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Re:Google gives Wikimedia millions by zozbot123 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @08:45PM (#18974926)
AIUI, Freebase was not "shuttered" - it was used to seed Wikidata, a Wikipedia sister project which makes its data available under permissive CC0 licensing.
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Re:Google gives Wikimedia millions by lern_too_spel on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:12AM (#18975837)
It was shuttered. You can no longer contribute to Freebase. Wikidata used some data from the last Freebase triples dump, but Google is not contributing its updates to either, despite using Freebase's crowdsourced work to seed its internal knowledgebase.

Once again, I understand the profit motive. I just don't like it.

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