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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-License_and_requirements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#License_and_requirements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>License and requirements</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-License_and_requirements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-RDF_dumps" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#RDF_dumps"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>RDF dumps</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-RDF_dumps-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Content_users" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Content_users"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Content users</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Content_users-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Policies_and_procedures" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Policies_and_procedures"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Policies and procedures</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Policies_and_procedures-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Controversy_and_criticism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Controversy_and_criticism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Controversy and criticism</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Controversy_and_criticism-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Controversy and criticism subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Controversy_and_criticism-sublist" 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id="toc-Search" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Search"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Search</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Search-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Editor_forums" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Editor_forums"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Editor forums</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Editor_forums-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bug_tracking" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bug_tracking"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Bug tracking</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bug_tracking-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Interface" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Interface"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Interface</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Interface-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-ChefMoz" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#ChefMoz"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>ChefMoz</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-ChefMoz-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle ChefMoz subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-ChefMoz-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Growth" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Growth"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Growth</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Growth-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F" title="ডিএমওজেট – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ডিএমওজেট" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2" title="دی‌موز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دی‌موز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_Project" title="Open Directory Project – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Open Directory Project" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE" title="मुक्त निर्देशिका परियोजना – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="मुक्त निर्देशिका परियोजना" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9A_%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%97" title="המדריך הפתוח – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="המדריך הפתוח" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%88%D1%8B%D2%9B_%D0%A2%D1%96%D0%B7%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5_%D0%96%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8B" title="Ашық Тізімдеме Жобасы – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Ашық Тізімдеме Жобасы" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" 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title="ଡିଏମ୍ଓଜେଡ୍ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ଡିଏମ୍ଓଜେଡ୍" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2" title="ڈی موز – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ڈی موز" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_Project" title="Open Directory Project – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Open Directory Project" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ" title="DMOZ – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="DMOZ" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_Project" title="Open Directory Project – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Open Directory Project" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_Project" title="Open Directory Project – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Open Directory Project" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_Project" title="Open Directory Project – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Open Directory Project" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Type of site</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Web_directory" title="Web directory">Web directory</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">90 languages, including English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_(law)" title="Dissolution (law)">Dissolved</a></th><td class="infobox-data">March 17, 2017<span class="noprint">; 8 years ago</span><span style="display: none;"> (<span class="dtend">2017-03-17</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Curlie.org</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Holding_company" title="Holding