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Please make that Also, if you are not a native speaker of a language, it might be worthwhile to access hitchwiki.org using Firefox and download the dictionary from [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 Mozilla] for the language in which you are writing your first contribution is your own , so that you can spell-check what you're typing. If you'userre editing the English language wiki, I' profile! So that it can stop being red and that we can somehow know how valid may d suggest to use US spelling, but feel free to voice your contribution be valid! ;) objections. [[User:MaplefantaPrino|MaplefantaPrino]] 1820:5136, 10 January 25 December 2008 (CETUTC)

== General Aspect New Advise Article ==It could be useful to take the article advice written on the [[Canada]] page about '''Winter Hitch-hiking''' hazard and maybe some other countries are having some too. They could be grouped together on this same page for all Winter Hazardous country or regions: [[Russia]], [[Scandinavia]], [[Iceland]], [[Canada]], [[Alaska]] ... [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 01:54, 19 January 2008 (CET)::With some regions of Canada having marked way beneath the -50 Celsius on the thermometer last month, if someone knows where to set such page, the already existing info is on the [[Canada]] page, it is most likely needed. [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 03:16, 4 March 2008 (CET)

- Hej! == Bug?? ==When linking from other sites or typing on the address bar, I thought often get sent to a ''double'' of the main page should just be an overview with a capital letter, which looks like the countries and without citiesfollowing: http://hitchwiki.org/en/Http://hitchwiki.org/index. Did I get it wrongphpAnyone has an idea why? - deleeaIt seems to always do that if we link hitchwiki city page on the CS wiki travel page. It is done on every page from cswiki [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 05:10, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

:Hi! :) Well, it might be good to have some cities in there as well. To give an idea to people and to persuade people to add something about cities we donIt't have yet! Although I want to get rid s because of the red links in a couple intricacies of months<tt>.htaccess</tt>. The CS wiki is linking to e.g. http://www.hitchwiki.org/Paris. Oh, :So I checked [http://davidwalsh.name/no-www-using-htaccess-file some stuff] and hopefully it's all working fine now. Let me know if you can sign using <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>encounter any weird redirect errors. Peace,love&hitchhike fun, [[User:Guaka|Guakaguaka]] 2218:5740, 28 Dec 2005 30 May 2009 (UTC)

:Hi! Just finished HGttG today :) So I just wanted to write Don't panic! but then I saw you don't like it.==Logo update==:I'm glad to read your critique and I'll try to do something useful with it!:One thing though: this is not a business! The AdSense money goes moved to Wikicities, to which I'm not affiliated. Also, I'm not really the founder: I adopted, or saved thia wiki from a ''spam death''.:ciao, [[Userproject:Guaka|GuakaLogo update]] 20:10, 5 February 2006 (UTC)''

- Hey Hitchhikers! Just joined == Mainpage ==I just took the old news out of the new hitchhiking wiki here-- whew! mainpage news template. Now there have been a few moves in these last 2 yearsis quite some free space. However, hope we are all able to make this a permanent stay here on hitchwiki.org.I contributed think it is good to hitchhikingguide.org keep the mainpage simple and hitchhiking.wikia.com but do not feel too overloaded (and also keep in future just the need to mark which contributions belong to me within this new wikilast 10 site news entries). As you will see from my user Any suggestions about what could be added there or how the page, could be reordered? I am creator/webmaster/co-editor of digihitch.com. Some would suggest to move the picture of the information I personally collected for digihitch I will now to the left column and also share here, and as put there a field 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. important content with a symbol (Don't believe the misinformation found on the webe.g.. there are still tens of thousands of general info Top Tips, Where, Safety, Signs, First time, Picking up hitchhikers in the USA, country info).I -and Maybe one of the digihitch community- would really appreciate it if you cite digihitch.com for all information you collect from there. The website is community-run design and has been the hard work of many world hitchhikers graphic program gifted people could make some icons for over 5 years. Support our community when possible and all hitchhikers will benefit! I must admit that I was opposed to a hitchhiking wiki when Teppo first suggested it to me in April 2005this. We at digihitch.com had just launched our [http://www.digihitch.com/world/ digihitch World] section and I believed that all information would It might also be best shared there among registered members worth to think about which content is important for new people (without all e.g. move the spam maintenance required of a wiki), but since that time I understand site news - what is normally for the value of a wiki such as this and will attempt more frequent users - to share unbiased contributions where possiblethe right bottom side.Revel and Roll, .. --[[User:SalmanAlex|Morgan 'Salman'Alex]] 2119:38 01 December 2006 28, 23 July 2008 (UTCCEST)

