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Comment on Freebase interest groups by The Freebase Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Freebase Interest Groups

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:35:44 +0000

[...] (skud) has written more extensively about it in her blog ‘freebasing.org‘, but you can also explore it for yourself on Freebase. Give it a try and let us know what [...]

Comment on Freebase interest groups by Will Moffat

Will Moffat — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:36:35 +0000

Great idea Skud!

This web page let’s you see photos and more info about the users in your group:

http://mqlx.com/~willmoffat/simple/InterestGroups/groups.html

Comment on Exposed! What goes in the right column? by Dan Milbrath

Dan Milbrath — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:06:05 +0000

This is all accurate and reflects how things work today, but we’re probably going to simplify it and do away with the distinction in an upcoming release. When we’ve got some concrete designs to share, would love to have you post them on this blog for reactions. Thanks, Dan

Comment on New tool: RSS feed of new types by Dan Milbrath

Dan Milbrath — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:02:13 +0000

Kirrily, this is extremely cool. The URLs from this feed fail for me because they are addressed as http://freebase.com/... instead of http://www.freebase.com/... — easy fix?

Comment on Gender is not binary by Normalisers vs normal people

Normalisers vs normal people — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:02:46 +0000

[...] the comments on my post about gender I linked to a thread on the data modelling mailing list: Should some of the Person attributes be [...]

Comment on Gender is not binary by Modeling » Gender is not binary

Modeling » Gender is not binary — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:59:31 +0000

[...] dianabobar wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt… groups, and indeed entire cultures that have more complex models of gender than a simple binary model. From a purely biological viewpoint, some people (or organisms) are actually hermaphroditic or intersex, having some male and some … [...]

Comment on Gender is not binary by Aristotle Pagaltzis

Aristotle Pagaltzis — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:49:21 +0000

Skud: that’s why I proposed having a Gender option that just defers to Sex. That way, people could just pick a value for that and not deal with anything more, most of the time.

As for obliging the way people think and thus not, by default, showing them a Hermaphroditic option for things of type Human, I think that’s something that should be inferred from the data set (by seeing that one of the values is used in, say, only 0.01% of the records), not baked into the model.

I’m not on FB, btw. It’s mildly tempting, but I don’t know where I’d find the time. I ended up here just because you twittered about the post. :)

Comment on Gender is not binary by Skud

Skud — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:04:01 +0000

Peter: Another case of technical accuracy vs how humans tend to think Freebase will always have this sort of wackiness, and I think it’s good to keep “sexual orientation” open so that people could put, eg., “Furry” if they wanted. Who am I to say what’s a valid sexual orientation or not?

(Note also that my stuff around orientation is much vaguer at the moment than the gender stuff, and much more likely to undergo huge change.)

Comment on Gender is not binary by Peter Burns

Peter Burns — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:20:42 +0000

Cool, I’m glad that these sorts of issues are being raised.

Should Lesbian be a distinct Sexual orientation when there’s already Homosexuality?

Comment on Gender is not binary by Skud

Skud — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:09:24 +0000

Oh, btw, Aristotle: do you want an invite? I don’t see you on FB under any of the names I’d expect.