[WikiEN-l] Anybody want Metaweb / Freebase accounts?

[Anthony]

On 6/27/07, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> William Pietri wrote:
> > Is there anybody here who has a serious interest in accounts on
> > [[Metaweb]]'s Freebase project? They just gave me another tranche of
> > them, and there's no sense letting them just sit there.
> >
> > I think the short description is that they would like to be the
> > Internet's machine-readable almanac. Where Wikipedia is about prose,
> > they're about data. For example, they've done some parsing of Wikipedia
> > extracts on things like movies and albums, so that you can make
> > database-like queries against that info. So you could build queries to
> > answer questions like, "What actors has Francis Ford Coppola worked with?"
> >
> > Right now they're at an early stage, and are mainly looking for
> > developers who will build Freebase-backed tools and people likely to
> > spend time actually contributing content. If that's you, please drop me
> > a line off-list.
>
> If I give you 1000 Wikipedia accounts to give away, will you go spam the
> Freebase mailing list for me?
>
I'm torn between agreeing with you and not caring because it sounds
like a pretty neat concept.

I'll forgive you, William, if you can hook me up with a few shares of
Metaweb stock :).

Anthony