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:: Archive of '''Talk:Main Page''': [[Talk:Main Page/05-07|2005-2007]]:: ''Our [[Community Portal]] is a more appropriate place for questions, comments and discussions that are not directly related to the Main Page.''----== General Aspect To new members ==Please make your first contribution your own 'user' profile! This will stop showing your name in red and it will give your contributions more validity.

- Boo -- Also, if you are not a native speaker of a language, it might be worthwhile to access hitchwiki.org using Firefox and download the Main Page format has been blatantly ripped off dictionary from [httphttps://wikitraveladdons.mozilla.org Wikitravel/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 Mozilla]for the language in which you are writing your contribution, which is licensed under CC byso that you can spell-sacheck what you're typing. If you're editing the English language wiki, I'd suggest to use US spelling, not GFDLbut feel free to voice your objections. [[User:202.76.231.182Prino|202.76.231.182Prino]] 1920:4036, 19 Dec 2005 25 December 2008 (UTC)

:Hi! :) Well== Bug?? ==When linking from other sites or typing on the address bar, it might be good I often get sent to have some cities in there as well. To give an idea to people and to persuade people to add something about cities we dona ''double''t have yet! Although I want to get rid of the red links in page with a couple of monthscapital letter, which looks like the following: http://hitchwiki.org/en/Http://hitchwiki.org/index. Oh, and you can sign using <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>phpAnyone has an idea why? It seems to always do that if we link hitchwiki city page on the CS wiki travel page. Peace,love&hitchhike fun, It is done on every page from cswiki [[User:GuakaMaplefanta|GuakaMaplefanta]] 2205:5710, 28 Dec 2005 30 May 2009 (UTC)

- Hello:It's because of the intricacies of <tt>. Before discovering this place for discussion I already filled some boxes eg about Virgin hh, Poland and the Netherlandshtaccess</tt>. On one hand this The CS wiki is a good idea, because it has some (very small) potential linking to become an interesting source of information. However, I am not expecting this at alle. Which does not need to mean anythingg. Any new business usually takes some time - up to three or five years - to make a little bit more than it costs, and so it might be with this initiativehttp://www. As for what I've read it's some kind of starthitchwiki. However, I have doubts about the general neutrality of the content for noworg/Paris. For example - :So I read that a country can be skipped if an attempt to hitchhike there does not succeed. What a bullshit! This may be reasonable for random long distance travellers, however many people who hitchhike do so for very different reasonschecked [http://davidwalsh. For example because they don't have money, because there is name/no public transport and so on. Hitchhiking in the Netherlands "is possible". "It's possible" for some, for others it is easy, not just possible. So, my comment is a very positive one - I hope www-using-htaccess- which tries to say. What is the neutral point of view? Ah, I see that the hitchhikers point of view is wanted. If so, what is a hitchhiker, file some stuff] and what is the hitchhikers point of view? If a non-hitchhiker wanted to hitchhike out of town, what would be his or her point of view? Thathopefully it's allworking fine now. It's an ambitious project Let me know if you're thinking ofencounter any weird redirect errors. All the best with it. Regards Frank Verhart. Note - please don't copy information [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:40, 30 May 2009 (textUTC) from my website. It is copyrighted material that I do not offer for publication elsewhere. PS - I don't like the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

- Hey Hitchhikers! Just joined the new hitchhiking wiki here-- whew! there have been a few moves in these last 2 years, hope we are all able to make this a permanent stay here on hitchwiki.org.==Logo update==I contributed to hitchhikingguide.org and hitchhiking.wikia.com but do not feel the need to mark which contributions belong to me within this new wiki. As you will see from my user page, I am creator/webmaster/co-editor of digihitch.com. Some of the information I personally collected for digihitch I will also share here, and as with all hitchhikers I have a ton of info that has not yet been written. As I hitchhike primarily in the USA, I will have most to contribute to that section. (Don:''t believe the misinformation found on the web... there are still tens of thousands of hitchhikers in the USA).I -and the digihitch community- would really appreciate it if you cite digihitch.com for all information you collect from there. The website is community-run and has been the hard work of many world hitchhikers for over 5 years. Support our community when possible and all hitchhikers will benefit! I must admit that I was opposed moved to a hitchhiking wiki when Teppo first suggested it to me in April 2005. We at digihitch.com had just launched our [http[project://www.digihitch.com/world/ digihitch WorldLogo update]] section and I believed that all information would be best shared there among registered members (without all the spam maintenance required of a wiki), but since that time I understand the value of a wiki such as this and will attempt to share unbiased contributions where possible.Revel and Roll, [[User:Salman|Morgan 'Salman']] 21:38 01 December 2006 (UTC)

