Dec 22nd 2008 2:57PM
DMOZ Community & Editor Achievements of 2008
For our final post of 2008, we're highlighting the accomplishments that the editor community has made over the course of the year. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed his or her time and effort to this project this year! We look forward to a great 2009.
International Expansion & Improvements
Update to the Vietnamese Category
In our ongoing efforts to internationalize the directory, we changed 'Vietnamese' to 'Ti?ng Vi??t' for the category in Vietnamese: World/Ti?ng_Vi??t.
Improvements throughout the Serbian Category
Lot of positive things happened in World/Srpski this year.
The new unofficial blog for Serbian-speaking editors explains the ODP concept to the public and helps to motivate more people to join this project so they can have as much fun as we have. We did a reorganization of the whole of the Regional node in World/Srpski branch.
The Serbian editors have also enhanced their categories by improving quality control and creating our newest category World/Srpski/Zdravlje which contains relevant links of medicine and health.
Cicka started a Serbian language Editor School project following merlin1's model. This has been very successful among Serbian editors. Cicka has also mentored a few new editors and followed their work for some time to be sure that they are ready to contribute to this directory by already written guidelines.
Rapid Growth in Russian Category
The Russian editors' team started out the year on a great foot when they were recognized as the best World Team in the 2007 Year-end Mozzie Awards.
During 2008, the ODP World/Russian category added 12000+ sites and accepted more than 300 new editors in 2008. The Russian category, World/Russian, is now included on the front page of the directory, and the Russian editors' forum underwent a complete reorganization.
A large group of Russian editors collaborated to start the unofficial "Russian Dmoz" blog (http://www.RussianDmoz.com) where users and editors have written 36 articles and 2100+ comments since it launched.
Improved Communication for French Category
In 2008, the French speaking editors worked to build and maintain World/Français. For the first time, a French speaking editor became an ODP Administrator. Congratulations and thank you to tuisp!
Each month, the French-speaking editors publish activity data on their Dmoz Blog in French. Aef-dmoz (Association des éditeurs francophones de Dmoz) is planning some new projects for 2009. Please follow dmozeditor on Twitter to keep informed of the latest news and visit the public forum if you have questions.
Personal Milestones
Ottodv pushed his flagship category to a new record level in terms of percentage growth. The category Regional/Europe/Estonia reached more than 1000% growth. It was the first (and is still the only) country category to reach that milestone. Besides the growth, nearly every sub cat now has a description, a mozzie, and an adapted exosearch string. There is also an overall FAQ for this category.
Johndouglas increased the number of sites in Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/West_Sussex / from 2000 to 3000 despite several real-life disruptions and robozilla.
Mollybdenum added some new localities in Regional/North_America/Canada/Alberta/ this year. She finds that it is always gratifying to find an area that isn't yet complete and work towards improvement.
Hekula2002 was granted permissions in Regional/North_America/United_States/Wyoming on 20 Oct 08 and has already pushed unique adds from 2394 sites to 3376 sites with over 1000 sites expected by the time this blog post is live. These edits also include updated Category Descriptions and Submission Notices.
Laigh reached 40,000 edits in his first year as an ODP editor. This was an incredible achievement and is probably even an all time record for a first-year editor not using power tools.
A Decade in ODP
In June, DMOZ celebrated its 10th birthday, and we'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate the three editors who have been with the project without timing out or taking a break since the very beginning back in 1998. Aislinn, orlady and sthenbelle, great job on a decade of service to this community!
International Expansion & Improvements
Update to the Vietnamese Category
In our ongoing efforts to internationalize the directory, we changed 'Vietnamese' to 'Ti?ng Vi??t' for the category in Vietnamese: World/Ti?ng_Vi??t.
Improvements throughout the Serbian Category
Lot of positive things happened in World/Srpski this year.
The new unofficial blog for Serbian-speaking editors explains the ODP concept to the public and helps to motivate more people to join this project so they can have as much fun as we have. We did a reorganization of the whole of the Regional node in World/Srpski branch.
The Serbian editors have also enhanced their categories by improving quality control and creating our newest category World/Srpski/Zdravlje which contains relevant links of medicine and health.
Cicka started a Serbian language Editor School project following merlin1's model. This has been very successful among Serbian editors. Cicka has also mentored a few new editors and followed their work for some time to be sure that they are ready to contribute to this directory by already written guidelines.
