Editor: randyescalada
Categories
Computers (123,093)
Health (63,295)
Health: Conditions and Diseases (15,433)
Regional (1,127,360)
Regional: Asia (54,445)
Regional: Asia: Philippines (3,037)
Regional: Europe (273,410)
World: Tagalog (198)
Profile
Please don't e-mail me for getting your site listed or asking why your submission isn't listed yet. Thanks.
Editor since September 1999.
EDITALL/CATMV Editor since April 2000.
What does an ODP editor do?
Editors select, evaluate, describe and organize Web sites. They are responsible for reviewing submissions to their categories, and list sites according to prescribed editorial guidelines. Editors join the ODP by applying to edit a category that corresponds to their interests. Generally, new editors apply to edit in small categories at first, and then apply to edit additional areas after they have accumulated a number of edits.
Since this is a community managed project, editors often do a lot of other things in addition to listing web sites. Many technologically savvy editors help to build editing tools and features, and share them with the other editors. Senior editors volunteer to mentor junior editors. Some editors initiate editing projects to improve the overall quality of the directory, and to deal with backlogs of unreviewed sumbissions. For ODP editors, they sky's the limit in terms what they can do here. This makes the ODP a particularly fun and interesting place.
Editalls
Editalls play a vital role in the ODP as leaders and managers of content quality and champions of editorial integrity. Editall privileges are granted to experienced editors who have exhibited a solid grasp of the ODP Guidelines and excellent editorial skills in diverse areas of the directory. Editalls lead the community by
- Keeping "the big picture" in mind when making editing decisions.
- Productively participating in the community decision-making process.
- Creating user-friendly taxonomies that have sound, logical structure.
- Adding content that is current and relevant to users.
- Maintaining a consistent edit history that reflects an overall understanding of general and category-specific editorial guidelines.
Stuff Editalls Do
There is no specific time commitment required of editalls, although editall privileges are generally given to active editors interested in assuming lead roles in building and maintaining the directory. Depending on personal tastes and skills and the directory's needs, editalls can make notable contributions by working in one or more of these areas:
- Edit in very broad areas of their choice, driven by personal interest and/or a knowledge of where help is needed most.
- Coordinate reorganizations of sites and categories across or within the various top level directory nodes.
Coordinate and participate in directory wide editorial initiatives aimed at growing the directory's content (e.g. team evaluation of unreviewed) and improving its quality (e.g. CatBusters). </li>
- Act as authorities on matters of standard editing, taxonomy and ontology policies and procedures, resolving questions about editing practice and application/interpretation of editing guidelines.
- Mentor less experienced editors on community standards and guidelines.
- Investigate abuse and questionable editing practices, bringing them to the attention of metas, catmod and staff.
Perform change/move/delete requests, and general data quality assurance and maintenance.
Editalls have information organization skills that transcend specific subject knowledge, qualifying them to edit in broad areas of the directory. However, as the directory grows and becomes more diverse, it is not possible for one person to remain completely informed about all community standards that govern more granular levels of the directory's structure. Therefore, editalls are not expected to edit everywhere. When editing in an unfamiliar area, editalls must take time to learn local editing practices such as deeplinking and cross listing policies, standardized templates, site title and description practices, regional variations in standard English, and the like.
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Sometimes you look at yourself in the mirror, any mirror and you wonder why that nose looks as it does, or those eyes?what is behind them, what depths they reach? Your flesh, your skin, your lips?you know that that face which you behold is not yours alone but is already something which belongs to those who love it, to your family and those who esteem you. But a person is more than a face or a bundle of nerves and a spigot of blood; a person is more than talking and feeling and being sensitive to changes in the weather, to the opinions of people. A person is part of a clan, a race. And knowing this, you wonder where you come from and who preceded you; you wonder if you are strong, as you know those who lived before you were strong, and you realize that there is a durable thread which ties you to a part you did not create but which created you. Then you know that you have to be sure about who you are and if you are not sure or if you do not know, you may have to go back, trace those who hold the secret to your past. The search may not be fruitful; from this moment of awareness, there is nothing more frustrating than the belief that you have been meaningless. A man who knows himself can live with his imperfections; he knows instinctively that he is a part of the wave that started from great, unnavigable expanses.
***** The Pretenders - F. Sionil Jose
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