=== Writing style =Mainpage ==I just took the old news out of the mainpage news template. Now there is quite some free space. However, I think it is good to keep the mainpage simple and not too overloaded (and also keep in future just the last 10 site news entries). Any suggestions about what could be added there or how the page could be reordered? I would suggest to move the picture of the now to the left column and also put there a field with the most important content with a symbol (e.g. general info Top Tips, Where, Safety, Signs, First time, Picking up hitchhikers, country info). Maybe one of the design and graphic program gifted people could make some icons for this... It might also be worth to think about which content is important for new people (e.g. move the site news - what is normally for the more frequent users - to the right bottom side... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:28, 23 July 2008 (CEST)

:: I was feeling that it would be more interesting and correct also suggest to split fix the 'factual information' of the edit'personnal experience', be buttons in the top box. Looks quite annoying and I guess that the factual information about a hitching spot comes first while the personnal ones would come in a this box anyway doesn't need much editing, so maybe we should set it to ''different paragraph which follows'admin edit only''. It would give a more professionnal look to the cities or country pages instead of having to read the subjective point of view of one person everytimeNews, which is interestingpics, but the factual reading is usually providing a straight to the point information that is often quickly neededevents etc. Having a little code about how to make it would enhance then can still be edited through the whole project. Because is it templates, of any interest to know that someone met someone else when he was in town or that it was rainy ..course. [[User:Maplefantaplatschi|Maplefantaplatschi]] 19<small>^{[http:55//blogs.hitchwiki.org/platschi site], 13 September 2007 (CEST)[[user talk:platschi|wikitalk]]}</small>

Also::: agree, I would like to add. It would be great if doesn't make much sense since these boxes are not much edited in the information given is most of the time somehow verified instead of being disclaimed. As on many pagesfirst place and as you say, the statement: ''Free use of Internet in every Library'' might not other boxes can still be accurate and is quite expressed in a 'powerful' way that does not leave much contrary edited by anyone through the templates --[[User:MaplefantaRobino|MaplefantaRobino]] 0112:4845, 5 December 2007 18 August 2008 (CETCEST)

== Overview ==- For me, it always takes : wanted to long propose to find a specific country on rearrange the mainpage boxes, one for wiki-news, one for general news, one for events, one for stories (especially in europeupcoming), because countries, continent-parts and cities are mixedone for 3 (through rss) most recent (planet) blogs. I would suggest removing at least think the cities and maybe also the continent-parts general news should be on top (I think it's more likely that people are looking for a specific countryleft), then events, then stories. Does anyone agree with me? :On the right (help and then wiki-news) or something similar --[[User:MrTweekRobino|MrTweekRobino]] 1512:4145, 3 December 2006 18 August 2008 (CETCEST)

:Yeah, I think so too:Sounds good. It's good Feel free to have cities play around on [[User:Platschi/Spielwiese]], used that page last time for editing ideas of the main page to encourage development, but maybe for the Europe section . Let's see how we could remove them. can make it much better :) [[User:Zac Stewartplatschi|Zacplatschi]]<small>^{[http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/platschi site], [User [user talk:Zac Stewartplatschi|talkwikitalk]]}</small> 1812:4754, 3 December 2006 18 August 2008 (CETCEST)

