Hitchwiki:Hitchability old

Everyone is welcome to add his idea about this stuff, also would be great if you add your personal opinion about rated countries. The Hitchability is a new feature at the hitchwiki.

Currently there are some info-boxes on the country articles, for example at Bulgaria or the Netherlands. For having a quick view how the country is rated for hitchhiking, there is a point called Hitchability and a thumb next to it. Here's the legend of the thumbs:

Legend:  (very good) |  (good) |  (average) |  (bad) |  (senseless)

For adding a rating, just add this text to the infobox:

|hitch = {{good}}

if you want to rate it good. Possible ratings are {{Very Good}}, {{Good}}, {{Average}}, {{Bad}} and {{Senseless}}

Discussion

• There is the idea that we add some sort of voting system to the wiki, because this rating is quite objective from the view of the author, and for him a country can be seen as senseless while other people hitched there a dozen times easily.
  • That could be something similar to the ratings system on digihitch.
  • Found two extensions here, maybe useful? Did someone knows better solutions? 1 , 2

• Maybe we can discuss possible ratings for countries on this page, and the more people add their opinion, we can come to a conclusion for countries.

• A solution could be to improve the categorisation by defining countries between a 'gap' such as: Good to Average. Another one could be to eliminate the general use of the extremes.Maplefanta 01:15, 23 December 2007 (CET)

• • Jep, such as "good to average" sounds good, but for me it is a bit a spongy statement. Maybe a rating system might be perfect. Everyone give a number (from 1=bad to 5=fantastic) and then the average shows you best what people think. This is not solved yet and so we try to find this average here via this article ;-) platschi^{site, wikitalk} 21:14, 26 December 2007 (CET)

Rated countries

• Germany
  • (good) I think Germany is good for hitchhiking, easily to hitch the whole country east-west of north-south in one day, but still some areas where hitching is more difficult. so no very good from me. platschi^{site, wikitalk} 14:45, 16 December 2007 (CET)

• Netherlands
  • (good) Also good as far as I experienced. Not Very Good because people sometimes behave like assholes, showing the middle finger or pushing the horn when they see you. Never experienced that in for example Bulgaria or Germany. platschi^{site, wikitalk} 15:21, 16 December 2007 (CET)
• United States
  • Might be better to add a specific rating for each state? platschi^{site, wikitalk} 14:45, 16 December 2007 (CET)
    • That is an absolute, it could even be extend to the regions in most countries. Maplefanta 01:17, 23 December 2007 (CET)

• Costa Rica
  • (average) Small distance rides are very common on the coast. Long distance hitchhiking works but you ve got to wait some time. Fabzgy 18:56, 29 December 2007 (CET)

• Bulgaria, Romania
  • (very good) Great country for hitchhiking and friendly people. For that also a lot of hitchhikers there. platschi^{site, wikitalk} 15:21, 16 December 2007 (CET)
  • Also for Romania, I guess. Even someone's 80+ grandma' is hitching out there. platschi^{site, wikitalk} 21:14, 26 December 2007 (CET)

• Ireland
  • So much better than any country I've tried. --MrTweek^{site, wikitalk} 18:22, 24 December 2007 (CET)
  • So I guess it earns a (very good) :-) platschi^{site, wikitalk} 21:14, 26 December 2007 (CET)
• Afghanistan, Iraq
  • (senseless) - Guess everyone agrees with that.
    • At least form some areas in Iraq, I heard something else. --MrTweek^{site, wikitalk} 18:22, 24 December 2007 (CET)
    • Well I guess your body member can travel easily in different area of Iraq, your head goes somewhere and thumb somewhere else... I'm pretty sure that is a plain (senseless) Maplefanta 21:35, 24 December 2007 (CET)
    • Jep, I guess you mean what Iris told us this September. But according to the Iraq article, situation changed in the North through the Turkey-PKK conflict, and I guess currently it would be more wise to give it a senseless at the moment. Hopefully we can change this status in the future to a more positive way. platschi^{site, wikitalk} 21:14, 26 December 2007 (CET)

• Belgium
  • (good) to (very good) - might be ok.

• France
  • (good) ?

• Morocco
  • (good), according to article and what people said. platschi^{site, wikitalk} 21:14, 26 December 2007 (CET)

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