I was feeling that it would be more interesting and correct to split the ::: agree, doesn'factual information' of the 'personnal experience', be that t make much sense since these boxes are not much edited in the factual information about a hitching spot comes first while the personnal ones would come in a '''different paragraph which follows'''. 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 everytime, which is interestingplace and as you say, but the factual reading is usually providing a straight to other boxes can still be edited by anyone through the point information that is often quickly needed. Having a little code about how to make it would enhance the whole project. Because is it of any interest to know that someone met someone else when he was in town or that it was rainy ... templates --[[User:MaplefantaRobino|MaplefantaRobino]] 1912:5545, 13 September 2007 18 August 2008 (CEST)

Also, I would like : wanted to propose to add. It would be great if rearrange the information given is boxes, one for wiki-news, one for general news, one for events, one for stories (upcoming), and one for 3 (through rss) most of recent (planet) blogs. I think the time somehow verified instead of being disclaimed. As general news should be on many pagestop (left), then events, then stories. On the statement: ''Free use of Internet in every Library'' might not be accurate right (help and is quite expressed in a 'powerful' way that does not leave much contrary then wiki-news) or something similar --[[User:MaplefantaRobino|MaplefantaRobino]] 0112:4845, 5 December 2007 18 August 2008 (CETCEST)

:Hey:Sounds good. Feel free to play around on [[User:Platschi/Spielwiese]], I agree with youused that page last time for editing ideas of the main page. I just sometimes managed personal experience by setting it ''cursive'Let', and behind some factual information. Writing verified instead of being disclaimed is a good point, but sometimes a bit hard for me as a not native English speaker :) But s see how we can try to set this up as a standard. Good point make it much better :) [[User:platschi|platschi]]<small>^{[http://hoerstelblogs.travelbloghitchwiki.ch org/platschi site], [[user talk:platschi|wikitalk]]}</small> 1112:5354, 22 December 2007 18 August 2008 (CETCEST)

== Overview Language of place name ==- For me, it always takes to long to find a specific country on the mainpage (especially in europe), because countries, continent-parts and cities are mixed. I would suggest removing at least the cities and maybe also the continent-parts (I think it's more likely that people are looking for a specific country). Does anyone agree with me? :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:41, 3 December 2006 (CET)

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.:YeahI think we already had that 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 too. Iteveryone will always find what one's good looking for. (Although we are not really consequent, like at [[Köln]]). But Bruges seems to have cities on be the main page to encourage developmentEnglish name for Brugge. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:30, 10 November 2008 (UTC)::Missed that discussion, probably before I joined, but maybe for my eur 0.02? You do it consistently or you keep the original name, you don't mix the Europe section two! --[[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC):::Yeah, we could remove themshould really clean that up. But I think it's only about 5 articles maximum --[[User:Zac StewartMrTweek|ZacMrTweek]]<small>^{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 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 talk:Zac StewartClint.hotvedt|talkclint.hotvedt]]}</small> 1812:4753, 3 December 2006 18 October 2009 (CETUTC)

:Removed the European cities. What do you mean with "continent parts"? [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 03:15, 4 December 2006 (CET):: [[Eastern Europe]], [[Western Europe]], etc. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:35, 4 December 2006 (CET):::We could remove that. But how do you want to group the European countries, one alphabetical list? [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 22:34, 4 December 2006 (CET)::::I reformatted it a little bit, now it even looks good on my little screen (1024x768) :) I noticed the == Economic crisis &lt;big&gt;-tags there, but for some reason, they don't work here (Opera on Linux). I changed it to bold instead --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 01:03, 5 December 2006 (CET)hitchhiking ==

== Errors Just wondering about the desirability to work out the economic aspect of hitchhiking. Wechner indicated finance as one the four main motivations for hitchhiking, the other one being adventure, environment and social sharing [http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?03]. The incentive to this question at the moment is mainly the current economic crisis that is in execution among banks, governments, public and business that need in all likeliness will last for many many years to come, mostly in Northern America and Europe. Following the recent news there seems to be fixed ==already some reason to be concerned (which applies mostly to people who are in debt). In other words - would economic recession / depression increase again the number of hitchhikers, which in the US and Europe basicly ''used to be'' in 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)

- Sorry:Let's start an article about this! Not yet sure about the name, I hit edit instead of add commentbut [[economy]] will do :) [[Special:Contributions/212.143.159.96|212.143.159.96]] 20:03, whoops :9 December 2008 (UTC)

