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<p>called "properties".</p>

<p><blockquote>[U]nlike the <a href="page.php?w=W3C">W3C</a> approach to the semantic web, which starts with controlled ontologies, Metaweb adopts a <a href="page.php?w=folksonomy">folksonomy</a> approach, in which people can add new categories (much like tags), in a messy sprawl of potentially overlapping assertions.</blockquote></p>

<p>However, Freebase differed from the wiki model in many ways. User-created types were not adopted in the "public commons" until promoted by a Metaweb employee. Also, users could not</p><p>
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