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You're not out of the stables yet:)
You can now do nothing other wait, your logfiles may give you a clue if an editor has visited your site. Even then it may take time to edit and decide ... then you might not get listed at all.
Having said the negative stuff, I have previously submitted and got listed in days - it depends on if there is an editor assigned and how busy they are.
-gs
[edited by: Alternative_Future at 2:50 pm (utc) on July 10, 2003]
The natural progression would be Google.
Then just submit away to the rest.
But I looked at the archive web site which shows what Dmoz looked like many years ago.
They used to write at the bottom
1000000 web sites, 59688 waiting review, 10,000 editors and so on...
I bet the number of waiting reviews is so great is why they no longer publish it.
I think the Domz is a great directory but needs a good shake up, some people are waiting months just to get a review. So they need more editors but to become an editor is all most impossible.
They do a very good job at Dmoz specially when its all edited by private people but their is a lot more that could be done to help webmasters.
For instance would it be difficult to give a ref number for every submitted web site so we can log in and see our status then after a two weeks the ref would be cleared.
Their might be to many submissions per month for this to work but its an idea. It would also inform the webmaster that he does not have to resubmit which would cut down on the work load for editors.
Don't knock me but I do like Dmoz, just think they could bring in some more tech.
Bottom line is "tech" costs money, and it would appear that AOL is not going to invest in the whistles and bells that undoubtedly money could buy.
By its charter DMOZ is free to all, and the "owner" of DMOZ cannot make money, so there is little incentive to invest in more staff (above the 2 that are full time now) or better gizmos.
But I bet you most of the sites in DMOZ are not from editors who surf the Internet.
I would also say that to build a great website webmasters have to listen to their clients. Would it not be fair to say that Dmoz should take more notice of webmasters like Google does.
Given that its us webmasters who make great web sites (I hope they are great) to be included in the dmoz directory.
I agree and understand the situation regarding SPAM and it would not be difficult to ban a submission for certain urls that had already been submitted several times.
'Sorry you have already submitted a hundred times go away'
Dmoz is expanding fast and it will get harder and harder for Dmoz to cope without the better technology.
The huge increase of web sites in the last few years is only sample of what is to come in the near future and I feel Dmoz is already bursting.
It merely wants to build comprehensive subject categories such that if a user wants information about small blue shiny ethinic imported widgets that if they navigate to the correct category they will find a useful selection of sites that will give them the information they require; note, not all sites that exist on this topic, but just enough that the user finds the required information.
This is in much the same way that if you visit some place far away from home and you wanted a taxi and you looked in the yellow pages for details. It would not matter if there was 2, 200, or 2000 taxi companies listed. You are going to pick only one and if they can do the job at the right price, then all the others are irrelevant. If one firm has 500 of those 2000 adverts each under different phone numbers, he is not providing any more of a useful service to travellers, just being spammy with his marketing technique.
A lot of webmasters want one, single, website -- theirs! -- listed today.
That creates a culture clash between the two groups.
If 1% of webmasters subscribed to the ODP goal, and became editors for any category, that would solve the ODP's problem (not enough editors) and the webmaster's problem (not enough editors to get round to listing that one site).
I sure hope webmasters have more sense than to create great websites _just_ for an ODP listing. The opposite is usually true: unoriginal, cookie-cutter, no-content sites are all the time submitted hoping for a listing.
As for the opening post in this thread, there's a chance that the site is already listed. A month's wait isn't all that long, certainly not long enough to start a thread about it.
I bet you have no idea at all about this. In certain categories it certainly is true, as not many editors will go out and surf for sites selling widgets, but in many parts of the directory editors who know about the topic add a huge percentage of the listed sites.
Becoming an editor of DMOZ requires finding three relevant sites; having the foresight to apply an appropriate category; having th commitment to do a few minutes of reading; having the ability to write coherent descriptions; and having the honesty to declare your affiliations and reasons to want to edit. I suppose that is "impossible" for certain types of people, but it is fairly easy for the vast majority of literate people.
...a Meta saying "yes". On balance they err on the side of caution
>> but it is fairly easy for the vast majority of literate people...
...as I understand that the majority (i.e. over 50%) of applications are turned down, it does not say a lot for general literacy levels if your hypothesis is true ;)
Have an interest in a right-sized category, find some sites, write them up in accordance with the guidelines, using correct spelling and grammar for the tree's language, and the metta just can't say no. They'd be crazy to: they want more editors who can demonstrate those skills.
We could turn humpingdan's opening complaint around and ask why the ODP has been waiting whole years for some people to apply to edit. How much longer!?
Stop sitting patiently waiting for your site to be listed, and pitch in to build the best directory on the net :) :)
