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== Spammers ==
And <font size=14>'''[[User:Cheappoloxv|this]]'''</font> will happen if we do not take preventative action against the spammers... Right now (2012-11-30T20.57) There are 31 on the en site, 1 on es, 5 on fr, 14 on de, 8 on ru, 5 on pt, 19 on pl and 13 on nl. I don't want to block real users, but [http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT#nl/de/Waar%20gehakt%20wordt%2C%20vallen%20spaanders Waar gehakt wordt, vallen spaanders]... Get enough of these people long enough on the system and the damage may be rather more significant... And for what it's worth, they seem to be monitoring some pages as the format of some names is suddenly no longer matching one of the RegEx'es I suggested... [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 20:57, 30 November 2012 (CET)
: Mh, in that case, sorry. I thought we solved that problem for now. I'll look into that username regex'es as soon as I can. Unfortunately, I still don't have internet at home, that seems to be pretty difficult in this country. Hope I can work on hitchwiki properly again next year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:09, 3 December 2012 (CET)
:: Maybe [http://www.botscout.com/code.htm BotScout] can help, the amount of spammers is going through the roof... [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 11:45, 31 July 2013 (CEST)
== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==
Moin, alles schick? Seit heute werde ich von Mozilla Firefox davor gewarnt, hitchwiki zu öffnen ... und auf die folgende [http://www.stopbadware.org/firefox?hl=de&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhitchwiki.org%2Fen%2FMain_Page Seite] verwiesen ... bzw. komme erst nach einer Bestätigung, dass ich die Warnung höflich ignoriere zum Hitchwiki .... hast du ne Ahnung, woran das liegen könnte?
LG
JOna
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.
== Lanigiro ==
moin, check mal den skript von deinem bot. teilweise macht er fehler, wie zum Beispiel [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Halle_%28Saale%29&curid=3950&diff=55836&oldid=53547 hier] oder [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Aachen&curid=1612&diff=55570&oldid=50747 hier]
: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)
und jetzt bitte ein skript, das checkt wo er fehler gemacht hat :p per hand ist das ne sysyphus arbeit .... :D --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 13:12, 9 October 2011 (CEST)
== Persistent vandalism ==
Sorry for putting this at the top...
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)
Is there a way for non-Bureaucrats Administrators (i.e. people like me, Prino) to see the IP addresses of newly created users. I have the distinct feeling that the spammers are now using a different format of name, and I'm pretty certain that "Nealedward", "Kriechstrom" and "Lloydbryan" will turn out to be more spammers... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 00:49, 30 December 2011 (CET)
:I'm unfortunately no expert on this spam issue, though I made you Bureaucrat as well, Prino. Hope that helps! All the best for 2012, --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 09:01, 31 December 2011 (CET)
:: Can you (or anyone in the know) please, pretty please try to do something to block usernames that are of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' (via een regex?) They are invariably spammers. Names of the format XalalaXalala (X: '''any''' uppercase consonant, a: '''any''' lowercase vowel & l: '''any''' lowercase consonant) are also spammers! (and should also be easy filterable via a regex) [[User:Prino|Prino]] 00:05, 11 March 2012 (CET)
== Videoflash ==
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)
The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe>
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)
== Unnecesary information ==
: Hmm, true. I didn't really think about it. So we said 6 months for ip addresses and infinite for usernames, right? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:59, 2 October 2011 (CEST)