company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/AOL" title="AOL">AOL</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url">www.dmoz.org (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180119172207/http://www.dmoz.org/">Archived</a> 2018-01-19 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">Optional</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Registered_user" title="Registered user">Users</a></th><td class="infobox-data">90,000</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">June 5, 1998<span class="noprint">; 26 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1998-06-05</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Closed</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Content license</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Creative_Commons_Attribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Creative Commons Attribution">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported</a>, Open Directory License</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>DMOZ</b> or <b>DMoz</b> (stylized <b>dmoz</b> in its logo; from <i>directory.mozilla.org</i>, an earlier <a href="/wiki/Domain_name" title="Domain name">domain name</a>) was a multilingual <a href="/wiki/Open_content" class="mw-redirect" title="Open content">open-content</a> directory of <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a> links. The site and community who maintained it were also known as the <b>Open Directory Project</b> (<b>ODP</b>). It was owned by <a href="/wiki/AOL" title="AOL">AOL</a> (now a part of <a href="/wiki/Verizon_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Verizon Media">Yahoo! Inc</a>) but constructed and maintained by a <a href="/wiki/Virtual_community" title="Virtual community">community</a> of volunteer editors. </p><p>DMOZ used a hierarchical <a href="/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)" title="Ontology (information science)">ontology</a> scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar topic were grouped into categories which then included smaller categories. </p><p>DMOZ closed on March 17, 2017, because AOL no longer wished to support the project.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-resource-zone_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resource-zone-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The website became a single landing page on that day, with links to a static archive of DMOZ, and to the DMOZ discussion forum, where plans to rebrand and relaunch the <a href="/wiki/Web_directory" title="Web directory">directory</a> were being discussed.<sup id="cite_ref-resource-zone_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resource-zone-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of September 2017<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, a non-editable mirror remained available at dmoztools.net,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and it was announced that while the DMOZ URL would not return, a successor version of the directory named <b>Curlie</b> would be provided.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> DMOZ, ODP, and Curlie were considered synonymous by 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Curlie was well established by 2022, using the hierarchy from DMOZ.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/60px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/120px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/DMOZ" title="Special:EditPage/DMOZ">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22DMOZ%22">"DMOZ"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22DMOZ%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22DMOZ%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22DMOZ%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22DMOZ%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22DMOZ%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2019</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>DMOZ was founded in the United States as <b>GnuHoo</b> by <a href="/wiki/Rich_Skrenta" title="Rich Skrenta">Rich Skrenta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Truel" title="Bob Truel">Bob Truel</a> in 1998 while they were both working as engineers for <a href="/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a>. Chris Tolles, who worked at Sun Microsystems as the head of marketing for network security products, also signed on in 1998 as a co-founder of Gnuhoo along with co-founders Bryn Dole and Jeremy Wenokur. Skrenta had developed <a href="/w/index.php?title=TASS_(software)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TASS (software) (page does not exist)">TASS</a>, an ancestor of <a href="/wiki/Tin_(newsreader)" title="Tin (newsreader)">tin</a>, the popular threaded <a href="/wiki/Usenet" title="Usenet">Usenet</a> newsreader for <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a> systems. The original category structure of the Gnuhoo directory was based loosely on the structure of Usenet newsgroups then in existence. </p><p>The Gnuhoo directory went live on June 5, 1998. After <a href="/wiki/Richard_Stallman" title="Richard Stallman">Richard Stallman</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation" title="Free Software Foundation">Free Software Foundation</a> objected to the use of <i>Gnu</i> in the name, <i>GnuHoo</i> was changed to <i>NewHoo</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-SlashdotGnuhoo_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SlashdotGnuhoo-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a> then objected to the use of <i>Hoo</i> in the name, prompting a proposed name change to <i>ZURL</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior to switching to <i>ZURL</i>, NewHoo was acquired by <a href="/wiki/Netscape" title="Netscape">Netscape Communications Corporation</a> in October 1998 and became the Open Directory Project. Netscape released Open Directory data under the Open Directory License. Netscape was acquired by <a href="/wiki/AOL" title="AOL">AOL</a> shortly thereafter and DMOZ was one of the assets included in the acquisition. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Odp_sitecount_top.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Odp_sitecount_top.png/500px-Odp_sitecount_top.