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

Entry: Skiing Tips - A87757014
Author: Rosie - U14551270

Still not sure what I'm doing....
I think I've submitted a few words on how to ski? In Peer Review? Suggestions and Critiques Welcome

OOoh another entry onto the May create challenge Excellent..

Good entry, I'll be back with tips later...

You made it then! Fantastic, welcome to Peer Review, is this your third Entry?

I like this very much Rosie, your writing style is really friendly and light hearted.

And we have a smiley which I'd never used before.

WOOOSSHHH!!!...

Love it!

How come everyone is doing your challenge, i'm going to sulk

Since we have a skiing entry - A179534 Skiing (its quite small)
this could be an update of that, or since if it is substantialy different it could be a new entry

Good to see you here
have some

I am seriously thinking of taking up ski-ing, it's on my list of dangerous sports.... so this is great, and I love the smiley (the others are paragliding, climbing, caving and owning a Burmese Python). Mrs Zen has vetoed two of them.

Thanks for the ...tasty !

I only found out yesterday that there was another entry on skiing, my contibution is in your hands...

Its just that skiing has been a 20and10something year hobby of mine (yes, I really am that old!!) and you folks have been looking for contributions on hobbys...



.....WHOOOOSHHHHH!....

What about making this - 'Ski-ing for beginners' or 'Your first ski-ing holiday?', it's not a comprehensive entry on ski-ing, but it is a great beginners guide.

Yup...I'll go with that.. Your first ski-ing holiday...

I could waffle on some more, but it would just become a bit of a drag!

I'm sorry not to have realised there was a previous skiing Entry.
A179534 is one of the original Entries, and is really due for a complete makeover.

May I suggest this one (in PR) stands as it is, with a title of Rosie's choice - because this Rosie is writing an introduction to skiing for the first time.

As an entry on 'Hobbies' in PR during May this entry is eligible for the May Create Challenge, and I've put it on the 'Roll of Honour' at A87756475

Excellent entry!

Can I make one suggestion though...

Next to the section where you say walking on snow in ski boots is easy - I'd add a warning that walking on anything other than snow is nigh on impossible... Hard, inflexible plastic soled boots and wet wood or concrete do not mix!

Good idea...I'll add that thought!

Great article! I really enjoy reading your style.
One thing I would consider is perhaps amending slightly where you have written 'eventually a nice friendly chap, hopefully with a good grasp of English' although most people who read the guide have English as their first language, not everyone does. So perhaps something like 'hopefully with a good grasp of English (or language of choice)'?

You could consider links to some of the following ski-related edited articles:

A848649 Ski Resorts
A845750 Cross-country Skiing
A688269 Ski Tuning
A840683 Apres Ski
A47629353 Eddie the Eagle
A10357526 Advice for Taking Children on a Skiing Holiday
A179534 Skiing
A871986 Avoiding Avalanches - Basic Safety and Survival Tips
A891083 Ways to Keep Your Legs Warm
A652268 How to Survive a Skilift Ride on a Snowboard
A241084 How to Survive a Chairlift Ride
A241093 Skiing in New Zealand

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Thanks BB for the compliment

I did wonder about the english language thing myself, and will ammend it accordingly!

Secondly....BLIMEY!

all those related articles!

I will willingly add links to them...but being the technophobe that I am, will definitely need a bit of a reminder how to do it (or *whispering-as-I-tap* there might be someone out there that could perhaps do it for me *cough-hrumph looks away questioningly*)

Linking to another entry is easily done if you use GuideML. Have you written this with GuideML? If you have not then don't feel that you need to. This article reads perfectly well as it is. GuideML does allow you more options than writing using text alone. It is up to you whether you use GuideML or not – if you choose to use GuideML and would like any help with it, feel free to ask, but if you're happy with text then keep to text if that works best for you.

There are two ways to do it with GuideML – linking within the entry, and linking in references. Linking within the entry is the preferred method.

To link within the entry:
Write after the A number and where what you want the words to link to is followed by at the end.

So, to link to the article on Apres Ski, where you have written: 'And finally, the valley approaches, and with all things the best is saved to the last. Après Ski.'

Where you mention chairlifts you could write "chairlifts" to link to that article, and perhaps add Skiing where you first mention skiing. I think that the more links can add to an article in relevant locations the better – its nice to link to other people's articles, and I like to think that the more you link to other people's articles, the more likely they are to link to yours, and whenever you see that someone's linked to something you've written it feels flattering.

The second way is to link in References. If you were desperate to link to the article on, say, Eddie the Eagle but you don't mention him directly in your article but think he is relevant enough to include a link to, then in GuideML at the end you add an extra section between the tabs and . Thus:



Eddie the Eagle
Avoiding Avalanches - Basic Safety and Survival Tips



And this will add links in the margins to the articles you have mentioned. They prefer it if you don't include too many links in references tags (I've been told off for that once or twice)

Hope this helps – any questions, just ask!

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ok...so now it's in Guide ML...and all the paragraphs have blended into one...remind me on how to separate them again

But on a good note I have successfully done a link

Sorry to be a fuss, but it might be easier to leave it as plain text for the moment since in GuideMl it doesn't recognise paragraph spaces, you have to tag it - if you leave it in plain text it is much easier to read and the nice subbies will do it for you and if you point out where you would want links they'll put them in

You are braver than I was going straight onto GuideMl - it took me awhile, which i then kept having problems with (I'm bad with computer stuff - i have to relearn tagging every time i write an entry)

it's easy to do the paragraphs - just put at the beginning and at the end of each paragraph.


To make headers: Your Heading Goes Here

If you bookmark this Entry, it is good for reminding of what to do.

A69370509 Using GuideML for the first time

TA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

*puffs out chest as much as is concievably possbly before self induced explosion* (thinks...can we have a smiley for this??)

I think I've done it ...until you guys spot something else!!