::Probably we decided that somewhere. No one has been able to edit without being logged in for quite a while already, so that should make all blocks on spammers "infinite". And AFAIK know we never had to block a real hitchhiker (and I don't think we'll ever need to :) So maybe it's possible to easily change the default settings? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 09:51, 3 October 2011 (CEST)
== Two users Rocky... ==
Have a look at this [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User:Rocky&curid=4944&diff=57799&oldid=28486 changelog] - where an Israelian guy takes over he page of a Belgian one... What to do about it? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 00:52, 12 December 2011 (CET)
: Hmm, good question. Very weird, because they are using the same user account. Let's see, what he replies on his talk page to guakas question. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:03, 12 December 2011 (CET)
== Unblock IP address - how? ==
I blocked "Apothecary" but he's legit. Unblocked him, be he claims his IP address is still blocked. How do I unblock that if I cannot see it? Thanks [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:48, 21 January 2012 (CET)
: I unblocked him. In the block list, there's a link to the IP Block list. May I ask how you determine "unacceptable usernames"? I am not sure wether it's a good idea to block users before they did any harm. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:52, 21 January 2012 (CET)
:: The FirstLastzrt etc are all spammers, most usernames ending in one or more digits are spammers, if you look on Google for new usernames, and they register on umpteen fora with the same name and that name doesn't occur anywhere else in the search results, you are almost certainly dealing with a spammer. "Apothecary" has rather strong links with certain types of medication. And names like Rowentasteamer and Deckerfoods are patently obvious. Happy with this explanation? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 13:35, 21 January 2012 (CET)
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==
Hey :) You mentioned on your page that you are hitchhiking to Australia, where are you right now? In Cambodia? PS I have seen abgefahren note near Thessaloniki on a road sign, a very funny one, about hitchhiking 3 or 4 days from Athens and being very pissed off ;-) Then in Yazd in a CS flat of Balal saw some notes on the wall again :) Take care. [[User:Rozwal|rozwal]] 16:28 2012-04-21
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)
== Blog ==
Hallo,
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter
Vielen Dank!
LG Jan Temmel
: Hallo Jan, wenn ich nur den einzelnen Artikel verlinke verschwindet er schnell wieder, weil die Artikel im Planet chronologisch sortiert werden. Ich kann dein ganzes Blog einfügen - aber dann sind eben auch die Artikel mit drin, die nicht ums Trampen gehen. Was meinst du? Am einfachsten wäre es vielleicht, wenn du in deinem Blog eine Kategorie "Trampen" oder so erstellst, dann könnte ich nur die Artikel aus dieser Kategorie übernehmen und wenn noch öfter zu dem Thema schreibst, landen die neuen Artikel automatisch bei uns. Schöne Grüße, Philipp
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==
Are you able to delete the spam and its contributor in the Russian part of the hichwiki? I am not. I can empty the pages, but I cannot block the user there. --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 23:49, 23 April 2012 (CEST)
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)
:And fishy usernames in the Polish one. Sysops should have authority to remove trash from any language, and block users who post it! [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:58, 20 July 2012 (CEST)
::I don't think sysop rights can easily be synchronized across all languages but I went into <tt>mysql</tt> and made myself bureaucrat everywhere. Then I made both of you bureaucrats on both pl and es. Let me know if you want or need this on other languages as well. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 10:49, 20 July 2012 (CEST)
== New extension ==
Can you consider installing [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Recent_Changes_Cleanup Recent Changes Cleanup] extension, so that we can clean up the [[Special:RecentChanges]] log, which is currently struggling under large amounts of blocks of spammers.
