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

Venerable Masters of the Multiverse, I write to inform you that you are being linked to from the front page today.

Thanks for the update, Derek

You're welcome.

Hello and welcome, Derek. I see you are one of the chosen few

*dances* wooohooo! a front page link!!!!!!


and godben is not here to see it

*sniff* he'd love this

yes, he would

Derek oh Derek you are so kind
To put us into everyones mind
But our ED has left
He was so deft
at adding newbies to our page

But now, new members might feel no love
or think that we don't care enough
Because we cannot add their names
oh where do we lay this blame?
Please help us, oh Derek, add names to our page

I'm touched by your worse, I mean your verse. It's moved me to tears I'll fetch the big cheese...

Cal

Although it sounds funny now having no ED really is a problem.

Multiverse Masters, respect is due,
You want to add all members new,
But your rhyme to me seems quite opaque
This isn’t just a piece of

First I thought you wanted editing rights
But now I think you’ve set your sights
On us fixing the menu that drops down
Since you say you don’t have ED around

Sadly though that functionality’s broken
And the techie folk and I have spoken
The information you may have missed
Is that the only option's a manual list

If I’ve got the wrong end of the stick
Please give us a shout and I’ll try to be quick...

oh Antelia, Antelia you lovely girl
Please feel free to give us a twirl
Tis a new Ed we do Need
and for this we do plead

We have asked in the past
For this change in our cast
but we have gone mostly unheard
and to ask again we have not dared

So come on Antelia save our souls
and give us a set of brand new towels
a long with a new Ed fine and dandy
Hopefully with legs that are not to bandy

First of all, OOOOoh front page linkage

Secondly, if I said 'eh?' would you hold it against me?

I'm afraid my poetry is rather poor
And this subject perhaps a little sore
But I believe it is a new Ed we need
Though the GuideML might make my eyes bleed
Since it appears the rules may have changed?
The problem to me seems a little strange...

This task I am not trying to shirk,
It's just the drop-down menus don't work.
I haven't had a knock on the head
But I may mistake what you mean by 'Ed'?
I cannot be certain,
If you mean a new person.
But - options now don't exist,
To edit the drop-down list.
Though it may make you mad,
To manually add,
If you can persevere,
There's an example here: A214796

Ed = shortened version of editor. Page Editor. The user who had editing power of this page has 'elvised' as it were.

(too sleepy to try and make that rhyme now )

Ah! I looked too quickly at it and thought Cal was editor.

If you want to choose the new editor I'll switch editing rights over pronto.

Oh! Well, since you thought it was Cal how about changing it to him then we can pretend it was that way all along

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oh a great weight on my shoulders I must carry
now all the newbies's I must tally
Guide ML to make my head hurt
How come I always got volunteered for stuff while I'm at work?


But stand firm I must
Tummy in stick out bust
get the job done as quick as Quick
and clear the list up in just a tick


Thanks oh powers that be