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seahorse
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 Posted - 20 August 2003 : 11:13:59
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Hey, I've just been approved as one of the editors for the one of the aircraft categories in the Open Directory Project!
I'm just about to start weeding the category of dead links and the "unworthy"  .
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 20 August 2003 : 11:21:13
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| I edited there for a while a year or 2 back was kinda fun ... let us know how you find it perhaps I'll find some spare time to pickup a category again. |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 20 August 2003 : 11:26:47
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I've got a very sleepy category, (my choice deliberately) It's small enough that I can give it the time it deserves without it overwhelming me with work.
I do similar stuff for my web site so it overlaps enough for me to only consider it a minor additional investment of my time.
Besides, there's nothing going on in the Snitz v4.0 scene right now. |
Ken
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
1075 Posts |
Posted - 01 September 2003 : 22:35:43
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After a couple weeks of this, I've come to the conclusion that the dmoz.org Open Directory Project has some serious problems.
The technical people can't seem to get the "Public" side of the directory to update correctly. They're going through some kind of server upgrade process, but it's been months and nothing seems to be happening.
Supposedly, it is partially working. The updates don't seem to be propigating down to the lower levels yet. The public side shows my Sub-sub-sub-sub-... sub directory was last updated in October 2002. The editor side shows I actually updated it this week.
The RDF XML dump files are available, except that Google doesn't seem to use them and instead has their robots index the public side.
If you're looking for a really huge XML file to play with this is the place to find it. |
Ken
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
1075 Posts |
Posted - 03 September 2003 : 22:03:56
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Complain and you shall recieve. My little portion of the OpenDirectory has finally been updated.
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Military/Aviation/Aircraft/Fighters/JAS-39_Gripen/
Well, it showed up when I accessed it. God only knows if it will show up for anyone else. It seems their servers are having trouble replicating out the latest updates. The listed site counts are off too. Maybe that's a refresh problem. There are seven links in my area, but the category above mine says it only had five. 
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 04 September 2003 : 01:12:39
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| Well I see 7 links, guess thats a good thing :) |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 04 September 2003 : 03:55:57
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You know. I've been puttering about with XML at work and I'm actually thinking about using part of the RDF XML dump file in my site. What could be better than to have a bunch of people providing a list of select edited web sites for you to use?
The only thing is I hear that the RDF file XML has problems with corrupt UTF-8 encoding. Don't know if I'm up to dealing with that. |
Ken
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 04 September 2003 : 16:03:16
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| Thats pretty cool to become an editor. I should find a category I can edit and submit to become one. |
Erick
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