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| − | '''15 July''' - "Viva con Agua" - the official charity project from FC St. Pauli football club - is running the '''Charity Hitchrace from [[Hamburg]] to [[Saragossa]]''' from the 23rd of August on to the EXPO 2008 with the topic "Water and Sustainable Development".
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| | '''30 June''' – Finally we launched a [http://www.hitchwiki.org/planet/ Hitchhiking Planet]. It collects blog entries from various hitchhikers around the world. If you want your blog added, contact [http://www.hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&action=edit§ion=new MrTweek]. | | '''30 June''' – Finally we launched a [http://www.hitchwiki.org/planet/ Hitchhiking Planet]. It collects blog entries from various hitchhikers around the world. If you want your blog added, contact [http://www.hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&action=edit§ion=new MrTweek]. |
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| | '''26 February''' – The German hitchhiking club [[Abgefahren e.V.]] is organizing a hitchhiking competition through [[Germany]] and [[Poland]] from '''22th–25th May 2008!''' For more information check out [http://race.abgefahren-ev.de abgefahren-ev.de], there you can register for the trip and get the latest information! See you on the road! | | '''26 February''' – The German hitchhiking club [[Abgefahren e.V.]] is organizing a hitchhiking competition through [[Germany]] and [[Poland]] from '''22th–25th May 2008!''' For more information check out [http://race.abgefahren-ev.de abgefahren-ev.de], there you can register for the trip and get the latest information! See you on the road! |
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| − | '''28 December''' – From December 28 till 2nd January there's a ''New Year Hitchhiker Happening'' in Slab City, [[California]]. For more information, have a look [http://gathering.digihitch.com/slabs.php here].
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| − | '''14 December''' – We recently launched '''[http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/ blogs.hitchwiki.org]''', where you can start your own hitchhiking blog. Just log in with your hitchwiki user data and you can write your first post right away :) There's also a new feature at some country articles (see [[Germany]] or [[Bulgaria]]) called '''[[Hitchwiki:Hitchability|Hitchability]]'''. With this ''everyone'' can '''rate''' the countries on how good they are for hitchhiking. Want to rate your country? Have a [[Hitchwiki:Hitchability|look here]].
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| − | '''5 November''' – We just added a little ''Question? Need Help?'' section to the [[Hitchwiki:Community_Portal#Questions.3F_Need_help.3F|Talk to us]] page. If you have any questions concerning the wiki, if you need city or country-specific information, don't hesitate to [[Hitchwiki:Community_Portal#Questions.3F_Need_help.3F|ask here]]. Whatever, good luck to all hitchhikers!
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| − | '''8 October''' – Hitchwiki is [http://en.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm growing bigger and bigger]! The only decrease was the number of pictures. Please [[Special:Upload|upload your nice hitch pictures]] from this year's Summer and we'll put them in the relevant articles and if they're really nice, on the Main Page!
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| − | '''11 September''' – '''Hitchwiki is going international!''' <br />[[User:SAn|SAn]] from [http://www.autostopargentina.com.ar/ Autostop Argentina] started '''[http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar/ Autostopwiki]''' in Spanish and they already have a lot of information about [[Argentina]].
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| − | With support from [[abgefahren e.V.]], we started '''[http://de.hitchwiki.org/ Trampwiki]''' in German and are just starting to translate information from the English wiki.
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| − | Due to some general interest, we've also set up a '''[http://fr.hitchwiki.org/ French hitchwiki]'''.
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| − | If you speak one of these languages, you are very welcome to contribute. If you have an account here, you can use it in all these wikis, of course.
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| − | Oh, and if you want to see hitchwiki in any other language and are willing to help a bit with that, just [[Hitchwiki:Community Portal|let us know]].
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| − | '''10 September''' – If you are somewhat active here or interested in the future of hitchwiki, check '''[[Hitchwiki:Organization]]''' and leave your comments, if you have some.
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| − | '''6 September''' – We now have more than [[Special:Statistics|500 articles]]! <small>Actually, probably due to some weird technical problem 154 articles weren't counted, so we don't know when we precisely reached 500. Oh well, whatever. Nevermind.</small>
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| − | '''18 August''' – We just created an '''IRC-Channel''' called '''[irc://irc.blackened.com/hitchhiking #hitchhiking]''' on EFNet.
