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The {{background}}'''Hitchhiking WikiHitchwiki''' is collecting tips a collaborative website for gathering information about good [[hitchhiking places, knowledge about hitchhiking possibilities in different countries, general know-how about ]] and [[what to packtrain hopping in the United States|other]] and [[when to goboats|ways]], of extremely cheap ways of transport. It was inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and by [what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to eat]the Galaxy]. Before it had 100 articles, at some point it was left abandoned by its founder, and found and adopted by [[how to stay safeUser: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 just need to log in.

This Hitchwiki is a collaborative web-based project to gather a gathering all sorts of relevant information about good set of hitchhiking spots, knowledge about hitchhiking for the benefit of hitchhikingpossibilities in different countries, general know-how about [[what to pack]] and [[when to go]], [[what to eat]], and [[how to stay safe]].

*Relaunched on Wikia: 17 December 2005 *::<small>the original wiki at hitchhikingguide.org was (and The legal entity behind Hitchwiki is) [[help:spam|spamabgefahren e.V.]]med all the time, with no maintainer in sight</small>*by [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]*Main language: English.

*Relaunced == How to contribute ==Just click <tt>edit</tt> at hitchwikithe top of an article, make your changes and click <tt>Save page</tt>. A good article to start editing or writing is probably your home town.org To create new articles you can add <code>[[</code> and <code>]]</code> around the title of the new article, in November 2005some other article, on your user page or even here on the main page. Save the page, click on the red link and start writing a new page. Be '''bold''' about editing, just do it!*by Guaka and If it feels a bit awkward, you can practice in the [[MrTweekSandbox]].

(''The project started 14th of April 2005. However, the person There are some [[Help:Contents|help]] pages for people who started didn't respond when are editing a wiki the wiki was constantly being spammed. Consequently first time, or check out [[:Category:To do|to do]] and [[User:GuakaCategory:Tech team|Guakatech team]] moved the wiki to Wikicities, a migration that was completed on the 19th of December 2005.'')

==Not competing but co-ordinatingBackground ==The idea in project started 14th of April 2005, even before the name ''Hitchwiki'' existed. However, the Hitchhike Wiki is not to compete with other already existing person (''Teppo'' from [[Hitchhiking websites|marvellous hitchhiking sitesFinland]], but to provide he was also running a way to reorganize a lot of website for the existing knowhow into one, easily searchable guide[https://www.facebook. Hopefully com/groups/liftarit/ Finnish hitchhikers community] at time) who started didn't respond when the Hitchhike Wiki can help all wiki was constantly being spammed. Consequently, on December 17th [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] moved the other sites wiki to flourishWikicities (later Wikia and [https://www. It links to all known sitesfandom.com/ fandom]), a migration that was completed on the 19th of December 2005.

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License], Currently the core team doing the license under which ''The Hitchhiking Wiki's'' articles are available, is one majority of technical tasks consists of many "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyleft copyleft]" [httpUser://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyrightGuaka|Guaka] licenses which permit the redistribution, creation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/derivative_work derivative work]s, and commercial use of content provided its authors are attributed and this content remains available under the GFDL. When authors contribute original material to the project, the [http[User://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyrightRobino|Robino]] over it is retained with them, but they agree to make the work available under the GFDL. Material on ''The Hitchhiking Wiki'' may thus be shared with, or incorporated from, resources which also use this license.

This means that the content of the ''Hitchhiking Wiki'' is available to use Many more people have been working on other sites and media that agree to share it alike. Because of this, Hitchwiki over the Hitchhiking Wiki is not just for itselfyears. ItThere's also a bunch of folks working on mobile apps for all hitchhikers, and for all hitchhikers' communitiesHitchwiki.

==So I can use The same people are also running [https://nomadwiki.org Nomadwiki] (a bit broken in 2024) and [https://trashwiki.org Trashwiki.org]. Guaka and Mikael are also co-founders of [https://www.trustroots.org Trustroots.org] (Dec 2014). Both of them worked also on [https://www.bewelcome.org/ BeWelcome.org] and Guaka on [https://www.couchsurfing.com/ CouchSurfing.org] in the content on my own website?==past.

Yes== Idea behind the project ==The idea in the hitchhiking wiki is not to compete with other already existing [[Hitchhiking websites|marvelous hitchhiking sites]], as long as you give the same permissions but to provide a way to reorganize a lot of the text there and remember to give existing knowhow into one, easily searchable guide. Hopefully Hitchwiki can help all the credit to ''Hitchhiker's Guide other sites to Hitchhiking''flourish. Linking back It links to the original article will suit us fine for this purposeall known sites.

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 : ''See also [[project:why we work is in the framework determined by the GFDL licenseon Hitchwiki|why we work on Hitchwiki]].''

==WhatCreative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licence ==The Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike, the license under which ''The Hitchhiking Wiki's'' articles are available, is one of many "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyleft copyleft]" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyright] licenses which permit the redistribution, creation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/derivative_work derivative work]s , and commercial use of content provided its authors are attributed and this content remains available under CC BY SA. When authors contribute original material to the project, the point?==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyright] over it is retained with them, but they agree to make the work available under the CC BY SA. Material on ''The Hitchhiking Wiki'' may thus be shared with, or incorporated from, resources which also use this license.

Freely shared This means that the content will never be lost, as people can copy and distribute it. This also makes of the ''the GuideHitchhiking Wiki'' a project is available to use on other sites and media that everybody can benefit from - agree to share it alike. Because of this, the articles are free to use Hitchhiking Wiki is not just for itself. It's for all hitchhikers, and for all the hitchhiking hitchhikers' communities that already exist.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==; So I can use the content on my own website?: 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 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY-SA)].; 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 – 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'' – 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 transferred 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?: By November 2011 we've had contributions from over 2300 of logged in users, and an unknown number of people who never created an account. For detailed statistics about users, articles and databases, see [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/Sitemap.htm the statistics].

If you have some money left and still want to have an impact in the community, consider donating to [https://bewelcome.org/donations BeWelcome]. They would be super grateful for that.  [[Category:helpHitchwiki]][[Category:browseHistory]][[de:Tramperwiki:Über Tramperwiki]]