Hitchwiki talk:Multilingual coordination

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Please leave your questions and request related to Hitchwiki in other languages. If you want you can write in French, German or Spanish.

-1 articles?

On the front page of the French and the German Hitchwiki it now says that there are -1 articles. Is this just temporary? guakasite, wikitalk 20:35, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

I hope so ;) I have no idea what the reason for this is, but I'll surely fix it. --MrTweek 20:42, 10 September 2007 (CEST)
It's fixed now, at least in the German version. I think you need at least 1 or 2 articles (excluding main page, templates, user pages, etc) to get this working properly. --MrTweek 21:29, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

Images

It would be great if the same images were usable on all Hitchwikis. Maybe something for the future? It might even be somehow possible to get in touch with Wikimedia Commons, and use that one as our image repository? guakasite, wikitalk 20:35, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

Unfortunately, it is not possible to use completely shared repositories. But you can define one external repository for each wiki. So we could the English one as a global repository, because it has the most images. Would be cool if you could ask the guys from wikimedia commons. Or maybe their repository is already open for third-party wikis? --MrTweek 20:42, 10 September 2007 (CEST)
Alright, I configured that. You can now use images from the local wiki, but also from the wiki. If an image exists in both wikis, the local version will be displayed. --MrTweek 22:47, 10 September 2007 (CEST)


Newsletter

I think it might be a good Idea to send a newsletter to the yahoo-group. Many users probably forgot about hitchwiki but might be more interested to work on a wiki in their language.

I'll start a draft here, feel free to add something.

Draft

Dear fellow hitchhiker,

Most of you probably already know www.hitchwiki.org.
Now we happily want to announce that we are going international. SAn from Argentina started a Spanish wiki that you can find at http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar/.
Abgefahren e.V., the German hitchhiking club started a German one at http://de.hitchwiki.org/.
Because we had some French users lately, we also decided to set up http://fr.hitchwiki.org.
If you are familiar with one of those languages, we want to invite you to help building these wikis, no matter if you add new content, or just translate from the English pages.

Also, if you are interested in having Hitchwiki in any other language, and have some time to work on that, just let us know, we are happy to start wikis in more languages if there is enough interest.

And, if your are interested in the future of Hitchwiki, check http://hitchwiki.org/Hitchwiki:Organization and leave your comments, if you have some.

happy hitching,

The Hitchwiki Team:

  • MrTweek
  • Guaka
  • Platschi
  • SAn
  • Zac

sent --MrTweeksite, wikitalk 10:45, 16 September 2007 (CEST)

Jon/SAHR

I moved your stuff to Hitchwiki:Community_Portal, because this is the place where it belongs. --MrTweeksite, wikitalk 19:13, 26 September 2007 (CEST)

Russian hitchwiki

Would you think it would be possible to set up a Russian branch of hitchwiki on ru.hitchwiki.org? Hitching is extremely popular in Russia and other former USSR countries, and I am fairly sure we will be able to find contributors! Lnx, 3 March 2008 11:40 GMT

Just ask User:MrTweek, he's the Admin of the website. Would be also great if all those Russian contributors then translate their knowledge to the English hitchwiki :) We're still missing a lot of information on Russia :) But thanks for sure for your contributions so far. platschisite, wikitalk 12:44, 3 March 2008 (CET)
I would love to start a russian hitchwiki. The only problem is, that I don't know anyone who speaks russian. It is important to keep an eye on a wiki to avoid spam or other unwanted content. So, if you are willing to be the administrator for the wiki (or know someone who would do it), just let me know, and I'll set it up at once ;) It's really not much work, you just need to check the content maybe once a week. --MrTweeksite, wikitalk 13:08, 3 March 2008 (CET)
I am a native Russian speaker - while I would not be able to add a lot of stuff on Russia & former USSR (I have only hitch-hiked in the UK), I would be able to watch the wiki for unwanted material --Lnx 16:16, 3 March 2008 (GMT)
Great :D I will set it up soon and contact you --MrTweeksite, wikitalk 17:58, 3 March 2008 (CET)
Thanks a lot for setting the Russian section up - the only thing is can you please check all the style files (.css) are uploaded correctly? Some styles don't seem to be applied (e.g. edit section links are not in the right place and the font is of the wrong size too)

--Lnx 00:40, 4 March 2008 (GMT)