== Errors Can we set some standards for place names? An example, what to use for Brugge (I just bumped into it)? It's now to be found under [[Bruges]], which I think is wrong. Cities should be put under the name they are known in the country they are and if necessary there can be a redirection page for foreign-language versions of the name.:I think we already had that need discussion a long time ago, and agreed to use the English names, wherever they are common. This seemed most logical for an English-speaking wiki. In general, we try to stick to wikipedia's standards for that. I think it's not so much of an issue, because we always try to set redirects for all possible languages, so everyone will always find what one's looking for. (Although we are not really consequent, like at [[Köln]]). But Bruges seems to be the English name for Brugge. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:30, 10 November 2008 (UTC)::Missed that discussion, probably before I joined, but my eur 0.02? You do it consistently or you keep the original name, you don't mix the two! --[[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC):::Yeah, we should really clean that up. But I think it's only about 5 articles maximum --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)::My €0,02; I agree with MrTweek, but it seems logical to me that the native name should be fixed ==listed, perhaps in the city infobox. I tried to enable that yesterday, but I didn't get it right, so I didn't go ahead with it.[[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 12:53, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Anyway, Kyiv/Kiev on Just wondering about the title pageI just added some tips desirability to work out the economic aspect of hitchhiking. Wechner indicated finance as one the Kyiv page (wellfour main motivations for hitchhiking, the other one tip being adventure, environment and social sharing [http:) - please note in Ukrainian language Kiev //bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?03]. The incentive to this question at the moment is written as Kyiv - which should be mainly the correct name to use (Kiev current economic crisis that is the old Russian name in execution among banks, governments, public and business that in all likeliness will last for many many years to come, mostly in Northern America and Europe. Following the cityrecent news there seems to be already some reason to be concerned (which applies mostly to people who are in debt).Mind youIn other words - would economic recession / depression increase again the number of hitchhikers, noone will get confused, but just for which in the sake of completeness (US and Europe basicly ''used to not piss off any Ukrainians :)Cheers Paul (djdirect from CS)PS: whatbe''s wrong with HHGTGin decline since the 1980s. Will hitchhiking in the US and EU increase and popularize due to increasing poverty in the coming ten to twenty years? Such macro economic developments are fascinating. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 15:49, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

:Thanks for your contributionsLet's start an article about this! :When you log in you can "move" pages to another title. That way there will also be a redirect. Now both Not yet sure about the name, but [[Kyiveconomy]] and will do :) [[Kiev]] point to the same articleSpecial:Contributions/212.:Something wrong with HHGTG? Nah143. Or do you mean Hitchhiker's Guide to Hitchhiking159. Well, I think the title is a bit long96|212. But maybe it's good143. I'd be willing to use any name, if there are enough folks who want that name159. :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka96]] 20:1203, 11 October 2006 9 December 2008 (UTC)

==StatsFrontpage is evolving ==Good! Frontpage is going trough changes at the very begining of the 2009. :-) Should "Basics" and "Places" be more bigger and first in line, when reader starts from top-left -corner? I can try to visualize my idea when i have more time. Icons are great spice to bring some colours, maybe they should be bigger? -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 21:19, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

* : Haha, I want had exactly the same idea this morning :) You are welcome to see if I can get Wikistats installedtweak the site a bit. (For hitchwiki Oh, and the CS Wiki.if you are in IRC, you might want to drop by in #hitchhiking@freenode ;) --[[User:GuakaMrTweek|GuakaMrTweek]] 0322:0453, 24 November 2006 7 January 2009 (CETUTC)

Having had a general : About compatibility: With Firefox 3.0.3 it looks great, with IE7 the fonts look at weird, also the top ''Hitchwiki'' text is somehow cut below, so only 3/4 of the member list to recognise peopletext is visible.All other boxes are okay, though.Will test with Safari Browser later. isn't there a fairly amount of dubious account? --[[User:MaplefantaPlatschi|MaplefantaPlatschi]] 1416:1856, 13 November 2007 19 January 2009 (CETUTC): Yes there : Here it works perfect in Safari. In IE7, the right border of the boxes ismissing. All content is visible, but I think mediawiki has no supported way to delete usersso only a minor issue. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small>^{[http://http17://www.liftershalte.info/ site]00, [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]}</small> 15:19, 13 November 2007 January 2009 (CETUTC)

::There is an extension for mediawiki, which seems Hi! Great to solve this problem: [httpsee it in action. ://www-) I tested it in Safari 3.mwusers21 under OSX - works great.com/forums/showthreadI also tweaked a inline CSS of the H1-element ("Hitchwiki"-title).phpCan somebody test it in IE6 and 7?t=4583 look here]I think clipping problem was commong line-height -bug in IE. I'll do some additional testing at office tomorrow. Might be an option? -[[User:platschiMikael|platschiMikael]]<small>^{[http20://hoerstel.travelblog.ch site], [[user talk:platschi|wikitalk]]}</small> 15:3113, 13 November 2007 19 January 2009 (CETUTC)

