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#: 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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>^{[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]}</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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 05:02, 21 December 2015 (CET):: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 13:39, 14 January 2016 (CET)::::: Maybe it will add back-links on next pass? --[[User:Fish SoupAlexxy|Fish Soupalexy]] ([[User talk:Fish SoupAlexxy|talk]]) 13:44, 14 January 2016 (CET):::::: Yes, you are right. The link is there now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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>^{[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]}</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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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>^{[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]}</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>^{[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]}</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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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>^{[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]}</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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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. 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</pre> == 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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>^{[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]}</small> 01:43, 26 December 2015 (CET): This is fixed now, everything should get updated daily again. Thank you. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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>^{[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]}</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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 03:13, 15 June 2014 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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]]^{([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])} 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 stuff4) 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)