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

We're pleased to announce that there are no more legacy entries in the Moderation queue. All entries are now back on site.

Legacy Postings from August 28, 2000 are now visible, and more are being processed everyday.

Should I be glad or worried now?

Glad.

THe reappearance of two year old journal entries is a bit like finding a diary from the adiolescent years!

Which might have a tendency to make me nervous..

YAY!!

Now a toast to the postings queue disppearing soon!

busy bees beeber


well done, Pisa People and other Auntie Beeb personel

Please direct all unemployed moderators () to the original British English thread. It would be great to have it back before Gnomon returns from his holidays. Literally hundreds of earlier conversations have been resurrected.PLEASE.

Hi Wand'rin star,

The moderators have to do them in order I'm afraid. We can't direct them to a particular conversation, it just doesn't work like that. They really are being put back in strict chronological order.

Do you know approximately when it was started? We could try to calculate when we think it is likely to reappear.

so now is the short guide to short words visible?

Hey, Wand'rin Star, so you have the thread number of the original BE Conversation? If so, I can try to run a query to find out how far through it we are...

No promises, but I'll have a go. And if you don't have the number, no worries, I can try hunting around... it'll just save me time!

British English started on April 10, 2000 with the first posting by Kaeori:

>>>
Will someone point me in the direction of authoritative reference on this subject.
Just when I think I'm getting the hang of it (i know what my 'bum' is now), something else stops you in your tracks.
What is 'whilst'?
And why is "it's a dog" bad while (whilst?) "it's the dog's" is good?
Kinda weird!
<<<



The thread is F19585?thread=46483 and for all those who can't wait: I downloaded the piece short before Rupert (alas, some 120 postings missing) and the text file (stripped of all the html blurp) is ~1MB. I could be bothered to load it up if someone points me to somewhere

OK, so we're currently moderating legacy Postings from Conversations that were started on August 23, 2000 (remember we queued Postings in reverse order of the date on which the Conversations in which they appear were created, so whole Conversations would appear as quickly as possible). British English was started, as Bossel says, on April 10, 2000.

Between these two dates, according to the database, there were 238,528 Postings made that now need to be moderated. In April this year we moderated a total of 109,895 Postings, of which only 11,515 were legacy Postings. Bear in mind, though, that in April the Mods were also dealing with legacy entries, so this isn't necessarily a figure we can extrapolate.

It's probably best not to speculate too much about when all the legacy Postings will be visible, but it'll be quite a while, in all honesty. I guess if everyone on h2g2 kept completely quiet for a little over two months then British English would reappear, but I don't see that happening...

Er.. you *could* advise the mods to hide all and everything new until they are through with the backlog but I don't think this proposal will find much agreement

Galen asked about the Short Guide in Post 12. So far as I know it is undergoing internal editing by h2g2s very own staff, and will appear in due course as an entry. How many of the best bits will be missing is anyone's guess. I am not too worried about the short words, I just don't want too many of the jokes to go awol.

You can still reach it in its unexpurgated glory from my U-Space.

Fantastic news about the entries, by the way.

And I am looking forward to getting the rest of the backlog back. If we are in August 2000, then the conversation where I was ACEd should appear soon.

This is highly appropriate though, there are so many SF stories about memory or time or causality or anything else you like working backwards, and people dying when they are born, and wierd things like that.

Ben

There you are. I shut down on the other side of the world and in the intervening twelve hours everyone scurries around finding the right answers without my lifting a finger. Thanx folks. Almost worth being eight hours ahead.

i saw, i went to the page.

i have ben to the offsite version from your page before, but thanks for the info...