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Odp_sitecount_top.png/600px-Odp_sitecount_top.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Odp_sitecount_top.png/800px-Odp_sitecount_top.png 2x" data-file-width="801" data-file-height="366" /></a><figcaption>DMOZ size by date, 1998 to 2015</figcaption></figure> <p>By the time Netscape assumed stewardship, the Open Directory Project had about 100,000 <a href="/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator" class="mw-redirect" title="Uniform Resource Locator">URLs</a> indexed with contributions from about 4500 editors. On October 5, 1999, the number of URLs indexed by DMOZ reached one million. According to an unofficial estimate, the URLs in DMOZ numbered 1.6 million in April 2000, surpassing those in the <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Directory">Yahoo! Directory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> DMOZ achieved the milestones of indexing two million URLs on August 14, 2000, three million listings on November 18, 2001, and four million on December 3, 2003. As of April 2013 there were 5,169,995 sites listed in over 1,017,500 categories. On October 31, 2015, there were 3,996,412 sites listed in 1,026,706 categories. </p><p>In January 2006, DMOZ began publishing online reports to inform the public about the development of the project. The first report covered the year 2005. Monthly reports were issued subsequently until September 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-odpreports_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odpreports-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These reports gave greater insight into the functioning of the directory than the simplified statistics provided on the front page of the directory. The number of listings and categories cited on the front page included "Test" and "Bookmarks" categories but these were not included in the RDF dump offered to users. There were about 7330 active editors during August 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-odpreports_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odpreports-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 75,151 editors had contributed to the directory as of March 31, 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-frontpage_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frontpage-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of April 2013, the number of contributing editors had increased to 97,584.<sup id="cite_ref-frontpage_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frontpage-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="System_failure_and_editing_outage,_October_to_December_2006"><span id="System_failure_and_editing_outage.2C_October_to_December_2006"></span>System failure and editing outage, October to December 2006</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: System failure and editing outage, October to December 2006"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On October 20, 2006, DMOZ's main server suffered a <a href="/wiki/Catastrophic_failure" title="Catastrophic failure">catastrophic failure</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that prevented editors from working on the directory until December 18, 2006. During that period, an older build of the directory was visible to the public. On January 13, 2007, the Site Suggestion and Update Listings forms were again made available.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On January 26, 2007, weekly publication of RDF dumps resumed. To avoid future outages, the system resided on a redundant configuration of two Intel-based servers from then on.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The site's interface was given an upgrade in 2016, branded "DMOZ 3.0", but AOL took it offline the following year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Competing_and_spinoff_projects">Competing and spinoff projects</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Competing and spinoff projects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As DMOZ became more widely known, two other major <a href="/wiki/Web_directory" title="Web directory">web directories</a> edited by volunteers and sponsored by <a href="/wiki/Go.com" title="Go.com">Go.com</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zeal_(web)" title="Zeal (web)">Zeal</a> emerged, both now defunct. These directories did not license their content for <a href="/wiki/Open_content" class="mw-redirect" title="Open content">open content</a> distribution.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The concept of using a large-scale community of editors to compile online content has been successfully applied to other types of projects. DMOZ's editing model directly inspired at least three other open content volunteer projects: music site MusicMoz, an open content restaurant directory known as ChefMoz<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and an encyclopedia known as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Open_Site&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Open Site (page does not exist)">Open Site</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finally, according to <a href="/wiki/Larry_Sanger" title="Larry Sanger">Larry Sanger</a>, DMOZ was part of the inspiration for the <a href="/wiki/Nupedia" title="Nupedia">Nupedia</a> project, out of which <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> grew.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Logo_history">Logo history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Logo history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GnuHoo_logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Original logo as from June 1998"><img alt="Original logo as from June 1998" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/GnuHoo_logo.png/120px-GnuHoo_logo.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/GnuHoo_logo.png/250px-GnuHoo_logo.