status on http://www.wi-fitechnology.com

Re: status http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

We have no control over when any downstream users (including Google) update their databases. It's best to ask them if you have questions about their service. But, yes, I can safely say that a newly listed site appears in a downstream user's listing only after they update their database from the ODP... <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />

You didn't ask for a status update, but since it has been a month, I checked for you anyhow: your site is still waiting to be sent to the correct category. Once there, it will eventually be reviewed. The reviewer will decide whether to list it. If it is listed, it will take additional time for the downstream users (varies from user to user) to update their databases.

Re: status http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

Can't someone just send it to the correct category please!

Re: status http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

Someone will, have no fear. It's just that there are tens of thousands of others sitting there for similar processing - we get a *lot* of spam submissions. Sorting through them is almost a full-time job for several editors.

Re: status http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

Thanks, I'll give it an other month or so and come back to check. I am an editor in another similar directory, so I know where you are coming from. In fact I applied months ago to become one at ODP, I was refused for some strange reason.

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Well it has been yet an other month, any chance of Christmas coming early, or will it have to wait until December if one is lucky!
The site is looking better, congrats!

Re: http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

Hint, Hint!

Re: http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

No change, I'm afraid.

http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

ahee, ahhee, coughing out loud!
Yet another month.
I'll be back next month with a sneeze or LOL if one of the editors decides to make my day after few months of queuing!

Re: http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

month (munth) n. 2. the period between the same dates in successive months.

The Oxford American Dictionary.

Re: http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

What I meant is exactly that: Yet another month_ Clearer and objectively stronger statement. I am like the majority, accustomed to obeying Bill Gates "Word". Try writing that in MS Word and it'll literally turn RED!
To calm one's fears down, you write it "month", and then the color comes back. You are not going to comment on "color" as colour?

Re: http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

OK, now I'm confused. I thought July 4 and July 29 were in the same month, not consecutive months. Silly me.

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Yes they are, but if you count from 22/06/03 11:36 PM and deduct sleeping time and consider the Swahili modern English Calendar written by the Iraqi Information Minister!.
OK I made a keboob there, forgive me, it's that time of the MUNTH probably!


I kind like the "keboob" word, never used it before, it just landed from the keyboard on to the screen, so I left it!

http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

Out of sight, out of mind like they say?
Here I am again after yet another long wait. Any chance?

Re: http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

Sad to say, not much has changed, though it does appear to be waiting in the holding area.

We've deleted one duplicate submission -- there's no need to resubmit.

Re: http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/

Sad to say, not much has changed, though it does appear to be waiting in the holding area.

We've deleted one duplicate submission -- there's no need to resubmit.

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I thought it was always in the holding area, does that mean it is nearing a chance for inclusion?

The thing is, if every editor I ask for help and what I get is "the site is in the holding area", it'll remain there!

What I beg for is someone actually going to the holding are, placing the site and its info in the right category, then add it to the directory and come back and say, it has been included, after all it has been months!

To the first Editor who sees this: Please don't leave it to the next one!

Sorry, this can't be a forum for making that kind of request.

I'm usually one of the editors who mucks out the holding area. I've been busy actually adding sites the past couple of weeks. I won't look for your site specifically, but I will open a window and work on some category in my favorite order.

Thanks for your reply, I know now you've been busy adding sites and I did not mean to be too demanding. Please read this and take it into consideration:

Our site operates on non-profitability, as such we are aiming to register the organization it represents (The Wi-Fi Technology Forum) with the Charities Commission in the UK next year. As a registered charity, our work (Volunteers from all over the world) will become easier in lobbying governments, the computer industry for Internet access provision in the third world as well as other campaigns aimed at improving security and lowering prices.

The site now is one of the most important sources for news and press releases, literature and resources concerning Wi-Fi Technology (all for free), amongst our volunteer force are eminent technology professors, academics, military experts, private and public sector workers etc.. all in it for the single purpose of providing a platform upon which wireless communication becomes the language that is accessible to the whole world and (not to be philosophical), eliminating misunderstanding and lack of communication between nations. Wars and cross-nations hatred are consequences due to lack of common communication grounds and misunderstanding. As Wi-Fi Technology is the cheapest and the most practical, the United Nations is campaigning along with us to improve communications using wi-fi technology "We need to think of ways to bring wireless-fidelity applications to the developing world so as to make use of unlicensed radio spectrum to deliver cheap and fast Internet access."—Kofi Annan, November 5th, 2002"

I feel the site and the organization it represents merits a priority inclusion due its mission.

&gt;&gt;I feel the site and the organization it represents merits a priority inclusion due its mission.

I'm sure you can appreciate the fact that everyone thinks the same thing (for a variety of reasons) about their own site.

Very few editors, relatively speaking, have the resources to be able to edit in the holding area, which is why editors like hutcheson spend a large chunk of time there -- asking them to review sites as they're pushing those sites through to the right categories isn't fair or appropriate.

All this will be compounded by the fact that the http://dmoz.org/Computers/Data_Communication/ categories are backlogged from a lack of editors that spend a lot of time there.

Have you considered applying to be an editor? Perhaps there is a small subcategory that interests you (the whole Wireless tree is too large, but maybe you'd consider the Wireless/Satellite cat, or perhaps some other cat that interests you.

If you just want to get your site listed, you shouldn't do this. But if you're interested in improving the directory...

Note that a category being backlogged doesn't mean that the standards for acceptance change (and I think sometimes makes it more difficult to be accepted for a category). There's some useful reading in the sticky threads at the top of the "Become an Editor" forum. Just a thought...

Thanks for your suggestion. I am already an editor of an other similar directory to which I contribute whenever time allows. I remember applying about few months ago, but was rejected for some reason or another. I may consider re-applying for the sake of liquidating the backlog, however, I'll certainly add our site and other partners sites (keeping with ODPs guidelines of course). It'll make it easier for me as a member of a non-commercial online organization, no fear of competition or conflict of interests there. The question is, will I be accepted, I've got the feeling, UK would be editors and non-US applicants seem to be given a hard time (this is what I heard, likely to be unfounded I guess).