h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Is there a way to insert the "Infinite Improbability Drive" into your personal space?

If you put the link into the page in clickable form, then anyone who clicks on it will get taken to a random entry. However, you can't have the contents of your PS page contain that random entry.

Something like this?

Infinite Improbability Drive

That would be the one for Edited Entries, yes.

if you use "RandomEntry" does that include both unedited and unedited entries.

also is their a way to include forums and researcher pages?

oops I meant edited and unedited,
not unedited and unedited.

These were the only options last time I checked:

RandomEntry
RandomEditedEntry
RandomNormalEntry
RandomRecommendedEntry

Several of us made suggestions some years back for things like random users and threads. I doubt any were actually made into <./>NamedEntries</.>.

Does RandomEntry include all of the ones below it?

It should do.

thank you

Sorry to be a bother, but my IID will only take me to "The Bible - a Perspective" at A272675.

Here's my script



It looks right to me, but somehow it isn't. It's almost like it chose a random entry and made it into a permanent link.

Whats wrong with it? Where did I go wrong? How can I fix it?

You're not supposed to add input buttons on most dna sub-sites (those belong in forms anyway). Also, you've spelled "family" as "faimly". I haven't experimented with putting all possible errors into links though. I only know what some errors do.

I copied the button from another PS, U4646274, but it didn't seem to link properly. It was just there.

I retyped the entire link and it seems to be working correctly now. Perhaps the error was do to my copy/paste method.

Do you have a link for the correct format of a button?

Just use a link, not a button.

Are we allowed to use buttons, and if so, how?

No, you aren't allowed to use buttons on most dna sub-sites, except (on h2g2) for those within the pre-defined GuideML gadgets. It is possible to fake things that look a bit button like, eg with TABLEs and pre-existing pictures.

I removed the button, linked a blob to "RandomRecomendedEntries" and now it works! But some times it takes me to the same site three or four times in a row (that doesn't seem very random)

Traveller in Time on his head
"That will be as there are only a limited number of recommended Entries at any time. The mechanism to randomly select the entry does not take into account what entry you just have visited.

< <./>RandomEditedEntry</.> > is a chance of one in 9000,
< <./>RandomeNormalEntry</.> > is one in several hundredthousand,
< <./>RandomRecommendedEntry</.> > is one in nearly a hundred. "

< <./>RandomNormalEntry</.> > does work.

I took your advice. I seems to be working correctly.
Let's hope it stays that way