windharp - 4:49 pm on Dec 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

55 listings per volunteer

You forgot the "per year" you mentioned earlier. Which is one of the reasons that the calculation is invalid. The number of editors includes all editors ever joined to the ODP. No matter if they were active for just one day or joined only a few months ago. You would need to have some kind of counter telling you how long each editor is active with the ODP to make the numbers fit the reality.

If you want to compare with the total number of editors, you would need the total amount of sites ever listed. Which is a number unknown to me, but I am pretty sure it is a lot larger than the given number. If I remember my stats correctly, I removed about 10k sites from the ODP during my editing career (dead, content changed, ...).

Why mislead the public in any way?

It's not meant to mislead anybody. It's meant as a tribute to all the people who spent time contributing to the ODP.

What current user data is available to the public?

You can find the current editor count in the status reports the ODP started publishing about a year ago. Once the server hosting them is back online, that is :-)

For each and every user you can see which categories he/she is listed in from the profile. We chose not to give editing logs and dates of last activity of a specific editor and similiar stuff to the public, because we consider that private data.

[edited by: windharp at 4:59 pm (utc) on Dec. 11, 2006]