Anyway, Kyiv/Kiev on == Frontpage is evolving ==Good! Frontpage is going trough changes at the title pageI just added some tips to very begining of the Kyiv page (well, one tip 2009. :-) Should "Basics" and "Places" be more bigger and first in line, when reader starts from top- please note in Ukrainian language Kiev is written as Kyiv left - which should be the correct name corner? I can try to use (Kiev is the old Russian name for the city)visualize my idea when i have more time.Mind youIcons are great spice to bring some colours, noone will get confusedmaybe they should be bigger? -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 21:19, but just for the sake of completeness 7 January 2009 (and to not piss off any Ukrainians :)Cheers Paul (djdirect from CS)PS: what's wrong with HHGTG? :UTC)

:Thanks for your contributions! :When you log in you can "move" pages to another title. That way there will also be a redirect. Now both [[Kyiv]] and [[Kiev]] point to Haha, I had exactly the same article.idea this morning :Something wrong with HHGTG? Nah. Or do you mean Hitchhiker's Guide ) You are welcome to Hitchhiking. Well, I think tweak the title is site a bit long. But maybe it's good. I'd be willing to use any nameOh, and if there you are enough folks who in IRC, you might want that name. :to drop by in #hitchhiking@freenode ;) --[[User:GuakaMrTweek|GuakaMrTweek]] 2022:1253, 11 October 2006 7 January 2009 (UTC)

* I want to see if I can get Wikistats installed: About compatibility: With Firefox 3.0.3 it looks great, with IE7 the fonts look weird, also the top ''Hitchwiki'' text is somehow cut below, so only 3/4 of the text is visible. All other boxes are okay, though. Will test with Safari Browser later. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 16:56, 19 January 2009 (For hitchwiki and UTC):: Here it works perfect in Safari. In IE7, the CS Wikiright border of the boxes is missing.) All content is visible, so only a minor issue. --[[User:GuakaMrTweek|GuakaMrTweek]] 0317:0400, 24 November 2006 19 January 2009 (CETUTC)

Having had a general look at the member list to recognise people... isn't there a fairly amount of dubious account? [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 14:18, 13 November 2007 (CET): Yes there isLooks goog in Google Chrome except that left boxes are sqeezed a bit which creates 2, but I think mediawiki has no supported way to delete users5 cm empty space under the Pictures of the Moment. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small>^{[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweekSigurdas|wikitalkSigurdas]]}</small> 1510:1905, 13 November 2007 20 January 2009 (CETUTC)

::There The left column is an extension for mediawiki, which seems to solve this problem: [http://wwwtoo small on the 9" screen of my Acer Aspire One.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php? I've tried playing a bit with the width but I didn't=4583 look here]quickly manage to fix it. Might be an option? [[User:platschiGuaka|platschiguaka]]<small>^{[http10:51, 21 January 2009 (UTC)::://hoerstelI have the same 'problem'. Also I would find it cool to have pictures on the screen without scrolling and also have the links to different hitchhikers available.travelblog.ch site], . this makes the wiki more personal. --[[user talkUser:platschiAlex|wikitalkAlex]]}</small> 1511:3101, 13 November 2007 21 January 2009 (CETUTC)

: Is there many account that have been created for management motive? (Robot etc.:: I added "min-width" -attribute to the left column.) Maybe they should have a Similar Description page somehow It'official' [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 04:08s not working with IE5-6, 31 December 2007 (CETbut what the heck. ;-):: NoAnother thing would be taking 4th picture out from the gallery, so right column could shrink smaller with small resolutions. I think there is only [[User:Admin|Admin]] which is a mediawiki-default and wasnwouldn't used since setting up this wiki and [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]]add list of hitchhikers visible by default, but how about show/hide -stylish box? Maybe under "Also on Hitchwiki". --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small>^{[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweekMikael|wikitalkMikael]]}</small> 1617:4523, 31 December 2007 22 January 2009 (CETUTC)

::::: I think this wiki is quite personal already with or without hichhikres- I tried organize the photos and whatnot list. My top reason was to prevent main page to look a little better, but I can't really make it look good. Someone grow too heavy with an aesthetic eye needs to handle it. Maybe itlot's just because of my resolution (1024) but the pictures block out all text in the left column making it all drop down below the picture. This leaves a huge whitespace gap /link mass, though i'd also like to see some quick way to the left of the pictures and doesn't look very nicebrowse active hitchwiki-users. Another thing I noticed is that even though the columns are all 33%-[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 17:17, the left column is smaller than the middle column because of margins. If we could even that up it might fix the above problem with the pictures.26 January 2009 (UTC)

