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

Hi, and welcome to H2G2.

My name's Z, I'm one of the volenteers who welcomes newcomers to h2g2, answers any questions, and provide and - a real live person, not an automated message.

Do you have questions? Just click on reply and I'll be happy to help. H2g2 can be a pretty confusing site at times, but there's lots of people here to help you.

Finding your way around the site can be pretty confusing but if you've got any questions<./>DontPanic-FAQ</.> has plenty of answers.

People come to h2g2 for a variety of reasons:

There's people who are hear to write and contribute to the Edited Guide - the entries that are featured on the front page. The <./>Contribute</.> page has lots of information.

If you'd like to contribute to the guide let me know and I'll be able to help you in any way I can, I've written several entries myself and I also help out by picking good entries for the Edited Guide.

Some people also write for <./>ThePost</.> our community newspaper, and the <./>Underguide</.> for writting that's good quality but not factual.

There's people who come to get involved in heated debates, serious and not so serious.

The Forum A1146917 , is a place for semi-serious debates, Ask H2G2 is also a place for not so serious debates and chat A148907.

Then there's clubs on h2g2 for people with a specific interest, or who live in a specific area, a great way to meet new friends - you can find a list of them here A660304 - some are busier than others.

Thanks Z - I've heard a lot about this, being a massive HHGTTG fan, from a lot of people, so thought I'd check it out myself!

I'm a graduate Astrophysicist, and have noticed that the universe section of the guide could do with some more entries - so at some point once I've found my way around I would like to tackle that! (I do a bit of freelance writing in my spare time so hope to contribute soon).

Cheers!

Hi and thanks for getting back to me!

It's always great to meet someone who wants to contribute to the Guide and I love reading entries about The Universe.

If you've written something that you think would be suitable for the Edited Guide the first step is to enter it into PeerReview. Where H2G2 researchers can comment on it and offer tips for improvement. Then it's picked by a Scout and sent to one of the Sub Editors to be polished up for the Guide.

I really enjoy doing this because I always find that my articles get so much better when they've got through Peer Review, there's always something I didn't understand properly or some other interesting fact that some one asked me to put in.

Articles for the Edited Guide need to comply with the writting guidlines (A53209).

If you want me to read over a first draft drop me a link and I'll be more than happy to help!

Great to meet you.



Z