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Hey Mikael. I see, you already found the finnish hitchwiki :) I just gave you admin-privileges, so now you can promote and demote users at http://fi.hitchwiki.org/Toiminnot:Käyttöoikeudet
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== Finland Rideshare link ==
  
:Hoi Mikeal, welcome to the hitchwiki! :) Have fun with the Finnish wiki, and of course you're welcome to add stuff to the English one as well :) [[User:platschi|platschi]]<small><sup>[http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/platschi site], [[user talk:platschi|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:07, 5 June 2008 (CEST)
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I removed the rideshare site link added to [[Finland]] not because it was not "valid", but because it was the only edit that the user had made -- he seems to have signed up solely to promote this site. On many wikis, to avoid rewarding linkspamming, it is customary to revert the addition of external links when they are the poster's first and sole contribution. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 14:01, 14 January 2013 (CET)
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:Yup yup, understood that. Sometimes it's good to check out the site itself if it has also english version. This time the only edit user had done was good edit. ;-) In future if you find any weird looking language that might be Finnish, ping me too. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 14:12, 14 January 2013 (CET)
  
::Hi everyone! :-) I'll try to be active with en.hitchwiki also, though i have limited amount of time and i'll try to make fi.hitchwiki basic-stuff to working level first. And some underground/guerrilla-advertising also. I have some ideas for whole hitchwiki.org but more about those later on... :-) -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 18:04, 5 June 2008 (CEST)
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== Talk history ==
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Tip: It's more convenient to "move" the page so that the history is kept with the page itself... You could still do that if you think it's worth it :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 18:02, 14 January 2013 (CET)
  
:::Great!  I'm looking forward to your ideas!  By the way, I know it's not the favorite language of many Finns, but do you think there could be any interest in setting up a Swedish version of Hitchwiki?  Ciao, [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 17:14, 9 June 2008 (CEST)
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* [[User_talk:Mikael/history|Talk page history]]
::::By Finns - i don't think so. :-) I don't speak Swedish at all (well, i can say that i don't speak swedish in swedish (Jag kan intte talar svenska). I have no idea how popular hitchhiking is in Sweden. In this perspective - i wonder why there isn't hitchwiki in estonian language. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 17:49, 9 June 2008 (CEST)
 
  
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== CSS seems to have gone completely off the rails ==
  
Hey, Mikael. I saw you fixed Hitchwiki's Main Page very well and neat. Probably you know there is a [http://trashwiki.org/en/Main_Page Trashwiki], Hitchwiki's sister ;) - and I thought to ask you to have a look at its Main Page if you can - it is not in the perfect formatting state despite my efforts to do smth with the layout. :( Especially if one opens it with IE. --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 12:14, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
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Have already posted this to Guaka's and MrTweek's talk pages, but that seems to have gone nowhere, so
:Hi! I'll keep in my mind this, maybe i'll try to do something when i have some time. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 23:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 
  
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Can you please, please, please have a look at what's wrong with the current CSS set-up/processing. The Hitchwiki (default) skin is sort of OK (it still does not create sortable tables, see my [[User:Prino/log/summary|summary]] page when using that skin), but all others seem top have completely gone, selecting any of them will create long completely unformatted pages. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 00:25, 2 August 2013 (CEST)
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: Since when Is that happening? I think the non-hitchwiki themes were never really intended to be used here, we just didn't bother deleting them. The table sorting is a Javascript issue. Not sure why though, do you have an idea, Mikael?
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: Anything else that is not working in the hitchwiki theme? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 13:36, 2 August 2013 (CEST)
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:Sorry guys, will be offline after a couple of hours for like a week. I had forgotten about that JS-table sorting issue. Adding stuff to the long todo-list. I guess it wouldn't be too big thingy to make everything more or less work with all themes. Anywawy, I'm off to [[Hitchgathering]]! Laters! -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 13:40, 2 August 2013 (CEST)
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::The Special Pages "Recent Changes Cleanup" using the monobook skin is completely and utterly screwed up, the sidebar items are in the table, and logo covers part of the table. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 14:55, 12 August 2013 (CEST)
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:::I see, it seems to be some broken html coming from extension. Maybe updating helps; I [https://github.com/Hitchwiki/hitchwiki/issues/22 opened an issue] about it. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 16:18, 12 August 2013 (CEST)
  