Rapid Growth in Russian Category
The Russian editors' team started out the year on a great foot when they were recognized as the best World Team in the 2007 Year-end Mozzie Awards.
During 2008, the ODP World/Russian category added 12000+ sites and accepted more than 300 new editors in 2008. The Russian category, World/Russian, is now included on the front page of the directory, and the Russian editors' forum underwent a complete reorganization.
A large group of Russian editors collaborated to start the unofficial "Russian Dmoz" blog (http://www.RussianDmoz.com) where users and editors have written 36 articles and 2100+ comments since it launched.
Improved Communication for French Category
In 2008, the French speaking editors worked to build and maintain World/Français. For the first time, a French speaking editor became an ODP Administrator. Congratulations and thank you to tuisp!
Each month, the French-speaking editors publish activity data on their Dmoz Blog in French. Aef-dmoz (Association des éditeurs francophones de Dmoz) is planning some new projects for 2009. Please follow dmozeditor on Twitter to keep informed of the latest news and visit the public forum if you have questions.
Personal Milestones
Ottodv pushed his flagship category to a new record level in terms of percentage growth. The category Regional/Europe/Estonia reached more than 1000% growth. It was the first (and is still the only) country category to reach that milestone. Besides the growth, nearly every sub cat now has a description, a mozzie, and an adapted exosearch string. There is also an overall FAQ for this category.
Johndouglas increased the number of sites in Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/West_Sussex / from 2000 to 3000 despite several real-life disruptions and robozilla.
Mollybdenum added some new localities in Regional/North_America/Canada/Alberta/ this year. She finds that it is always gratifying to find an area that isn't yet complete and work towards improvement.
Hekula2002 was granted permissions in Regional/North_America/United_States/Wyoming on 20 Oct 08 and has already pushed unique adds from 2394 sites to 3376 sites with over 1000 sites expected by the time this blog post is live. These edits also include updated Category Descriptions and Submission Notices.
Laigh reached 40,000 edits in his first year as an ODP editor. This was an incredible achievement and is probably even an all time record for a first-year editor not using power tools.
A Decade in ODP
In June, DMOZ celebrated its 10th birthday, and we'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate the three editors who have been with the project without timing out or taking a break since the very beginning back in 1998. Aislinn, orlady and sthenbelle, great job on a decade of service to this community!
1. Emily,
Thanks for your kind thoughts.
May I be so bold as to say that you missed one very important event in ODP this year.
Your own contribution, especially in the blog.
I would personally like to thank you for all the sterling work you have been putting into organising and writing in the blog. I, and I am sure many others understand the commitment and dedication you have given to the blog this year since taking over in your editorial role.
I would also like to take this opportunity to wish all at ODP a happy festive season what ever you are doing.
laigh
Posted at 5:26PM on Dec 23rd 2008 by laigh
2. thanks:))
hit
Posted at 6:06PM on Dec 23rd 2008 by hit
3. ditto to laigh's comments.
Larry
Posted at 8:54AM on Dec 27th 2008 by Larry
4. Thanks you very much. HAPPY NEW YEAR
Posted at 5:05AM on Dec 31st 2008 by caoliushequ
5. I had added my site but it is not added to the directory. do not know how long it will take to add it.
John
Posted at 8:43PM on Dec 31st 2008 by John
6. Thanks for all & happy new year to Dmoz
Posted at 11:13AM on Jan 1st 2009 by Pronos.fr
7. Laigh, Larry - thanks so much for your support! It's been very rewarding to work on this project, and I've enjoyed working with the editors and seeing the blog grow. All the best for 2009!
Emily
Posted at 4:41PM on Jan 5th 2009 by emi1y
8. happy new year
Posted at 8:03AM on Jan 6th 2009 by rubby
9. A very Best 2009!
Hope dmoz will be better in 2009
Regards
Posted at 3:50PM on Jan 21st 2009 by Sumanta Mandal
10. I am sure many others understand the commitment and dedication you have given to the blog this year since taking over in your editorial role.
Posted at 5:36AM on Feb 11th 2009 by Dogs
11. I am sure many others understand the commitment and dedication you have given to the blog this year since taking over in your editorial role.
Posted at 6:36AM on Mar 5th 2009 by Forsikring