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Please make that Also, if you are not a native speaker of a language, it might be worthwhile to access hitchwiki.org using Firefox and download the dictionary from [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 Mozilla] for the language in which you are writing your first contribution is your own , so that you can spell-check what you're typing. If you'userre editing the English language wiki, I' profile! So that it can stop being red and that we can somehow know how valid may d suggest to use US spelling, but feel free to voice your contribution be valid! ;) objections. [[User:MaplefantaPrino|MaplefantaPrino]] 1820:5136, 10 January 25 December 2008 (CETUTC)
FIELD_MESSAGE_racgetlaro== Bug?? ==When linking from other sites or typing on the address bar, I often get sent to a ''double'' of the page with a capital letter, which looks like the following: http://hitchwiki.org/en/Http://hitchwiki.org/index.phpAnyone has an idea why? It seems to always do that if we link hitchwiki city page on the CS wiki travel page. It is done on every page from cswiki [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 05:10, 30 May 2009 (UTC) :It's because of the intricacies of <tt>.htaccess</tt>. The CS wiki is linking to e.g. http://www.hitchwiki.org/Paris.:So I checked [http://davidwalsh.name/no-www-using-htaccess-file some stuff] and hopefully it's all working fine now. Let me know if you encounter any weird redirect errors. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:40, 30 May 2009 (UTC) ==Logo update==:''moved to [[project:Logo update]]''
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:: Archive of '''Talk:Main Page''': [[Talk:Main Page/05-07|2005-2007]]
:: ''Our [[Community Portal]] is a more appropriate place for questions, comments and discussions that are not directly related to the Main Page.''
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== To new members ==
Please make your first contribution your own 'user' profile! This will stop showing your name in red and it will give your contributions more validity.
== New Advise Article ==
::With some regions of Canada having marked way beneath the -50 Celsius on the thermometer last month, if someone knows where to set such page, the already existing info is on the [[Canada]] page, it is most likely needed. [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 03:16, 4 March 2008 (CET)
== Mainpage ==
::Missed that discussion, probably before I joined, but my eur 0.02? You do it consistently or you keep the original name, you don't mix the two! --[[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
:::Yeah, we should really clean that up. But I think it's only about 5 articles maximum --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
::My €0,02; I agree with MrTweek, but it seems logical to me that the native name should be listed, perhaps in the city infobox. I tried to enable that yesterday, but I didn't get it right, so I didn't go ahead with it.[[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 12:53, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
== Economic crisis & hitchhiking ==
:Let's start an article about this! Not yet sure about the name, but [[economy]] will do :) [[Special:Contributions/212.143.159.96|212.143.159.96]] 20:03, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
== Frontpage is evolving ==
Good! Frontpage is going trough changes at the very begining of the 2009. :-) Should "Basics" and "Places" be more bigger and first in line, when reader starts from top-left -corner? I can try to visualize my idea when i have more time. Icons are great spice to bring some colours, maybe they should be bigger? -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 21:19, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
: Haha, I had exactly the same idea this morning :) You are welcome to tweak the site a bit. Oh, and if you are in IRC, you might want to drop by in #hitchhiking@freenode ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:53, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
::Actually i came out with [[User:Mikael/Main_Page_09_a|these rather big changes]]. :-) Comments? I didn't test it with IE's yet (i'm working with OSX). Design is really close to the [http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Etusivu fi.wikipedia -frontpage]. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 01:07, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
:::Yeah man, I love it :) I can test it in IE tomorrow. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:20, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
: About compatibility: With Firefox 3.0.3 it looks great, with IE7 the fonts look weird, also the top ''Hitchwiki'' text is somehow cut below, so only 3/4 of the text is visible. All other boxes are okay, though. Will test with Safari Browser later. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 16:56, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
:: Here it works perfect in Safari. In IE7, the right border of the boxes is missing. All content is visible, so only a minor issue. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 17:00, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
::Hi! Great to see it in action. :-) I tested it in Safari 3.21 under OSX - works great. I also tweaked a inline CSS of the H1-element ("Hitchwiki"-title). Can somebody test it in IE6 and 7? I think clipping problem was commong line-height -bug in IE. I'll do some additional testing at office tomorrow. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 20:13, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
::: Looks goog in Google Chrome except that left boxes are sqeezed a bit which creates 2,5 cm empty space under the Pictures of the Moment. --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 10:05, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
::The left column is too small on the 9" screen of my Acer Aspire One. I've tried playing a bit with the width but I didn't quickly manage to fix it. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 10:51, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
::: I have the same 'problem'. Also I would find it cool to have pictures on the screen without scrolling and also have the links to different hitchhikers available... this makes the wiki more personal. --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 11:01, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
::: I added "min-width" -attribute to the left column. It's not working with IE5-6, but what the heck. ;-) Another thing would be taking 4th picture out from the gallery, so right column could shrink smaller with small resolutions. I wouldn't add list of hitchhikers visible by default, but how about show/hide -stylish box? Maybe under "Also on Hitchwiki". -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 17:23, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
