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Abigail Brady ([personal profile] morwen) wrote2005-08-15 12:12 pm
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Hooray! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (of which I wrote large chunks), is Today's featured article on Wikipedia's main page.

[identity profile] ex-sonjaaa.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yay and congrats and xoxox

[identity profile] ex-sonjaaa.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
And which do you think is best, the book or radio dramas or what?

[identity profile] ex-sonjaaa.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
And if the radio dramas are better than the book, then can one read them in transscript format?

[identity profile] abigailb.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
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).

[identity profile] sushi-radical.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Will... resist... wikipedia...

[identity profile] abigailb.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
maybe i should make an anti-you filter to put this sort of thing on? ;)

[identity profile] sushi-radical.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's called 'willpower'... any idea where I can get some?

[identity profile] abigailb.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Pharmacist?

[identity profile] grim-tim.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hurrah for you!
(Although the 'cultural references' bit doesn't refer to 80's popsters Level 42 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_42)...)

[identity profile] abigailb.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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 ;)

[identity profile] lost-species.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
congrats
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[identity profile] katsmeat.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)

Huzzah! :-)

BTW... how many articles have you written?

[identity profile] abigailb.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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OK

[identity profile] katsmeat.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)

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

[identity profile] abigailb.livejournal.com 2005-08-15 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
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
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Re: OK

[personal profile] reddragdiva 2005-08-20 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
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).
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[personal profile] barakta 2005-08-15 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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[personal profile] reddragdiva 2005-08-20 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Syntax can wait. Good writing and good references is the big one!
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[personal profile] barakta 2005-08-20 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the tip. I can definitely do references, and I'm working on the writing.