If you check Google then DMOZ seems to have added/updated less than a few dozen of sites this whole week. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...w&sa=X&oi=tool&resnum=4&ct=tlink&ved=0CB0QpwU
For a site hosted in the US it's likely best to check the US google... right? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...avclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS306US307&ie=UTF-8 (see it's .com, not .uk) shows Results 1 - 10 of about 1,040,000 from dmoz.org. (0.16 seconds) the best way to check the number of links the ODP has added is to download the dump and compare the numbers... though, even then it'll be skewed based on the number of sites removed.
According to official AOL figures the average per week last year would have been 134615 added or updated sites. (700000/52) http://blog.dmoz.org/. But I don't think there is any real enthusiasm to collect such figures for any one week from within DMOZ, it really is of no significance in a short space of time.
Right you are... sorry... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...Q&sa=X&oi=tool&resnum=4&ct=tlink&ved=0CBwQpwU the .com shows 20 as well
What does that have to do with the number of sites added? We all know the site: operator is inaccurate and only an estimate and varies from day to day. Exactly DMOZ added ~9000 sites in January: At end of Dec, a total of 4523457 sites were listed At end of Jan, a total of 4532616 sites were listed = net in crease of 9159 sites What other directory came remotely close to growing by 9000 sites just in January?
additionally. DMOZ is showing 4,535,993 today on its home page - thats an increase of 3377 sites since the end of January. ie thats 375 sites added a day so far this month! ... that means they probably on target to get over 9000 for feb as well as Jan!
There should be a rule about people posting on things they know nothing about. There are NOT 7000 current active editors.
Sorry, I was going by the info posted on blog.dmoz.org/2010/01/27/dmoz-2009-year-in-review/ where it says "and more than 7000 editors contributed to the project this year". I guess it was my mistake for actually trusting text on dmoz.org. Nice fail.
Not a matter of trust, more a matter of misinterpretation. Editors are joining and leaving all the time. Whilst there aren't 7000 editors right now, over 7000 people were editors during the course of last year. Indeed
You are right! Lets use the numbers on the index page of the ODP like you did... there are 85,104 editors. Kinda makes the 9,000 sites look like only a tiny handful are actually doing anything. Like GSE-Media said... what a workload! Your source: dmoz.org/ My source: dmoz.org/ *shrug*
Hey Genius, I didn't use numbers from the main page, but a press release that says specifically how many active editors there were last year. As a non-editor I'm not aware of how to get accurate month-by-month stats, so I used the best possible. I think using a number that dmoz itself was bragging about a month and half ago is relevant. It's not my fault you guys don't like what the numbers show.