- ::The left column is too small on the 9" screen of my Acer Aspire One. I 've tried organize playing a bit with the photos and whatnot to look a little better, width but I candidn't really make it look good. Someone with an aesthetic eye needs quickly manage to handle fix it. Maybe it's just because of my resolution [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 10:51, 21 January 2009 (1024UTC) but ::: I have the same 'problem'. Also I would find it cool to have pictures block out all text in on the left column making it all drop down below screen without scrolling and also have the picturelinks to different hitchhikers available. This leaves a huge whitespace gap to the left of the pictures and doesn't look very nice. Another thing I noticed is that even though the columns are all 33%, the left column is smaller than the middle column because of margins. If we could even that up it might fix this makes the above problem with the pictureswiki more personal.--[[User:Alex|Alex]] 11:01, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

::: I bolded added "min-width" -attribute to the text of Canadaleft column. It's not working with IE5-6, Mexicobut what the heck. ;-) Another thing would be taking 4th picture out from the gallery, US and Greenland to make N America a little easier to navigateso right column could shrink smaller with small resolutions. By the wayI wouldn't add list of hitchhikers visible by default, Europe lookes very nice nowbut how about show/hide -stylish box? Maybe under "Also on Hitchwiki". -[[User:Zac StewartMikael|ZacMikael]]<small>^{[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]}</small> 0417:4523, 13 December 2006 22 January 2009 (CETUTC)

:Cool. ::: 'Iwouldn'm just going t add list of hitchhikers visible by default' - Why not? Because there are not all contributers? Not a big thing in my opinion, not everybody wants to change the picture stuffbe linked there and it could be named accordingly. ItI can's good t think of any other reasons... but I am curious to get to have at least one pictureknow some more views on this. But maybe we should just My point is that it gives a ''Picture more personal touch to the technical wiki, it is about real people (as somebody also stated in why he works for Hitchwiki). Arguments around this more personal touch of the week'' or something like that? Hitchwiki are welcomed too. --[[User:GuakaAlex|GuakaAlex]] 0504:5523, 13 December 2006 23 January 2009 (CETUTC)

::Good idea [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small>^{:: I think this wiki is quite personal already with or without hichhikres-list. My top reason was to prevent main page to grow too heavy with lot's of text/link mass, though i'd also like to see some quick way to browse active hitchwiki-users. -[[User talk:Zac StewartMikael|talkMikael]]}</small> 0617:3717, 13 December 2006 26 January 2009 (CETUTC)

:::That:: I [[User:Mikael/Main_Page_09_a|tested]] to float gallery to the right, but it's enough wiki layout work for todaynot working with smaller (under 1200px width) resolutions. I hope y:-/ With 24" It'all like it. Still needs some work on the picture of the week stuffs looking great. :-D -[[User:GuakaMikael|GuakaMikael]] 0617:4935, 13 December 2006 26 January 2009 (CETUTC)

===[[Central Europe]]===[[User:Index|Index]] 17:06On Win ME (yes, 29 July 2007 ppl still seem to use it) with Firefox 2.0 and 1024x768 Screen the two boxes (CESTPlaces/Basics) There should be also and '''Central Europe''are pretty narrow. Changing min-width doesn't help. In IE6 the site looks horrible, just w N and E it but who is not enough, adding central E itcan help using IE6 anyway? Maybe we should add an "Best seen with firefox" whatever button the navigation on the map. Who usually does thatStart Page? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 14:59, 24 January 2009 (I am a new here, so excuse for eventually inapropriate Q:) UTC)

:ThatThe 's a good idea. We are self-organizing: anybody is welcome to do (almost) anything here! So feel free to try out editing [[Template:Mainpage-locations]]. You could also copy that into e.g. [[User:Index/locations test]] if you ''News''' and '''Events''' boxes don't feel ready yet adapt themselves to change the Main Pagescreenwidth, and then copy it to the real template when it's all good. :) which is extremely annoying! [[User:GuakaPrino|GuakaPrino]] 2200:3228, 29 July 2007 25 January 2009 (CESTUTC)