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| − | '''14 August''' – A German hitchhiking club was founded, called '''abgefahren e.V.'''. They will also organize a hitchhiking camp/gathering near [[Freiburg im Breisgau]] from 6th to 9th of September. Check it out at [http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/ abgefahren.hitchbase.com].
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| − | '''25 July''' – There's now some basic information on '''[[how to pick up hitchhikers]]'''. Feel free to add more!
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| − | '''4 July''' – A lot of great info about '''[[Canada]]''' has [http://hitchwiki.org/Category:Canada?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACanada been added during the last days]. If you have them, please [[Special:Upload|upload some pictures]] from your Canadian hitching experiences.
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| − | '''15 June''' – The [[Lithuania]]n Hitch-hiking Gathering will take place at June 29 – July 01 in a very natural surrounding of [[Salcininkai]], which is about 30 kilometres south from [[Vilnius]]. [http://www.autostop.lt/events.php?w=38 More info at autostop.lt]
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| − | '''29 May''' – [[Special:Listusers|100 users]] have registered since we moved all the stuff to hitchwiki.org. Huge thanks to everyone.
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| − | '''22 May''' – London to Paris Competition! There will be a London to Paris competition for young people, starting 2nd or 3rd of June at Trafalgar Square, London and ending that night (hopefully) at the Eiffel Tower, Paris. Buy-in is 10GBP and the winner gets all! If you are on Facebook search for "The Race to Paris" and join the group or leave a message on [[Talk:User:Andrew|Andrews talk page]].
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| − | '''08 May''' – There is now a [http://groups.google.com/group/hitchwiki hitchwiki email list], for any discussions related to Hitchwiki, feel free to join.
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| − | '''01 May''' – The "BERLIN HOSPITALITY CLUB BEACHCAMP", an international hospitality, backpacker and hitchhiker gathering will happen from May 24th – 28th in Berlin. Check http://www.happy-traveller.de/. You can probably meet other hitchwiki users there.
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| − | '''25 April''' – You can now include maps from [[Liftershalte.info]] directly into hitchwiki-articles. [[How to add maps to articles|See how it works]]. Also check [[Mönchengladbach]] and [[Hannover]].
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| − | 18 December – [[MrTweek]] installed some cool [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/Sitemap.htm wiki statistics] software.
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| − | 7 December – [[amylin]] is working on [[Possible_Logo_Re-designs|a logo for the Hitchwiki]]. Please give your comments, or if you can do better: ''do it''! [[Guaka]] has been changing the [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css|general layout]] a little bit. Feel free [[MediaWiki Talk:Monobook.css|to discuss]].
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| − | 27 November – Let's organize the [[New Zealand hitch course 2007]]!
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| − | 24 November – We've moved to <tt>'''hitchwiki.org'''</tt>! Update your bookmarks and tell your hitchhiking friends!
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| − | 21 November – We ''were'' in the [http://www.google.com/search?q=hitchhiking&num=50 Google top 50 for "hitchhiking"].
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| − | 15 November – New people joined our efforts, with some great contributions, check out [[Poznan]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Granada]], [[Skopje]] and other [[Special:Newpages|new pages]]! Welcome to our growing hitchhiking community!
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30 June – Finally we launched a Hitchhiking Planet. It collects blog entries from various hitchhikers around the world. If you want your blog added, contact MrTweek.
5 June – We now have a Finnish hitchwiki! As Liftari.org, the biggest finnish hitchhiking website, went down, Mikael decided to start a Finnish wiki instead. Good luck!
8 April – We now have 1295 articles in 5 languages!
4 March – Hitchwiki now even has a Russian language version :) It will be maintained by Lnx. If you speak Russian, it would be nice if you could help a bit. And if you know Russian speakers, please help to spread the word!
26 February – The German hitchhiking club Abgefahren e.V. is organizing a hitchhiking competition through Germany and Poland from 22th–25th May 2008! For more information check out abgefahren-ev.de, there you can register for the trip and get the latest information! See you on the road!
