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Sites and Web pages directly concerned with this directory, the Open Directory Project, a free, Open Content, volunteer maintained, World Wide Web directory. Lots of information, mainly targeted at the volunteer editors, but much useful to users as well, may be found at the Unofficial Editors' FAQ.

• Top/Computers/Open Source/Open Content
• Top/Computers/Companies/AOL LLC

• Request Reinstatement of Editor Account - Official mechanism for requesting your account be reactivated if you did not login within the first month, did not edit for a consecutive period of four months, or accidentally removed your editor account.
  
• ODP Reports - Regularly compiled reports on the status of the project.
  
• Genesis of the Open Directory Project - Slides from a talk about early ODP history by founder Rich Skrenta.
  
• Open Directory Project and Yahoo Size Projection Charts - Records and graphs of the number of listings in the two internet directories between 1999 and 2004. By ODP editor geniac.
  
• Google and Dmoz: Are They in Love? - Jean Manco considers the relationship between the Web's most popular search engine and its largest human-edited directory.
  
• Open Directory Project Public Forum - Discussion board sponsored and managed by members of the ODP Community, for discussion of dmoz-related issues.
  
• Open Directory Public Abuse Report System - Allows non-editors to inform DMOZ meta editors about suspected cases of directory abuse.
  
• Wikipedia: Open Directory Project - An article describing the history and growth of the directory and explaining its organization, maintenance, management, policies and procedures, and criticisms of it.
  
• Automatic Generation of Topic Hierarchies - Partial dendrograms of the ODP by editor solzaire. [PDF]
  
  

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