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The {{background}}'''Hitchhiking WikiHitchwiki''' 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.

This Hitchwiki is a collaborative 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 hitchhikingpossibilities in different countries, general know-how about [[what to pack]] and [[when to go]], [[what to eat]], and [[how to stay safe]].

*The legal entity behind Hitchwiki is [[w:Start a new Wikia|Startedabgefahren e.V.]]: 17 December 2005 (relaunched)*::<small>the original wiki at hitchhikingguide.org was (and is) [[help:spam|spam]]med all the time, with no maintainer in sight</small>*[[w:Founders|Founder]]: [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]*Main language: English*[[Help:Interwiki link|Interwiki link]]: [[w:c:Hitchhiking:]]

(''The project started 14th == How to contribute ==Just click <tt>edit</tt> at the top of April 2005an article, make your changes and click <tt>Save page</tt>. However, the person who started didn't respond when the wiki was constantly being spammedA good article to start editing or writing is probably your home town. Consequently To create new articles you can add <code>[[User:Guaka|Guaka</code> and <code>]] moved </code> around the title of the wiki to [http://wikicitiesnew article, in some other article, on your user page or even here on the main page.com Wikicities]Save the page, a migration that was completed click on the 19th of December 2005red 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]].

==Not competing but co-ordinating==The idea in the Hitchhike Wiki is not to compete with other already existing There are some [[Hitchhiking websitesHelp:Contents|marvellous hitchhiking siteshelp]], but to provide pages for people who are editing a way to reorganize a lot of wiki the existing knowhow into onefirst time, easily searchable guide. Hopefully the Hitchhike Wiki can help all the other sites or check out [[:Category:To do|to flourish. It links to all known sitesdo]] and [[:Category:Tech team|tech team]].

==Free contentBackground ==The project started 14th of April 2005, even before the name ''Hitchwiki'' existed. However, the person (''Teppo'' from [[Finland]], he was also running a website for the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/liftarit/ Finnish hitchhikers community] at time) who started didn't respond when the wiki was constantly being spammed. Consequently, on December 17th [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] moved the wiki to Wikicities (later Wikia and [https://www.fandom.com/ fandom]), a migration that was completed on the 19th of December 2005.

The [http[User://enGuaka|Guaka]] organized the relaunch with a first English version of the wiki.wikipediaA second and final relaunch was done at ''hitchwiki.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License], the license under which ''The Hitchhiking Wiki(registered on November 22nd 2006) by [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] and Guaka - thanks to Wikia's'' articles are availableavailability of the database dump. In 2007 Spanish, French and German versions were added, is one of many "in 2008 Russian and Finnish versions and 2009 brought a Bulgarian language version. More and more versions have been added since (see [httphttps://en.wikipediahitchwiki.org/wiki/copyleft copyleftthe front page]" for an overview). [[httpUser://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyrightMikael|Mikael]] licenses which permit joined Hitchwiki in 2008 after he had done the redistribution, creation of [http://enFinnish version and migrated it to Hitchwiki.wikipediaorg.org/wiki/derivative_work derivative work]s, Mikael wrote a new maps system in 2010 and commercial use of content provided its authors are attributed and this content remains available under is responsible for the GFDLlayout, among other things. When authors contribute original material to the projectLater maps stopped working, the [httphttps://enhitchmap.wikipediacom/ hitchmap.org/wiki/copyright copyrightcom] over it is retained with them, but they agree to make the work available under the GFDL. Material on ''The Hitchhiking Wiki'' may thus be shared with, or incorporated from, resources which also use this licenseplace for maps now.

This means that Currently the content core team doing the majority of the ''Hitchhiking Wiki'' is available to use on other sites and media that agree to share it alike. Because technical tasks consists of this, the Hitchhiking Wiki is not just for itself. It's for all hitchhikers, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] and for all hitchhikers' communities[[User:Robino|Robino]].

==So I can use Many more people have been working on Hitchwiki over the content years. There's also a bunch of folks working on my own website?==mobile apps for Hitchwiki.

Yes, as long as you give the The same permissions to the text there 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 remember to give the credit to ''Hitchhiker's Guide to Hitchhiking''Guaka on [https://www.couchsurfing.com/ CouchSurfing. Linking back to org] in the original article will suit us fine for this purposepast.

It == Idea behind the project ==The idea in the hitchhiking wiki is basically possible for anybody not to compete with other already existing [[Hitchhiking websites|marvelous hitchhiking sites]], but to produce provide a book or other similar publication from the contents way to reorganize a lot of the siteexisting knowhow into one, as long as easily searchable guide. Hopefully Hitchwiki can help all the derivative work is in the framework determined by the GFDL licenseother sites to flourish. It links to all known sites.

==What: ''See also [[project:why we work on Hitchwiki|why we work on Hitchwiki]].''s the point?==

Freely shared == Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licence ==The Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike, the license under which ''The Hitchhiking Wiki's'' articles are available, is one of many "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyleft copyleft]" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyright] licenses which permit the redistribution, creation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/derivative_work derivative work]s, and commercial use of content provided its authors are attributed and this content will never be lostremains available under CC BY SA. When authors contribute original material to the project, as people can copy and distribute the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyright] over itis retained with them, but they agree to make the work available under the CC BY SA. This also makes Material on ''the GuideThe Hitchhiking Wiki'' a project that everybody can benefit - the articles are free to may thus be shared with, or incorporated from, resources which also use for all the hitchhiking communities that already existthis license.

And heckThis means that the content of the ''Hitchhiking Wiki'' is available to use on other sites and media that agree to share it alike. Because of this, wouldnthe Hitchhiking Wiki is not just for itself. It't it be cool to see somebody actually publishing a printed hitchhiking guide after so many years?s for all hitchhikers, and for all hitchhikers' communities.

== 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]]