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete] might also be useful to prune the list of users, i.e. remove the blocked spammer names from the site. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:16, 25 August 2012 (CEST)
: I installed the Recent Changes Cleanup now. You can use it at [[Special:RecentChangesCleanup]]. For the other extension, I need to upgrade mediawiki first, which I will hopefully do within the next days. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:09, 27 August 2012 (CEST)
::The Recent Changes Cleanup page displays completely messed up. Tried logging of/on, no effect, can you have a look? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 00:44, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
::: Weird. Anyway, Simison and Guaka are going to upgrade mediawiki next week. Maybe that fixes it and then we can also install the other extension. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)
== Admin rights ==
Can you also give me admin rights on the other language parts where I currently do not have them (de, pl, pt, fr), so that I can also kick out spammers on them? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:38, 20 September 2012 (CEST)
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)
:::: Would also like to have them on the Russian one, plenty of fishy usernames out there! [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:44, 7 October 2012 (CEST)
::::: Done. Btw, did you encounter any real spam last days? Just wondering whether my plugin does its job --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] ([[User talk:MrTweek|talk]]) 12:55, 7 October 2012 (CEST)
:::::: No spam, which is good. Just oodles of useless usernames - what happened with the Merge-and-Delete extension? And isn't there a way to directly interface with the SQL backend? [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 13:12, 7 October 2012 (CEST)
::::::: Good. The plugin makes sure they can't post urls, so probably they sign up and give up then. Talk to Guaka or Mikael for the extension, I don't know in detail what they did. What do you want to do with SQL? There is a way, of course, but since one could easily destroy the whole wiki, even accidently, there is no public access to it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] ([[User talk:MrTweek|talk]]) 13:26, 7 October 2012 (CEST)
: And admin rights on the BG, FI, ZH, TR & HR versions? '''And can we do something about blocking user names ending in digits? IMHO the most ideal solution would be to let them go through completely normal, but to not store them into the database, effectively "loosing them on the way".''' It would keep the logs clean, and on that subject, is there a way to show more entries on the "Recent Changes Cleanup", having been on the road for three days, it's not possible to clean out all spammy user creations any more! [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 00:21, 13 October 2012 (CEST)
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.
:::Can you re-issue me with admin rights on the "nl" wiki, I seem to have lost them after the restore, and there currently are quite a few link-spam page. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 14:14, 8 September 2013 (CEST)
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)
:::: You should have admin rights right in all wikis now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 12:28, 11 September 2013 (CEST)
:: About the user names with digits: I really don't like the idea, as we might lock out potential human users as well. As long as they just sign up and give up then, they don't do any harm. They just pollute the database, which isn't nice, but not a real problem either, I think. Actually, as long as they don't post anything, I don't even block them any more, because I don't think they will ever come back anyway. We might want to create a script to delete users that were never active at all after signing up or something like that. Anyone else has an opinion on that?
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)
:::We should be as inclusive as possible to non-spammers. A script that deletes users who never contributed after 1 year would be fine. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 16:00, 13 October 2012 (CEST)
== Infobox region + IsIn ==
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that:
I've been adding it to most articles on Mexican states. The problem is that it stays on top of the article (see [[Campeche]] or [[Michoacán]] for an example). However, I'd like the infobox to float right, as does a map without an infobox yet, e.g. in [[Nuevo León]].
And I've got another question, about the Template:IsIn. It seems to have disappeared with the new Hitchwiki design. Is there any chance of getting it back?
Cheers,
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)
: We know about the IsIn-problem, and we'll fix it eventually. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 03:59, 28 October 2012 (CET)
::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)
== Edit conflict ==
Have been talking to [[User:Strazdas007]] on Skype. Whatever he tries to edit will end, when he saves it with an "Editing conflict". I initially blocked him as his name is pretty spammy, but unbloced him later when he contacted me, and he was able to create his page yesterday, but right now he's completely stuck. Can you have a look at what's going on? He cannot even edit your talk page! [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 09:14, 25 October 2012 (CEST)
: Damn, I assume, that has to do with the anti-spambot extension. Users who signed up less than 7 days ago and have less than 10 edits can not post external links. Unfortunately, this seems to also block editing pages, that already have external links in them. I'll try to fix that on the weekends.
