Curating a memory

Introduction

Brain compiles pages on its own, and an admin of the memory has the last word. Everything below is admin-only, appears in the audit log, and can be undone from there. The same actions exist as routes.

Review

Review has one tab per kind of decision:

Tab	What waits there
Labels	Label suggestions for sources that have none.
Conflicting facts	Two sources that disagree.
Proposed pages	Answers proposed as new pages.
Possible duplicates	Two pages that may be the same entity.
Empty pages	Pages left with no facts, for example after a source was deleted.
Health	A scan of the whole memory: likely duplicates, pages nothing links to, empty pages and retired facts a conflict still quotes.

Merge or keep apart

A Possible duplicate shows both pages. Merge into… moves the facts, citations and links of one page to the other, keeps every name as an alias and deletes the merged page; its old id keeps answering the target. Keep apart records that the two are different, and Brain does not raise the pair again.

Tip

Merging keeps each fact’s labels and sources unchanged, so nobody gains access to anything by a merge. Undo restores both pages.

Edit, rename, lock

On a page in Explore, an admin can:

• Rename it. The old title stays an alias.
• Add a fact by hand, choosing its labels. A human fact is marked as such.
• Edit a fact’s text.
• Split… chosen facts into an existing or a new page.
• Lock page or lock a single fact. A compile never rewrites a locked page or fact.

History

Show history adds the retired facts to a page, each with the date it stopped holding and why, so you can see what a newer source replaced.

Delete or erase a source

Deleting a source retires the facts only it supported and rebuilds the rest from the sources that remain. Erase… removes the source and everything derived from it, history and revisions included, and cannot be undone.

Next steps

• HTTP API for the same actions as routes.