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

@ j'au-æmne

do not be so paranoid let them have their janitor..uhm.. curator club it is hardly a secret, because announced it!

Hardly secret... (I was joking about the handshakes...

But considering the volunteer group is being figuratively and literally given the right to edit the h2g2 holy of holies, the edited guide, it's hardly surprising the staff want to keep a tight rein...


Personally, I wouldn't have chosen Gnomon, he'll only go around editing everything in sight and within a week we'll all be reading the guide in an Irish accent

Plus if you gave anyone who wanted them the powers to update edited entries it would defeat the point of the edited guide, something that's been approved and can be trustworthy. If any Thomas, Richard or Harold could update it we could end up with a website like Wikipedia, completely untrustworthy, always changing and providing information that is bias.

Whiskey I already read the Guide in an Oirish accent

wonder's how many entries are just wikipedi entries that the scouts haven't noticed anyway ?!

They're taking over!

PS...

Whiskey!!!!!!! <- (That many exclamation marks is a sure sign of an extremely unhappy chappie!)

grumblegrumblerubbishgrumbletastelessgrumbleruddygrumblepaintstrippergrumble

Sorry must have been the Irish aCCENT

Not many, a google check is pretty fast and efficient for that kind of thing.

sprout

Though I did see an EG entry a few months ago that had a Wikipedia article as a reference point, which I think is wholly irresponsible. If somebody is reading this website and they use the link they could think that that website is as trustworthy as this one.

I'm rather shocked. 2legs hasn't turned up yet....



Very unusual. That powercut must have been mighty powerful....

Here I am, owning up to being a curator...

I might as well own up as well...

David - not elite

WRT earlier comments of elitists, ... Of course there are some self-appointed/self-annointed ones here-abouts. But as I read the opener of this thread, it seems pretty clear. Folks who have given solid effort over the years are simply being recognized. And being asked to do more !!!

Simply, who-ever has been asked to learn the secret hand-shake, I offer and sincere wishes.

Hang on the first Scouts and Gurus were invitation only were they not?

I might as well own up and say that I'm not amongst the elite. First time round I had a hyperspace engine problem that zoomped me to the other side of the galaxy, which wasn't inhabited (bugger), and the second time, I picked up a passenger who wouldn't get off (damm buggy elite 2) so I had to park my ship in a nearby sun.

I guess I'm not elite either

elite sorry, but that term so old fashioned in my opinion

"have you ever been member or sumptiser of the communist party?"
Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

glad to be member of the non-elitism.

Elite..? You're joking, right?

Does the sort of person who, when reading a hypothetical Entry on, say, Sea Cucumbers, thinks "wait a minute, I remember seeing an Entry on Cucumbers on the Front Page 16 months ago, I must link it immediately; and, by the way, 'Holothuroidea' is spelt wrong" sound like the sort of person who should be classed as an 'elite' member of *any* sort of society?

The Curators were chosen, in large part, for their ability to spot a typing error. That would necessarily exclude certain people who have done trojan work for the guide over the years writing entries.

>>by the way, 'Holothuroidea' is spelt wrong" sound like the sort of person who should be classed as an 'elite' member of *any* sort of society?

having spent 3 years in a top physics department, yep