: Also, can you please stop randomly blocking new users, unless you know for sure they are spammers? I just got another complaint by [[User:MaxHeiliger]], and I am sure, not every user who is blocked on accident will complain, some might just give up. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 04:33, 26 October 2012 (CEST)
:: If you look at the block log, you will see that I (and GeorgDerReisende) don't really block randomly. I admit that there is a chance that we may accidentally block a bona-fide user and MaxHeiliger was borderline. Strasdaz007 and FelixAkk clearly fit the pattern of the spammers we have to cope with at the moment. If someone's really real, they will email, as MaxHeiliger, Strazdas007 and FelixAkk have done (and some other girl a while ago). Given that ever spammer can read what you wrote above (unlikely, but not impossible), better, IMHO, safe than sorry. If you look at the list of active (genuine) users, there are virtually none with numbers in their usernames, or more than one capital letter, so anyone who creates a username with both of these characteristics is quite likely some bot following a programmed rule. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 13:18, 26 October 2012 (CEST)
::: I don't really agree with 'better safe than sorry', especially since we had hardly any spam (or even none at all?) recently. I made the restrictions a little more lose now, let's see if that brings the spammers back. If not, we can just stop banning users before they posted spam. At least now everyone should be able to post again. We'll see. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 03:35, 28 October 2012 (CET)
:::: Hey, I've got numbers and several capital letters in my user name and I'm not a spammer ;) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:46, 28 October 2012 (CET)
::::: You're the exception that confirms the rule, and besides that spammers are to stupid to use accented letters! :) [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 14:00, 28 October 2012 (CET)
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)
== new blog on your list? :) ==
Hi MrTweek,
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)
We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/
Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!
Ania & Jon
HHH
hitchhikershandbook.com
: I suppose you mean to the hitchhiking planet? I just added it there. Cheers, [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 04:59, 6 January 2013 (CET)
Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)
== Login problems ==
For whatever reason, logging in to one (/en) wiki, will no longer automatically log you on the the others. Is this deliberate, or is it a bug?
It's definitely very inconvenient, as the /en password is rejected by all others... :( [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 23:12, 19 April 2013 (CEST)
: Yes, it's a known bug. I think Mikael (simison) is working on it. Should be fixed soon. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 10:33, 20 April 2013 (CEST)
== CSS, big problem ==
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?
The "Hitchwiki" default is working (well, sort of...), but all others result in long pages without any formatting. This happens both on Firefox and IE. Can you please, please, please have a look at it, and change back whatever caused this behaviour. Thanks! [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 10:27, 31 July 2013 (CEST)
== Image summaries not showing up ==
I am reuploading some images for the united states articles and I can't get the description/summary to appear below the image. What am I doing wrong?
== digihitch emails ==
Kasper said you might have access to a list of old digihitch emails from 2010 on some sort of mySQL dump? If there is any chance of finding them, it would help immensely in getting hitchingit.com up on its feet since the dismal failure of digihitch.com [[User:Thewindandrain|Thewindandrain]] ([[User talk:Thewindandrain|talk]]) 01:03, 19 December 2013 (CET)
: Sorry man, I don't have anything any more. I lost it in the hitchwiki server crash. However, there was barely anything useful left anyway, which is why I never bothered to reorganize it into a new database --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 01:06, 19 December 2013 (CET)
== Regina? ==
Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:
: I was going to create a new page for the '''City of [[Regina]]'''. But it says that You deleted a previous page by the same name, Apr. of last year? It is a real city, and I have Hitched to, and from it. Before I recreate it, I think that it is a good idea to find out a little more about why it was deleted. The note on the page says that it was part of a "Mass removal of pages added by 24.29.233.163"--[[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 23:29, 15 June 2014 (CEST)
:: The only reason it was blocked is because someone spammed the page long time ago. I created it, now you should be able to edit it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:33, 16 June 2014 (CEST)
: Canada, especially out west, really seems to be lacking information. I certainly have personal experiences to add to the site, but is it worthwhile for me to add info to the rest of the "Area" as well. Even cities that I have not necessarily Hitched through, but have been to? Getting them started now will save work for someone else down the road.
:: As long as you can add any information that may be relevant to hitchhiking (i.e. on which routes it is, road conditions), you are welcome to create the pages. Just creating a skeleton of a page is fine too, as long as it contains more than one line :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:33, 16 June 2014 (CEST)
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)
== Gexcube ==
A real user?
Google only results in hits on Radeon drivers and a Twitter account from someone who doesn't seem to have anything to do with hitchhiking.
Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
: He sent me an email, asking why he was blocked. I couldn't tell him, because there was no reason given. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:38, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
== Is Lanigiro alive? ==
Hi! Recently we have increased activity in [[ru:АвтостопВики|Russian HitchWiki]] and I was looking for a bot for updating interwiki links. As I see, it was intended to be ran periodically, but his last activity was 2-3 years ago. Do we have a chance to see his activity again? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 15:29, 14 December 2015 (CET)
: Hi Alexxy. No, the bot is dead right now. I'll try to revive it one day. Feel free to remind me, in case I forget. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:02, 21 December 2015 (CET)
:: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)
::: Cool! Does the bot add missing "opposite direction" link to translation? Say, if ''АБВГ'' article in Russian has link to ''en:ABCD'', it should add link to ''ru:АБВГ'' to ''ABCD'', should it? For example, I see that the bot fixed link in [[ru:Гомель]] to [[en:Gomel]] (there was a link to redirected page before), but [[en:Gomel]] still doesn't have link to [[ru:Гомель]] --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 12:26, 14 January 2016 (CET)
:::: Yes, that is what it should do. And also add other languages, if they are set on of the pages. I'm not sure why this is not working in that case, but will have a look. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 13:39, 14 January 2016 (CET)
::::: Maybe it will add back-links on next pass? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 13:44, 14 January 2016 (CET)
:::::: Yes, you are right. The link is there now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:47, 14 January 2016 (CET)
::: Will it run periodically or you'll run it manually? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 12:26, 14 January 2016 (CET)
:::: Right now it is only manually, but once I am confident that it does what it should, I will set it up to run daily or weekly or something like that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 13:39, 14 January 2016 (CET)
== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==
If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?
: Because he is the only one who does it.
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.
:: Doesn't this [https://github.com/Hitchwiki/hitchwiki/issues/93#issuecomment-165814287 bug] relates to this? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 23:01, 21 December 2015 (CET)
::: I reported [https://github.com/Hitchwiki/hitchwiki-private/issues/139 this] on 10 November... [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 00:19, 22 December 2015 (CET)
:::: I didn't see that, sorry. For important things, feel free to email me directly. I don't really check github that much. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)
but apparently the skin is more important - I like the vector layout, others the classic mediawiki one, why cant we keep at least those two?
: Because you are the only one who complains about the skin. But tend to be rude as fuck so nobody seems to be too keen on accommodating your requests.
:: Sorry for that, but a change that is this far-reaching should be discussed with the community first! [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 00:19, 22 December 2015 (CET)
::: In some ways this behaviour is the same as the one exercised by M$: Giving updates that aren't updates at all, but telemetry crap that cannot be blocked, and 3Gb keylogger that looks like an OS! [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 00:19, 22 December 2015 (CET)
:: Small comment regarding skin, as here's a speech on it: in Language menu in non-English versions there's no "English" item --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 23:01, 21 December 2015 (CET)
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)
:: There is a more elaborate Recaptcha (as used by the RDNS option on the Check User Special page), and for what it's worth, I hope it's OK this time that I M&D the rubbish that's been registering today? [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 00:19, 22 December 2015 (CET)
::: Yes, feel free to clean them up. I just installed reCaptcha again. It's daytime here now, so I'll keep an eye on it. Will also try registering on stopforumspam again. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)
:::: StopForumSpam is up and running now. Note that this will not prevent users from registering, but only from editing. Let's see how well that goes. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 01:40, 22 December 2015 (CET)
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==
Clicking any dot on HW maps currently results in `Sorry, that location cannot be found´ or similar message. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:54, 22 December 2015 (CET)
: Thanks for reporting. This is one for Mikael. I will let him know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:04, 23 December 2015 (CET)
:Thanks! I noticed that today, too, when checking for hitching spots. I'm hitching and just heading for a ~3 day hike; won't be able to look into it before I return. Greets from the Mojave desert! - [[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 05:53, 23 December 2015 (CET)
