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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 don't even just need to log in.
Hitchwiki is gathering all sorts of relevant information about good hitchhiking spots, knowledge about hitchhiking possibilities 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 [[abgefahren e.V.]].
== How to contribute ==
If it feels a bit awkward, you can practice in the [[Sandbox]].
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]].
== Background ==
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 Wikicities (now [http://www.wikia.com/ Wikia]), 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 found place at ''hitchwiki.org'' in November 2006 by Guaka and [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]. In 2007 a Spanish, French and German version were added, in 2008 a Russian and Finnish version and 2009 brought a Bulgarian language version.
[[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]] has been handling most and Guaka - thanks to Wikia's availability of the technical work ever 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. In the winter 2013—2014 a group of people led by Mikael, [[User:Remigr|Rémi]] and [[User:Omelnyk|Olexandr]] started a complete rewrite of the second relaunch - wiki and hethe maps. As of 2019 it's ''almost'' done but we can probably assume it will never be completely done ;) Currently the core team doing an excellent job thinks the majority of technical tasks consists of [[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 actives working on mobile apps for Hitchwiki. Same people are also running [http://nomadwiki.org Nomadwiki] and [http://trashwiki.org Trashwiki.org]. Kasper 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 on [https://www.couchsurfing.com CouchSurfing.org] in the past.
== Idea behind the project ==
: ''See also [[project:why we work on Hitchwiki|why we work on Hitchwiki]].''
== Free Content / Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Licence ==The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License GNU Free Documentation License]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 remains available under the GFDLCC BY SA. When authors contribute original material to the project, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright copyright] over it is retained with them, but they agree to make the work available under the GFDLCC BY SA. Material on ''The Hitchhiking Wiki'' may thus be shared with, or incorporated from, resources which also use this license.
This 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, the Hitchhiking Wiki is not just for itself. It's for all hitchhikers, 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 GNU Free Documentation License[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?
: 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 September 2008 November 2011 we've had contributions from 100s 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].
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