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

Welcome back!

If you want to make your pages reappear, just click the edit link and they'll show up again, it's a good way to make the moderators look at them sooner.

Of course if you've got any 'naughty bits' they'll flag them and tell you what to remove, though I don't remember there being anything that should cause you too much trouble.

German postings however, are strictly verbotten(?) since there is no system in place to moderate foreign language postings. That and the new rule of no urls in forum threads caused me the most trouble when the site restarted back in March.

Still, welcome back! It's always nice to see familiar faces floating about again.

Cheers!

- X

Thanks for the welcome, Jimi ! and Cheers!

Gosh, it was hard coming back. The server insisted that the login-name was too short, whatever I picked... I even tried "ceterumcenseocarthaginemessedelendam" - and was quite happy it decided that's too short.
I just labored through the House rules, Terms & Co, and the smiley page... and now I guess I'll follow your advice and reactivate the articles. Let the moderators handle the bit of naughty bits that might be there! Alas, I fear the pages will look bleak without the artwork though.
A shame that foreign postings are "verboten" - t'would be a nice possibility for students all over to make some money while having lots of fun .
and quite a pity our former postings seem to be lost, I'd have loved to keep some of those.
Well, I'm whisking off to your page with a , to look what you've written there, and hope to be floating about more often (could very well be, if you give me more champagne *hicks*)!

ke.

All the 'legacy' content will eventually reappear. It's just a problem of going through all the old postings and crossing out the naughty bits. (sound like a fun job? )

Last time I checked they were back to October 2000 I think...

Ta!

- X

sounds like my memory Filled with holes, and somebody crossed out the naughty bits....

Funny, I thought that my memory was the only one like that...

*hop*back in time, I see*
no way, somebody stole your memory too? and all they left me with is that stupid sieve with assorted rubblish in it, which spawns memories that surely can't be mine ...
Maybe we should find out who did it, and what the heck is s/he doing with those naughty bits??

I reckon they're posted someplace on the internet...

ah well, since I wouldn't recognize them anyway...
I still have the memory left of when I was treated to one of those "four weddings and a funeral"-like recountings of erm... *experiences* past by a friend of mine...

btw cheerio!

Hello again!

Saw you were online and I just *had* to swing past and say hello...

'Hello!'



- X

Hello Jimi!


I was half afraid I scared you off with that last remark I made...
to you! I had to learn to lightly in here, I'm glad you don't take me that serious !

btw., I just saw the new smileys - will be a favourite!
erm... right, second to , of course...

Could I ask you something about the university, you being a professor? I missed the beginnings of it, you know, and so much has happened while I was gone, it isn't easy to wriggle back in...


k-e.

Nope. I had been subscribed to the Peer Review pages and it had made it impossible for me to keep track of conversations because my 'recent conversations' kept being pushed down the queue by new PR stuff... So I've gone ahead and unsubscribed now. I'll just need to check the page a few times a day instead.

Anyway, fire away about the University and I'll try to get the answer at least partially right.

- X

well - I tried to phrase it cleverly, but I just can't come up with meaningful, snappy english sentences any more...
How does it work?
Maybe there is a link you could point me to where the workings are explained and I'm just to dumb to find it, but I kind of gathered the feeling that it's jointly written articles? It seems like the research topics are somehow split between researchers, but would I have to apply somewhere?
The system just has me confused .
But I have been at "work" too long anyway....
so I'd appreciate any enlightenment you could give me ( ), but don't hurry about it... I can hear my bed shout for me, and it's 2 miles away...

I wish you a beautiful day and nice dreams sometime!

again .... slowly dropping off...

k-e.

You did say 'sometime' I reckon a month and a half is long enough to wait for an answer...

You can find the university by going to http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/university

Things should be pretty well explained there.

But you're right. Wander through the pending projects and see if there's a topic which you could write about and contact the person 'running' that project. Or, come up with your own idea and recruit others to help you by writing pages on topics that would fit under your projects umbrella.

Unfortunately, many projects are still being done by a single researcher and the collaborative part of the university doesn't seem to be taking off as well as it could. Still, it's nice to be able to write four or five linked entries and see them all get approved the same day with internal links to the other pages intact.

Hope that made sense...

Cheers! and

- X

Hi Jimi !

Thank you, it made a lot of sense, actually. It wasn't that clear to me by just reading the official University pages, but I read up on a finished project since then (and tried to guess how deep the research is likely to get) - which of course I should have done before wasting your time by asking .

I'll try my hand on some zoonotic diseases, if Mikey the humming mouse still needs help - for which your last post is to 'blame', I marked that project as interesting in my mind and never got around to saying so .
If that works out and I feel up to it I might even take on a project about evolution theories... or fill the oceanographic department. lots of and nothing about the seas in there, a shame .

have a ?
and thank you for your patience

k-e.

I'm sure Mikey would love more suckers/volunteers.

suckers??


Oh well... here follows another dumb question which I should be able to find out for myself but prefer to ask your advice, Mr. Helpful-and-Knowledgeable instead of bugging the eds. And since you are single-handedly updating the guide, maybe you know...

'cos already the first sentence is giving me a headache...
I thought I start with "Toxoplasmosis: a infectious disease caused by the 'protozoan' 'parasite' T.g. ..." and just link to protozoans and parasites, but hey, nothing to be found... although I remember distinctely an entry about protozoans from 2 years ago. Might they still be in moderation limbo?
What would you say I should do - write another entry, give a short explanation in a footnote or leave it unexplained and hope for updates? I won't mind one way or the other...

k-e gratefully yours & offering

Edited Guide entries are all unhidden so it should be back if it was edited and on the front page...

I didn't find anything in the search engine, but I might have mis-typed.

You *could* do an entry on the terms contained in your entry or you might just want to do a footnote explaining anything that sounds too sticky.

I guess it's a matter of how much work you want to do and what your personal preference might be.

Thanks, Jimi!
I didn't know that all edited entries were unhidden. I just dislike re-inventing the wheel... If an unedited one comes along later Ican still include the link - for now I'll stick with footnotes, but I might just write something on protozoans later, to do those little brutes justice.

That was what took so long for the site to come back online I think, going through the Edited Guide to make sure all the entries passed muster.

Remember how a few had links to Amazon and stuff, those all had to be removed since the BBC doesn't permit advertising.

You haven't reactivated your old content yet either. (or have you?) If you want to bring your old stuff back, just click 'edit' and 'update entry' and the old entries will all return.