Just to remind, there's an other open issue on Github regarding ''maps'' tag that doesn't work at all in Russian Hitchwiki (probably in other non-English sections too). --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 19:14, 19 January 2016 (CET)
== Recent Changes ==
I like the new layout, did you do that? :) Grüße aus Aachen! --[[User:N0id|N0id]] ([[User talk:N0id|talk]]) 16:25, 25 December 2015 (CET)
== Dump datasets ==
[http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/ "...You can download full database dumps of the Hitchwiki in XML format here. They are updated daily.] Well,have I got news for you, they're all way, way, way out of date... [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 01:43, 26 December 2015 (CET)
: This is fixed now, everything should get updated daily again. Thank you. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:01, 1 April 2016 (CEST)
== ReCaptcha issue ==
When adding my previous comment (I tried to add link to Github), I noticed a ReCaptcha bug:
after clicking Save, a message appeared
Your edit includes new external links. To protect the wiki against automated spam, we kindly ask you to type the two words you see in the box below:
but ReCaptcha window didn't show up. I tried to click Save again several times, and finally the ReCaptcha appeared in the bottom of the page, but entering characters didn't help to save my change with the link --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 19:19, 19 January 2016 (CET)
:a user recently told me that she was unable to register because of this reCaptcha bug (finally she succeeded after tried several times) --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 10:24, 9 February 2016 (CET)
:: Sorry for the slow reply. I switched to a different captcha now, and that shows up. Let me know if it works for you. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 12:44, 9 February 2016 (CET)
== Drumroots - temporary block ==
I've blocked him, for now '''for three days''' due to his refusal to use edit whole pages - he edits section by section (30 edits on Berlin, similar on London), often multiple times, found it necessary to change Autobahn / Rastststätte / etc into English. Patrolling his edits (yes, I do so for many users) is becoming a nightmare!
I've asked him on his talk page to change his way, but he does not!
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 12:56, 11 June 2016 (CEST)
== Pre-emptive spam blocks ==
I just blocked a number of spam accounts, and I also blocked a couple of accounts with no edits that were created at the same time, just in case. I'm not totally comfortable with this because I don't want to accidentally block a user who just happened to create an account at the same time as a spam attack, but a number of those accounts look suspicious, and two of them actually made some edits before I could pre-emptively block them. Is there a better way to go about this? Cheers, -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 22:40, 14 July 2016 (CEST)
: Hi Irningston. Thanks for your effort. However, blocking user beacuse they don't have any edits is indeed a bad idea, mostly because it is hard to see whether they are active or not. They could just have edits in other language wikis. A lot of our users speak no or little English, so they will never contribute to the English wiki, but might be active somewhere else. Also, some users sign up only to add hitchhiking spots to our maps. They will not show up in the wikis recent changes either.
: That said, please refrain from blocking users on this basis.
: Unfortunately, I don't know of any better way of blocking users preemptively. Prino tried blocking them on suspicious user names, but that hit a lot of legit innocent users as well.
: [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 03:13, 15 July 2016 (CEST)
::Ok, thanks, that's kind of what I figured. Just to be clear, I didn't block anyone *because* they had no edits. I was just fielding so much spam at once that it was kind of difficult to deal with, so I blocked all of the accounts that had been created within a short window and didn't have any non-spam edits. Of the 22 accounts I blocked, 8 had no edits yet when I went to block them (i.e. when I opened the page to block), and 2 of those 8 ended up making a spam edit before I could block them (that is, after I opened the page, but before I could save it). Cheers, -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 05:22, 15 July 2016 (CEST)
== Deletion of Trains#Germany info ==
Hi. I see you deleted some stuff [[User:PeterOB]] wrote in [[Trains#Germany]]. Don't you think you should mention it on his talk page? It does seem far-fetched that somebody would go to ''jail'' for blackriding. (Maybe Peter is a DB agent, trying to discourage us with misinformation?) But it still doesn't seem right to delete information without a mention.
I was informed in such a way that my technique for Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket-hitchhiking is no longer possible [hitchwiki.org/en/User_talk:Dr.Keith#Train_Hitchhiking_in_Germany]. [[User:Mohit]] removed the information from [[Deutsche Bahn]], but the information is still written on [[Trains#Germany]]. I will remove that too, leaving the section empty! I'll going to replace it with a summary of the [[Deutsche Bahn]] article and include a link there for more information.
