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

Does everyone have the same experience as me?

That is that every article I write for h2g2 spends one day on the front page followed by a week on the monst negelcted list

Enthusiasm in Peer Review never seems to make it over to the published article

Orcus - a boring article writer

By definition a new article is 'most neglected' because it has not be round long enough to gather hits!

This, of course, implies that the 'most neglected' box doesn't really work, because it must use a formula simply of 'number of hits'. If it used number of hits in relation to time as an edited entry, would that make more sense? I'm a medieval historian, dammit: are you any better at stats?

I don't look at the most neglected list, so I don't know if I've been on it. I think it's rude to have it there, although I can guess it's there to encourage people to go and read things.

I make a point of looking at all the entries on the front page, although I don't usually read them all, and I don't comment on all the ones I read.

I found it interesting that one I saw on the list today was "Practical purposes of changing to the Euro" or some such.

I must admit, I'd be curious to find out how many researchers actually "use" the guide and how many consider that adding to it is more important. I must admit, that if I'm doing research for work, H2G2 isn't first on my list as sources of information, (with the exception of ask H2G2).

I guess that the more edited entries there are, the more popular the edited guide will become, but I suspect that, for the moment anyway, most of the entries that do get into the edited guide just sit neglected and ignored. Having said that, I wouldn't stop writing because of that, the guide is, after all, a work in progress, and IMO it's still very young.

I think I have used the Edited Guide as the source for information I needed to know twice. Compare that with the 41 edited guide entries I have written.

On the other hand, I've picked up a lot of information which I did not need to know but which was interesting by reading the Edited Guide.

The "Practical Side of the Euro Changeover" was only advertised on the front page on 1 Jan, so it is still less than a fortnight old. That's why it was on the most neglected list.

I've certainly used the rissotto recipe, and will be doing so again tonight mmmm....

Don't worry Mina I'm not really sad

I reckon that most of the real budding authors and readers on the guide probably spend quite a bit of time in Peer Review also. Certainly I personally don't often read the finished article on the front page (so what's he complaining about I hear you cry ) as I've almost always read them already in PR.

Just a matter of fact i´ve been working on a way of telling more people about the entrys that people write.... its over at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A673698
have a look if u have 5 min and let me know what u think.....

I've used the guide a lot for the purposes of finding interesting things to read, and I look through it if need to find any information.

I can't help thinking that some kind of enhanced indexing might be in order. I often try to look for information and fail to find it, only to find it elsewhere an few days latter when i'm reading something else.

Yes... it is a pain in the hang to try and use the little search option, or go digging through the "life' "universe" or "everything" options...

peace.

It would be good if you could enter certain keywords when you were writing your entry through which it could be searched.

As an enthusiastic Googler, I think what we need the most is not keywords but the ability to search for two words at the same time. I tried to look for articles relating to Prime Numbers. Putting in "Prime Number" into the search box produced all the entries which had either Prime or Number in them, which was quite a few. I gave up. There may be people who use such a feature, but I'm not one of them. I and other users of Google prefer the "AND" search where it returns only those pages which have both Prime and Number in them. I asked about adding this feature and was told it was on some list of possible additions. In my opinion it is the most important requirement after the new Peer Review system which has been long promised. As it is, I have to use Google to search through h2g2!

Yeah, we need boolean search machines. But what about somehting that covers the threads as well? Or we will soon have 10 threads for every topic, because you can't go through the back log before making a new one.

This is a travesty!
I protest!
Boozy Gingerbread has now appeared as Most Neglected!
Stop this flagrant ignorance!
Visit now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A660188

Cloviscat:

I went, I saw, I printed

Now just got to wait for the weekend to try it out


whisky

when youb are doing searches not nesserily on h2g2 how do you do AND or NOT etc.