concept, but would instead be represented in Freebase as a saved view or similar, should be deleted.
October 26th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
aha. so pretty much, anything beginning “list of” is probably worth deleting, unless it was “List of Martin Luther’s Theses” or something else that has an independent notion of self-as-list.
thanks!
October 26th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
not to repeat myself (this reminds me of my presentation at the hack day) but if this queue could get shaken up a little it might be more fun to work through.
The current top-of-queue has dozens of “French films of [YEAR]” that I have been clicking through, but it’s stultifyingly boring and I think that given enough human labels of similar items, the rest should be able to be detected by a similarity metric, right?
October 26th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
There’s a wiki page for that! http://wiki.freebase.com/w/index.php?title=Revised_pipeline_review_tool We’re working on redesigning the tool, and would love your suggestions/help.