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1480" data-file-height="240" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Original logo as from June 1998</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:NewHoo_logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo after rebranding as NewHoo"><img alt="Logo after rebranding as NewHoo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/NewHoo_logo.png/120px-NewHoo_logo.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/NewHoo_logo.png/250px-NewHoo_logo.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1540" data-file-height="240" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo after rebranding as NewHoo</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Open_Directory_Project_logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo after acquisition by Netscape"><img alt="Logo after acquisition by Netscape" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Open_Directory_Project_logo.png/120px-Open_Directory_Project_logo.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Open_Directory_Project_logo.png/180px-Open_Directory_Project_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Open_Directory_Project_logo.png/240px-Open_Directory_Project_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="1584" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo after acquisition by Netscape</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DMOZ_Open_Directory_Project_logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo from 1999 to 2014 with the name DMOZ"><img alt="Logo from 1999 to 2014 with the name DMOZ" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/DMOZ_Open_Directory_Project_logo.png/120px-DMOZ_Open_Directory_Project_logo.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/DMOZ_Open_Directory_Project_logo.png/250px-DMOZ_Open_Directory_Project_logo.png 1.5x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="144" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo from 1999 to 2014 with the name DMOZ</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DMOZ_logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo from March 2014"><img alt="Logo from March 2014" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/DMOZ_logo.png/120px-DMOZ_logo.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/DMOZ_logo.png/180px-DMOZ_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/DMOZ_logo.png/240px-DMOZ_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="100" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo from March 2014</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DMOZ_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo from June 2016 until the closing in March 2017"><img alt="Logo from June 2016 until the closing in March 2017" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/DMOZ_logo.svg/120px-DMOZ_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/DMOZ_logo.svg/180px-DMOZ_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/DMOZ_logo.svg/240px-DMOZ_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="129" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo from June 2016 until the closing in March 2017</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Curlie-logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Curlie logo (2019)"><img alt="Curlie logo (2019)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Curlie-logo.png/120px-Curlie-logo.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Curlie-logo.png/250px-Curlie-logo.png 1.5x" data-file-width="460" data-file-height="120" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Curlie logo (2019)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Content">Content</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gnuhoo borrowed the basic outline for its initial ontology from <a href="/wiki/Usenet" title="Usenet">Usenet</a>. In 1998, Rich Skrenta said, "I took a long list of groups and hand-edited them into a hierarchy."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, the topic covered by the comp.ai.alife newsgroup was represented by the category Computers/AI/Artificial_Life. The original divisions were for <i>Adult</i>, <i>Arts</i>, <i>Business</i>, <i>Computers</i>, <i>Games</i>, <i>Health</i>, <i>Home</i>, <i>News</i>, <i>Recreation</i>, <i>Reference</i>, <i>Regional</i>, <i>Science</i>, <i>Shopping</i>, <i>Society</i>, <i>Sports</i> and "World". While these sixteen <i>top-level</i> categories have remained intact, the ontology of second- and lower-level categories has undergone a gradual evolution; significant changes are initiated by discussion among editors and then implemented when consensus had been reached. </p><p>In July 1998, the directory became <a href="/wiki/Multilingualism" title="Multilingualism">multilingual</a> with the addition of the <i>World</i> top-level category. The remainder of the directory lists only English language sites. By May 2005, seventy-five languages were represented. The growth rate of the non-English components of the directory had been greater than the English component since 2002. While the English component of the directory held almost 75% of the sites in 2003, the <i>World</i> level grew to over 1.5 million sites as of May 2005, forming roughly one-third of the directory. The ontology in non-English categories generally mirrors that of the English directory, although exceptions which reflect language differences are quite common. </p><p>Several of the top-level categories have unique characteristics. The <i>Adult</i> category is not present on the directory homepage but it is fully available in the RDF dump that DMOZ provides. While the bulk of the directory is categorized primarily by topic, the Regional category is categorized primarily by region. This has led many to view DMOZ as two parallel directories: <i>Regional</i> and <i>Topical</i>. </p><p>On November 14, 2000, a special directory within DMOZ was created for people under 18 years of age.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Key factors distinguishing this "Kids and Teens" area from the main directory are: </p> <ul><li>stricter guidelines which limit the listing of sites to those which are targeted or "appropriate" for people under 18 years of age;<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>category names as well as site descriptions use vocabulary which is "<a href="/wiki/Age_appropriate" class="mw-redirect" title="Age appropriate">age appropriate</a>";</li> <li><i>age tags</i> on each listing distinguish content appropriate for kids (age 12 and under), teens (13 to 15 years old) and mature teens (16 to 18 years old);</li> <li>Kids and Teens content is available as a separate RDF dump;</li> <li>editing permissions are such that the community is parallel to that of DMOZ.