: Thanks for the heads up. I left a message for Peter about this. I'm generally very cautious with information about black riding, as this might be considered encouraging people to illegal activities and could potentially get the author or in the worst case even me in trouble --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:05, 26 July 2016 (CEST)
Hey MrTweek
The Hichwiki spam protection is totally crazy. Difficult captcha and it is blocked again afcer captcha solution.
I wasn't able to writte message last year, because of this.
:: Yes, sorry, there are some problems with spam at the moment. I don't know when this can be resolved. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:58, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
It is better to contact me on mail [email protected] , because here is difficult to write something (no h.t.t.p.s, bad spam protection).
I have got some information about it from my friends and one of my friend was really in jail for two weeks in Germany. He was catched in train and in tram.
There was another message in Czech news, that one Czech girl was lost and found in German jail for blackriding for few days or weeks.
Both both can be about 8 years back, now it is not so hard.
:: You don't go to jail for black riding alone. You get a 60 € fine and that's it.
:: You will only go to jail if you refuse to pay the fine, or do something stupid like assaulting inspectors or refusing to show any kind of id. Black riding a single time is never enough for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:58, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
I have met in Rainbow some German friend, he explain me how it works. Ant it is something like cheat (you do not have ticket but you act like you have ticket.) If you visible say that you are blackrider, then it is not crime and you can just get penalty Eur 60.
:: Yeah, that's a very common urban legend but not true at all. Black riding is still illegal if you clearly state that you are doing it. There have been court rules about this. If you understand German, just google for "Ich fahre schwarz". Yet many people seem to believe this rubbish. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:58, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
I have quite a lot of experiences with European traveling, hitchhiking and taking trains, especially in north and in France and I try to share best information.
How you mean that I can get me or somebody else with this article ? By frightening or by bad informations ?
And even - after all CAPTCHA Spam filter do not let pas any edit with chain h.t.t.p. So I have to delete this chain even from your article - I deactivated link, because of spam filter.
:: Again, sorry for this. I really hope there will be a solution for this soon. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:58, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Best Peter
== Hitchwiki bug ==
Hello there Mr Tweek!
I'm at a loss in attempting to contact hitchwiki people about this issue so I hope that this is a way to get a response. Everytime I try to add a place I get the message - "could not add place due to error." This has been going on for a while now and I have tried numerous times to contact hitchwiki but with no acknowledgement at all. I really don't know what's going on. Other pages are down as well with the 404 error message. Is there anyone doing anything to fix these bugs? I literally have had no response at all from several emails and messages over the course of the past five months. Please drop me a line when you have the opportunity. Many thanks. [[User talk:Looking for Stu|talk]]
== Recent spam attack ==
Still shitloads of pages around.
Suggest this approach:
1) Block spammer - useful to auto fill the Report to spamhaus box!!!
2) "Merge and delete" to "SpamBucket"
3) Then delete all recent changes from SpamBucket - there were some mistaken M&D's in the past, so only recent stuff
4) Use "Recent Changes Cleanup" (include it in your script!) to hide the deleted garbage from the Recent Changes Log (where it will still be picked up by Google and the like!)
Check what's there now on the dozens of User Talk pages listed at
http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?limit=100&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=SpamBucket&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2017&month=-1
== Spam in other language Hitchwikis ==
I was just checking around, and I came across some spam pages in Portuguese, Spanish, and French Hitchwikis. You can check my contributions over there for the pages - I just replaced the content with "spam". (In French, I came across like 30 more pages, so I just stopped, but just about all of the new user pages [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Sp%C3%A9cial:Journal/newusers here] are spam.) Would you be willing to delete those pages and block those users? Or could you make me an admin in those languages, and I can do it myself? Cheers, -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 19:52, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
:Howdy Irningston! I just made you an admin at all the wikis. Thanks for all the work you've done! -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 20:57, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
::Fantastic, thank you! -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 22:09, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
