In the beginning was the spiff question; "Why is the AWW² still such a dead-end?". The end of the AWW was without form (officially) and void and official darkness had swept over the face of the AWW. Ashley³ said "Let there be Official Recognition". And there was Official Recognition⁴, and it was called UnderGuide⁵. Ashley said "Let there be Volunteers". And there were Volunteers and Ashley said "Let them be gathered into one place" and they cried 'Yahoo!' and were gathered into Yahoo. Ashley said "Let The Underguide teem with Gems of entries and let there be Miners to find the Gems and Gem Polishers to display the Gems and..."...and that's quite enough of that.

Links for The Underguide, now an official part of h2g2⁶

• Official Archive of Underguide Gems
• UnderGuide Headquarters
• The UnderGuide Editors
• UnderGuideLines - draft for comment, Nov'03
• (The UnderGuidelines. Jun'03 version)
• UnderGuide Coming Up Page
• UnderGuide Processes
• The UnderGuide Archivist
• UnderGuide Archives: Chronological
• Miners' pages
  • Miners Homepage
  • Why Be a Miner?
  • What do the Miners Do?
  • Miners' Code of Conduct
  • Volunteer to be a Miner
• Gem Polishers' pages
  • Volunteer to be a Gem Polisher
  • Gem Polishers' Code of Conduct
  • Gem Polishers Home Page
  • Why be a Gem Polisher?
  • What do the Gem Polishers Do?
  • Draft Polishers' Guidelines

Links to its past and how it came about.

The Underguide

• Proposals for an Underguide Scheme
• Underguide Scheme, Plan D
• MSN discussions about the Underguide
• GTB's UG Processes (Feb'03)
• Ben and Jodan's revised UG processes (June'03)
• Role of Underguide Editors (June'03)
• UnderGuidelines - Draft
• The Underguide, fwt's intro page

AWW related

• The Alternative Writing Workshop
• Draft of new APR page
• Minesweeping AWW pre Sept'03
• Draft of a new AWW page, for comment (Nov'03)

UG Volunteers

• Volunteer to be a Miner - DRAFT.
• Volunteers List.

Discussions

• The beginning, and the renewed discussions in May'03"Why is the AWW still such a dead-end?"
• Guidelines discussions
• Jim Lynn's answer to agcBen
• From the Proposals for an Underguide Scheme;
  
  • Pinniped's bark
  • Tube's Merging agcBen's and GTB's proposal
  • jwf's UGH
  • Whisky's comments on using PR
  • Code of Conduct for UG volunteers?
  • Analiese's I'm just noticing this
  • Question on EG's no fiction rule
• From UG proposal Plan D Deidzob's sales pitch
• From the summary of unfinished business Mar'03:
  • First thread, Mar, Jun'03
  • Deidzob's end to unfinished business, Apr, May'03
• Conversations with Ashley:
  
  • Ashley's italic comments and proposals
  • Ashley's update request
  • Ben's request re a Miners' mailing group.
  • May' 03 restart of discussions
  • May'03 answer to Ashley's questions re UG processes
• "Cast your Votes here" (for the UG Persona) thread.

Relevant Edited Guide pages

• Official Volunteers page
• Writing Guidelines for the Edited Guide
• Scouts' Home Page
• Why be a Scout
  
• Sub-editors' Home Page
• Why be a Sub-editor?

Other relevant pages

• AGG/GAG/CAC dissected
• AGG/GAG archive
• Post back issues
• Writing Guidelines for the Edited Guide
• CAC Guidelines
• 'Inside the Post, and Other Stories'