</li></ul> <p>By May 2005, this portion of DMOZ included over 32,000 site listings. </p><p>From early 2004, the whole site was in <a href="/wiki/UTF-8" title="UTF-8">UTF-8</a> encoding. Prior to this, the encoding had been <a href="/wiki/ISO_8859-1" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO 8859-1">ISO 8859-1</a> for English language categories and a language-dependent character set for other languages. The RDF dumps were encoded in UTF-8 from early 2000. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maintenance">Maintenance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Maintenance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Directory listings were maintained by editors. While some editors focused on the addition of new listings, others focused on maintaining the existing listings, and some did both. This included tasks such as the editing of individual listings to correct spelling and/or grammatical errors, as well as monitoring the status of linked sites. Still others went through site submissions to remove spam and duplicate submissions. </p><p>Robozilla was a <a href="/wiki/Web_crawler" title="Web crawler">Web crawler</a> written to check the status of all sites listed in DMOZ. Periodically, Robozilla would flag sites which appeared to have moved or disappeared and editors follow up to check the sites and take action. This process was critical for the directory in striving to achieve one of its founding goals: to reduce the <a href="/wiki/Link_rot" title="Link rot">link rot</a> in web directories. Shortly after each run, the sites marked with errors were automatically moved to the unreviewed queue where editors may investigate them when time permits. </p><p>Due to the popularity of DMOZ and its resulting impact on <a href="/wiki/Web_search_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Web search engine">search engine</a> rankings (See <a href="/wiki/PageRank" title="PageRank">PageRank</a>), domains with lapsed registration that were listed on DMOZ attracted <a href="/wiki/Domain_hijacking" title="Domain hijacking">domain hijacking</a>, an issue that was addressed by regularly removing expired domains from the directory. </p><p>While corporate funding and staff for DMOZ diminished over time, volunteers created editing tools such as linkcheckers to supplement Robozilla, category crawlers, spellcheckers, search tools that directly sift a recent RDF dump, <a href="/wiki/Bookmarklet" title="Bookmarklet">bookmarklets</a> to help automate some editing functions, mozilla based add-ons,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and tools that helped work through unreviewed queues. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="License_and_requirements">License and requirements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: License and requirements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>DMOZ data was previously made available under the terms of the Open Directory License, which required a specific DMOZ attribution table on every Web page that uses the data. </p><p>The Open Directory License also included a requirement that users of the data continually check DMOZ site for updates and discontinue use and distribution of the data or works derived from the data once an update occurs. This restriction prompted the <a href="/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation" title="Free Software Foundation">Free Software Foundation</a> to refer to the Open Directory License as a non-free documentation license, citing the right to redistribute a given version not being permanent and the requirement to check for changes to the license. </p><p>In 2011, DMOZ silently changed its license to a <a href="/wiki/Creative_Commons" title="Creative Commons">Creative Commons</a> Attribution license<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, which is a free license (and GPL compatible).<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="RDF_dumps">RDF dumps</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: RDF dumps"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>DMOZ data is made available through an RDF-like dump that is published on a download server, older versions are also archived there.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New versions are usually generated weekly. A DMOZ editor has catalogued a number of bugs that are encountered in the DMOZ RDF dump, most importantly that the file format is not RDF.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> So while today the so-called RDF dump is valid <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a>, it is not valid <a href="/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework" title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</a> and as such, software to process the DMOZ RDF dump needs to be specifically written for DMOZ data. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Content_users">Content users</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Content users"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>DMOZ data powers the core <a href="/wiki/Directory_service" title="Directory service">directory services</a> for many of the Web's largest search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, and <a href="/wiki/Alexa_Internet" title="Alexa Internet">Alexa</a>. <a href="/wiki/Google_Directory" title="Google Directory">Google Directory</a> used DMOZ information, until being shuttered in July 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other uses are also made of DMOZ data. For example, in the spring of 2004 <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_Marketing" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Search Marketing">Overture</a> announced a search service for third parties combining Yahoo! Directory search results with DMOZ titles, descriptions and category metadata. The search engine Gigablast announced on May 12, 2005, its searchable copy of DMOZ. The technology permits search of websites listed in specific categories, "in effect, instantly creating over 500,000 vertical search engines".