Eric, I myself volunteered (unpaid) and did about 30-40 a day myself into Freebase at times.
Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Eric Sun <e...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > >> Note that Freebase did a lot of human curation and we know they could > get > about 3000 verifications of facts by "non-experts" a day who were paid for > their efforts. That scales out to almost a million facts per FTE per year. > > > Where can I found out more about how they were able to do such high-volume > human curation? 3000/day is a huge number. > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:01 AM, <wikidata-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:25:27 -0400 >> From: Paul Houle <ontolo...@gmail.com> >> To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." >> <wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Subject: [Wikidata] Freebase is dead, long live :BaseKB >> Message-ID: >> < >> cae__kdqt55e7k7xhmeubcu9qrwrkomu_60nduygcthnkc7d...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> For those who are interested in the project of getting something out of >> Freebase for use in Wikidata or somewhere else, I'd like to point out >> >> http://basekb.com/gold/ >> >> this a completely workable solution for running queries out of Freebase >> after the MQL API goes dark. >> >> I have been watching the discussion about the trouble moving Freebase data >> to Wikidata and let me share some thoughts. >> >> First quality is in the eye of the beholder and if somebody defines that >> quality is a matter of citing your sources, than that is their definition >> of 'quality' and they can attain it. You might have some other definition >> of quality and be appalled that Wikidata has so little to say about a >> topic >> that has caused much controversy and suffering: >> >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q284451 >> >> there are ways to attain that too. >> >> Part of the answer is that different products are going to be used in >> different places. For instance, one person might need 100% coverage of >> books he wants to talk about, another one might want a really great >> database of ski areas, etc. >> >> Note that Freebase did a lot of human curation and we know they could get >> about 3000 verifications of facts by "non-experts" a day who were paid >> for >> their efforts. That scales out to almost a million facts per FTE per >> year. >> >> >> >> -- >> Paul Houle >> >> *Applying Schemas for Natural Language Processing, Distributed Systems, >> Classification and Text Mining and Data Lakes* >> >> (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype ontolo...@gmail.com >> https://legalentityidentifier.info/lei/lookup/ >> <http://legalentityidentifier.info/lei/lookup/> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/attachments/20150715/9f8b37dc/attachment-0001.html >> > >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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