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

Hey, froods, can we create a glossary which we can include in any documentation we create?

The first terms I thought of needing definitions are:

Hootoo
Hootizen
Researcher
Volunteer
NooHooToo
Rupert
Pre-Rupert
Italics

But there are so many more....

Who feels like a little light lexicography?

Hootoo
-An informal name for the website h2g2

Hootizen
-An informal name for someone who is registered with h2g2

Researcher
-The formal name for someone who is registered with h2g2

Volunteer
-A Researcher who gives their time to one of the official Volunteer scheemes on h2g2 to help the website run smoothly. Most involve the processes around writing, such as editing.

NooHooToo
-Currently used to describe how we think h2g2 will be like after the BBC sell it on to.

Rupert
-The period of time when h2g2 was unavilable during the transition from its original owners at The Digital Village to the BBC. This lasted several months, and is also known as the 'foop'.

Pre-Rupert
-The period of time from the beginnings of the website until the BBC took over the running of the site.

Italics
-The official paid staff who have the final say in the day to day running. They are called 'Italics' because their name appear in italics on-site. Some people also call them the 'slants', 'Eds', and 'TPTB'(The Powers That Be).

Vip you're a star.

Ben

I love you too.

I'm OK at running with and fleshing out ideas. I'm just piss-poor at coming up with them. And you, my dear, seem to be exceptionally good at that bit.

Published Entry - All approved/edited Entries from "old" Edited Guide and Underguide.

Curator - new role? base on Scouts/miners + Sub-editors/polishers and perhaps also Editor.

Publisher - old Editor role.

Unified Guide - the collection of all Published Entries

Podcast

App

Smartphone

Tablet

Android (I don't think we mention Android anywhere actually)

Edited Guide

UnderGuide

Category

Tag



Perhaps also a Who's Who of important people in the history of the site?

Douglas Adams

Robbie Stamp

Jim Lynn

Mark Moxon

Ashley Highfield

Nick Reynolds

PS - I suggest doing it in excel, then it's very easy to sort alphabetically

Published Entry
-All Entries that have met the required quality standards for the Guide.

Curator (Volunteer Position)
-An experienced Researcher who can make minor adjustments and corrections to Entries. Recommendations from at least two Curators can elevate an Entry to Published status.

Publisher (Volunteer Position)
-An experienced Researcher who can evelate and Enty to Published Starus. May also be a Curator.

Unified Guide
-The collection of all Published Entries

Podcast
-An aural recording that can be downloaded and listened to by users.

App
-Short for application, apps are small programs that can be run on a modern mobile phone and computers. They are usually downloaded for a small fee.

Smartphone
-A modern mobile phone that is capable of running apps and other programmes.

Tablet
-A small computer that is used by touching the screen and usually no larger than a piece of A4 paper or thicker than two centimetres. They also run apps, which often form the bulk of their use.

Android
-I'm afriad I don't really know! Sorry!

Edited Guide
-The name given to factual, Published Entries before the sale of h2g2.

UnderGuide
-The name given to Entries that were of a high enough quality standard to be Published, but didn't meet the guidelines before the sale of h2g2.

Category
-A way of storing the Published Entries in sections to make them easier to find when browsing the archives.

Tag
-A way of labelling an Entry so that it (and similar Entries) can be searched for on a specific search word. We will use it to make sure that factual and non-factual Entries can be differentiated.

Douglas Adams
-The scriptwriter and novelise who conceived of the concept of the Guide to the Galaxy and one of the founders of The Digital Village, the company that initially started h2g2.

Robbie Stamp
-One of the founders of The Digital Village

Jim Lynn
-One of the founders of The Digital Village who wrote a lot of h2g2. He was them employed by the BBC to keep the site runnning.

Mark Moxon
-One of the first Editors fo the site, and decided what became Edited (the old term for Published).

Ashley Highfield
-Another Editor who arranged the sale of h2g2 to the BBC when it became clear that The Digital Village were not able to sustain h2g2.

Nick Reynolds
-The BBC Internet employee who was instrumental in ensuring that the BBC 'disposed' of h2g2 rather that closing it down.


How's that for a starter? Feel free to amend etc. as usual.

Android - an Operating System running on several brands / models of mobile phones and tablets. This enables the hardware to work with the apps, much like MS-Windows does for the PC.

I have taken the posts above and put them in this spreadsheet :

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjLzN9TeL8kWdGt4VS1mTnVpS2R4VHVKdHNVVENySEE&hl=en&authkey=CISf9dkB

Beat me to it!

Can we all just check the definitions for

Category
Sub-category
Tag

to make sure that they match what we think they mean?

Category, not really wrong.
Perhaps though, mention the Life/Universe/everything thought of main categories? The main categories are not so much subject as general area...
Sub-categories, not just fact/fiction but also subjects.
Tags - try to include some feeling of "one-off", unstructured adding of tags? Can't really put it in words at the moment, unless you want to copy more from the Categories and tags document http://docs.google.com/document/d/1IvYL4p-NYYxlz-6dnGPrNCfiVnscX-LRq8yp8X7gBLc/edit?hl=sv&authkey=CNeF9rkK#

It's hard to keep it short and concise at the same time

Category - the first order organising principle of Entries in the Guide. Several categories can be applied to a single entry, for example an entry can be categorised by genre and by location.

Sub-Category - the second order organising principle of Entries in the Guide. Whether or not we require sub-categories depends on the category system that we choose.

Tag - relevant labels applied to an entry in addition to the way it is categorised in order to help search engines find the entry.

I think we should get the job titles right and biogs right for the folks we mention:

Douglas Adams
- Creator of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series and books, and one of the founders of The Digital Village, the company which launched h2g2.

Robbie Stamp
- CEO of The Digital Village, the company which launched h2g2.

Jim Lynn
- Technical Lead on h2g2 when it began its development at 'The Digital Village' in January 1999. Jim designed the database that stores the site, and wrote a lot of the software that powers it.

Mark Moxon
- Editor of h2g2 from 1999 to 2002, either side of the site's acquisition by the BBC.

Ashley Highfield
- Director of New Media & Technology at the BBC in from 2000 to 2008; Ashley Highfield arranged the purchase of h2g2 by the BBC.

Nick Reynolds
- Social Media Executive for BBC Online at the time of the site's disposal in 2011.

Richard Harris
- Chief Technical Officer of TDV who worked with Douglas Adams to create the concept and direction of h2g2 and its architecture.

Right, amended that.

Anyone want ot have a go at:

Brunel
Alabaster
Goo
Barlesque

Hmmm?

Seriously, is there anyone capable of using this site who doesn't know what a category is?