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The [[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 some point it was left abandoned by its founder, and adopted by [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]. As a hitchhiker you're encouraged to not only read the guide, but also to contribute by adding your knowledge, improving existing articles and starting new ones!
The [[Hitchwiki]] is collecting all sort of relevant information about good hitchhiking spots, knowledge about hitchhiking possibilites in different countries, general know-how about [[what to pack]] and [[when to go]], [[what to eat]], and [[how to stay safe]].
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=== How to contribute ===
=== Background ===
The project started 14th of April 2005. However, the person who started didn't respond when the wiki was constantly being spammed. Consequently [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] moved the wiki to wikicities(nowe [http://www.wikia.com/ Wikia]), a migration that was completed on the 19th of December 2005.The [[Hitchwiki]] was relaunched on 17 December 2005. [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] organized the relaunch with a first English version of the wiki. In 2007 a Spanish, French and German version were added. 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.
=== Idea behind the project ===
: 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:DumpsDatabase 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 transfered 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!