Comments on: DMOZ and Wikipedia: how it should work

By: XODP Blog

XODP Blog — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:43:14 +0000

Linking Wikipedia Articles to ODP/dMOZ Categories...

A truly open Web directory would be a great companion to Wikipedia, but linking a Wikipedia article to ODP and eliminating all other outbound links from that article will create many more problems than it will solve, a fortiori when one considers the.....

By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Is DMOZ the cure to Wikipedia’s spam problem?

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:50:44 +0000

[...] de Vaalk makes an interesting suggestion, namely that Wikipedia should drop all external links other than to DMOZ, and rely on DMOZ as the outside link directory. As division of labor, it makes perfect sense. [...]

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:51:23 +0000

I think this would be wonderful and would even breath new "life" into DMOZ but then you get all the whiners crying because they cannot get listed in DMOZ.

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:32:44 +0000

Well linking to Wikipedia from categories is "almost" standard procedure already, and Wikipedia has templates for linking to DMOZ, it's quite easy actually.

By: Ulco

Ulco — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:30:38 +0000

It does make sense and it would probably make the "open knowledge" community even stronger. I'd say: automate and implement. There must be a way to automate some sort of "Relevant links to this article in DMOZ" and/or "relevant articles to this category on Wikipedia".Would be nice...