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 8 September 2006<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, DMOZ listed 313 English-language Web sites that use DMOZ data as well as 238 sites in other languages.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, these figures do not reflect the full picture of use, as those sites that use DMOZ data without following the terms of the DMOZ license are not listed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Policies_and_procedures">Policies and procedures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Policies and procedures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rich_Skrenta.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Rich_Skrenta.jpg" decoding="async" width="185" height="180" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="185" data-file-height="180" /></a><figcaption>DMOZ co-founder <a href="/wiki/Rich_Skrenta" title="Rich Skrenta">Rich Skrenta</a> in 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>Restrictions are imposed on who can become an DMOZ editor. The primary gatekeeping mechanism is an editor application process wherein editor candidates demonstrate their editing abilities, disclose affiliations that might pose a conflict of interest<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, and otherwise give a sense of how the applicant would likely mesh with the DMOZ culture and mission.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A majority of applications are rejected but reapplying is allowed and sometimes encouraged. The same standards apply to editors of all categories and subcategories.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>DMOZ's editing model is a <a href="/wiki/Hierarchical" class="mw-redirect" title="Hierarchical">hierarchical</a> one. Upon becoming editors, individuals will generally have editing permissions in only a small category. Once they have demonstrated basic editing skills in compliance with the Editing Guidelines, they are welcome to apply for additional editing privileges in either a broader category or else another category in the directory. Mentorship relationships between editors are encouraged, and internal forums provide a vehicle for new editors to ask questions.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>DMOZ has its own internal forums, the contents of which are intended only for editors to communicate with each other primarily about editing topics. Access to the forums requires an editor account and editors are expected to keep the contents of these forums private.<sup id="cite_ref-commguide_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-commguide-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over time, senior editors can be granted additional privileges which reflect their editing experience and leadership within the editing community. The most straightforward is <i>edit all</i> privileges, which allow an editor to access all categories in the directory. <i>Meta</i> privileges additionally allow editors to perform tasks such as reviewing editor applications, setting category features, and handling external and internal abuse reports. <i>Cateditall</i> privileges are similar to <i>edit all</i>, but only for a single directory category. Similarly, <i>catmod</i> privileges are similar to <i>meta</i>, but only for a single directory category. <i>Catmv</i> privileges allow editors to make changes to directory ontology by moving or renaming categories. All of these privileges are granted by admins and staff, usually after discussion with <i>meta</i> editors.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In August 2004, a new level of privileges called <i>admin</i> was introduced. Administrator status was granted to a number of long serving metas by staff. Administrators have the ability to grant editall+ privileges to other editors and to approve new directory-wide policies, powers which had previously only been available to root (staff) editors.<sup id="cite_ref-adminguide_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adminguide-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>All DMOZ editors are expected to abide by DMOZ's Editing Guidelines. These guidelines describe editing basics: which types of sites may be listed and which may not; how site listings should be titled and described in a loosely consistent manner; conventions for the naming and building of categories; conflict of interest limitations on the editing of sites which the editor may own or otherwise be affiliated with; and a code of conduct within the community.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Editors who are found to have violated these guidelines may be contacted by staff or senior editors, have their editing permissions cut back, or lose their editing privileges entirely. DMOZ Guidelines are periodically revised after discussion in editor forums.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversy_and_criticism">Controversy and criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Controversy and criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There have long been allegations that volunteer DMOZ editors give favorable treatment to their own websites while concomitantly thwarting the good faith efforts of their competition.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such allegations are fielded by ODP's staff and meta editors, who have the authority to take disciplinary action against volunteer editors who are suspected of engaging in abusive editing practices.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2003, DMOZ introduced a new <i>Public Abuse Report System</i> that allows members of the general public to report and track allegations of abusive editor conduct using an online form.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Uninhibited discussion of DMOZ's purported shortcomings has become more common on mainstream <a href="/wiki/Webmaster" title="Webmaster">webmaster</a> discussion forums. Although site policies suggest that an individual site should be submitted to only one category,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as of October 2007, Topix.com, a news aggregation site operated by DMOZ founder Rich Skrenta, had more than 17,000 listings.