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

Reading Happy Nerd's 'NoPeePoBellyBumDrawers for me' conversation has thrown up an interesting question.

Disregarding those written with the intention of submitting to PR for inclusion in the Edited Guide, those written for The Post, or for any other specific h2g2 section, does anyone write entries any more? I can't remember the last time I wrote one, although I could go to my entry list and check the date of the most recent one... which is May 13th 2013. That's more recent than I thought and I can't remember why I created it (it's empty). The one before that is October 2008 (also empty).

The last one I created with any actual content that was intended to be non-edited was January 31st 2007 A19384194

So does anyone create entries just for fun/the hell of it/to add to the sum of knowledge on h2g2 without putting it in The Guide? I mean, that was the main intention h2g2's creation the first place, as far as I interpret it. 100% of my h2g2 usage is in conversations these days, and probably 99% of that is in mine or friends' journals.

I think a few newbies do. But then they realize that no one is reading them since they're not in the EG and probably give up. The audience has really shrunk here in the last half decade. Sure, we hear reports that there is a huge audience that just isn't registered/logged in, that get here via google searches or whatever, but without direct feed back or participation it doesn't count. It's like orating to an empty hall.

Gnomon hasn't stopped. There are usually a few entries a week on the front page.

I'm thinking of turning some of my November Journals into entries. The journals require little research - just checking a couple of dates or names or spellings on line. To make them into entries would take a few days, but it should be worth it. Create really should encourage people to write entries for the EG at least once a year. The Journal project goes down well, so why not that?