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The [[Hitchwiki]] is a collaborative website for gathering information about [[hitchhiking]] and [[train hopping in the United States|other]] [[boats|ways]] of extremely cheap ways of transport. It was inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]. At some point it was left abandoned by its founder, and found and adopted by [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]. As a hitchhiker you're encouraged to read ''and'' write this guide, by adding your knowledge, improving existing articles and starting new ones! Anyone is allowed to edit - you don't even need to log in.
: Yes, as long as you give the same permissions to the text there and remember to give the credit to ''Hitchwiki''. Linking back to the original article will suit us fine for this purpose. It is basically possible for anybody to produce a book or other similar publication from the contents of the site, as long as the derivative work is in the framework determined by the GNU Free Documentation License.
; What's the point?
: Freely shared content will never be lost, as people can copy and distribute it. This also makes ''the Guide'' a project that everybody can benefit from – â the articles are free to use for all the hitchhiking communities that already exist. And heck, wouldn't it be cool to see somebody actually publishing a printed hitchhiking guide after so many years?
; Can I download the websites somehow to my computer?
: Yep, You can download daily generated database dumps [[Hitchwiki:Database dumps|here]].
; ''hitchhikingguide.org'', ''hitchhiking.wikia.com'', ''world.wikia.com'', ''hitchwiki.org'' – â what is now what, what is related to what in which way?
: Originally this wiki was started at hitchhikingguide.org as ''Hitchhiker's Guide to Hitchhiking'', by Teppo Moisio (who is also the originator of one of the founders of [[websites|Liftari.org]]). Because it was spammed all the time there, with no maintainer in sight, it was relaunched on Wikia as ''Hitchhiking Wiki'' on hitchhiking.wikia.com. Now it has its own domain, '''[http://hitchwiki.org hitchwiki.org]''' and its current name, '''[[Hitchwiki]]'''. The wiki moved from hitchhiking.wikia.org to hitchwiki.org in November 2006. We transfered all the pages (including user pages and images) to here, but unfortunately, Wikia didn't let us export user-accounts, so you will have to register here again. Also, unfortunately Wikia made the old URL redirects to world.wikia.com, and we can't do anything about that. This seems to confuse a lot of people. Anyway, now we have our own domain and own databases, so the wiki will stay here forever!
; How many people are contributing to the wiki?
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