:::: 'I wouldn't add list of hitchhikers visible by default' - Why not? Because there are not all contributers? Not a big thing in my opinion, not everybody wants to be linked there and it could be named accordingly. I can't think of any other reasons... but I am curious to get to know some more views on this. My point is that it gives a more personal touch to the technical wiki, it is about real people (as somebody also stated in why he works for Hitchwiki). Arguments around this more personal touch of Hitchwiki are welcomed too. --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 04:23, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
::::: I think this wiki is quite personal already with or without hichhikres-list. My top reason was to prevent main page to grow too heavy with lot's of text/link mass, though i'd also like to see some quick way to browse active hitchwiki-users. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 17:17, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
::::: I [[User:Mikael/Main_Page_09_a|tested]] to float gallery to the right, but it's not working with smaller (under 1200px width) resolutions. :-/ With 24" It's looking great. :-D -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 17:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
::On Win ME (yes, ppl still seem to use it) with Firefox 2.0 and 1024x768 Screen the two boxes (Places/Basics) are pretty narrow. Changing min-width doesn't help. In IE6 the site looks horrible, but who is using IE6 anyway? Maybe we should add an "Best seen with firefox" whatever button the the Start Page?--[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 14:59, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
:The '''News''' and '''Events''' boxes don't adapt themselves to the screenwidth, which is extremely annoying! [[User:Prino|Prino]] 00:28, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
: I did some editing for the CSS and tested it with IE 5.5-7 under Windows XP. These worked as well: safari 3 (win/mac), firefox 3 (win/mac), opera 9.6 (win/mac). With IE6 and under png-transparengy doesn't work (''needs JS-hack or background-color added to the images''), first box doesn't have top-margin and it's contents had too big line-height. These are not minor problems. I also took 4rd PotM-image away, so page should now scale better with small screens (like tiny 9" computers). -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 17:17, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
:Maybe it would be better to show less news entries on the startpage? So the event box would be visible on the first sight on smaller screens. Upcoming events should catch more interest than 4 month old news, or? --[[User:Globetrotter tt|Globetrotter tt]] 08:15, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
:Just reduced the news-items to three, as the previous ones were outdated anyway. Better now on smaller screens :-) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 11:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
:Could anyone able give some help to clean up the design of the frontpage of the French version of Hitchwiki? I'm not very used to this kind of job, but I find it awful compared to the English one. Thanks! --[[User:Grégoire|Grégoire]] 12:33, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
:@[[User:Grégoire|Grégoire]] it's on my todo list --[[User:Xo|xo]] 02:31, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
==search-field==
I don't know if somebody already suggested it, but is it possible to move the search-field more up!? I think it's the most used field on the main page and should be directly under the hitchwiki-picture. Especially for smaller monitors, eg netbooks, you have to scroll down to reach it ;-) --[[User:jeensg|jeensg]] 13:53, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
:I'm okay with it. What do other people think? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 23:04, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
::good idea! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 09:23, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
::I agree with the idea, and I would even suggest to make the field a bit larger.--[[User:Grégoire|Grégoire]] 09:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
:Hey, is it possible to move it up some time? I mean, I don't know much about the construction and whether it's hard to do so, maybe we just forgot about it? --[[User:jeensg|jeensg]] 11:51, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
:: Yes, we forgot. Or rather: nobody felt responsible for doing it. I did it now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:28, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
::: Thanks a lot, I really do like it! --[[User:jeensg|jeensg]] 22:06, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
==New colors, logo and such==
[[Image:Hitchwiki front proposal 2010 a.png|thumb|Frontpage proposal 1, by [[User:Mikael|Mikael]]|400px]]
Hello! We've been building [http://github.com/MrTweek/maps.hitchwiki.org a new hitchwiki maps] and some days ago I designed [http://github.com/MrTweek/maps.hitchwiki.org/raw/master/_Documents/maps_gui.png a new GUI for it]. I got an idea to bring that logo and colors also to the Hitchwiki and so far it looks like this. What do you think? If you don't like colors, at least we could use this structure?
Hand in logo is from hitchgathering.org -logo, since it was CC-by-SA. :-) Is that okay? I also put randomroads and hitchgathering -links to the main menu.
That square light box is a hovered link.
-[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 17:35, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
:Where is the "Like it" Button? ;) Looks great, maybe only the color of the article count could be a bit darker, as here it looks pretty close to the background color. Or it's just my eyes that are quite bad :P The logo is cool, it's simple and says it all. Lovei t. Anyway, go for it, Mikael! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:47, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
:: I love it :) If you want, just install it to [[Hitchwiki:Start Page]] --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:58, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
== Updated PNGs ==
I've updated a whole bunch of PNGs with versions that were generated directly from the SVG from Wikipedia (with the GIMP). Height is around 400 pixels (or less) to keep the PNGs from adding dithered colors. Resulting PNGs were optimized with [http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm#pngout PNGOUT]
So far I've done all flags for the countries I have visited. Flags for the additional nationalities of drivers that gave me rides will follow (in a future) [[User:Prino|Prino]] 13:28, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
: By the way, it should be possible to upload SVGs here. That way we could completely avoid any conversion problems. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:56, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
::The File upload page does not seem to allow .SVG, but I haven't tried it. However, you must be aware that older browsers do not support .SVG files and I'm not sure if one of the newer (aka the piece of junk from M$) ones does. Also, if I try to upload '''Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg''' I get the following message:
"# A file with this name exists already, please check File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg if you are not sure if you want to change it."
