Mysterious listing in DMOZ

in a no-editor section

[bluecorr]

Many moons ago I submitted my portfolio to DMOZ and forgot about it. Recently I checked and not only did they add my site but they added an educational project about atmosphere which was in my portfolio. Now, the educational site was added in a regional section because it is in Romanian (whereas the whole portfolio was in English). I have changed the directory structure and meant to modify the link to the educational site only to notice the category doesn't have an editor!

Can someone tell me how that educational site was added to dmoz in a regional section? Was it passed on to an editor? which editor then, since the respective section doesn't have one?

Thanks

[victor]

Good to hear that there is at least one editor on the ball -- that's a small corrective to the usual posts here :-)

Every category has an editor. It's just that the editor name often doesn't propagate downwards.

If I edit Business/Stuff the chances are my name will show up as editor.

If I then create a sub-category -- like Business/Stuff/Widgets -- the chances are my name doesn't appear: the category will say "needs a editor". That is misleading and usually untrue.

I could add my name to that subcategory but the editor guidelines suggest I don't. Odd but true.

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It sounds like you theory is the most likely. The editor of the cat you submitted too also passed the submission on to the regional editor. To get their name, start at the regional category and work up the tree.

[motsa]

I would recommend that you click the "Update URL" link on the page where your regional listing is and submit the change of URL for that site. It will go into the queue for that category where anyone editing in the area will be able to see (and act on) it.

[bluecorr]

motsa, that's what I did. Thanks for the reply :)