==Sysop==
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== Travelmap ==
Hi Mikael.  I saw that you have edited [[Hitchwiki:Start_Page]] before, so I made you into a sysop here after protecting that page. :[[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 14:25, 12 September 2008 (CEST)
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The [[Hitchwiki:Travelmap]] seems to be broken... I don't know if it has to do with the crash or not, just thought I'd let you know ;-) Cheers, [[User:N0id|N0id]] ([[User talk:N0id|talk]]) 16:01, 15 September 2013 (CEST)
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:Thanks! I just created an [https://github.com/Hitchwiki/hitchwiki/issues/25 an issue]. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 16:54, 15 September 2013 (CEST)
  
:Thanks. It really needs some facelifting i think. :-) -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 23:37, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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== Link ==
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Hey, the link to facebook for the brazilian gathering is the wrong one ;-) --[[User:N0id|N0id]] ([[User talk:N0id|talk]]) 18:38, 4 January 2014 (CET)
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:Thx, changed it to the right one now. Sunny greets from Lisbon! -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 21:18, 4 January 2014 (CET)
  
::Yeah, I just tried [[Hitchwiki:Start_Page|some things]], but I don't really know what I'm doing: any help is welcome! :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 19:42, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
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== Hitchgathering ==
  
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It has come to my attention that most of the discussion about the 2014 August hitchgathering is being done on Facebook. I don’t think this is fair, as many active hitchhikers have deleted their Facebook accounts (some never had a FB account to begin with). Moving the discussion to Hitchwiki will be ideal for everyone. Which reminds me, what happened to [http://hitchwiki.org/forums/ our forums]? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 18:46, 12 April 2014 (CEST)
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:BTW this year has been better this regard so far. Man, I can't much command people to stop discussing somewhere. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 22:47, 27 April 2015 (CEST)
  
==Categories==
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== Hackathon ==
Hi! Your user page category has been changed to '''Category:Hitchhikers in Finland''' because from now on this (along with the old Category:Hitchhikers) will be a standard categorization for hitchhikers on hitchwiki.org (see [[Category talk:Hitchhikers|this discussion here]] for the reasons of doing so). If for some reason you don't want to be categorized by country, feel free to delete country category on your page leaving only a standard Category:Hitchhikers. We hope you don't mind, though. 
 
  
Happy hitching,  
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It is not clear what the "pad" link in [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Hitchwiki:Hackathon_in_Turkey_2014 this page] means and why it redirects back to the same page. I will be in Turkey in December, I may be interested in the event. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 15:21, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
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:Hey Great! So let's be in touch later. We should definitely meet. :-) I added correct URL there (been in a hurry all day) and I'll let you know more about the coming hackathon in a few days via mailing lists. - [[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 15:25, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
  
The hitchwiki team
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OK, I’ve seen the site that's up. However, I will probably only be able to stay for 10 days or two weeks. Though I know PHP, Mediawiki and SQL, I'm not so experienced with Javascript. So, I'm not sure how much hacking on bold new features I could do, though I could at least use the time to familiarize myself with the Hitchwiki backend, which I've never looked into before. I could also implement a CAPTCHA, as these spammer registrations are making Prino waste a lot of time. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 09:59, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
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:There will be awfully lot of PHP/MySQL/Mediawiki coding to be done for sure. And planning/writing scripts to migrate the data from maps to wiki format (will be a hell of a mess to work that out!). Yeah, CAPTCHA/spamstuff is urgently needed and it could be very good a few days task to implement. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 10:04, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
  
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== Facebook ==
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What's the use of putting links to closed groups, i.e. those only accessible to members of the cult of $uckerberg on pages? [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 20:12, 27 April 2015 (CEST)
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:It's common enough to have an account so that it becomes useful. Let's hope someone copies useful stuff from there down to the wiki, once that's done the link can be removed. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 21:37, 27 April 2015 (CEST)
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::See [[User_talk:Mikael#Hitchgathering|Hitchgathering just above]]... If '''you''' put the link up, then shouldn't '''you''' be the someone copying the useful stuff? [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 22:43, 27 April 2015 (CEST)
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::Surely if I find more time for that. If someone else does, even better. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 22:45, 27 April 2015 (CEST)
  
==Maps==
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== News ==
The new maps is great. But I think it's absolutely necessary to have the option to enable the satelite view, otherwise it is very difficult to add new spot at the correct position. have a nice day --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 09:57, 10 November 2010 (CET)
 
