Freebase Experts

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The Freebase Experts are a group of experience Freebase contributors, developers, etc. who help the Freebase community run smoothly.

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Activities

Their activities include:

  • Supporting other users via the discussion boards, Mailing lists, etc.
  • Spam control
  • Early testing of new functionality
  • Administering domains in the Commons

Experts are identified by a badge on their user pic and on their user profile page.

Criteria

New experts are invited from time to time, based on the following rough guidelines:

  • Is familiar with Freebase, understands what it's trying to achieve and also gets the semantic web.
  • has been active on Freebase for ~ 6 months
  • is very good at at least one of:
    • data contribution (via the website or Loading data en masse) -- should have around 10k primitives
    • schema development -- should have at least 1 good base
    • app development (using Acre and/or the API) -- should have at least 1 good app
    • or a mix of all the above
  • enthusiastic, helpful, collaborative attitude
  • frequently posts on Mailing lists and/or Discussions

Membership

The current experts are listed here on Freebase. Here is a list of their wiki user pages:

Tools

Many tools for experts are available through the Expert Hub application.

Other tools include:

Personal tools