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

actually i rather liked that idea about causes of the causes of the causes which can all be linked to any number of other entries including existing ones. Has any one tired anything like this before? i dont think there is an existing specific system on h2g2 so it would have to just be people linking form whatever article they posted.

i think it could work though......a never ending uni project!

FABT

I will be doing 3 things on this next week:

1. Submitting uni project: World Wars
2. I will be removing this entry from peer review
3. I will be setting up pages for the uni project, tell everybody what's happening and get this uni project rolling

until then keep thinking up ideas, writing down comments etc.

speak 2 u again next week when my 3 things have been completed.

spook

someone has tried this method of hyperlinking the causes.

It was tried on a system that was recognisably an internet cafe in the early 1980's (see http://www.zyra.org.uk/fotball1.htm for more information about the system).

It was quite sensible, and worked very well indeed, especially if the links were bi-directional.

Huh? Internet café? Early 80's? On which planet?

???

H

this planet.

looking back in history, this place was recognisably an internet cafe.

just because the world wide web had not been invented yet, it does not mean that there were not other hyperlinked information storage systems around.

in fact, the free association machine was usable from outside the shop when the shop was shut, thus partially predicting things like the bt multiphone.

anyway, go and read the review, and you will see what I mean.

Woah! (just returning from zyra)

Fascinating.

H

over 1000 pages worth of zyra's site!

incredible!

You still planning on that project? You don't have to - what you've got is pretty good, imo.

I guess potentially you could sharpen up the focus by concentrating just on 'how the treaty of versailles helped cause ww2', which would also mean it was a shorter entry. But I'm not sure whether that's needed, really.

On a side note, I don't think it can be argued that appeasement caused ww2. It may have delayed it, and it may have made it more costly, but if Britain had gone to war earlier, that wouldn't have prevented a war...

When I have a free moment I will besubmitting the project and things, and I do plan to go ahead with that. I will probably be making a whole entry on each different section of this entry, adding more information to each as well.

Since lots of people have information on different aspects of the World Wars, my idea is that if you would like to contribute to this project, create an entry called 'World Wars Project Entry'. On that page, use headers and sub-headers to seperate information and which war the information relates to. Post a message here or on my personal space telling me the A number of the entry. Once complete, tell me. I will be combining everybodies work together and making multiple entries on lots of different things to do with the world wars.

It will be a long project, so, I'm expecting it to take 6 months. If there are any sub-editors who are willing to volunteer their services, especially if they understand how the whole system works, then that would be great.

Someone suggested a while back making a long list of causes. If you'd like to do that for world wars 1 and 2, maybe ask the h2g2 community, and include it in your project entry, then I will probably use the list, at least in part, as part of the introductions to the wars which I'll do.

If you know anything about any of the wars, just write it all down in 1 entry as I said before, and some if it will be mixed with other people's biuts to make loads of really amazing entries.

On the appeasement point, appeasement is a cause of the second world war, as, if britain had attacked when germany invaded the Rhineland, the war would have lasted 6 weeks, not 6 years, and it would have been a smaller war in Europe, and not a world war which resulted in millions of deaths and the creation of the atom bomb. Since britain appeased Hitler again and again, the resul;ting war was a world war.

Please everybody, don't wait for me to get this project official. I'll try and do that sometime this week. Just get writing everything you know about the world wars, and tell me the A numbers of the entries, so that when I create the project page, everybody who's working on a page will be listing as a contributing researcher and their page will go next to the person so that I can keep track of everything.

Thanks in advance to everyone who gets involved in this project!

spook

"britain had attacked when germany invaded the Rhineland, the war would have lasted 6 weeks, not 6 years"

I don't see how we and the French could have beaten Germany in 6 weeks. Britain did not want a war and was not willing to fight a war and neither was France. Germany was spoiling for a scrap. Luckily, the fact that we're an island gave us time to get our act together and the German bombing raids along with the victory in the Battle of Britain steeled our resolve and increased our confidence.

Get the entry out of PR then (as it is un-finished and will take a long time to get done) and make a Uni-Project (works pretty much like you outlined it yourself).

Bye,

HELL

that was harsh HELL, it seems that the general oppinion of the people in this thread is that this entry should be taken out of PerrReview and made into a University Project. this will allow for the subject to be covered more deeply and take some of the work off of you. you might consider this...

to find out more go here(<./>university</.&gt

Please accept my apologies. I didn't mean to be so harsh.

HELL

oh, i did not know that the writer was spook, i wa just worried that it was a newbie and you scared them off...

that is also why i wrote so much, i assume you know what University Field Researcher is Spook much better than I

i just hope something happens with this entry

ok. I'm just about to remove this entry from peer review. the A number of the project 'World Wars' which i've created can be found at A751196. If you would like to contribute toward this project then please create a page entitled 'Entry for World Wars Project' then pos it's A number and your U number either here, on my personal space or on the projet page itself. On your entry, write everything u know about the world wars, seperated by headers ad subheaders. once u have finished writing what u know about the 2 world wars then tell me u have finished and i will begin to create entries using a mixture of peoples' work includng my own.

Thanks!

spook

awesome!