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

Ah. Not that I'm saying it in the right place but I think it's grand.

h2g2 going back to its pre-BBC roots with a site run for the people by the people. Am I paraphrasing? Probably. In a good way? Maybe. Am I delighted? Perhaps. But I'm definitely happy. Although I have a few misgivings in the whole 'too many cooks spoil the broth' manner. But I'm sure after the usual teething problems things will run smoothly As long as one of the curators remembers to feed Elton, AND change his cage



MJ

Well, if that don't take the biscutitythingy, i'm still waiting to hear if i have a job!

Gosh, I hope all this bad feeling about the concept of there being an 'elite' wasn't sparked off by my post... If it was then I have to ask why as I'd hoped that the inclusion of the smiley would have made its good humoured nature obvious.

Well, I included a smiley as well, so I certainly didn't take you seriously. But does anyone take you seriously?

Oi! I resemble that remark!

Now, now - peace & love ...

Really for those that haven't been asked (I don't count myself here at all - I'm not that active & would be greatly alarmed/panicked, etc., if I had been asked !!) we ought to be grateful to those that have "been volunteered" - don't forget we'll have more hamsters to moan at

Keep up the good work all you treadmill enthusiasts

If you could see the number of typos and dead links that Gnomon has fixed in the past 12 days you'd know that a) the job ain't a breeze, and b) the EG really needs fixing

Undoubtedly! Thanks again

<> [Bah Humbug]

You sound jealous, G***o.

I do? Far from it - Gnomon's perfectly welcome to spend all his waking hours going through EG entries looking for typos and dead links.

Perhaps I should go around *adding* typos to edited entries just for him to fix

BH, you have a whole new sport going there

Most of my emails lately do seem to be from Gnomon with his corrections - I think we should just have him as a volunteer group on his own. I think the suggestion made by whoever changed the subject of this thread should be considered very seriously, then we could go around making typoos just to give the Bearded One something to do

I hop we're not making him paranoid

I hop? That's a chain of pancake restaurants, isn't it? There used to be one in my neighborhood. Rumor has it that you make a pretty good pancake yourself, BH.

Careful they haven't got cactus needles in

Chris......t, i'm going to unsascribe for the whole thing, itsa been a terrible day for me, first of all i'm late and the boss noticed again and then asked why, so i said..... err...... bollo its the public trasport, allways late when you need to be at work on time! he said but you use a car..... i said got stuck be hind a bus! QED



So then have i got the job???

Wouldn't you rather be a driver? Being late wouldn't be an issue.

Just to answer j'au-æmne's excellent points in post 46, as this is a very delicate editorially-based scheme we limited the invitations to the Scouts and Subs - with one noticable (and much-requested) exception. We also selected those who had shown an interest in joining up when we first broached the subject on those mailing lists.

As for the 'secrecy' of the group, it's just that I've not had time to create the volunteer page yet, and as we're not having badges for the scheme there's simply no way for us to say who they are without it looking like a rather sickly roll-call. When the page is created, we're hoping to have a drop-down so that people can see their names and understand why these people are providing feedback on editorial queries.

It's still early days yet though, so we're open to suggestions. But we're also keen to keep the scheme manageable, hence the small number of members for this group at the moment.

Right - on with the backlog

Replying to Z in post 60 - spot on really. Only thing I'd add is that when we say that staff limits are down to resourcing, it's also down to desks. If we did have another staff member just now, they wouldn't have anywhere to sit

And personally, I think the curators *should* be an elite, the best that the Subs and Scouts can offer - but that doesn't mean they should be elitist, which I don't feel they will be. Volunteering should always be about doing it for the site, and I think we have a very fine bunch of volunteers, both in this scheme and the others.

Now if you'll excuse me, I er, have something in my eye.

You big girl's blouse...

Now then, if its not tooooo much trouble, I might be talked into a Job Now!