  <h1 align="center">Bookmarks</h1>
  <ul class="toc">
    <li><a href="#intro">What are bookmarks?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#cannot">What can't I do with my bookmarks?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#uses">What can they be used for?</a> 
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#favesites">Storing your favourite sites</a></li>
        <li><a href="#threads">Saving links to forum threads</a></li>
        <li><a href="#practice">Familiarising yourself with the editing interface</a></li>
        <li><a href="#newcat">Building new categories</a></li>
        <li><a href="#mock-up">Creating mock-ups of proposed reorganisations</a></li>
        <li><a href="#dump">&quot;Dumping ground&quot; for sites you've found 
          but not yet added to the main directory</a></li>
        <li><a href="#unreviewed">Ascertain the amount of unreviewed sites in 
          a category that you don't edit</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li><a href="#differ">How does editing in Bookmarks/ differ from editing in 
      the main directory?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#start">How do I start using mine?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#private">Are my bookmarks private?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#privateget">Can I get private bookmarks?</a></li>
    <li><a href="#search">Can I search my bookmarks/the bookmarks tree?</a></li>
  </ul>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <h3><b><a name="intro"></a></b>What are bookmarks?</h3>
  <p>A personal work area provided to every editor by default. The category can 
    only be only edited in by the listed editor, and meta editors. For example, 
    the bookmark category for editor 't23' is located at <a href="http://dmoz.org:8080/Bookmarks/T/t23/">Bookmarks/T/t23</a> 
    .</p>
  <h3><b><a name="cannot"></a></b>What can't I do with my bookmarks?</h3>
  <p>1 - Store links to sites known to be illegal, particularly those that have been flagged as such. The same <a href="http://dmoz.org:8080/guidelines/include.html#illegal">guidelines for illegal sites</a> that apply to the main directory also apply to editing in your Bookmarks.</p>
  <p>2 - Link to them, or any of their sub-categories from the main directory.</p>
  <h3><b><a name="uses"></a></b>What can they be used for?</h3>
  <p>Pretty much anything else not prohibited above. For example:</p>
  <blockquote> 
    <p>&#9;<b><a name="favesites"></a>Storing your favourite sites</b></p>
    <p>&#9;You may have a list of sites that you frequent stored in your browser's 
      Bookmarks/Favourites. If so, you may wish to transfer these URLs to your 
      ODP bookmarks. This will allow you to organise the sites in categories, 
      as is done in the main directory. For example, if you have some sites about 
      tennis, you could create a sub-category in your bookmarks called 'Tennis', 
      and then store your links there. </p>
    <p>You may wish to use the <a href="/ddp/06005/">Add 
      a Page of Links to Unreviewed</a> feature to do this.</p>
    <p>&#9;<b><a name="threads"></a>Saving links to forum threads</b></p>
    <p>&#9;When browsing the editor forum, you may find a discussion thread that 
      you'd like to refer to at a later date. To aid this process you can add 
      the URL of the thread to your bookmark category, just as you would with 
      a site. Note: even though the bookmark category is public, the forum threads 
      remain password protected, so you don't have to worry about providing access 
      to the forum to non-editors. See also: <a href="/ddp/05001/">How 
      To: Add a Non-submited Site</a></p>
    <p>&#9;<b><a name="practice"></a>Familiarising yourself with the editing interface</b></p>
    <p>&#9;As the contents of your bookmarks are not part of the main directory, 
      you can use them to experiment with the various tools available to you as 
      an editor. So, for example, you can practice creating sub-categories, using 
      Sort Priority, moving sites, writing category descriptions, etc.</p>
    <p>&#9;<b><a name="newcat"></a>Building new categories</b></p>
    <p>&#9;Suppose that you have an idea for a category that does not yet exist. 
