The [[{{background}}'''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 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 Before it had 100 articles, 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 not only read the ''and'' write this guide, but also to contribute by adding your knowledge, improving existing pages articles and starting new ones!Anyone is allowed to edit - you just need to log in.
===How Hitchwiki is gathering all sorts of relevant information about good hitchhiking spots, knowledge about hitchhiking possibilities in different countries, general know-how about [[what to contribute===Just click <tt>edit</tt>, make your changes pack]] and click <tt>Save page</tt>. A good article [[when to start editing or writing is probably your home town. To create new articles you can add <tt>go]], [[</tt> and <tt>what to eat]]</tt> around the title of the new article, in some 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!If it feels a bit awkard, you can practice in the [[Sandboxhow to stay safe]].
The legal entity behind Hitchwiki is [[abgefahren e.V.]].
----== How to contribute ==Just click <tt>edit</tt> at the 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. To create new articles you can add <code>[[</code> and <code>]]</code> around the title of the new article, in some 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!If it feels a bit awkward, you can practice in the [[Sandbox]].
The '''Hitchhiking Wiki''' is collecting tips about good hitchhiking places, knowledge about hitchhiking possibilities in different countries, general know-how about There are some [[what to pack]] and [[when to goHelp:Contents|help]]pages for people who are editing a wiki the first time, or check out [[what :Category:To do|to eatdo]], and [[how to stay safe:Category:Tech team|tech team]].
This is == Background ==The project started 14th of April 2005, even before the name ''Hitchwiki'' existed. However, the person (''Teppo'' from [[Finland]], he was also running a collaborative web-based project website for the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/liftarit/ Finnish hitchhikers community] at time) who started didn't respond when the wiki was constantly being spammed. Consequently, on December 17th [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] moved the wiki to gather Wikicities (later Wikia and [https://www.fandom.com/ fandom]), a good set of knowledge about hitchhiking for migration that was completed on the benefit 19th of hitchhikingDecember 2005.
*Started[[User: 17 December 2005 (relaunched)*::<small>Guaka|Guaka]] organized the relaunch with a first English version of the original wiki . A second and final relaunch was done at hitchhikingguide''hitchwiki.org was '' (and isregistered on November 22nd 2006) by [[helpUser:spamMrTweek|spamMrTweek]]med all and Guaka - thanks to Wikia's availability of the timedatabase dump. In 2007 Spanish, French and German versions were added, with no maintainer in sight</small>*Founder: 2008 Russian and Finnish versions and 2009 brought a Bulgarian language version. More and more versions have been added since (see [[Userhttps:Guaka|Guaka//hitchwiki.org/ the front page]]*Main language: English*for an overview). [[HelpUser:Interwiki linkMikael|Interwiki linkMikael]]: joined Hitchwiki in 2008 after he had done the Finnish version and migrated it to Hitchwiki.org. Mikael wrote a new maps system in 2010 and is responsible for the layout, among other things. Later maps stopped working, [[w:c:Hitchhikinghttps://hitchmap.com/ hitchmap.com]]is the place for maps now.
(''The project started 14th of April 2005. However, Currently the person who started didn't respond when core team doing the wiki was constantly being spammed. Consequently majority of technical tasks consists of [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] moved the wiki to and [[httpUser://wikicities.com WikicitiesRobino|Robino]], a migration that was completed on the 19th of December 2005.'')
==Not competing but co-ordinating==The idea in Many more people have been working on Hitchwiki over the Hitchhike Wiki is not to compete with other already existing [[Hitchhiking websites|marvellous hitchhiking sites]], but to provide a way to reorganize years. There's also a lot bunch of the existing knowhow into one, easily searchable guide. Hopefully the Hitchhike Wiki can help all the other sites to flourish. It links to all known sitesfolks working on mobile apps for Hitchwiki.
==Free content==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 past.
== Idea behind the project ==The [http://en.wikipedia.org/idea in the hitchhiking wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License], the license under which ''The Hitchhiking Wiki's'' articles are available, is one of many "not to compete with other already existing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyleft copyleft]" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyrightHitchhiking websites|marvelous hitchhiking sites] licenses which permit the redistribution, creation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/derivative_work derivative work]s, and commercial use but to provide a way to reorganize a lot of content provided its authors are attributed and this content remains available under the GFDLexisting knowhow into one, easily searchable guide. When authors contribute original material Hopefully Hitchwiki can help all the other sites to the project, the [http://en.wikipediaflourish.org/wiki/copyright copyright] over it is retained with them, but they agree It links 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 licenseall known sites.
This means that the content of the : ''Hitchhiking Wiki'' is available to use See also [[project:why we work on Hitchwiki|why we work on other sites and media that agree to share it alikeHitchwiki]]. Because of this, the Hitchhiking Wiki is not just for itself. It's for all hitchhikers, and for all hitchhikers' communities.
==So I can Creative 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 content project, the [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 my own website?==''The Hitchhiking Wiki'' may thus be shared with, or incorporated from, resources which also use this license.
Yes, as long as you give This means that the same permissions to content of the text there and remember to give the credit to ''Hitchhiker's Guide to HitchhikingWiki''is available to use on other sites and media that agree to share it alike. Linking back to Because of this, the original article will suit us fine Hitchhiking Wiki is not just for itself. It's for all hitchhikers, and for this purposeall hitchhikers' communities.
== 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 GFDL license[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].
==WhatMoney ==We don's t need donations. Domain and hosting aren't expensive and costs will be covered for the point?==foreseeable future.
Freely shared content will never be lost, as people can copy If you have some money left and distribute it. This also makes ''still want to have an impact in the Guide'' a project that everybody can benefit from - the articles are free community, consider donating to use [https://bewelcome.org/donations BeWelcome]. They would be super grateful 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?
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