Game proposal: is_a for other main subjects than persons

[Andre Engels]

Either as a separate game or as an additional option to the person game, could we add other main categories in this way? That is, specify that something that is not a person is a film, biological species, disambiguation page, historical event etcetera?

[Waldir Pimenta]

Great idea, but I think these should be separate games, to maintain the simplicity of the 3-button approach.

[Waldir Pimenta]

For some inspiration, there was Freebase's Typewriter app:

Typewriter is a data game to help people easily assign types to Freebase topics. It can be found at http://typewriter.freebaseapps.com/

The suggested types in Typewriter are taken from Wikipedia categories. For instance, the category "Australian authors" might suggest a type of Author.

The link above is broken (the app has been discontinued) but here's an archived version showing some of the types that were supported. Each of these would be a game similar to the Person game.

[Waldir Pimenta]

Also see issue #30, which proposes another variant of this kind of game.

[calliopejen]

I agree with this suggestion. The "human" game is somewhat demoralizing, because it appears the vast majority of items reviewed are not humans, and then your effort is wasted because no edits are being made to the database when you click "not a human." It might make more sense to go through items missing "instance of" and searching the relevant articles for keywords indicating what type of thing they are. E.g. All articles with the word "album" in the first 30 words of the article are somewhat likely to be music albums, so that could be a game -- Is this an album? Other good candidates -- city, song, village, etc. This would be a little more difficult to find topics to process and add multilingual support, but I think the payoff could be worth it.

[calliopejen]

I have no idea how hard this would be to code, but you could even have this sort of feature allowed on the fly with users able to contribute search terms and possible "instance of" tags... And then if that search term / tag combination has a certain success rate in the first 50 (say) results reviewed it persists as a feature until all results have been reviewed. Users could also be able to flag search terms / tags as problematic to take them out of the queue pending further evaluation.

[Waldir Pimenta]

Issue #108 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.