      It may be an obscure celebrity, your locality, the university you study 
      in, the programming language you use, or something totally different. You 
      can build the category in your bookmarks, add all the sites that you can 
      find, subdivide it if necessary, then request for it to be moved into the 
      main directory. See also <a href="/ddp/01005/">Categories: Creating</a>.</p>
    <p>&#9;<b><a name="mock-up"></a>Creating mock-ups of proposed reorganisations</b></p>
    <p>&#9;If you'd like to propose an alternative structure for a category, you 
      are advised to use your bookmarks to illustrate your plans. A full tutorial 
      about reorganising categories, along with advice on creating a mock-up, 
      is available in <a href="/ddp/01006/">Categories: Reorganising</a></p>
    <p>&#9;<b><a name="dump"></a>&quot;Dumping ground&quot; for sites you've found 
      but not yet added to the main directory</b></p>
    <p>When you find sites that you'd like to add to the ODP you can add them 
      to your bookmarks, in bulk if you wish via the <a href="/ddp/06005/">Multilink 
      Adder</a>, without worrying about their titles and descriptions. Then later, 
      when you have more time perhaps, you can supply the sites with appropriate 
      titles and description, and then move them to the correct category. Not 
      only will this get you 'credit' for the edit (by incrementing your edit 
      total) but also it will give you practice in editing. Note: when you move 
      a site to a category that you don't have editing access in, it will automatically 
      be put in that category's unreviewed queue. </p>
    <p>&#9;<b><a name="unreviewed"></a>Ascertain the amount of unreviewed sites 
      in a category that you don't edit</b></p>
    <p>As you may have noticed, the number of sites awaiting review in the categories 
      listed on your dashboard, are indicated by a green number appearing next 
      to the category name. e.g. <img src="/ddp/i/158.gif" width="125" height="20"> When 
      you are considering applying for an additional category, you may like to 
      see how many unreviewed sites it currently contains. To do this, create 
      an @link in your bookmarks pointing towards the category in question. Then, 
      on the edit-side view of your bookmarks, where the @link is situated, a 
      bracketed number will appear. The first number, in black text, is the amount 
      of sites currently listed in the category, and if it contains unreviewed 
      sites, the number will be provided in a green font.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <h3><b><a name="differ"></a></b>How does editing in Bookmarks/ differ from editing 
    in the main directory?</h3>
  <p>All editors have tools in their bookmarks that were exclusive before to editalls:</p>
  <ul>
    <li>Power Reviewed Edit - edits and moves published sites to other categories 
      like a chainsaw. Useful for writing consistent descriptions and moving sites 
      out of bookmarks. </li>
    <li> Change Search String - Although the search string you set is unused because 
      Bookmarks/ are unsearchable, it is carried over when the category is moved 
      to the directory. </li>
  </ul>
  <p>Tend to it all by yourself. Robozilla does not pass by sites in your bookmarks, 
    unless the site is also published in a non-bookmarks category. Sites you leave 
    unreviewed inside your bookmarks will stay there until you move them.</p>
  <p>Editors with catmv ability can move categories within their bookmarks, but 
    only metas can move categories within, out of, or into yours, even if you 
    assign a catmv editorto edit your bookmarks subcat. </p>
  <p>When editors quit the ODP, their bookmarks are left alone, unassigned. In 
    exceptional circumstances, metas can edit any bookmark category or grant editors 
    privileges in them.</p>
  <h3><b><a name="#start"></a>How do I start using mine?</b></h3>
  <p>Go to your <a href="http://dmoz.org:8080/editors/">dashboard</a>, and near to 
    the name of the category(ies) that you edit there will be a link to your bookmarks. 
    For example, if your editor name was 'juliano' the link would read: Bookmarks: 
    J: juliano. Then you will be in the edit-side view of your bookmarks, where 
    you can edit the category as you would with any other. </p>
  <h3><b><a name="#private"></a></b>Are my bookmarks private?</h3>
  <p>No. They are accessible to anybody. In addition, they are spidered by many 
    search engines so don't put anything in them that you don't want to be associated 
    with.</p>
  <h3><b><a name="privateget"></a></b>Can I get private bookmarks?</h3>
  
<p>Yes. The ODP's <a href="http://dmoz.org:8080/Test/">Test/</a> category is password 
  protected, and therefore accessible only to editors. A category has been created 
  in there called <a href="http://dmoz.org:8080/Test/Editors/">Test/Editors</a> where 
  you can request your own sub-category. To request a category of your own ask 
  in the <a href="http://forums.dmoz.org/forum/threaddisplay.cgi?t=Forum24/HTML/000742.html">Private 
  Bookmarks in Test: III</a> thread.</p>
  <h3><b><a name="search"></a></b>Can I search my bookmarks/the bookmarks tree?</h3>
  <p>Short answer: no; the ODP's internal search engine ignores the <a href="http://dmoz.org:8080/Bookmarks/">Bookmarks/</a> 
    tree. There is a kludge that you can use however, which involves using a third-party 
    search engine that spiders our data. To do this, go to a search engine such 
    as <a href="http://www.altavista.com/">Altavista</a> and for the query text 
    enter <code>url:dmoz.org/Bookmarks search text</code> where '<code>search 
    text</code>' is replaced with the terms you want to search for. For example, 
    the following query searches the entire bookmark tree for 'squirrels': <code>http://www.altavista.com/q?pg=q&amp;q=url%3Admoz.org%2Fbookmarks+squirrels&amp;kl=XX&amp;what=web 
    </code></p>
  
<p align="center"><font size="-1">(I'd like to thank to mensan, as I plagiarised 
  some of the content for this document from his <a href="http://www.cityprosdb.com/profiles/mensan/Bookmarks_FAQ.html">Bookmarks 
  FAQ</a>).</font></p>