:I did some editing for the CSS and tested it with IE 5.5-7 under Windows XP. These worked as well:Theresafari 3 (win/mac), firefox 3 (win/mac), opera 9.6 (win/mac). With IE6 and under png-transparengy doesn't work (''needs JS-hack or background-color added to the images''), first box doesn't have top-margin and it's a discussion at [[Template talk:Mainpagecontents had too big line-height. These are not minor problems. I also took 4rd PotM-locations]]image away, probably a so page should now scale better place for this :with small screens (like tiny 9" computers) . -[[User:GuakaMikael|GuakaMikael]] 17:0117, 15 August 2007 26 January 2009 (CESTUTC)

''moved stuff :Maybe it would be better to show less news entries on the startpage? So the event box would be visible on the first sight on smaller screens. Upcoming events should catch more interest than 4 month old news, or? --[[Community portalUser:Globetrotter tt|Globetrotter tt]]''08:15, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Once we get more states into :Could anyone able give some help to clean up the design of the frontpage of the United StatesFrench version of Hitchwiki? I'm not very used to this kind of job, do you want but I find it awful compared to divide it up into regional pages?the English one. Thanks! --[[User:Grégoire|Grégoire]] 12:33, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

:Continued at @[[TalkUser:United States of AmericaGrégoire|Grégoire]] it's on my todo list --[[User:GuakaXo|Guakaxo]] 1502:4331, 12 May 2006 10 April 2010 (UTC)

== Email list search-field==08 May - There is now a hitchwiki email list, for any discussions related to Hitchwiki, feel free to join.Why don't you just use the yahoogroups hh list? Do you expect so much to discuss? I guess the one or the other email there over doesn't annoy people, but might bring the one or other on the wiki.. --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:24, 11 May 2007 (CEST)

:I didndon't think of that one. know if somebody already suggested it, but is it possible to move the search-field more up!? I think I was it's the most used field on it though, the main page and unsubscribedshould be directly under the hitchwiki-picture. How much traffic is there usually? Especially for smaller monitors, eg netbooks, you have to scroll down to reach it ;-) --[[User:Guakajeensg|Guakajeensg]] 0813:4553, 12 May 2007 9 February 2010 (CESTUTC)

::I'm subscribed since the end of october 2006 and received 58 mails so farokay with it. -- What do other people think? [[User:MrTweekGuaka|MrTweekguaka]] 23:1104, 13 May 2007 9 February 2010 (CESTUTC)

It would be useful :Hey, is it possible to map move it up some of time? I mean, I don't know much about the hitching departing pointconstruction and whether it's hard to do so, on my case to complete and easy the comprehension on the information maybe we just forgot about Canadait? --[[User:jeensg|jeensg]] 11:51, 5 March 2010 (UTC):: Yes, we forgot. Or rather: nobody felt responsible for doing it. I know did it has been done by some in a couple of pagesnow... would anyone help out with that? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:28, 5 March 2010 (Basically its because UTC)::: Thanks a lot, I really do like it's not something I know how! --to) [[User:Maplefantajeensg|Maplefantajeensg]] 1922:4306, 13 September 2007 22 March 2010 (CESTUTC)

: There is an article about ==New colors, logo and such==[[How to add maps to articles]]Image:Hitchwiki front proposal 2010 a. If you still have problemspng|thumb|Frontpage proposal 1, just ask, I'm happy to help you. It would be kinda difficult for me to add these maps to articles for areas where I've never been, nor do I know anything about Canadian geography :( Hope you can work it out, or someone who has been there can help. It would be really great to have more maps here --by [[User:MrTweekMikael|MrTweekMikael]]<small>^{[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk400px]]}</small> 19:57, 13 September 2007 (CEST)

lifterhalteHello! We've been building [http://github.com/MrTweek/maps.hitchwiki.info org a new hitchwiki maps] and some days ago I designed [http://github.com/MrTweek/maps.hitchwiki.org/raw/master/_Documents/maps_gui. how do we manage png a new GUI for it]. I got an idea to bring that logo and colors also to login there? I did create point in the past but now I can't log anymore as Hitchwiki and so far it put me as 'invalid'looks like this. What do you think? Why isnIf you don't it the same information than on the wikilike colors, at least we could use this structure? [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 02:06, 21 October 2007 (CEST)

