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The {{background}}'''HitchhikerHitchwiki's Guide to Hitchhiking''' Wikicity is collecting tips a collaborative website for gathering information about good [[hitchhiking places, knowledge about hitchhiking possibilities in different countries, general know-how about ]] and [[what to packtrain hopping in the United States|other]] and [[when to goboats|ways]], of extremely cheap ways of transport. It was inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and by [what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to eat]the Galaxy]. Before it had 100 articles, at some point it was left abandoned by its founder, and found and adopted by [[how to stay safeUser:Guaka|Guaka]]. As a hitchhiker you're encouraged to read ''and'' write this guide, by adding your knowledge, improving existing articles and starting new ones! Anyone is allowed to edit - you just need to log in.

'''Hitchhiker's Guide to Hitchhiking''' Hitchwiki is a collaborate web-based project to gather a gathering all sorts of relevant information about good set of hitchhiking spots, knowledge about hitchhiking for the benefit of hitchhiking. The project started 14th of April 2005. Howeverpossibilities in different countries, the person who started didn't respond when the wiki was constantly being spammed. Consequently general know-how about [[User:Guaka|Guakawhat to pack]] moved the wiki and [[when to go]], [[http://wikicities.com Wikicitieswhat to eat]], a migration that was completed on the 19th of December 2005and [[how to stay safe]].

The idea in the Guide legal entity behind Hitchwiki is not to compete with other [[Hitchhiking websites|marvellous hitchhiking sitesabgefahren e.V.]] already existing, but to provide a way to reorganize a lot of the existing knowhow into one, easily searchable encyclopedia. Hopefully the Guide can help all the other sites to fourish.

===Free content=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 There are some [http[Help://en.wikipedia.org/Contents|help]] pages for people who are editing a wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License], the license under which ''The Guide's'' articles are availablefirst time, is one of many "or check out [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyleft copyleft]" [httpCategory://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyrightTo do|to do] licenses which permit the redistribution, creation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/derivative_work derivativework]s, and commercial use of content provided its authors are attributed and this content remains available under the GFDL. When an author contributes to original material to the project, the [http[:Category://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyrightTech team|tech team]] over it is retained with them, however they agree to make the work available under the GFDL. Material on ''The Guide'' may thus be shared with, or incorporated from, resources which also use this license.

This means that == Background ==The project started 14th of April 2005, even before the content of name ''HitchhikersHitchwiki' Guide to Hitchhiking'' is available to use on other sites and media that agree to share it alikeexisted. Because of this However, the person (''The GuideTeppo'' is not just from [[Finland]], he was also running a website for itselfthe [https://www.facebook. Itcom/groups/liftarit/ Finnish hitchhikers community] at time) who started didn's for all hitchhikerst respond when the wiki was constantly being spammed. Consequently, on December 17th [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] moved the wiki to Wikicities (later Wikia and for all hitchhikers' communities[https://www.fandom.com/ fandom]), a migration that was completed on the 19th of December 2005.

==So I can use [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] organized the content relaunch with a first English version of the wiki. A second and final relaunch was done at ''hitchwiki.org'' (registered on my own website?==November 22nd 2006) by [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] and Guaka - thanks to Wikia's availability of the database dump. In 2007 Spanish, French and German versions were added, in 2008 Russian and Finnish versions and 2009 brought a Bulgarian language version. More and more versions have been added since (see [https://hitchwiki.org/ the front page] for an overview). [[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 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, [https://hitchmap.com/ hitchmap.com] is the place for maps now.

Yes, as long as you give Currently the same permissions to core team doing the text there majority of technical tasks consists of [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] and remember to give the credit to ''Hitchhikers' Guide to Hitchhiking''. Linking back to the original article will suit us fine for this purpose[[User:Robino|Robino]].

It is basically possible for anybody to produce Many more people have been working on Hitchwiki over the years. There's also a book or other similar publication from the contents bunch of the site, as long as the derivative work is in the framework determined by the GFDL licensefolks working on mobile apps for Hitchwiki.

==What's 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 point?==past.

Freely shared content will never be lost== Idea behind the project ==The idea in the hitchhiking wiki is not to compete with other already existing [[Hitchhiking websites|marvelous hitchhiking sites]], as people can copy and distribute itbut to provide a way to reorganize a lot of the existing knowhow into one, easily searchable guide. This also makes ''the Guide'' a project that everybody Hopefully Hitchwiki can benefit - help all the articles are free other sites to flourish. It links to use for all the hitchhiking communities that already existknown sites.

And heck, wouldn: ''See also [[project:why we work on Hitchwiki|why we work on Hitchwiki]].''t it be cool to see somebody actually publishing a printed hitchhiking guide after so many years?

*[[w:Start a new Wikicity|Started]]: [[17 December]] [[2005]] (relaunched)*::<small>This means that the original wiki at hitchhikingguidecontent of the ''Hitchhiking Wiki'' is available to use on other sites and media that agree to share it alike.org was (and Because of this, the Hitchhiking Wiki is) [[help:spam|spam]]med not just for itself. It's for all the timehitchhikers, with no maintainer in sight</small>*[[w:Founders|Founder]]: [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]*[[Languages|Main language]]: English*[[Help:Interwiki link|Interwiki link]]: [[w:c:Hitchhiking:]]and for all 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 [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]. == Money ==We don't need donations. Domain and hosting aren't expensive and costs will be covered for the foreseeable future. If you have some money left and still want to have an impact in the community, consider donating to [https://bewelcome.org/donations BeWelcome]. They would be super grateful for that.  [[Category:helpHitchwiki]][[Category:browseHistory]][[de:Tramperwiki:Über Tramperwiki]]