  
:Hi Mikael, the new Maps looks amazing! I'm just wondering how to link a specific map to a hitchiwiki page now?  I can't see an obvious link to copy or such? --[[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 03:15, 7 December 2010 (CET)
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Why did you revert Jack Fang's announcement of his, I've just watched it, quite funny video? [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 21:18, 2 October 2015 (CEST)
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:Hi! I thought we had a policy not to add blog posts / "I'm doing a trip type stuff" / videos there, but on the other hand I haven't followed that section much for a while and I see it has evolved quite a much into that direction in lack of actual "news". Should we put it back, what do you think? -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 00:22, 3 October 2015 (CEST)
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::I'd say we put up such items for one or two weeks, gives the poster a few views and might provide a few more visits as people see that the page is changed. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 00:52, 3 October 2015 (CEST)
  
::Copying wiki embed code is almost done, but not just yet! :-) And new places will not yet be visible in map previews in Wiki either, cuz current preview map uses our old database. So far you can copy and paste old map code:
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== Nomadwiki eats Hitchwiki ==
::<nowiki><map lat='60.2' lng='24.935' zoom='11' view='3' height='350' float='right' country='Finland'/></nowiki>
 
::...and just change latitude/longitude/zoom manually. You can find coordinates for places by going to [http://maps.google.com Google Maps], centering the map where you want it to be centered in Wiki and copy&paste this to the URL-line: <nowiki>javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));</nowiki>
 
::-[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 11:31, 7 December 2010 (CET)
 
  
Hey Mikael, thumbs up for your new maps. A problem I always have is that if I am on a certain page (eg Krakow) and click below the small map "See full map" I always get all of Europe shown but not the part of the map I am interested in (eg a close up of Krakow). Could you fix that? Or maybe add an additional option to see the close up in its own window to navigate in? --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 15:59, 27 December 2010 (CET)
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Fine to copy content to Nomadwiki, but I think it doesn't need to be removed from Hitchwiki!!!! --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 19:30, 9 November 2015 (CET)
  
:Mikeal, I really looking forward to see the new maps included in hitchwiki and can't wait to see my places i added on maps in hitchwiki. will there be an automatic update in hitchwiki soon - so that we see the new maps places with the better design and so on? --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 09:07, 8 March 2011 (CET)
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== Major spammer attack going on ==
  
==5811 Gathering==
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Cannot even delete some pages!!!!! Like : "TALK $$$ %% @@ ~ 1-800-219-1195 ~ @@ CANON printer TECH support PHONE number ~ 18002191195 ~"
  
Hey I like the idea fo organizing the 5811 somewhere North Either Finland, Norway or Sweden. To be honest, I'd like to make it happen in Finland, in at least a mid-size city if not a universit town or something. Do you have a place in mind ? I'd be more motivated to give a hand if it would be over there. :) And thanks for what you did to the maps engine btw, just translated it to French... --[[User:Perilisk|Perilisk]] 22:37, 10 January 2011 (CET)
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Hey ! I added train schedules, because it is quite difficult to find stops during journey. There is Finish page vr.fi , where is possible to find train connection. You can switch to English too. But there is quite a lot of Javascript (it takes lot of CPU and it can be difficult for weak PCs or TOR users). I tried to find stops during journey at vr.fi (or sj.se in Sweden or nsb.no in Norway), but without success.
  
== Embedded maps ==
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There is another page, where you can find all train connections include stops. It is Czech web for searching connections is Czech-Slovakia (all city transport, buses, trains, planes). But there is trains connection for whole Europe. jizdnirady.idnes.cz/vlaky/spojeni/ But there is no English. (Odkud = from, Kam = to, Datum a cas = date and time - two edit fields, Pouze přímá spojení = without train change during journey, Pouze vlaky bez povinné rezervace = only trains without seat reservation obligatory). This application usually marks most of regional trains like REG, some commuter trains are missing (commuter trains by Stockholm, P train in Helsinki), and it marks all IC, EC or fast trains with seat reservation obligatory. Regional trains are blue there and long journey or fast dance floors are green, night international dance floors are red. Sometimes - one trains is barked like two another trains (R train Helsinki-Tampere, trains between Oslo and Goteborg), and some trains has two symbols (train between Helsinki and St. Peterburg is red INT or Green AE ). Most important for this Czech database is that you can find stops during journey. Unfortunately - you can not find in this Czech application, which stations has waiting room, or when waiting room is closed.
  
