DMOZ

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DMOZ

Summary

DMOZ is a web directory[1]. DMOZ draws 178 Wikipedia views per month (web_directory category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • DMOZ authored Netscape[3].
  • DMOZ is in the country of United States[4].
  • DMOZ's image is recorded as Dmoz - Open Directory Project.PNG[5].
  • DMOZ's instance of is recorded as web directory[6].
  • DMOZ's founder is recorded as Rich Skrenta[7].
  • DMOZ's founder is recorded as Bob Truel[8].
  • DMOZ's founder is recorded as Netscape[9].
  • DMOZ's owned by is recorded as Netscape[10].
  • DMOZ's owned by is recorded as AOL[11].
  • DMOZ's owned by is recorded as WarnerMedia[12].
  • DMOZ's logo image is recorded as DMOZ logo.svg[13].
  • DMOZ's Commons category is recorded as DMOZ[14].
  • DMOZ's said to be the same as is recorded as Music Moz[15].
  • +1998-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of DMOZ[16].
  • DMOZ was dissolved in +2017-03-14T00:00:00Z[17].
  • DMOZ's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05m1h[18].
  • DMOZ's official website is recorded as https://dmoztools.net/[19].
  • DMOZ's official website is recorded as https://www.dmoz.org[20].
  • DMOZ's topic's main category is recorded as Category:DMOZ[21].
  • DMOZ's Curlie ID is recorded as Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/DMOZ/[22].
  • DMOZ's web feed URL is recorded as http://blog.dmoz.org/rss.xml[23].
  • DMOZ's replaced by is recorded as Q60715723[24].
  • DMOZ's motto text is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Humans do it better'}[25].
  • DMOZ's official blog URL is recorded as http://blog.dmoz.org/[26].
  • DMOZ's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+57847'}[27].

Body

Geography

DMOZ is in the country of United States[4].

Designation and Status

DMOZ's instance of is recorded as web directory[6].

History and Context

+1998-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of DMOZ[16]. Owners include Netscape[10], a trademark[28], in United States[29], founded in 1994[30], headquartered in Mountain View[31]; AOL[11], an online service provider[32], in United States[33], founded in 1983[34], headquartered in New York City[35]; and WarnerMedia[12], a business[36], in United States[37], founded in 1990[38], headquartered in Delaware[39].

Why It Matters

DMOZ draws 178 Wikipedia views per month (web_directory category, ranking #1 of 7).[2] DMOZ has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] DMOZ is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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