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@gmail.com wrote:
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 jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
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@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
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 carlhansen1234@gmail.com
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. Get it while you can, at http://rdf.dmoz.org/ _______________________________________________
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