Hello, not sure if you're the right person to ask, but you're the right-est person I've found so far. I recently added a spot in [[Taipei]] to the map, and on [[Taipei|the article]] I used the &lt;map&gt; tag, with coordinates, I'd seen used elsewhere and have added myself to other pages such as the [[Gold Coast]]. However, the embedded map on the page does not show the spot I added, only when you click through to the full map do you see it. I'm guessing it has to do with the new map being open street map and the embedded map being google maps, hence only old spots showing up in the embedded google map view. Is there a way to change this - a different map tag I should be using? --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:49, 19 January 2011 (CET)
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The schedule of trains and their stops is in Finland (or Norway) quite stable, changes are quite rare and trains go with same time. The number of trains and schedule during years should be stable too.
:Hi Timmy! Don't worry, new spots will start working at some point. Currently embed map is using our old database and old embedded googlemap will be replaced with new system soon enough. I'm the right person yeah. :-) Also you can comment to [[Hitchwiki:Maps|bugs/ideas -log]] or to our [http://hitchwiki.org/community/groups/hitchwiki/maps/ community page] -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 12:17, 19 January 2011 (CET)
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But in Sweden is situation with schedule terrible. It is every day of week another time of week for departures from stops and number of trains are changing too. And it changes during year too. There are many train companies in Sweden and there is lot of differences in marking at idos.cz too.
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It is true, that this article is quite huge, about trains in Finland. I tried to make train schedules - description of journey and stops during journey with mall font, for example font size 8, but I do not know how to do. Better solution ever can be the collapse button - the list of trains and stops is packed to one row until you click for unpacking. Or some solution is split to more articles - some articles just like list of stops.
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I have list of trains and stops too in text files, it can be like download link ad file too.
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I have pre-written article in LibreOffice document. But when I past here, the formatting of text disappear. And formatting of bigger text here is difficult. It takes lot of CPU and sometimes page freeze.
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But yes, there should be some way, how to make not to big article. Collapsing the list of trains and their stops. The article about roads and hitchiking in north Lapland is quite big too. It should be more generic. Just about biggest roads (To Inari, Ustjoki E75 and E8 to Kolari, Klippjarvi, Kiruna and Narvik-Tromso-Nordkapp). There are no trains and only bus lines. idos.cz has in database only pretty few buses outside Czech-Slovakia , most of buses are not there.
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But it should be here too, the description, how to get to Finland and the waning Death by exam. Finland has super-cold winters and lack of waiting rooms in stations.
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AND SPAM FILTER IS TERRIBLE - I tried many times paste comment and I many times solved difficult CAPTCHA, but without success. It maks as spam all edits with .h.t.t.p. chain (internet URL begin), so I have to remove your active link too, because of spam filter.
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== Changing to autopatrolled ==
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I've been trying to do change people's rights to "autopatrolled", but I don't see where/how to do it. What do I have to do? Cheers, [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 13:50, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
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== 1. akismet 2. pywiki cleanup ==
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Hey, if you manage to set up akismet in a way that keeps spammers out I can hack on pywikibot to clean up most past nonsense. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 20:31, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 21:31, 28 September 2019

Finland Rideshare link

I removed the rideshare site link added to Finland not because it was not "valid", but because it was the only edit that the user had made -- he seems to have signed up solely to promote this site. On many wikis, to avoid rewarding linkspamming, it is customary to revert the addition of external links when they are the poster's first and sole contribution. CRCulver (talk) 14:01, 14 January 2013 (CET)

Yup yup, understood that. Sometimes it's good to check out the site itself if it has also english version. This time the only edit user had done was good edit. ;-) In future if you find any weird looking language that might be Finnish, ping me too. -Mikael (talk) 14:12, 14 January 2013 (CET)

Talk history

Tip: It's more convenient to "move" the page so that the history is kept with the page itself... You could still do that if you think it's worth it :) guaka (talk) 18:02, 14 January 2013 (CET)

CSS seems to have gone completely off the rails

Have already posted this to Guaka's and MrTweek's talk pages, but that seems to have gone nowhere, so

Can you please, please, please have a look at what's wrong with the current CSS set-up/processing. The Hitchwiki (default) skin is sort of OK (it still does not create sortable tables, see my summary page when using that skin), but all others seem top have completely gone, selecting any of them will create long completely unformatted pages. Prino (talk) 00:25, 2 August 2013 (CEST)

