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architecture typing
Date entry
About the date entry thing: yes, I enter one thing, and something else shows up. Then I try to figure out what the relationship between the two is, correct for that, and something else shows up that is different from what I typed in in a different way than it was last time.
OK. This is now filed as a bug. It should be fixed in a release sometime soon.
How to add a type to Finance?
Hello, just learning how to add things here.
I want to create a top level type within Finance, an area you administer. The proposed type is "Index" (or Sector, or both), to hold the typical financial groups of companies (SP500 etc). It was not clear to me how to create something at that level (lower down is easy enough).
Jason - do you just want to hold companies? Is this a securities index you want or do you ultimately want indices for other kinds of things such as bonds? Also, companies may have multiple issues.
My question is, what's your goal with the type?
Scientific Classification infobox load
Hi Robert,
Is there any chance of performing a "Scientific Classification" infobox load in the near future? This would cover a massive area of data which is largely overlooked at present. I am planning a tool to browse through the Plant Kingdom. I'm sure others would find the data really useful too.
An example of the infobox can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily
Kind regards,
// Frank
Frank - We're putting some very deep thought into how to model species taxonomies. Wikipedia infoboxes do a pretty good job, but may not hold up well for the many purposes they might be used.
JG is working on this now and I'm not sure of the ETA. We would love to help you build a browser tool. I'll rope him into this conversation.
Frank,
Yes, we plan to type 300,000+ items including all the wikipedia plants soon.
There is some debate about whether to start with ITIS or NIH Taxo etc.
It will be resolved in 1-2 weeks and the data should be available then.
Thanks Robert and Jg, I'm so very pleased to here this. I definitely understand that adding this data is not a trivial matter and appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing.
I'll keep a lookout for the new items and brush up on my MQL skills.
Thanks
Thanks for the welcome Robert. It's good to know there is some efforts for community fostering taking place. Let the warped mine convention commence! Cheers :-).
Of course, I mean to say "mind", not "mine". Where's the edit button?
We have the 'edit my own discussion' feature request in the queue.
Software: Protocol
robert,
Could you please fix software category and remove protocol from general software? It looks like communication software should be used for this.
Mike -- I'm not sure which types you're talking about.
I believe he's talking about /computer/software
http://www.freebase.com/view/schema?id=%2Fcomputer%2Fsoftware
I looked at it and I am not sure what the purpose of both the protocol fields in that type is. I can sort of understand that a large number of software applications (except purely desktop applications with no auto-update like feature) do communicate with external applications and machines in some way, however in a lot of cases IMO its not quite proper to categorize non-communications software with communications software.
Loved D/Generation Game - Thanks Robert!
I used to play D/Generation on the Amiga 500 I think and also PC version ? Never got past level 16, damn droids! I wonder if Danny ever got that far ? hahaha. I was part of the Cracking Group for it as well, back in the day. (I did buy a personal copy, however!) My how times change for us, eh ? Here we are building Freebase together...
I never actually saw the Amiga version. I have a hilarious cracking story for the Commodore 64 version of Karateka -- I spent about a week putting in really nasty protections that probably bought me 3 weeks of additional protection. I am glad that we've entered the era of openness. Glad we're both here doing this now.
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