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''Hey Ralf! Welcome on hitchwiki, cool welcome to see you here :) I guess you have something more this User talk page. Feel free to contribute ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02leave a note, 25 June 2007 (CEST)ask questions or whatever.''

Another welcome! :) I'm looking forward to your contributions! You can ''sign'' messages on talk pages with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. * [[Usertalk:GuakaPlatschi/archive|GuakaArchive]] 20:41, 25 June 2007 (CEST)

Hey,== Bad Oeynhausen ==When Hi Ralf. Have you were hitchhiking in Serbia did you do a lot never noticed the bay where drivers can stop, just after the traffic lights at the beginning of campingthe Bay Oeyenhausen Bundesstrasse section? I'm Looked like a bit concerned about camping in places like Serbia and Croatianice place to hitchhike, which, however, we as the transit hitchers will never use, where they apparently have unexploded mines still lying around in various placessince we will probably never end up there. Do Although of course, you know if these are quite common and/or if the areas are closed off or what?Thanks! can never really say never... --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 14:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)It'd be nice to camp out in the wild there but I don't fancy having an 'explosive' time!

:Hey Frank, no, never seen that bay! Should check it next time, but mostly people just drive into town or towards Minden, so they're not even going to the end of town. So for the lazy people, the first Shell station might be the best option as it's at the beginning when coming from the A2. And, about us as ''transit hitchers'' :) , I got rides towards Oeynhausen several times now, find it quite difficult to get direct rides from Auetal for example to Osnabrück or further most times. Also, when going east, the service station Grönegau sucks most of the time for me (waiting nearly always >30min). Then better stick to the on-ramp Melle-Ost 4km before, it has a nice spot and lot's of traffic going to Oeynhausen, where you then can ask at the first service station where there's always busy :) But that's probably just what I think about it... :) --[[User:MyshkinPlatschi|MyshkinPlatschi]] 1214:2738, 17 August 2007 4 June 2009 (CESTUTC)

Hey Platschi! Thanks for your welcome message:) Sorry if :Hi Ralf. The bay to the east is just at the beginning of Bad Oeyenhausen, just after the end of the A30. It's logically at the beginning, how Iremember there'm writing in s a city map for people entering the town. Regarding Gronegau, thanks for the wrong placeinformation. The one time that I just discovered hitchwikistood there, 27.12.2008, what an amazing resourse! I am planning my first-ever hitchhiking trip to Western Europe got away in April-May. It is 3 minutes and got a bit scarylift of 151 km to Zweidorfer Holz, but according to my list. For me it was great so. I'm finding remember a Dutch couple with a lot nice discussion about discovering the simple ways of useful information hereliving in places... As of yetIf you asked me, I don't have much would try to contributeavoid Bay Oeyenhausen, but wait till I get there! :=)) 've passed by no more than five-six times. --[[User:SkovorodkinFverhart|Serge KoshFverhart]] 2108:3643, 19 March 2008 5 June 2009 (CETUTC)

==Sysop==We don't really have :::Hey Frank, just used the bay a week ago and got a policy about thisride offer to Leipzig there within not even one minute. It was traffic jam though, but MrTweek and I decided to "promote" works pretty fine :) Indeed there's a city map also; just put some little more people to sysops information on the wikiOeynhausen article. Of course we noticed your great contributions and decided Indeed you can avoid Oeynhausen, but when going onto the A30 or coming from there it's impossible not to make you into a sysop :get through there ;) Check --[[projectUser:administratorsPlatschi|Platschi]] to read 17:09, 24 October 2009 (UTC)===Liftpunt.Tk===Hi, fellow Dutch hitchhiker. There is a little bitnew discussion forum about hitchhiking in Dutch language. Discover it, and feel free to join and share your knowledge. First spot on the net where we can discuss in our own language =) more about this. URL www.liftpunt.tk --[[User:GuakaFverhart|GuakaFverhart]] 2108:0843, 7 August 2007 5 June 2009 (CESTUTC)

thanks for welcome yep:Hey Ralf, sagmal wennde in Russland unterwegs bist. Gehen die Leute davon aus, dass du was zahlst für den Lift. Machst du denen das beim Einsteigen gleich klar, more I'm hitching more I'm writingdass du autostop machst und nix zahlen kannst/willst oder aber nehmen dich alle ganz selbstverständlich für umsonst mit? --[[User:JonathaneoQuarim|JonathaneoQuarim]] 1715:0627, 2 October 2007 February 2010 (CESTUTC)

