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

Entry: The Christmas Market, Birmingham UK - A61238315
Author: Elentari - U202814

EGWW thread: F57153?thread=7181156

This is much improved since it hit WW.

In 'Fried potatoes' you just need to check the closing bracket for a stray s.

Are there a few words that require those dots above the vowels? I'm afraid I don't know the codes off the top of my head though.

I like this!

Hi - I've heard of this and even met people who've been there. It must be quite impressive. However, my son was there this Christmas and he wasn't so impressed as the chocolates imported from Germany were of the cheapest kind - you could even see where they'd bought them by the names of the chocolate. However, it's certainly worth writing about. Well done for thinking of it.

<<.. the biggest German market outside Germany or Austria, which is no surprise given that the 2009 market saw around 94 stalls.>>

The "which is no surprise" implies that the reader has a clear idea of how many stalls make up an average market. I don't even know and, having lived in Germany for 30 years, I reckon I could classify as an inveterate Christmas-market-goer.

Perhaps it could be diluted to : <> Gotta love those semi-colons!

In the paragraph below that: <>. What Germans? The expat German population of Birmingham or some Association?

In the paragraph below that <> Somehow I expect that to be "many other items". Or even better, "many other items, often suitable as Christmas gifts."



Not many Umlauts are necessary;

however, crepes has a circumflex accent over the first "e". Crêpes. (you many not be able to read that in your browser)

Gluhwein has an Umlaut over the "U".



You'll find the entity tags at A1098876

GuideML for the U with umlaut is
GuideML for the e with circumflex is



I don't think it's "continental" fashion to drink beer by the litre - the French serve it in .33 litre bottles! In fact, it's not even German (cf Cologne and Düsseldorf beer glasses) - it's practically an exclusively Bavarian fashion. Which confuses the issue, as Frankfurt is not in Bavaria, but let's not go there.

Regarding Bob's questions in the other thread:


I'm not sure this need be expanded upon as the types of chocolates available will change over the years.


Who said it did?



Seems explicit enough to me.



If you like, I could knock up an entry on German noodles. They have their own special kind. I have no idea, however, if this is the kind sold at the Birmingham market. If I did the entry tomorrow, we could possibly get them through peer review together. Anyway, the "not very German" is not necessary here because there are many German noodle specialities.




Again, here, I think it is unnecessary to expand on the fillings, as they vary with fashion. You could write "a range of sweet and savoury fillings" if this is the case. (which, in my opinion, it should be!). Nutella is a very German thing - although I have just checked: it was actually invented in Italy.



It may be regional to Birmingham? In Germany it is nationally available as "Jägerschnitzel mit Pommes" but basically, it does what it says on the tin.



Mulled wine. Agreed, a translation is in order here. The recipe is probably similar all over the world. More information available at and links could be added to:


A3474029 A Recipe for Mulled Wine
A1067843 Great Hot Drinks
A667857 Feuerzangenbowle - the Drink, the Movie, the Cult




Yes indeed - you could link to A319871 Beers of Germany



There are some interesting ideas as to what to put in hot chocolate here: A30465984

Happy reading!

Love your closing sentence

Looks good

The entitiy tags aren't used if there is a suitable named tag, as they won't display in some broswers (or worse, look like a string of strange characters) thus:

Gluhwein = Gl&uuml;hwein

Crepes = Cr&ecirc;pes

GB
<./>SubEditors</.>

Oh. I thought the entity tags were specifically to make the characters visible in all browers. I've always used them (especially as I have done quite a few entries on Germany etc) What's a named tag?

I have an apology: The German Beer entry is already linked to. Sorry I mentioned that.

Thanks for all the comments - I will go through in more detail later but for now I'll say (and I'll have to find a way to clarify this in the entry) that the noodles weren't German but were in an oriental stall.

That said, I had no idea Germans had there own noodles and would like to read more.

Entry's being done right now. I'll post it when I get home this evening and can check my recipe. Then I must finish the Lederhosen one, people are beginning to get impatient!

<> = Named Entity

Named Entity | ENTITY Tag | Character | Description from the A1098876 Special Character Codes in GuideML

The Curators are finding all ENTITY TYPE tags which have a Named Entity tag and replacing them. As far as I know, it's the ENTITY TYPE tags (eg: <ENTITY TYPE="#246"/&gt which cause the problem of strange characters in some browsers. A lower-case o with umlaut should be displayed thus: &ouml; rather than

Oooh to take entity tag out of own PR entry!

I learn something new every day! Thanks GB

Oh.

Can you get A1098876 changed to explain that? At the moment it says:

<<If you want to put special characters into your GuideML articles, then there are two ways to do it:

* Use a 'named entity', such as &pound;
* Use the tag, such as

Do not use a 'numbered entity', such as &#163; - this will not work on all platforms.>>

The curators could save themselves a lot of work if they changed that.

Agreed, as I followed the instructions on that page

It's an editorial entry which would probably have to go through the update procedure. Alex did that last year with the Peer Review page, and a few others. I simply don't have time, I'm literally snowed under with subbing a mega-Uni project which will hit PR as soon as I have finished subbing it. I'm also writing myself, so someone else will have to nudge the Eds to make that page clearer, or write an Update.

Good entry Elentari I think all comments I had have already been mentioned by other reviewers.

Right then, I think I've addressed all of those. Thanks.

I will be odd for this to appear on the FP in February. I wonder if it will be published when it's edited, or if it will be stored up to adorn the FP next advent. It would be nice to have the work rewarded immediately, but then again, it would be a nice surprise in December, when it's forgotten....

Any further comments here?

There's no guarantee it will appear on the FP in February, take for example today's article "Quark" which has been in the pending pool since, well it was plucked from PR on 6 October.