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[morwen]

Hooray! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (of which I wrote large chunks), is Today's featured article on Wikipedia's main page.

Comments

[ex-sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

Yay and congrats and xoxox

[ex-sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

And which do you think is best, the book or radio dramas or what?

[ex-sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

And if the radio dramas are better than the book, then can one read them in transscript format?

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Tough choice. The radio serie, I would have to say, just because of it's medium although it's far from perfect and misses out lots of good gags that got added later. Hearing the new adaptions was wonderful.

You can get scripts - see series 1 and 2 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330419579/qid=1124104928/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-2982547-3299640) and the new series 3 to 5 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330435108/ref=pd_nfy_fr_gw_nr_1/026-2982547-3299640).

[sushi-radical.livejournal.com]

Will... resist... wikipedia...

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

maybe i should make an anti-you filter to put this sort of thing on? ;)

[sushi-radical.livejournal.com]

It's called 'willpower'... any idea where I can get some?

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Pharmacist?

[grim-tim.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for you!
(Although the 'cultural references' bit doesn't refer to 80's popsters Level 42 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_42)...)

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

It does now!

[grim-tim.livejournal.com]

Can't see it

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

You may need to shift-refresh due to caching. Here is the diff (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_cultural_references&diff=21058408&oldid=20360871) to show me adding it ;)

[lost-species.livejournal.com]

congrats

[katsmeat.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! :-)

BTW... how many articles have you written?

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

No idea. Kate's tools says I have just under 24,000 edits to the article namespace. I must have started hundreds of article, but have only done major work on less.

OK

[katsmeat.livejournal.com]

Just wondering, I've written three articles. I suppose I'll have to wait about thirty years for one of them to get featured. :-)

Re: OK

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

It's not really a lottery - just take an article, bring it up to Featured Article standards (so that it is comprehensive and references and has free images; which is actually really tough, but doable), and nominate it, and then it will appear there at some point

Re: OK

[reddragdiva]

It's not hard, it's just shitloads of work. I've had four features and several failed features. Two have been front-paged, I requested one for the front page in September and someone else requested the other one for the front page in September (10th or 11th).

[barakta]

I read that the other day. Very comprehensive article and my girlf and I had lots of squeeeing at it.

I succumbed to wikipedia temptation the other day as something to do while researching evil vestibular dysfunction. Now all I need to do is get my head round syntax, style and stuff - oh and improve my writing skillz.

[reddragdiva]

Syntax can wait. Good writing and good references is the big one!

[barakta]

Thanks for the tip. I can definitely do references, and I'm working on the writing.