Gracel Society Society categories are continuing to be reviewed and updated so that they comply with the Regional guidelines. Many categories needed little or no tweaking, as editors applied the guidelines and helped Regional editors to mine categories for useful local resources. The flexibility of the guidelines has allowed other editors to consider several choices in organizing access to categories that have topical and regional aspects. Christianity editors are deciding how best to regionalize lists of U.S. Christian churches, by church or by denomination. Lawyers worked on where to list region-specific legal information and local law firms.
Political parties are also under discussion as editors discuss where and what to decentralize.
Several Society threads are talking about reorganizations. Smaller cleanups can be as important to maintaining ODP quality as the bigger reorganizations. Several were addressed in Society threads over the last few weeks. Dmozmarch Sports Category consolidation is still the most popular topic in the Sports forum. Auto Racing, Wrestling, Water Sports, and Motorsports were all consolidated into umbrella categories, and the categories beneath can be accessed either through the umbrella category or through the Sports alpha bar.