Talk:Main Page

Boo -- the Main Page format has been blatantly ripped off from Wikitravel, which is licensed under CC by-sa, not GFDL. 202.76.231.182 19:40, 19 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Hej! I thought the main page should just be an overview with the countries and without cities. Did I get it wrong? - deleea

Hi! :) Well, it might be good to have some cities in there as well. To give an idea to people and to persuade people to add something about cities we don't have yet! Although I want to get rid of the red links in a couple of months... Oh, and you can sign using ~~~~. Peace,love&hitchhike fun, Guaka 22:57, 28 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Hello. Before discovering this place for discussion I already filled some boxes eg about Virgin hh, Poland and the Netherlands. On one hand this wiki is a good idea, because it has some (very small) potential to become an interesting source of information. However, I am not expecting this at all. Which does not need to mean anything. Any new business usually takes some time - up to three or five years - to make a little bit more than it costs, and so it might be with this initiative. As for what I've read it's some kind of start. However, I have doubts about the general neutrality of the content for now. For example - I read that a country can be skipped if an attempt to hitchhike there does not succeed. What a bullshit! This may be reasonable for random long distance travellers, however many people who hitchhike do so for very different reasons. For example because they don't have money, because there is no public transport and so on. Hitchhiking in the Netherlands "is possible". "It's possible" for some, for others it is easy, not just possible. So, my comment is a very positive one - I hope - which tries to say. What is the neutral point of view? Ah, I see that the hitchhikers point of view is wanted. If so, what is a hitchhiker, and what is the hitchhikers point of view? If a non-hitchhiker wanted to hitchhike out of town, what would be his or her point of view? That's all. It's an ambitious project you're thinking of. All the best with it. Regards Frank Verhart. Note - please don't copy information (text) from my website. It is copyrighted material that I do not offer for publication elsewhere. PS - I don't like the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Hi! Just finished HGttG today :) So I just wanted to write Don't panic! but then I saw you don't like it.

I'm glad to read your critique and I'll try to do something useful with it!

One thing though: this is not a business! The AdSense money goes to Wikicities, to which I'm not affiliated. Also, I'm not really the founder: I adopted, or saved thia wiki from a spam death.

ciao, Guaka 20:10, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey Hitchhikers! Just joined the new hitchhiking wiki here-- whew! there have been a few moves in these last 2 years, hope we are all able to make this a permanent stay here on hitchwiki.org. I contributed to hitchhikingguide.org and hitchhiking.wikia.com but do not feel the need to mark which contributions belong to me within this new wiki. As you will see from my user page, I am creator/webmaster/co-editor of digihitch.com. Some of the information I personally collected for digihitch I will also share here, and as with all hitchhikers I have a ton of info that has not yet been written. As I hitchhike primarily in the USA, I will have most to contribute to that section. (Don't believe the misinformation found on the web... there are still tens of thousands of hitchhikers in the USA). I -and the digihitch community- would really appreciate it if you cite digihitch.com for all information you collect from there. The website is community-run and has been the hard work of many world hitchhikers for over 5 years. Support our community when possible and all hitchhikers will benefit! I must admit that I was opposed to a hitchhiking wiki when Teppo first suggested it to me in April 2005. We at digihitch.com had just launched our digihitch World section and I believed that all information would be best shared there among registered members (without all the spam maintenance required of a wiki), but since that time I understand the value of a wiki such as this and will attempt to share unbiased contributions where possible. Revel and Roll, Morgan 'Salman' 21:38 01 December 2006 (UTC)

Possibility

Once we get more states into the United States, do you want to divide it up into regional pages?

Continued at Talk:United States of America Guaka 15:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Errors that need to be fixed

Sorry, I hit edit instead of add comment, whoops :)

Anyway,

Kyiv/Kiev on the title page I just added some tips to the Kyiv page (well, one tip :) - please note in Ukrainian language Kiev is written as Kyiv - which should be the correct name to use (Kiev is the old Russian name for the city). Mind you, noone will get confused, but just for the sake of completeness (and to not piss off any Ukrainians :)

Cheers

Paul (djdirect from CS)

PS: what's wrong with HHGTG? :)

Thanks for your contributions!

When you log in you can "move" pages to another title. That way there will also be a redirect. Now both Kyiv and Kiev point to the same article.

Something wrong with HHGTG? Nah. Or do you mean Hitchhiker's Guide to Hitchhiking. Well, I think the title is a bit long. But maybe it's good. I'd be willing to use any name, if there are enough folks who want that name. :) Guaka 20:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Stats

• When we'll be getting some more hits it could be interesting to add a link to http://yoshi.mega2000.de/stats/www.hitchwiki.org/ on the Main Page.
• I want to see if I can get Wikistats installed. (For hitchwiki and the CS Wiki.) Guaka 03:04, 24 November 2006 (CET)