Freebase Experts
From Freebase
The Freebase Experts are a group of experienced Freebase contributors, developers, etc. who help the Freebase community run smoothly. Experts are identified by a badge on their user pic and on their user profile page.
Activities
Some of the experts' activities include:
- Supporting other users via the discussion boards, Mailing lists, etc.
- Spam control
- Early testing of new functionality
- Administering domains in the Commons
- Certain administrative activities that require expert permission, including:
- admin rights in the Review Queue
- ability to use the Split tool (forthcoming)
The Experts group primarily communicates on the Freebase experts mailing list. List membership is by invitation only.
Many tools for experts are available through the Expert Hub application.
Other tools include:
Membership
The current experts are listed on the Freebase Expert group page on Freebase.
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 at least ~3 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
Not all of these need to be true; a reasonable subset is fine.
