[datacatalogs] The Data Hub - 404 error

[James McKinney]

FYI, two remaining spam entries. Not sure how to remove them:

A catalog: http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/fwmojnlowki
A group: http://datacatalogs.org/group/cyberworlduk


On 2013-03-11, at 7:48 PM, James McKinney wrote:

> Awesome, thanks for doing that. I feel comfortable contributing to datacatalogs.org again.
> 
> James
> 
> On 2013-03-11, at 6:21 PM, Sander van der Waal wrote:
> 
>> Dear James, all,
>> 
>> We want to make sure that everyone can contribute safely to
>> datacatalogs.org and be assured that their submissions are secure.
>> 
>> As a first step, we have a) removed the ability to edit anonymously on
>> datacatalogs.org and b) reverted as many spam edits as we could find.
>> Please let me know if you still encountered issues with spam on
>> datacatalogs.org.
>> 
>> This is just an intermediate solution though, because as Rufus said we
>> are keen to improve the datacatalogs.org site, and we are working on a
>> re-design. I will send more information to the list about our ideas
>> soon, but in the meantime, feel free to post any suggested features
>> that you think are important but not yet available, so we can consider
>> these.
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
>> 
>> Sander
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca>
>> Date: 21 February 2013 16:42
>> Subject: Re: [datacatalogs] The Data Hub - 404 error
>> To: Ivan Ermilov <iermilov at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
>> Cc: data-catalogs at lists.okfn.org
>> 
>> 
>> Yes, this is due to spambots renaming things, which I've raised
>> before, and which OKF has still not fixed.
>> 
>> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/data-catalogs/2012-October/000088.html
>> 
>> Given the apparent lack of resources being put towards
>> datacatalogs.org, it may be inadvisable to spend time curating it if
>> spammers will inevitably destroy your work.
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> On 2013-02-21, at 6:54 AM, Ivan Ermilov wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I found an error on the datacatalogs.org portal. The Data Hub entry is
>> not there:
>> http://www.datacatalogs.org/catalog/the-data-hub
>> 
>> I looked it up through the search:
>> http://www.datacatalogs.org/catalog?q=the+data+hub
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Ivan Ermilov.
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