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Early in the history of DMOZ, its staff gave representatives of selected companies, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> or <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a>, editing access in order to list individual pages from their websites.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Links to individual CNN articles were added until 2004, but were entirely removed from the directory in January 2008<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> due to the content being outdated and not considered worth the effort to maintain. There have been no similar experiments with the editing policy since then. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ownership_and_management">Ownership and management</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Ownership and management"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Underlying some controversy surrounding DMOZ is its ownership and management. Some of the original GnuHoo volunteers felt that they had been deceived into joining a commercial enterprise.<sup id="cite_ref-SlashdotGnuhoo_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SlashdotGnuhoo-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To varying degrees, those complaints have continued up until the present. </p><p>At DMOZ's inception, there was little thought given to the idea of how DMOZ should be managed and there were no official <a href="/wiki/Internet_forum" title="Internet forum">forums</a>, guidelines or <a href="/wiki/FAQ" title="FAQ">FAQs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As time went on, the ODP editor forums became the de facto DMOZ parliament, and when one of DMOZ's staff members would post an opinion in the forums, it would be considered an official ruling.<sup id="cite_ref-commguide_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-commguide-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even so, DMOZ staff began to give trusted senior editors additional editing privileges, including the ability to approve new editor applications, which eventually led to a stratified hierarchy of duties and privileges among DMOZ editors, with DMOZ's paid staff having the final say regarding DMOZ's policies and procedures.<sup id="cite_ref-adminguide_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adminguide-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-metaguide_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-metaguide-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Robert Keating, a principal of Touchstone Consulting Group in Washington, D.C., worked as AOL's program manager for DMOZ beginning in 2004. He started working for AOL in 1999 as senior editor for AOL Search, then as managing editor for AOL's DMOZ program, and then as media ecosystem manager of AOL Product Marketing.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="Sources show Robert Keating did hold the position of AOL program manager at DMOZ, but cited sources do not specify he began with DMOZ in 2004, or give any other starting date. (October 2024)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editor_removal_procedures">Editor removal procedures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Editor removal procedures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>DMOZ's editor removal procedures are overseen by DMOZ's staff and meta-editors. According to DMOZ's official editorial guidelines, editors are removed for abusive editing practices or uncivil behaviour. Discussions that may result in disciplinary action against volunteer editors take place in a private forum which can only be accessed by DMOZ's staff and meta editors. Volunteer editors who are being discussed are not given notice that such proceedings are taking place.<sup id="cite_ref-metaguide_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-metaguide-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some people find this arrangement distasteful, wanting instead a discussion modeled more like a trial held in the U.S. judicial system.<sup id="cite_ref-yahooxodp_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahooxodp-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the article "Editor Removal Explained", DMOZ meta editor Arlarson states that "a great deal of confusion about the removal of editors from DMOZ results from false or misleading statements by former editors".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The DMOZ's confidentiality guidelines prohibit any current DMOZ editors in a position to know anything from discussing the reasons for specific editor removals,<sup id="cite_ref-metaguide_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-metaguide-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however a list of potential reasons was provided in the guidelines.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the past, this has led to removed DMOZ editors wondering why they cannot log in at DMOZ to perform their editing work.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David F. Prenatt Jr., former DMOZ editor <i>netesq</i>, and another former editor known by the alias <i>The Cunctator</i>, both claim to have been removed for disagreeing with staff about changes to policies, particularly DMOZ's <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a> policies. According to their claims, staff use the excuse of uncivil behaviour as a means to remove bothersome editors.<sup id="cite_ref-yahooxodp_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahooxodp-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blacklisting_allegations">Blacklisting allegations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Blacklisting allegations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Senior DMOZ editors have the ability to attach "warning" or "do not list" notes to individual domains but no editor has the unilateral ability to block certain sites from being listed. Sites with these notes might still be listed and at times notes are removed after some discussion.