[Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread carl hansen
I see dmoz.org is going offline in few days after a couple decades. It is a community-written project. Will it be absorbed into wikidata? Sort of a snapshot-in-time of the web. Get it while you can, at http://rdf.dmoz.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is not going to be absorbed in Wikidata. We did not even do that for Freebase to my regret. Thanks, GerardM On 12 March 2017 at 09:03, carl hansen wrote: > I see dmoz.org is going offline in few days after a couple decades. It is > a > community-written project. Will it be absorbed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread carl hansen
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > It is not going to be absorbed in Wikidata. We did not even do that for > Freebase to my regret. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 12 March 2017 at 09:03, carl hansen wrote: > > > I see dmoz.org is going offline in few days after a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread Rogol Domedonfors
I wonder if there's a lesson for other knowledge projects here ... "Rogol" On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 8:03 AM, carl hansen wrote: > I see dmoz.org is going offline in few days after a couple decades. It is > a > community-written project. Will it be absorbed into wikidata? Sort of a > snapshot-in-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcoming 19 long-time Wikimedians as Coordinators for Movement strategy

2017-03-12 Thread Kalliope Tsouroupidou
Pretty welcome to all :) K. On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Samuele Mantani wrote: > I wish all the Coordinators a good job! :) > > Samuele2002 > > Il 10/Mar/2017 06:09 AM, "Guillaume Paumier" ha > scritto: > > > Hello, > > > > As most of you are aware, the Wikimedia movement has embarked on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread James Heilman
Gah really :-( DMOZ was super useful for dealing with linkspam on Wikipedia. Would often just link to them for the external links and allow them to take care of the issues. James On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 3:33 AM, carl hansen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen < > gerard.m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread James Heilman
IMO this is something we should absorb into the WMF family of sites. Should not be too hard to format as a wiki. Not sure how big their community is. Anyone have any idea? James On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 8:54 AM, James Heilman wrote: > Gah really :-( DMOZ was super useful for dealing with linkspa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread Rogol Domedonfors
It might be as well to understand why ODP folded and whether there is likely to be volunteer effort available for its continuation before spending time effort and money on reconstituting it as a WMF project. "Rogol" On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 2:56 PM, James Heilman wrote: > IMO this is something w

[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Wikimania '17 Conference Submission Deadline March 30th

2017-03-12 Thread Ellie Young
All, A reminder that the deadline for submissions for Wikimania '17 is in two weeks - March 30! Please spread the word The Wikimania Montréal Call for Submissions can be found in French here: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/fr and in English here: https://wikimania201

Re: [Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 12 March 2017 at 08:03, carl hansen wrote: > I see dmoz.org is going offline in few days after a couple decades. It is a > community-written project. Will it be absorbed into wikidata? Sort of a > snapshot-in-time of the web. Archive.org has it: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread James Heilman
Okay we will simple need to change the DMOZ template to point to archive.org I guess. J On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 12 March 2017 at 08:03, carl hansen wrote: > > > I see dmoz.org is going offline in few days after a couple decades. It > is a > > community-written