Dmoz: Personal Projects and Editor Initiatives

Well not much personally to report this past week. I managed to work through a lot more of my Indiana cleanup project. Guessing it was minimal, perhaps around 100-150 total edits but it was as much as I could squeeze in during an otherwise hectic real life week. I also managed a few quality control edits this week. To honor a good friend during their absence (which is about time to be over damn it!), I logged quite a few Kids and Teens quality control edits as well.

There are several good editor initiatives going on at the moment. One of the best ones, is trying to highlight a very important and well developed category. The category is for U.S. Presidential Candidates and was highlighted the other day at Resource-Zone in the “Inside the ODP” thread. Anyone interested in finding information on the candidates for this years Presidential Election, should check out the excellent work that has been done there.

Another thing that I noticed, was that the Official DMOZ Blog is still a mess. It’s a shame really.  There could be so much more accomplished with it.  If only there was some consistent, experienced input going into it. I know there are discussions going on to improve it, I hope someone figures out the best way to utilize that as a positive resource. Having it function up to its potential would be a big plus for the project. At the very least post something to remove that ugly strike through post, that is nearly impossible to follow.

I am sure I am forgetting some important ones. If any other editors have comments or projects that they think should be mentioned, by all means let me know. For now, I am off to work on the huge pile of real work I have pushed aside all morning.

Lesson in Humility

Yes I know its two posts in one day, but hey thats my problem can’t keep my own damn mouth shut when I have something to say and its my blog so 😛 .

Today I stepped out of my shell as a normally level headed and diplomatic editor (yeah I know some of you will disagree with that, but hey its my dream) and managed to make an Ass out of myself.  Normally I am proud to be an Ass, hey I am a man afterall, but when I am wrong I am wrong and I will usually admit it (unless my wife is involved but thats a different story.

This is another vague post to non-editors, sorry for that but its intended solely as an apology to all ODP editors who witnessed my detour from my normal self.    I allowed some outside pressures and some pent up frustrations come out, directed at something completely unrelated.  Will try not to do that again.

Regards.

DMOZ – Happenings

Well kind of a misleading post title.  I have been mostly away for the better part of a week.  Real life is kicking me in the [edited] backside right now.  Between family and real work, not much time to accomplish much of anything else, including posting to this blog.  I have manged a little over 400 total edits in May, but most of those came on one day.

The last 10 days I have only managed time for around a dozen, and most of those were in a mentoring capacity of editors needing assistance/training.  There is a lot of this and that going around, but my lack of activity is not due to lack of motivation.  Low motivation and morale is a constant lately, but while it sometimes makes the deciding factor of whether to edit today, it hasn’t been the biggest issue with my limited activity this month.

To do list:

1. Finish my Indiana Localities cleanup operation.  – This is my biggest priority, when time permits.  As it stands I am still sitting somewhere in the I’s I think.
2. Work on any straggling new applications in areas that I am most interested in.  We need more new editors always.  I have been trying to watch out for good applications, but more needs to be done.
3. Planning a strategy for a localized recruiting effort.  I have been brainstorming the best ways to motivate potential local Indiana editors into applying to edit.  Haven’t figured out what would be best yet, but thats a goal I have to work on.
4. Continue to work with new editors and even some of the more seasoned ones that I have joined, so that they can continue to grow as editors and improve.

Hopefully some more time permits me to work on some of these soon.