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

To both Vip and Zelmo That was a great read and very interesting.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully Zelmo will be pleased with how it panned out too!

And my thanks too to Vip for the questions - I enjoyed answering them. And I'm glad it comes across just how positive things are looking with the site at the moment. These are exciting times.

Well if you enjoyed answering them I'm sure hootoo can come up with plenty more!

Things do look positive at the moment, I'm seeing h2g2 crop up on google more and more, most often in areas where wiki doesn't do so well.

I've been meaning to ask this for ages ao I might as well do it now.

How hard do you push the "community knowledge" aspect of h2g2? I'm talking about SEx and AskH2G2 etc, there's a wealth of knowledge in those forums and I wonder whether there's a way to exploit that like we do with the EGE?

Certainly as a guide to life, the universe and everything askh2g2 certainly covers some of the more obscure bits better than how they might be covered in a an EGE, and I know that I can always go there to get personal advice or advice on an issue that might not be covered so well in an entry.

It's funny you mention that... We're looking at trumpeting those elements far more on the new homepage. The forums in general should have a higher profile, if things go the way they're looking with the redesign at the moment. We value those threads too and they deserve to be shouted about.

Cheers Zelmo