Since when Is that happening? I think the non-hitchwiki themes were never really intended to be used here, we just didn't bother deleting them. The table sorting is a Javascript issue. Not sure why though, do you have an idea, Mikael?
Anything else that is not working in the hitchwiki theme? --MrTweek(talk) 13:36, 2 August 2013 (CEST)
Sorry guys, will be offline after a couple of hours for like a week. I had forgotten about that JS-table sorting issue. Adding stuff to the long todo-list. I guess it wouldn't be too big thingy to make everything more or less work with all themes. Anywawy, I'm off to Hitchgathering! Laters! -Mikael (talk) 13:40, 2 August 2013 (CEST)
The Special Pages "Recent Changes Cleanup" using the monobook skin is completely and utterly screwed up, the sidebar items are in the table, and logo covers part of the table. Prino (talk) 14:55, 12 August 2013 (CEST)
I see, it seems to be some broken html coming from extension. Maybe updating helps; I opened an issue about it. -Mikael (talk) 16:18, 12 August 2013 (CEST)

Travelmap

The Hitchwiki:Travelmap seems to be broken... I don't know if it has to do with the crash or not, just thought I'd let you know ;-) Cheers, N0id (talk) 16:01, 15 September 2013 (CEST)

Thanks! I just created an an issue. -Mikael (talk) 16:54, 15 September 2013 (CEST)

Link

Hey, the link to facebook for the brazilian gathering is the wrong one ;-) --N0id (talk) 18:38, 4 January 2014 (CET)

Thx, changed it to the right one now. Sunny greets from Lisbon! -Mikael (talk) 21:18, 4 January 2014 (CET)

Hitchgathering

It has come to my attention that most of the discussion about the 2014 August hitchgathering is being done on Facebook. I don’t think this is fair, as many active hitchhikers have deleted their Facebook accounts (some never had a FB account to begin with). Moving the discussion to Hitchwiki will be ideal for everyone. Which reminds me, what happened to our forums? CRCulver (talk) 18:46, 12 April 2014 (CEST)

BTW this year has been better this regard so far. Man, I can't much command people to stop discussing somewhere. -Mikael (talk) 22:47, 27 April 2015 (CEST)

Hackathon

It is not clear what the "pad" link in this page means and why it redirects back to the same page. I will be in Turkey in December, I may be interested in the event. CRCulver (talk) 15:21, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey Great! So let's be in touch later. We should definitely meet. :-) I added correct URL there (been in a hurry all day) and I'll let you know more about the coming hackathon in a few days via mailing lists. - Mikael (talk) 15:25, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

OK, I’ve seen the site that's up. However, I will probably only be able to stay for 10 days or two weeks. Though I know PHP, Mediawiki and SQL, I'm not so experienced with Javascript. So, I'm not sure how much hacking on bold new features I could do, though I could at least use the time to familiarize myself with the Hitchwiki backend, which I've never looked into before. I could also implement a CAPTCHA, as these spammer registrations are making Prino waste a lot of time. CRCulver (talk) 09:59, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

There will be awfully lot of PHP/MySQL/Mediawiki coding to be done for sure. And planning/writing scripts to migrate the data from maps to wiki format (will be a hell of a mess to work that out!). Yeah, CAPTCHA/spamstuff is urgently needed and it could be very good a few days task to implement. -Mikael (talk) 10:04, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Facebook

What's the use of putting links to closed groups, i.e. those only accessible to members of the cult of $uckerberg on pages? Prinoblog, talk 20:12, 27 April 2015 (CEST)

It's common enough to have an account so that it becomes useful. Let's hope someone copies useful stuff from there down to the wiki, once that's done the link can be removed. -Mikael (talk) 21:37, 27 April 2015 (CEST)
See Hitchgathering just above... If you put the link up, then shouldn't you be the someone copying the useful stuff? Prinoblog, talk 22:43, 27 April 2015 (CEST)
Surely if I find more time for that. If someone else does, even better. -Mikael (talk) 22:45, 27 April 2015 (CEST)

News

Why did you revert Jack Fang's announcement of his, I've just watched it, quite funny video? Prinoblog, talk 21:18, 2 October 2015 (CEST)