Clicking on the link will go to a page that tells me
"This file is from a shared repository and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below"
And it doesn't show up in [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:ListFiles?limit=50&ilsearch=Netherlands&title=Special%3AListFiles Special:ListFiles], so how does the link to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg Wikimedia Commons] work? Another problem is of course the case-sensitivity, if I try to upload "Flag_of_'''T'''he_Netherlands.svg", the system will happily let me do so. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 19:46, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
: Also, I wonder what the reason is, to re-upload images in the same resolution? They look completely the same for me. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:15, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
::The PNGs I uploaded are exactly the same, but PNGOUT is capable of compressing them significantly better in many cases, which should save some bandwidth... Look at some of the bigger files I replaced in the changelog! [[User:Prino|Prino]] 19:23, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
[[File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg|150px|thumb|left|This a .SVG file]]
: Hmm, ok. First of all: Hitchwiki is linked to wikimedia commons. That means, you can just use any file uploaded to wikimedia commons here. And that is also the reason for your error message: If you upload a file, that is also uploaded to wikimedia commons, you would replace it locally. This is fine, you can do that. It doesn't make much sense to upload the same file again, though.
: It doesn't really matter wether a browser supports svg. The wiki renders them to png pr jpg anyway. But it can render them in a much better quality, no matter which size they will have. So, in general, SVG is always better than PNG or JPG, but not always possible.
: I think bandwith is not so much of an issue nowadays. All modern browsers support on-the-fly-compression anyway, so it will probably not make any difference at all. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:18, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
== Navigation ==
On the right side sucks, BIG time...
And while I'm writing this, the table with foreign characters shows as a series of "charinsert" tags, possibly because it's missing a final '}' [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 20:52, 1 October 2012 (CEST)
:And the colour of the links, a horrible blue also stinks. Why was this change required, what was wrong with the old design? [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 22:03, 1 October 2012 (CEST)
::And 9 cm of grey screen on either side of the text on a 23" monitor is also really useful. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 11:56, 2 October 2012 (CEST)
:I like Mikael's new design but the old Monobook one is useful indeed. So go to [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering]] and choose MonoBook. That's what I just did, there are still some tidbits not working but I'll fix them in [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]].
:Charinsert is broken because the extension doesn't work anymore with MediaWiki 1.19. Will try to fix that as well today. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 12:05, 2 October 2012 (CEST)
== Bug ==
Hey guys - having trouble adding places? It gives an error message and then you can't add anything Anyone else experiencing this problem? 15th November 2016.
All templates are out of order, because they have a "<nowiki>{{ #</nowiki>" at their beginning in the whole wiki. -[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 09:51, 4 October 2012 (CEST)
: Thanks for noting. We know about this bug, but as far as I know, it only affect the Isin-Template? A quick Check on [[Germany]] which has a lot of templates shows me that most of them work fine. Please let us know if you know of any specific template that is broken as well --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] ([[User talk:MrTweek|talk]]) 09:58, 4 October 2012 (CEST)
: many templates which I use for the motorways are broken: {{ramp}} {{junction}} {{gas}} {{rest}} {{very good}} {{good}}, look at {{Ade|1}} --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 14:44, 8 October 2012 (CEST)
* I don't know about the templates (except IsIn) but the all the links to Trashwiki aren't in the toolbow anymore, but at the end of the page... I speak about the french version (exemple: [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Prague], at the end of the page). For the english version, they just disappeared... Even if they are still in the editing page. --[[User:Klodreamer|Klodreamer]] ([[User talk:Klodreamer|talk]]) 18:34, 9 October 2012 (CEST)
* It seems to me, that for all pictures, which have been uploaded before October, the original files have been gone. That lead to the above problem, that my templates don't run any more. --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 17:55, 15 October 2012 (CEST)
: I just re-imported them, so most images should work again. Please let me know, if there are still a lot missing. If there are only a few missing, we can just upload them again manually. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 04:32, 28 October 2012 (CET)
* I'm already missing some symbols: {{rest}} {{average}} {{bad}} {{senseless}}, the logo don't show up, in the German wiki also the template ''gut'' has no picture. --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 16:06, 3 November 2012 (CET)
== new bug ==
In the German part of this wiki actually I can't make edits, I always gets the answer: "Es ist ein Datenbankabfragefehler aufgetreten. Dies könnte auf einen Fehler in der Software hindeuten." --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 09:12, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
== Trustroots advertisement ==
In my opinion the advertisement for Trustroots does not need to be here for years, mainly because Hitchwiki could (should!) behave like a proper commercial free, independent wiki, without its own agenda. The advertisement can repel potential users from Hitchwiki. Online hospex is not the same as hitch-hiking either and certainly not all hitch-hikers are interested in such service. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 23:13, 21 July 2016 (CEST)