::::: I bolded the text of Canada, Mexico, US and Greenland to make N America a little easier to navigate. By the way, Europe lookes very nice now. [[User:Zac StewartMikael/Main_Page_09_a|Zactested]]<small>^{to float gallery to the right, but it's not working with smaller (under 1200px width) resolutions. :-/ With 24" It's looking great. :-D -[[User talk:Zac StewartMikael|talkMikael]]}</small> 0417:4535, 13 December 2006 26 January 2009 (CETUTC)

:Cool:On Win ME (yes, ppl still seem to use it) with Firefox 2. I'm just going to change 0 and 1024x768 Screen the picture stufftwo boxes (Places/Basics) are pretty narrow. ItChanging min-width doesn's good to have at least one picturet help. But maybe In IE6 the site looks horrible, but who is using IE6 anyway? Maybe we should just a ''Picture of add an "Best seen with firefox" whatever button the the week'' or something like thatStart Page? --[[User:GuakaPlatschi|GuakaPlatschi]] 0514:5559, 13 December 2006 24 January 2009 (CETUTC)

::Good idea [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small>^{The '''News''' and '''Events''' boxes don't adapt themselves to the screenwidth, which is extremely annoying! [[User talk:Zac StewartPrino|talkPrino]]}</small> 0600:3728, 13 December 2006 25 January 2009 (CETUTC)

:I did some editing for the CSS and tested it with IE 5.5-7 under Windows XP. These worked as well::Thatsafari 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 enough wiki layout work for todaycontents had too big line-height. These are not minor problems. I hope y'all also took 4rd PotM-image away, so page should now scale better with small screens (like it. Still needs some work on the picture of the week stufftiny 9" computers). -[[User:GuakaMikael|GuakaMikael]] 0617:4917, 13 December 2006 26 January 2009 (CETUTC)

===[[Central Europe]]===: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? --[[User:IndexGlobetrotter tt|IndexGlobetrotter tt]] 1708:06, 29 July 2007 (CEST) There should be also and '''Central Europe''', just w N and E it is not enough15, adding central E itcan help with the navigation on the map. Who usually does that? 7 March 2009 (I am a new here, so excuse for eventually inapropriate Q:) UTC)

:That's a good idea. We are selfJust reduced the news-organizing: anybody is welcome items 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 don't feel ready yet to change the Main Pagethree, and then copy it to as the real template when it's all goodprevious ones were outdated anyway. Better now on smaller screens :-) ? --[[User:GuakaPlatschi|GuakaPlatschi]] 2211:3225, 29 July 2007 7 March 2009 (CESTUTC)

::ThereCould anyone able give some help to clean up the design of the frontpage of the French version of Hitchwiki? I's a discussion at [[Template talk:Mainpagem not very used to this kind of job, but I find it awful compared to the English one. Thanks! --locations]], probably a better place for this :) [[User:GuakaGrégoire|GuakaGrégoire]] 1712:0133, 15 9 August 2007 2009 (CESTUTC)

:@[[User:Grégoire|Grégoire]] it''moved stuff to s on my todo list --[[Community portalUser:Xo|xo]]''02:31, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

=== USA Division Possibility =search-field==

Once we get I don't know if somebody already suggested it, but is it possible to move the search-field more states into up!? I think it's the United Statesmost used field on the main page and should be directly under the hitchwiki-picture. Especially for smaller monitors, eg netbooks, do you want have to divide scroll down to reach it up into regional pages?;-) --[[User:jeensg|jeensg]] 13:53, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

:Continued at [[Talk:United States of America]] I'm okay with it. What do other people think? [[User:Guaka|Guakaguaka]] 1523:4304, 12 May 2006 9 February 2010 (UTC)

== Email list ==08 May ::good idea! -- There is now a hitchwiki email list[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 09:23, for any discussions related to Hitchwiki, feel free to join.10 February 2010 (UTC)Why don't you just use the yahoogroups hh list? Do you expect so much to discuss? ::I guess the one or agree with the other email there over doesn't annoy peopleidea, but might bring and I would even suggest to make the one or other on the wiki.field a bit larger. --[[User:AlexGrégoire|AlexGrégoire]] 1909:2427, 11 May 2007 10 February 2010 (CESTUTC)

:Hey, is it possible to move it up some time? I didnmean, I don't think of that oneknow much about the construction and whether it's hard to do so, maybe we just forgot about it? --[[User:jeensg|jeensg]] 11:51, 5 March 2010 (UTC):: Yes, we forgot. Or rather: nobody felt responsible for doing it. I think did it now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:28, 5 March 2010 (UTC)::: Thanks a lot, I was on really do like it though, and unsubscribed. How much traffic is there usually? ! --[[User:Guakajeensg|Guakajeensg]] 0822:4506, 12 May 2007 22 March 2010 (CESTUTC)

==New colors, logo and such==[[Image::I'm subscribed since the end of october 2006 and received 58 mails so farHitchwiki front proposal 2010 a. --png|thumb|Frontpage proposal 1, by [[User:MrTweekMikael|MrTweekMikael]]|400px]] 23:11, 13 May 2007 (CEST)

It would be useful to map some of the hitching departing pointHand in logo is from hitchgathering.org -logo, on my case to complete and easy the comprehension on the information about Canada. I know since it has been done was CC-by some in a couple of pages-SA... would anyone help out with :-) Is thatokay? (Basically its because it's not something I know howalso put randomroads and hitchgathering -links to) [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 19:43, 13 September 2007 (CEST)the main menu.

