On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com > 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 <carlhansen1234(a)gmail.com> > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > ​ > ​I see you predict the future. Anyway, I assume the people on this list are often the kind of people who would want to squirel away their own private copy, while they can. I know I have.​

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 <carlhansen1234(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

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 <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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 <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine