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Happy Nerd

Nice one

hi ...im confused this address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A85834173 was put up within* a thread within the forum for the h2g2 future it was not put u[ in Ask and this thread is the only recent one i could find in Ask: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F19585?thread=8245335 it does offer up this address to clear things up: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U14914070 maybe you all should keep bumping that thread with your "here this url will clear things up about whats happening to h2g2" or maybe rethink how you can all make it clearer for us and for new folks who just come on to h2g2 unless those new folks know about the info address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/info?cmd=conv how can they learn anything unless its posted in Ask? sorry... obviously i told the truth when i said i was confused

I haven't followed those links fkf, but I'm going to do an update on a few things in Ask later today

Hi Fluffy - It is confusing, isn't it? But the people on the Interim Committee are working night and day - literally - to try and get information to everybody here.

Here is a short cut to the FAQ's page. Maybe something there will help you understand a bit more about the move and the future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A85834209


The technical volunteers are also working their socks off on an amazing scheme to ensure we have an easy time when we move the whole site away from the BBC. They are brilliant

There'll be an update tomorrow (was pencilled in for today, but people have Real Lives, who knew?)

The two most important places are: U14914070 and A85834173.

Ben

So, are we to assume from thread titles like this that we're keeping the new-style H2G2 name, rather than the old lower-case h2g2?

Sorry for bringing up such trivialities...

It's a return to our roots - see the section "Using Capital Letters" in A41950046.

Actually, I don't mind one way or the other.

(I ended up using H2G2 for simplicity and consistency in the documentation I wrote for the bid, but I prefer the look of h2g2. It's just that you do have to put H2G2 at the start of a sentence, so I'd end up with things like...

"H2G2's researchers prefer writing for h2g2 instead of Wikipedia because ...."

... which just looks messy.

B)

I use h2g2 a lot in the middle of sentences, it's just quicker to type.

You can use the lower case at the start of a sentence if it's a brand name.

h2g2 is a brand name, I prefer it lowercase too

Good point, Pastey.

*sudden thought* - can we do a Case Sensitive Find and Replace throughout the whole database and make a nonsense of this whole conversation?

. . .and, our lovely h2g2 logo is in lowercase. It's brand identity.

I do actually have somewhere, on an old backup disc, the proper h2g2 logo style guidelines from when we set up the Post.

I'm currently sat here with glorious sunlight shining through the window, going through my backups

Being both a one-finger typist and immensely lazy, I much prefer the lower case option.

H2g2 works at the start of a sentence doesn't it?

I'm an all or nothing kinda gal.

But it looks horrible! Like that awful trend of mixing capitals and lower case in the middle of words a few years ago.

LiKe YoU WeRe TrYiNg To Be OrIgInAl

Oh dear, next we'll have people saying "lol"

The upper case version, is, IMO, vulgar... excellent... another rift in the community.... first the alabaster user's split into the alabasters and the alabasterans, sub-fractions of the initial sect, and now its the turn of the capitalletterights