User talk:Guaka

Resemblance to WikiTravel

Hello! Whatever you did worked. There's now no resemblance, so no problem!

Robin Patterson 03:46, 29 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Okay! Cool :) Guaka 08:41, 29 Dec 2005 (UTC)

That apostrophe

To save making you look twice, here's another thought I've had:

I see some recent moves probably related to standardising your apostrophe placement in "Hitchhikers". I've not looked to see how it all ended up.

But there's still a problem, as of a few minutes ago. Your main article namespace - http://hitchhiking.wikicities.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=0 - contains pages that start with "Hitchhikers' Guide to Hitchhiking:". If they were redirects to matching "project" namespace pages - http://hitchhiking.wikicities.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=4 - that start with "Hitchhiker's Guide to Hitchhiking:", no problem. But they are not. That namespace is practically unused.

You do know, I suppose, that you can type "project:" and let the software sort out the long prefix?

No I didn't. :)

So I suggest that you grab those "s-apostrophe" pages and Move them all to the corresponding "project:" page if that's what you meant for them (which you probably did, as they are "About" and "Why this wiki?", etc).

Robin Patterson 03:46, 29 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Sort of did that now. Hope it's awrite now. Guaka 08:41, 29 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Separating verifiable fact from opinion and personal stories

moved to project:Community portal

Wiki Name

moved to project:Community Portal :) Guaka 15:07, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Anarchopedia

Hoj Guaka. Maybe you want to check what I am doing on this page Anarchopedia:Hitchhiking Wiki datadump, basically the same as what was done with infoAnarchy wiki. I think it is useful to have redundancy, so that the content stays should one website go offline for any reason. I am not sure how many articles to move, I think I will just start with the ones I find most interesting. Rev 22 21:48, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, redundancy can be good, but it can also lead to double work. Can you contact me by mail? kas per DOT sou ren AROBASE gmail PUNTO com. There's always Google cache if one website is offline for a bit. Guaka 23:42, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

My initial idea was not to move all data, just the most interesting and relevant. Relevant data attracts users, and eventually contributors. Every article will link to articles on this project so the score search engine for it will increase. Google cache is not reliable as a backup, except for reasonably popular articles in popular websites, but even then recreating mediawiki code from cached data (html) is a suboptimal solution (except if formatted text is all you care about). Rev 22 02:08, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

great stuff

This is really nice work. Let me know if you would like us to promote in via the wikia spotlight when you're ready. You should also talk to bill on http://World.wikia.com about cross-linking! Gil (talk) 15:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note - I believe Bill added you to World Wikia

As for ads, I know they are a bit annoying, but we use 100% of the ad revenue to pay for our servers and bandwith (and still lose money) so I hope you understand that we need to cover our costs. Given our topics are more fun and less "educational" than Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales decided that we would not easily get donations, so he made Wikia a commercial business. We could put the ads on the top of the page instead of the right hand side if you found that easier on your eyes :-). World had an that made us take them off temporarily, I expect they'll be back as soon as the engineers have time to quickly fix the code. Also, I couldn't tell from your comment if you wanted your wiki promoted in the spotlight. Thanks! Gil (talk) 22:59, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I like it!..

I just fuckin like this wiki - nearly as much as I like hitchhiking... :-) --Speckmade 18:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Any time

I was hoping no one would think it was presumptuous to post a picture of myself, but it was the only one I had of a Liftplaats. I also didn't think about the file name, that's just the name my camera gave it. I'll keep that in mind next time. I do have more pictures. I'll look through and see if I can find anything useful.

It's great! It's very illustrative and I hope other people will start adding pictures as well. I'm looking forward to it!

On another note, I'd like to know what you think about a project I want to work on and maybe get some help. While I was traveling around Europe and Morocco for the last two months, practicing my own style of "budget travel" and talking with other travelers, I had an idea. I only paid for one place to stay for the entire time I was in Europe, and slept in parks and other improv places nearly the entire time. Food was similar, I generally didn't pay for much of it. While doing all this I realized that guide books like Lonely Planet (especially LP!) didn't really have any place in a rucksack like mine, the only useful information it really provided was maps and sometimes a bus route or something. But anyway, me and some other travelers I met thought that it would be really cool if someone made a DIY travel 'zine guide instead of the typical guidebook.

I thought long and hard about the magnitude of such a project, and started taking notes on the sort of information I thought useful that didn't create bloat and take away all the adventure from travel. Needless to say, I didn't get near enough information for a zine because I was too busy traveling to write about traveling. I decided the only practical way to do it would be online open content, like a Wiki. I thought about starting my own, and I still consider it, but it would take ages to build a wealth of knowledge like what already exists here. So, my question is would you be interested in working with me to edit down a "cream of the crop" of this wiki for printing in zine format? I'm thinking 50 sheets, center folded. Standard photocopy zine format. I would want to do it for non-profit of course. Hitchhikers don't have money for guides! If you're interested, I have a little experience with zine pressing and we could mail them out for like $2 a peice or something to help fund this site further and the pressing of the zines. Just let me know. --Zac Stewart 23:49, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, I guess you might have heard of CouchSurfing? :)

I've actually started the CouchSurfing Wiki in August. One of the things happening on the CS Wiki is the CouchSurfing Guide. I think your ideas fit perfectly well to it. Just check out some pages. I started adding dumpster dive info, and many articles have links to the Hitchhiking Wiki. You are very welcome to participate. It's not yet Creative Commons now, but I think it will be. I just didn't want to take that decision on my own. I just suggest people to use a template on their User profile stating that their contributions are available under both CC and GFDL.

Also, Amylin will be arriving at the New Zealand CouchSurfing Collective soon, she had her own zine for a while! And she's hitchhiking a lot these days! :) Guaka^TalkCS 00:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Let's start Hitchhiking Zine (rename if you wish) :) Guaka^TalkCS 00:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Awesome. You have the same mindset I have on this. Me and my friend Derek were talking about this throughout our trip about how if we wrote Europe on a Shoestring we'd review the best dumpsters and places to get food for free, and best parks and stuff instead of restaraunts and hostels. This could really go places. I don't know of many works of this nature since Ken Welsh's Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe. I had done some scratch work and though Travel or Die kept in the zine tradition (spinoff of Skate or Die) but I'm not really concerned about titles and stuff. Content and organization is more important at this point of course. I do have some good design/production ideas, but again, that's not important at this point.

--Zac Stewart 08:15, 16 November 2006 (UTC)