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

One of the pleasures of helping to run h2g2, as official volunteers, is when we get to congratulate Researchers and hand out those sparkly official badges to adorn your Personal Spaces. As well as for volunteer status, some of these very special badges are for achievement. We have badges that indicate contributions to the Guide in the following categories:

Solo Entries:
(Here we have a sequence of badges: 0-10, 10+, 25+ and onwards - the more entries, the larger the steps)

Scavenger Badge:
Has rescued more than five Entries from the Flea market

Field Researcher badge:
Has written a University project.

The awards are not made automatically (how we wish life would be simple!), so if you've noticed that you're a badge short, or that your current solo entry badge needs an upgrade, then please let us know.

In the meantime, belated congratulations to the following who've written *more* than ten solo Entries. The next tier is 25 solo entries.
minorvogonpoet
nosebagbadger
Lanzababy (I think it looks odd, me congratulating myself, but even I'd not noticed I was due a new badge)

You may like to know that 'Solo' entries do not include those where there has been collaboration, or an Entry rescued from the Flea Market, or even completely rewritten/updated.

We really understand all the work that goes into writing and honing these Entries, they are invaluable additions to the Guide. Without you, our esteemed authors, the Guide would be all dusty and unloved.

We also want to give a special mention to SashaQ, who broke the bank this week by achieving a royal flush of Scavenger, University and Ten Solo Entries in a single weekend. Well done that, Researcher! We hope you're planning yet more amazing Entries for the Guide.

with kind regards

Lanzababy and the Core Team

Congratulations!

Yay, new badge (well, imminent coming of a new badge!) - I hadn't realised there was one for between 10 and 25

I do feel that a badge is part of who I am...I mean this may be because I'm a badger

Congratulations to all.

congrats for all








ps may i make a suggestion I would like to see a badge for doing ForK all
, the Fork all badge could be awarded for just "attending" and not doing anything important

Sounds like it would make an excellent smiley as well! I could self-use it all over the place

Well done!

(Pastey, you read my mind.)

Congratulations!

I.m glad to have help in the birthing, the concept of this bade

badge

for all.

Yay! Congratulations everyone!
... and that also includes the fork-all-ers!

Dammit pastey - I considered using preview to test for a form smiley...but that would break my tradition of never using perview

Congrats to Minor and Lanza both

Thank you! And congratulations to the other badgers

I certainly am planning more Entries - today 10 Entries, tomorrow (or rather: soon-ish) 25!

the Fork all badge should be a nice one and blue in colour

Getting an achievement badge here does take work, the quality of the entries really is amazing.

And the work put in by the volunteers never ceases to astound me.

We do hark on about it at times, but with good reason I think. It takes a lot to run this site, the work of the volunteers and the contributions of the writers and artists. I do wish the system was automated, it's easy to miss things.

But congratulations, and thank you!