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Best of AGGH - what to do with the coming flood of AWW polished entries
Deidzoeb Started conversation Aug 13, 2001
jwf, are you still here? I thought you might have gone into semi-retirement from h2g2, but if you're still around, I was wondering what your plans are for AGGH. Since it is now linked from the official Alt Writing Workshop, which is linked from several other prominent, semi-official h2g2 pages, since it will likely get viewed a lot in coming days and weeks, you are in a position to launch AGGH in a big way.
In order to give more publicity to deserving guide entries that won't fit in the Edited Guide, I imagine this page could serve as a place where a devoted individual such as yourself could highlight unedited entries on a regular basis. I was just wandering around Whoami's original Alt Writing Workshop a few weeks ago, trying to figure if someone might perform a similar service as a sort of column for The h2g2 Post. But your AGGH page is the same kind of idea, several months earlier, and now in a perfect position to capitalize on this link from AWW.
Am I picturing this foolishly? I imagine AGGH as something like an alternate h2g2 front page, where people can come every week or so to find interesting pages that would not be publicized anywhere else in h2g2. But for AGGH to remain a hopping center of attention, it would need to be updated regularly. Otherwise = stagnation.
Worse yet, how about a system not only of publicizing recent entries but indexing them as AGGH progresses? I definitely don't have the stomach for that kind of thing, but there's bound to be someone out there, some obsessive individual who might try categorizing and indexing unedited guide entries. (Not all of them! Just those highlighted on AGGH)
What do you think? What does anyone else think? If jwf is gone, I hope that other interested people might come together and help make this happen.
Best of AGGH - what to do with the coming flood of AWW polished entries
Deidzoeb Posted Aug 19, 2001
Right, then perhaps "flood" was not the greatest word choice for this situation...
...
...Hello?
Is there anybody in here?
[echo: in here
in here
in here
in here...
Best of AGGH - what to do with the coming flood of AWW polished entries
Martin Harper Posted Aug 19, 2001
I think he's gone, or at least disinterested. Perhaps you could take it up yourself?
Best of AGGH - what to do with the coming flood of AWW polished entries
Deidzoeb Posted Aug 20, 2001
Yikes! The activity on AWW and AGGH have been depressingly slow. Past experiences with trying to supervise groups that had no members other than myself have been depressing.
However, I've still been thinking about AWW and AGGH and a better idea for how to publicize Unedited entries. I keep thinking of publicizing Unedited guide entries in terms of some central authority figure, or group of authorities on what makes a good entry. But there may be a better way.
Maybe the best way to publicize deserving unedited guide entries, without really deciding which ones "deserve" it, is to encourage focused lurking.
For example, when I ran out of interesting entries or conversation to read on h2g2 in the past, I would lurk on the Info page. It consistently turns up weird subjects that I never would have found elsewhere, as well as people with interesting names or messages advertised in their names.
Now that we have those links to random edited entries and random normal (unedited) entries, you can find interesting topics that you never would have thought to search for. All we have to do is point readers in that direction, by emphasizing the links and areas where great undiscovered entries can often be found:
RandomNormalEntry
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/randomnormalentry
Alternative Writers Workshop (not really hopping with activity now, but perhaps one day?)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A608799
Peer Review and the other workshops...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/peerreview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Writing-Workshop
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Writing-Beginners
(Flea Market) http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A608762
(Sin Bin) http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A482177
h2g2 Fiction Central
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A294833
The Comedy Workshop
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A502886
So Long, and Thanks for Laughing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A227440
This would at least make AGGH a collection of links to sections of the guide that have not yet made it into the Edited Guide, or which intentionally do not fall within the limits of the Edited Guide.
I noticed jwf's personal space today, and he seems to be around lately. Maybe he's not subscribed to conversations on this entry, or maybe he wasn't interested or didn't have time. Suppose I should pop over there and ask about it on his page...
Best of AGGH - what to do with the coming flood of AWW polished entries
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Aug 20, 2001
Oh good lord! I forgot to subscribe to my own Entry! LOL!
And I'm always complaining to other people when I post replies to their entries and they don't see me. I go to their homepages eventually and start yelling at them to always post at least one 'reply' whenever they put up a new entry so they will automatically see other replies come up on their homepage.
Silly me! Forgot to take my own advice. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Now ..all I have to do is read this backlog ..and all those links, ..and then have a good think about it ..and get back to you. Gimme a day or two because Real-Life is getting in the way of all my fun right now.
peace
~jwf~
Best of AGGH
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Nov 27, 2001
The other conversation 'Check out the AWW' has a link that goes nowhere. The one above in this thread is active.
I repeat it here so you really can 'Check out the AWW':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A608799
peace
~j~
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