danke sehr::Moin, quatsch, trampen is genau wie in Deutschland bspw. and rememberauch. Nur beim "raustrampen" aus Moskau wurd ich n paar mal gefragt nach Geld, the owls are not what they seembzw. es gibt halt auch "private Taxis" die rumfahren, aber das bekommt man direkt raus wenn man ne Richtung/Ort angibt/erfragt und die direkt nachfragen wieviel du zahlst. Aber sonst, easy peasy. --[[User:seageometryPlatschi|seageometryPlatschi]]18:19, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

== Nice to feel welcome Tutorial ==

Heythanks for the tutorial! As we are sending more and more people from the CS group, Platschiit makes sense to have something to orientate newbies. It's good to feel the working cooperation here!--[[User:Perilisk|Perilisk]] 01:24, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

My pleasure writing to HitchwikiGoddamn, schade, dass das Treffen nicht ne Woche eher oder spaeter ist, an dem WE ist mein Bruder hier. The more people knowWaere gern gekommen um fuer Finnland zu voten ;) Viel Spass euch!:N0id, the better are the trips du kannst auf [http://hitchgathering.org hitchgathering.org] voten! -- more they travel and more drivers trust us [[User: )Let's make hitch-hiking big like "in the old days" some drivers mention Platschi|Platschi]] 17: 19, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Eh Thanks a lot, I was just at the same time reading and trying to create my first region table== Get an English spelling checker... so it has been doubled. Way not managed to make it look like yours... anyhow I don't think I will ever try to make table or impossible things as such anymore. [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 18:21, 30 December 2007 (CET)BTW, my skype username is the same if that would ease talking... [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 18:32, 30 December 2007 (CET)==

hi platschi!thanks for your welcome messagePlease. i discovered hitchwiki three days ago. good idea!sometimes navigation is a bit difficult. hard to find the correct buttons. for example, how can i send you a private message/mail?congratulations to your serbia hitching!i crossed the country in 2003 on my way to istanbul (spielfeld-istanbul 3 days in the same truck) and hitched in 2004 from southern serbia (usce;) to prishtina.in september 07 i was in sandjak and crna gora. still wild country in many aspects.if you cross thru regensburg, show up for a coffee.cheers,scheuer.