== Layout ==I just changed the layout a little, but still I am not really satisfied with itHand in logo is from hitchgathering. I think that it's not so obvious what hitchwiki isorg -logo, when you see since it the first timewas CC-by-SA. There are like 100.000 links, list of words, countries, names, etc, but not much text. I think we need a short and clear description on the main page, so :-) Is that first time visitors can see at once, that they find any information they want here (Because okay? I'm sure they can :)) And maybe we should also put the images more on top, randomroads and hitchgathering -links to make the page more colorful, more inviting --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small>^{[http://http://wwwmain menu.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]}</small> 14:27, 10 October 2007 (CEST)

Yep, good idea. I'm asking myself if the list of hitchhikers is ''that'' useful? Maybe we should have the General Info about First time, etc. there, but remove some stuff you'll find yourself if you're going deeper into the hitchhiking stuff (like Boats, Planes, Trains)... So for that the news can be more visible (to see that there's activity...) etc. Also the list of countries That square light box is a bit annoying, we can add some more new countries (thanks to [[User:worldhitch]] ;) ) like Brunei etc. For that the list is getting bigger and bigger, and someday it will be impossible to list all 192+ states of the world there :) Maybe we can track the list more down. What about the pictures. hm... no idea, but currently it's not the best solution. About the new header, it's using 1/3 of my screen, it's definitely too big! :) (Remember, not everyone has a 17" Wide-screen Monitor). And, can someone delete the list ''Based on work by'' at the main page? It's blowing up my screen. In some browsers it's fixed I guess, but not for Safari and Firefox :( Hm...something else? :) Want more people in the chat ! [[User:platschi|platschi]]<small>^{[http://hoerstel.travelbloghovered link.ch site], [[user talk:platschi|wikitalk]]}</small> 14:37, 10 October 2007 (CEST)

