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

There's been a lot of discussion about the possibility of introducing an updating scheme for Edited Entries. You'll find details of the proposed scheme at A754021: 'Updating on h2g2'. Let us know what you think.

Hi Anna,

A superb piece of work. Very comprehensive, and well done to everybody who contributed ideas. This is something I very much support.

Let's say a researcher decides to write a completely new entry based on the original edited entry. He/she copies the original GuideML over to a new entry for starters. Then he/she sets to work, adding in more information, reading the forum comments and generally expanding the topic. To finish, the researcher reformats the entry in GuideML, so that the net effect is a entry ready for inclusion in the Edited Guide with minimal changes. How would this be dealt with?

I am only trying to conceive of an approach which gives Updaters a minimum amount of work to do, and puts the onus on us researchers to do the work, if we feel strongly that an entry needs to be updated. It's far too easy for someone to suggest that a guide entry be changed when they won't be part of the solution themselves. Also, if we put the job of updating completely on the updaters, the process might be terribly slow (I am here long enough to remember how the original Peer Review forums used to work ).

Woodpigeon

Probably best to post comments on the scheme to the scheme proposal page, Woodpigeon. This is the announcement, not the discussion, and we wouldn't want your comments to get missed...

No problem Mark.

Thank for the kind words Woodpigeon Shall we go over and discuss there? See you in a minute