: There That square light box is an article about [[How to add maps to articles]]a hovered link. If you still have problems, 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 --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small>^{[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]}</small> 19:57, 13 September 2007 (CEST)

lifterhalte.info .... how do we manage to login there? I did create point in the past but now I can't log anymore as it put me as 'invalid'? Why isn't it the same information than on the wiki? -[[User:MaplefantaMikael|MaplefantaMikael]] 0217:0635, 21 October 2007 31 May 2010 (CESTUTC)

== Layout ==I just changed :Where is the "Like it" Button? ;) Looks great, maybe only the color of the layout article count could be a littlebit darker, but still I am not really satisfied with as here itlooks pretty close to the background color. I think that Or it's not so obvious what hitchwiki just my eyes that are quite bad :P The logo iscool, when you see it the first time's simple and says it all. There are like 100Lovei t.000 linksAnyway, list of wordsgo for it, countries, names, etc, but not much text. I think we need a short and clear description on the main pageMikael! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:47, so that first time visitors can see at once, that they find any information they want here 31 May 2010 (Because UTC):: I'm sure they can love it :)) And maybe we should put the images more on topIf you want, just install it to make the page more colorful, more inviting --[[UserHitchwiki:MrTweek|MrTweekStart Page]]<small>^{[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], --[[user talkUser:MrTweek|wikitalkMrTweek]]}</small> 1413:2758, 10 October 2007 23 August 2010 (CESTUTC)

== Tables ==The different tables are popping in on the pages and that is great, it enhance and summarise the information. Though, I would like to create some, I don't know how... and I would like to sometimes edit them when they are already done, but they are impossible to find. I think ve updated a solution should really be done regarding thiswhole bunch of PNGs with versions that were generated directly from the SVG from Wikipedia (with the GIMP). At least Height is around 400 pixels (or less) to have them automatically gathered on keep the category page maybe? PNGs from adding dithered colors. Resulting PNGs were optimized with [[Userhttp:Maplefanta|Maplefanta//advsys.net/ken/utils.htm#pngout PNGOUT]] 00:00, 22 December 2007 (CET)

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:Hey MaplefantaPrino|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 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 guess try to upload '''Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg''' I wrote an article about get the following message: "# A file with this tablesname exists already, or as please check File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg if you are not sure if you want to change it." Clicking on the 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 called them: try to upload "Flag_of_'''T'navigation box''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 . You SVG file]] : Hmm, ok. First of all: Hitchwiki is linked to wikimedia commons. That means, you can find just use any file uploaded to wikimedia commons here. And that is also the article when 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 click 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. --[[HelpUser:ContentsMrTweek|MrTweek]] at 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'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 main pagetext on a 23" monitor is also really useful. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 11:56, or 2 October 2012 (CEST) :I like Mikael's new design but the old Monobook one is useful indeed. So go directly here to [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering]] and choose MonoBook. That's what I just did, there are still some tidbits not working but I'll fix them in [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]. :Charinsert is broken because the articleextension doesn't work anymore with MediaWiki 1.19. Will try to fix that as well today. [[User: Guaka|guaka]] ([[How to create 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 navigation box"<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. The article is hopefully helpfulWe know about this bug, but as far as I know, it only affect the Isin-Template? A quick Check on [[Germany]] which has a lot of templates shows me that most of them work fine. Please let us know if anything you know of any specific template that is unclear 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 broken: {{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 hesitate know about the templates (except IsIn) but the all the links to discuss is on 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 still in the Talk 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 the above problem, that my templates don't run any more. --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 17:55, 15 October 2012 (CEST): I 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 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]]) 1116:5106, 22 December 2007 3 November 2012 (CET) == new bug == In the German part of this wiki actually I can't make edits, I always gets the answer: "Es ist ein Datenbankabfragefehler aufgetreten. 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 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 same as hitch-hiking either and certainly not all hitch-hikers are interested in such service. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 23:13, 21 July 2016 (CEST)