-[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 17:35, 31 May 2010 (UTC) :Where is the "Like it" Button? ;) Looks great, maybe only the color of the article count could be a bit darker, as here it looks pretty close to the background color. Or it's just my eyes that are quite bad :P The logo is cool, it's simple and says it all. Lovei t. Anyway, go for it, Mikael! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:47, 31 May 2010 (UTC):: I love it :) If you want, just install it to [[Hitchwiki:Start Page]] --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:58, 23 August 2010 (UTC) == Tables Updated PNGs == I've updated a whole bunch of PNGs with versions that were generated directly from the SVG from Wikipedia (with the GIMP). Height is around 400 pixels (or less) to keep the PNGs from adding dithered colors. Resulting PNGs were optimized with [http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm#pngout PNGOUT]  So far I've done all flags for the countries I have visited. Flags for the additional nationalities of drivers that gave me rides will follow (in a future) [[User:Prino|Prino]] 13:28, 23 August 2010 (UTC): By the way, it should be possible to upload SVGs here. That way we could completely avoid any conversion problems. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:56, 23 August 2010 (UTC)::The different tables File upload page does not seem to allow .SVG, but I haven't tried it. However, you must be aware that older browsers do not support .SVG files and I'm not sure if one of the newer (aka the piece of junk from M$) ones does. Also, if I try to upload '''Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg''' I get the following message: "# A file with this name exists already, please check File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg if you are popping in not sure if you want to change it." Clicking on the pages link will go to a page that tells me "This file is from a shared repository and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below" And it doesn't show up in [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:ListFiles?limit=50&ilsearch=Netherlands&title=Special%3AListFiles Special:ListFiles], so how does the link to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg Wikimedia Commons] work? Another problem is of course the case-sensitivity, if I try to upload "Flag_of_'''T'''he_Netherlands.svg", the system will happily let me do so. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 19:46, 23 August 2010 (UTC) : Also, I wonder what the reason is, to re-upload images in the same resolution? They look completely the same for me. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:15, 23 August 2010 (UTC)::The PNGs I uploaded are exactly the same, but PNGOUT is capable of compressing them significantly better in many cases, which should save some bandwidth... Look at some of the bigger files I replaced in the changelog! [[User:Prino|Prino]] 19:23, 23 August 2010 (UTC) [[File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg|150px|thumb|left|This a .SVG file]] : Hmm, ok. First of all: Hitchwiki is linked to wikimedia commons. That means, you can just use any file uploaded to wikimedia commons here. And that is greatalso the reason for your error message: If you upload a file, that is also uploaded to wikimedia commons, you would replace it locally. This is fine, you can do that. It doesn't make much sense to upload the same file again, though.: It doesn't really matter wether a browser supports svg. The wiki renders them to png pr jpg anyway. But it can render them in a much better quality, no matter which size they will have. So, in general, SVG is always better than PNG or JPG, but not always possible.: I think bandwith is not so much of an issue nowadays. All modern browsers support on-the-fly-compression anyway, so it will probably not make any difference at all. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:18, 23 August 2010 (UTC) == Navigation == On the right side sucks, BIG time...  And while I'm writing this, the table with foreign characters shows as a series of "charinsert" tags, possibly because it enhance and summarise 's missing a final '}' [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 20:52, 1 October 2012 (CEST):And the colour of the links, a horrible blue also stinks. Why was this change required, what was wrong with the old design? [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 22:03, 1 October 2012 (CEST)::And 9 cm of grey screen on either side of the informationtext on a 23" monitor is also really useful. Though[[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 11:56, 2 October 2012 (CEST) :I would like Mikael's new design but the old Monobook one is useful indeed. So go to create [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering]] and choose MonoBook. That's what I just did, there are still some, tidbits not working but I don'll fix them in [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]. :Charinsert is broken because the extension doesn't know howwork anymore with MediaWiki 1.19.Will try to fix that as well today. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 12:05, 2 October 2012 (CEST) == Bug == Hey guys - having trouble adding places? It gives an error message and then you can't add anything Anyone else experiencing this problem? 15th November 2016. All templates are out of order, because they have a "<nowiki>{{ #</nowiki>" at their beginning in the whole wiki. -[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 09:51, 4 October 2012 (CEST): Thanks for noting. We know about this bug, but as far as I would like to sometimes edit know, it only affect the Isin-Template? A quick Check on [[Germany]] which has a lot of templates shows me that most of them when they work fine. Please let us know if you know of any specific template that is broken as well --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] ([[User talk:MrTweek|talk]]) 09:58, 4 October 2012 (CEST): many templates which I use for the motorways are already donebroken: {{ramp}} {{junction}} {{gas}} {{rest}} {{very good}} {{good}}, look at {{Ade|1}} --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 14:44, 8 October 2012 (CEST) * I don't know about the templates (except IsIn) but the all the links to Trashwiki aren't in the toolbow anymore, but at the end of the page... I speak about the french version (exemple: [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Prague], at the end of the page). For the english version, they just disappeared... Even if they are impossible still in the editing page. --[[User:Klodreamer|Klodreamer]] ([[User talk:Klodreamer|talk]]) 18:34, 9 October 2012 (CEST) * It seems to me, that for all pictures, which have been uploaded before October, the original files have been gone. That lead to findthe above problem, that my templates don't run any more. --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 17:55, 15 October 2012 (CEST): I think just re-imported them, so most images should work again. Please let me know, if there are still a lot missing. If there are only a solution should really be done regarding few missing, we can just upload them again manually. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 04:32, 28 October 2012 (CET)* I'm already missing some symbols: {{rest}} {{average}} {{bad}} {{senseless}}, the logo don't show up, in the German wiki also the template ''gut'' has no picture. --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 16:06, 3 November 2012 (CET) == new bug == In the German part of thiswiki actually I can't make edits, I always gets the answer: "Es ist ein Datenbankabfragefehler aufgetreten. At least Dies könnte auf einen Fehler in der Software hindeuten." --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 09:12, 27 July 2014 (UTC) == Trustroots advertisement == In my opinion the advertisement for Trustroots does not need to have them automatically gathered on be here for years, mainly because Hitchwiki could (should!) behave like a proper commercial free, independent wiki, without its own agenda. The advertisement can repel potential users from Hitchwiki. Online hospex is not the category page maybe? same as hitch-hiking either and certainly not all hitch-hikers are interested in such service. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[Usertalk:MaplefantaFverhart|Maplefantatalk]] 00) 23:0013, 22 December 2007 21 July 2016 (CETCEST)