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{{background}}__NOTOC__'''Hitchwiki''' is a collaborative website for gathering information about [[hitchhiking]] and [[train hopping in the United States|other]] [[boats|ways]] of extremely cheap ways of transport. It was inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]. At Before it had 100 articles, at some point it was left abandoned by its founder, and found and adopted by [[User: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.

There are also some [[Help:Contents|help]] pages for people who are editing a wiki the first time, or check out [[:Category:To do|to do]] and [[:Category:Tech team|tech team]].

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 (now later Wikia and [httphttps://www.wikiafandom.com/ Wikiafandom]), a migration that was completed on the 19th of December 2005. [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] organized the relaunch with a first English version of the wiki. A second and final relaunch was done at ''hitchwiki.org'' (registered on 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.

Currently the core team doing the majority of technical tasks consists of [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] organized the relaunch with a first English version of the wiki. A second and final relaunch was done at ''hitchwiki.org'' (registered on November 22nd 2006) by [[User:MrTweekRobino|MrTweekRobino]] 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 [http://hitchwiki.org/ the front page] for an overview). [[User:Mikael|Mikael]] joined Hitchwiki in 2008 after he had done Finnish version and migrated it to Hitchwiki.org. Mikael wrote new maps system in 2010 and is responsible for the layout, among other things.

Currently the core team doing the majority of technical tasks is [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]], [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] and [[User:Mikael|Mikael]]. Many [[Category:Tech team|more people]] have been working on Hitchwiki over the years. There's also a bunch of folks working on mobile apps for Hitchwiki.

Same The same people are also running [httphttps://nomadwiki.org Nomadwiki] (a bit broken in 2024) and [httphttps://trashwiki.org Trashwiki.org]. Kasper 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 Kasper Guaka on [https://www.couchsurfing.com / CouchSurfing.org] in the past.

The idea in the hitchhiking wiki is not to compete with other already existing [[Hitchhiking websites|marvelous hitchhiking sites]], but to provide a way to reorganize a lot of the existing knowhow into one, easily searchable guide. Hopefully the hitchwiki Hitchwiki can help all the other sites to flourish. It links to all known sites.