Hitchwiki:How to participate

Hitchwiki loves participation. Every hitchhiker can contribute. Don't know how? It's easy!


 * 1) Add your knowledge to Hitchwiki.  Just click edit (even on this page!) or create a new page. Don't worry about formatting or layout. There are a lot of keen eyes watching around and fixing stuff.
 * 2) Create an account and describe yourself and your hitchhiking activitity - and edit articles while you're logged in.
 * 3) Upload pictures - or add pictures from Wikimedia Commons.
 * 4) Improve the spelling, fix typos.
 * 5) Spread the word - Hitchwiki helped you on your hitchhiking trips, other hitchhikers might not be aware of the project yet - or people might even have never hitchhiked before and Hitchwiki can help them get on the road.
 * 6) * Link to http://hitchwiki.org/ - from your blog, from Facebook, from Twitter, from anywhere.
 * 7) * Mention Hitchwiki when you get interviewed as a hitchhiker.
 * 8) Discuss ideas, propose suggestions for improvements

Your own pictures
Two options:
 * You can upload pictures at hitchwiki or you can
 * Upload upload your pictures at Wikimedia Commons

Uploading at Wikimedia Commons is preferred since it saves Hitchwiki bandwidth and the pictures can also be used on the many projects that are part of Wikimedia, such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary.

From Wikimedia Commons
We prefer to have pictures that are somehow related to hitchhiking but it's nicer to have some picture than none. Once you have found a picture at Wikimedia Commons it's title will look like File:Some Filename.jpg. You can simply copy that and add it as   on any page at Hitchwiki. You can also do fancier things like  .