Douglas Adams' h2g2 was the first forum/community I was a part of and it has become quite legendary. A couple of years ago when the BBC took over they tried their damn hardest to give us a home but the compulsory BBC-moderation went against many veterans' belief that h2g2 should be(and was!) a self-correction and self-cleansing community. Fortunately the BBC has realized that as good as nothing 'moderatable' ever happens that isn't solved by peer-pressure. So the rules - while still in place - are hardly ever enforced.
It was been announced and tried some years ago but the Hitchhiker's movie is imminent and apparently the support for a real Guide has grown. This has resulted in The real Guide. This is an initiative to create not only the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy online(www.h2g2.com) but to also make the information available on mobile phones and other handheld devices.
I think the Wikipedia is a brilliant initiative. We were there first though... :-)
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