> Charles, that sounds like a good idea. I will sign up as an ODP > editor. Our foundation is beginning to collect a database of LDS- > related sites (good and bad) and categorize them as such, so I should > be able to help pretty easily with this. We will, by the way, make > some of the data public through an API or some other interface > eventually.
That would be very cool! You may even be able to consume some of the ODP's data as input for your system (as long as you follow their license blah blah blah). > Should I sign up to be an editor in this category, or would a more > specific one be better? > > http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/ > Denominations/Latter_Day_Saints/ You always need to start with small categories. Then as you gain experience, you can apply for privileges over larger and larger categories. Once you have succesfully edited several small sub-categories, you can apply for greenbuster priviliges in the main LDS category. This will let you preliminarily list new sites, without giving you full editer privileges in the category. This will also give you more experience with the full LDS heirarchy. That said, there are probably many of you on the list who have the topical expertise to be great editors for a small portion of the total LDS heirarchy, which is still valuable. Don't hesitate to sign up and help out just because there are too many sites and categories in the LDS heirarchy. Every bit of assistance helps. As a last bit of motivation, note that the ODP is very widely replicated. For example, the Google Directory [1] was created with ODP data, ordered by PageRank. It is also repliated on literaly hundreds of sites accross the Internet (which I suspect is one of the reasons that getting a good site listed can make such a difference to its PageRank and thus Google search placement. Charles 1. http://directory.google.com/ -- Drive like A railroad engineer Take it easy When the road's Not clear Burma-Shave http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1939/drive_like _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
