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==press release for 1000th article==
I started a stub: [[Hitchwiki:1000 articles press release]]. --[[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:52, 30 July 2008 (CEST)
==How long?==
I'm 15, and a highschool student, and I was wondering how long it's possible to keep hitchhiking. I would love to do it for atleast a year. Also, how expensive is it?
: There are even older people how are still hitchhiking, like [[User:Irvthom|Irv Thomas]]. There are no limits. And hitchhiking itself is usually free, in most countries. Sometimes you might spend a little on bus/tram tickets, but that's not even neccessary. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:12, 6 August 2008 (CEST)
::Also check out [[hospitality exchange]]. Officially you need to be 18 to sign up but you shouldn't be a verified CouchSerfer anyway... [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 20:41, 9 August 2008 (CEST)
==Google rank==
We're still not in the top 10 when googling for hitchhiking. But we might make it in the top 10 soon in the English language if we get some more mention in the press, possibly through the [[888]] press buzz :) It would be good to add some more links to hitchwiki from any public page (e.g. your blog). [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 20:44, 9 August 2008 (CEST)
: And it helped! We're at number 8 now, so finally on the first page! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 14:58, 20 August 2008 (CEST)
:: The results can vary from country to country and from computer to computer, because google creates a personal profile and tries to optimize the results for you. From here, when I delete all my cookies, hitchwiki is already on number 4 :D --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 20 August 2008 (CEST)
== hitching is not dangerous==
I talked lately to some hitchhiking beginners and I realized how annoying can it be to convince your parents that hitching is not lethal. maybe we should create special letter, ready to print, that hitchhikers could show their families?
== New Community Portal / Sorting of Categories ==
Hey everyone, I just played around with the Community Portal and moved stuff a bit, example for this was the [[:de:Tramperwiki:Portal]] of the German hitchwiki version. It looks a bit more user friendly I guess. Thanks to [[User:Speckmade]] for his work! There he also sorted all categories logical and in a good order, so that things can be found easy. When browsing through the english hitchwiki, it all looks quite unsorted and messy at the moment. I want to sort this in the near future, but first want some discussion before on how we could do this the best way.
We can use [[:Category:Browse]] as the top-level category, and then sorting it into a logical way. Like [[HitchBiking]] now appears under Browse, while it might be under General info -> Hitchhiking techniques or something. Suggestions are welcome, ideas, first categoryideas. Will start soon, if somebody has any complaints about it, discuss it here please! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 13:34, 14 October 2008 (CEST)
:As a start, I made a little brainstorming, to be found at [[:Image:Cat_brainstorm.png]]. Any ideas, suggestions? something wrong? I'm sure I forgot things. Let me know! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 23:47, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
== New Main page ==
He, somehow the mainpage looks like too much text and anyway, it's not really inviting. maybe we can make it a bit more colorful, just tried out to sort out the ''not really needed'' stuff from the main page. see [[User:Platschi/Spielwiese]] for the tryout and ''please'' play around and try out your favourite layout and stuff. Whatever. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 14:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
:Yay, I like it. I think it's almost ready to replace the current main page... Though this would require some more ''yay''s and a bit of work. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:33, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
== Bringing vehicles Live to hitchwiki ==
While i was on the road I came up with this idea and was wondering if it is possible as it would be cool to see implimented and could be used to push alot of traffic to hitchwiki via technology websites. The idea is this...
Wire a GPS & HDPSA enabled laptop into a vehicle and setup some software so that it pings back it´s location on hitchwiki maps as it travels. Maybee there are a few people who would be interested in having these in their cars when going on roadtrips and could also display a plot of their proposed travel route/s.
That way hitch hikers may see where they are and arrange to meet up should they be on similar paths. Sure some people may have privacy concerns, but personally if i had a car and was on a roadtrip i would not mind carrying such gear.
[[User:Giveaphuk|giveaphuk]] 20:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
: Not a bad idea actually. The biggest problem would be implementing a software for mobile phones. You won't need hsdpa, i actually did that with my gprs-only phone, using [http://www.mgmaps.com/ mgmaps]. If you find a open source software, or something that is customizable enough to let it work with hitchwiki, let me know :) We could at least start with a little community map, showing where people are hitchhiking at the moment, and hope that some drivers will join as well. The next problem will be the costs. Here in Germany, people hardly use internet on their mobiles, as it can be very expensive. There are some cheap providers, but usually people don't know their price plans and just thin k it's too expensive, so they don't use it. And if you go abroad, it's definitely way too expensive. But hey, I'll do some research and put it on my to-do-list :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:31, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
== 'Personal Experiences' section ==
Might I suggest that we group personal experiences when hitch-hiking from places into a separate section? It would make it easier for others to add their experiences without changing more or less 'debugged' content and in case the local situation changes, comments that have become irrelevant(?) can be removed more easily.I've done it for [[Francisco de Sá Carneiro]].
: Yes, looks good. I find it kind of annoying that many articles have personal stuff mixed inbetween the article. This would solve the problem. Still a lot of work to clean everything up though. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:39, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
::Jep, good idea. I guess we did this already sometimes in the past by using ''Trivia'' as an header, where people can add their experiences and/or interesting/funny things about the spot. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 14:56, 4 December 2008 (UTC)