Hi! I thought we had a policy not to add blog posts / "I'm doing a trip type stuff" / videos there, but on the other hand I haven't followed that section much for a while and I see it has evolved quite a much into that direction in lack of actual "news". Should we put it back, what do you think? -Mikael (talk) 00:22, 3 October 2015 (CEST)
I'd say we put up such items for one or two weeks, gives the poster a few views and might provide a few more visits as people see that the page is changed. Prinoblog, talk 00:52, 3 October 2015 (CEST)

Nomadwiki eats Hitchwiki

Fine to copy content to Nomadwiki, but I think it doesn't need to be removed from Hitchwiki!!!! --Fverhart (talk) 19:30, 9 November 2015 (CET)

Major spammer attack going on

Cannot even delete some pages!!!!! Like : "TALK $$$ %% @@ ~ 1-800-219-1195 ~ @@ CANON printer TECH support PHONE number ~ 18002191195 ~"

Hey ! I added train schedules, because it is quite difficult to find stops during journey. There is Finish page vr.fi , where is possible to find train connection. You can switch to English too. But there is quite a lot of Javascript (it takes lot of CPU and it can be difficult for weak PCs or TOR users). I tried to find stops during journey at vr.fi (or sj.se in Sweden or nsb.no in Norway), but without success.

There is another page, where you can find all train connections include stops. It is Czech web for searching connections is Czech-Slovakia (all city transport, buses, trains, planes). But there is trains connection for whole Europe. jizdnirady.idnes.cz/vlaky/spojeni/ But there is no English. (Odkud = from, Kam = to, Datum a cas = date and time - two edit fields, Pouze přímá spojení = without train change during journey, Pouze vlaky bez povinné rezervace = only trains without seat reservation obligatory). This application usually marks most of regional trains like REG, some commuter trains are missing (commuter trains by Stockholm, P train in Helsinki), and it marks all IC, EC or fast trains with seat reservation obligatory. Regional trains are blue there and long journey or fast dance floors are green, night international dance floors are red. Sometimes - one trains is barked like two another trains (R train Helsinki-Tampere, trains between Oslo and Goteborg), and some trains has two symbols (train between Helsinki and St. Peterburg is red INT or Green AE ). Most important for this Czech database is that you can find stops during journey. Unfortunately - you can not find in this Czech application, which stations has waiting room, or when waiting room is closed.

The schedule of trains and their stops is in Finland (or Norway) quite stable, changes are quite rare and trains go with same time. The number of trains and schedule during years should be stable too.

But in Sweden is situation with schedule terrible. It is every day of week another time of week for departures from stops and number of trains are changing too. And it changes during year too. There are many train companies in Sweden and there is lot of differences in marking at idos.cz too.

It is true, that this article is quite huge, about trains in Finland. I tried to make train schedules - description of journey and stops during journey with mall font, for example font size 8, but I do not know how to do. Better solution ever can be the collapse button - the list of trains and stops is packed to one row until you click for unpacking. Or some solution is split to more articles - some articles just like list of stops.

I have list of trains and stops too in text files, it can be like download link ad file too.

I have pre-written article in LibreOffice document. But when I past here, the formatting of text disappear. And formatting of bigger text here is difficult. It takes lot of CPU and sometimes page freeze.

But yes, there should be some way, how to make not to big article. Collapsing the list of trains and their stops. The article about roads and hitchiking in north Lapland is quite big too. It should be more generic. Just about biggest roads (To Inari, Ustjoki E75 and E8 to Kolari, Klippjarvi, Kiruna and Narvik-Tromso-Nordkapp). There are no trains and only bus lines. idos.cz has in database only pretty few buses outside Czech-Slovakia , most of buses are not there.

But it should be here too, the description, how to get to Finland and the waning Death by exam. Finland has super-cold winters and lack of waiting rooms in stations.

AND SPAM FILTER IS TERRIBLE - I tried many times paste comment and I many times solved difficult CAPTCHA, but without success. It maks as spam all edits with .h.t.t.p. chain (internet URL begin), so I have to remove your active link too, because of spam filter.

Changing to autopatrolled

I've been trying to do change people's rights to "autopatrolled", but I don't see where/how to do it. What do I have to do? Cheers, Irningston (talk) 13:50, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

1. akismet 2. pywiki cleanup

Hey, if you manage to set up akismet in a way that keeps spammers out I can hack on pywikibot to clean up most past nonsense. guaka (talk) 20:31, 28 September 2019 (UTC)