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hierarchical_structure">Hierarchical structure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Hierarchical structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Criticism of DMOZ's <a href="/wiki/Hierarchical" class="mw-redirect" title="Hierarchical">hierarchical</a> structure emerged by around 2005. Many believe hierarchical directories are too complicated. With the emergence of <a href="/wiki/Web_2.0" title="Web 2.0">Web 2.0</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folksonomy" title="Folksonomy">folksonomies</a> began to appear, and some editors proposed that folksonomies, <a href="/wiki/Network_(mathematics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Network (mathematics)">networks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Directed_graph" title="Directed graph">directed graphs</a> are more "natural" and easier to manage than hierarchies.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Software">Software</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Software"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search">Search</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Search"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ODPSearch software is a derivative version of <a href="/wiki/Isearch" title="Isearch">Isearch</a> which is <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source</a>, licensed under the <a href="/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License" title="Mozilla Public License">Mozilla Public License</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editor_forums">Editor forums</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Editor forums"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ODP Editor Forums were originally run on software that was based on the proprietary <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ultimate_Bulletin_Board&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ultimate Bulletin Board (page does not exist)">Ultimate Bulletin Board</a> system. In June 2003, they switched to the open source <a href="/wiki/PhpBB" title="PhpBB">phpBB</a> system. As of 2007, these forums were powered by a modified version of phpBB. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bug_tracking">Bug tracking</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Bug tracking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The bug tracking software used by the ODP is <a href="/wiki/Bugzilla" title="Bugzilla">Bugzilla</a> and the web server <a href="/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server" title="Apache HTTP Server">Apache</a>. <a href="/wiki/Squid_cache" class="mw-redirect" title="Squid cache">Squid</a> web proxy server was also used but it was removed in August 2007 when the storage servers were reorganized. All these applications are open source. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interface">Interface</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Interface"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The DMOZ database/editing software is closed source (although Richard Skrenta has said in June 1998 that he was considering licensing it under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a>). This has led to criticism from the aforementioned GNU project, many of whom also criticized the DMOZ content license. The content was later released under a Creative Commons license, which is compatible with the GNU license.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As such, there have been some efforts to provide alternatives to DMOZ. These alternatives would allow communities of like-minded editors to set up and maintain their own open source/open content Web directories. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="ChefMoz">ChefMoz</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: ChefMoz"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Chef Moz</b>, an offshoot of DMOZ, was an <a href="/wiki/Open_content" class="mw-redirect" title="Open content">open content</a> <a href="/wiki/Web_directory" title="Web directory">directory</a> of <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a> links of restaurants. The website was constructed and maintained by a <a href="/wiki/Virtual_community" title="Virtual community">community</a> of <a href="/wiki/Volunteering" title="Volunteering">volunteer</a> editors, and owned by <a href="/wiki/Netscape" title="Netscape">Netscape</a>. </p><p>Chef Moz, similar to its parent DMOZ, used a hierarchical <a href="/wiki/Ontology_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ontology (computer science)">ontology</a> scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar topic were grouped into categories, which can then include smaller categories. </p><p>On February 17, 2011, DMOZ administrator "lisagirl" confirmed that Chef Moz was dead.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Growth">Growth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From its beginning in 2000 to November 2009 (when it became impossible for editors to log into the site), ChefMoz had grown to become the largest global directory of restaurants on the Internet. The total number of restaurants indexed since 2000 is recorded in the following table:<sup id="cite_ref-growth_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-growth-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Number of restaurants </th></tr> <tr> <td>2000 </td> <td>48,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001 </td> <td>75,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002 </td> <td>179,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003 </td> <td>208,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2004 </td> <td>258,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2005 </td> <td>266,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006 </td> <td>275,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2007 </td> <td>315,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008 </td> <td>325,000 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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