Projects

You´re searching for ideas what to work on personally, in a branch-specific team or in a team with editors from all over ODP? Below you can find information on various running projects which you can join, copy or adapt for your area of interest.

To get a complete overview on directory-wide projects, please visit projects.dmoz.org .

Overhauling the Feedback System | Providing Safety Advice for Young Surfers | Announcing New Editor Appointments

Overhauling the Feedback System

How is ODP´s feedback system set up - and how should it be set up, to make it easier for external surfers and editors to find the best contact for their questions and needs? That´s the problem discussed in this project. It is just beginning, and interested editors, especially editors with experience in usability designing, are very welcome to join up:

Providing Safety Advice for Young Surfers

During the last year, editors discussed a lot about giving Kids and Teens a look and feel that suits better for young surfers. The first result of the discussion was the Quest for The Best Kid Friendly Search Engines: the search bar at the bottom of public pages was changed to allow localized entries for K&T and World, and the K&T team modified the entries according to the needs of their audience.
Now a group of K&T editors is compiling safety advice both for young surfers and their parents, for presentation on the external K&T pages. You´re interested? Join the discussion in the editor forum!

Announcing New Editor Appointments

We take time to welcome new editors and help them with their first steps - but what happens after we welcome someone to their first category? Do the new editors get active? Are they approved to new categories? Are they spreading their wings into other branches? In "New Appointments" threads, created by photofox for Arts based on ideas from Regional-UK and World, newly gained permissions are announced and used as an opportunity to congratulate.

You´re interested in
community-building projects?

Welcoming newbies and mentoring
offers an overview on welcoming and mentoring activities all over ODP.

How can you find out who got accepted to a new category?

  • Go to your dashboard.
  • In the right-hand menu, search for the link Category logs and click on it.
  • Set the drop-down list "Log" to "New editors and permissions".
  • Enter the category you´re interested in.
  • Click Go to logs.

Existing "New Appointments" threads:

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