ODP Attribution

[Guest BigMatthew]

My question for the attribution code is this, my categorys will not have the same directory structure as the ODP nor will they probably have the same category names. For instance; my category might be called Arts and Entertainment, but ODP is just called Arts, I have a script that will put in my category in the $cat field of the ODP for me according to what my categories are called. I would end up with http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Arts_and_Entertainment which would not send a visitor to ODP's submit a link to the Arts category, instead there is a redirect that sends them to /add.html. My question is, would it be acceptable on the Submit a Link to just have it go to the /add.html and the Open Directory Project link to go to /about.html and the Become and Editor go to the /about.html page? Would that be acceptable for the attribution box? Thanks.

[samiam]

For an official answer, you'd probably need to contact staff@dmoz.org - but there is a lot of email that goes there, so replies may be slow, if you get one.

 

If you're importing the data from DMOZ, then perhaps you have a mapping table/file you could use to point it at the dmoz category?