==questions==::Dear Robert, a ''gas station''- is the American English pendant to ''petrol station'' used in Britain. As we have no specific regional English specified for this website, I guess ''gas station'' fits as well as petrol station. See [http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0328230#m_en_gb0328230] for an example. Nevertheless, installing a riddle? spelling checker might be useful, you're right. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 21:24, 6 November 2010 (CET)::If you have been following what I've been doing, you might notice that I stick to continental spelling, i can not get this.e.articles about Europe should mention petrol stations and motorways, articles about the US can mention gas stations and highways. ;-) The only thing I have trouble with is metre/meter -centre/center. I myself prefer the American spelling, but I leave them as-is. [[User:AlexPrino|AlexPrino]] 0122:3437, 27 February 2008 6 November 2010 (CET)'':::On the continent (not on the Islands) people usually use "highway" and "gas station", I hardly ever hear mainland Europeans say "motorways" or "petrol station" when they speak English, I actually had to look up the exact meaning when I saw it in one of your edits... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 23:04, 6 November 2010 (CET):Well,I never use the words petrol station or motorway while talking English. Maybe because I've never been to the UK. When writing articles I usually stick to the common language I use with drivers, mainly in Eastern Europe, and here it's hard sometimes (if no common language available) to even explain them the meaning of ''gas'' station, not to mention the word ''Nopetrol''. The German-English mix of ''Tank Station'' sometimes helps wonders, though completely incorrect. I know it doesn't look very aesthetic on the wiki if different words of the same meaning are in use everywhere. We can either start writing a short ''common language guide'' for the experienced users that are more into editing minor grammar and spelling mistakes, we or just had leave it as it is. I prefer the first, to have an overview about specific writing styles throughout the English wiki. I guess a driver great percentage of users here are no native English speakers, so mistakes are normal and quite reasonable. I'm really happy we have users like you who was riding take care of correcting! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 23:25, 6 November 2010 (CET)::I'll do a scientific investigation (among Belgians, Germans and whoever else I might encounter) next time I'm on the road, which will hopefully be sometime before the end of the month. I '''do''' know that fastasking for gas stations in Scandinavia will not be understood, and in Sweden, Denmark and Norway they talk about ''motorväg/motorvei/motorvei'') [[User:Prino|Prino]] 23:40, 6 November 2010 (CET): FWIW, I hear "petrol station" all the time among European hitchhikers, to the point where I've come to adopt the term myself although I grew up speaking US English. "Gas station" definitely feels out of place in Europe. "Highway" seems more common than "motorway" on the continent, though. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 06:39, 7 November 2010 (CET)::Ok, maybe I was wrong. Well, one term not yet mentioned is "tank station", sometimes used by Dutch speakers -and no I'm not proposing we would ever leave that in our articles ;) [[User:platschiGuaka|platschiguaka]] 14:15, 7 November 2010 (CET)::Science? [http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&cr=countryBE&safe=off&tbs=ctr:countryBE&q=%22gas+station%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= 6890 results for "gas station" from Belgium], [http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&cr=countryBE&safe=off&tbs=ctr:countryBE&q=%22petrol+station%22&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= 1070 results for "petrol station from Belgium], [http://www.google.de/#hl=de&cr=countryDE&tbs=ctr%3AcountryDE&q=%22gas+station%22&aq=f&aqi=g5g-s1g4&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=ebe5277d802140aa 67600 results for "gas station" from Germany"]<small>^{, [http://blogswww.hitchwikigoogle.orgde/platschi site#hl=de&cr=countryDE&tbs=ctr%3AcountryDE&q=%22petrol+station%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=ebe5277d802140aa 19900 results for "petrol station" from Germany]. No, not science, but it could be a factor to take into account :) [[user talkUser:platschiGuaka|wikitalkguaka]]}</small> 14:0318, 27 February 2008 7 November 2010 (CET) ::: OK if we're going that way, you also need to change the language to Dutch (or French): [http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_nl&q=%22benzine+station%22+site%3A.be benzine station (3,930)], [http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_nl&q=%22petrol+station%22+site%3A.be petrol station (295)] and [http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_nl&q=%22gas+station%22+site%3A.be gas station (899)] Very few '''gas station''' results on the first returned page have anything to do with petrol stations... ==free travels==Why did you [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Template:News&action=historysubmit&diff=47755&oldid=47420 remove the great news about the Russian] stuff? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:22, 24 November 2010 (CET):Some authors from the AVP claimed their copyright on some content, so we have to fix this issues first before starting to copy/paste everything :( See [[:ru:Обсуждение участника:Platschi]]. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 13: ''By "riding fast"20, 24 November 2010 (CET) == New extension == Platschi,  If you mean "driving quickly"delete spammers, use [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesCleanup Recent Changes Cleanup] to hide your changes, so that the Change Log stay neat and tidy. In English[[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:51, "riding" is used 27 August 2012 (CEST) == Uruguay ==Yo! Check [http://nomadwiki.org/en/Uruguay this out]! :-) I moved some general bits from Hitchwiki to there. In the future there will be more visible linking between these wikis so we can keep Hitchwiki more for hitchhiking stuff and Nomadwiki for bicyclesthe rest.-[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 00:19, horses23 December 2014 (UTC) == Hitchwiki administration == Hello Platschi,<br>Are you still involved in the technical administration of Hitchwiki? If not, or motorcyclesdo you know ''who'' is? Thanks!--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] ([[User talk:Zenit|talk]]) 10:58, 3 November 2020 (CET) Hi Zenit, not really know who currently does which technical aspect but not carsI'm in some github repositories where some folks work on the wiki. AnywayContact me by email (platschi AT posteo DOT org) and I guide you further :) --platschi == Recent edits by [[User:Dxc]] == Hey platschi, sorry for writing on such small things, but I though you might be concerned by this. User dxc has done multiple edits that is fast! involves blanking pages you've created. He has seemingly been given administrator powers. [https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Tatarstan&diff=101044&oldid=58658 Here]'s an example of such edits.EDIT: no really I mean wtf: https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&diff=101053&oldid=37074. --[[User:) Swaden|Swaden]] ([[amylinUser talk:Swaden|talk]]) 13:16, 18 February 2021 (CET)