Changes

''Hey Ralf! Welcome on hitchwiki, cool welcome to see you here :) I guess you have something more this User talk page. Feel free to contribute ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02leave a note, 25 June 2007 (CEST)ask questions or whatever.''

Another welcome! :) I'm looking forward to your contributions! You can ''sign'' messages on talk pages with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. * [[Usertalk:GuakaPlatschi/archive|GuakaArchive]] 20:41, 25 June 2007 (CEST)

Hey,== Bad Oeynhausen ==When Hi Ralf. Have you were hitchhiking in Serbia did you do a lot never noticed the bay where drivers can stop, just after the traffic lights at the beginning of campingthe Bay Oeyenhausen Bundesstrasse section? I'm Looked like a bit concerned about camping in places like Serbia and Croatianice place to hitchhike, which, however, we as the transit hitchers will never use, where they apparently have unexploded mines still lying around in various placessince we will probably never end up there. Do Although of course, you know if these are quite common and/or if the areas are closed off or what?Thanks! can never really say never... --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 14:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)It'd be nice to camp out in the wild there but I don't fancy having an 'explosive' time!

:Hey Frank, no, never seen that bay! Should check it next time, but mostly people just drive into town or towards Minden, so they're not even going to the end of town. So for the lazy people, the first Shell station might be the best option as it's at the beginning when coming from the A2. And, about us as ''transit hitchers'' :) , I got rides towards Oeynhausen several times now, find it quite difficult to get direct rides from Auetal for example to Osnabrück or further most times. Also, when going east, the service station Grönegau sucks most of the time for me (waiting nearly always >30min). Then better stick to the on-ramp Melle-Ost 4km before, it has a nice spot and lot's of traffic going to Oeynhausen, where you then can ask at the first service station where there's always busy :) But that's probably just what I think about it... :) --[[User:MyshkinPlatschi|MyshkinPlatschi]] 1214:2738, 17 August 2007 4 June 2009 (CESTUTC)

==Sysop==We don::Hi Ralf. The bay to the east is just at the beginning of Bad Oeyenhausen, just after the end of the A30. It's logically at the beginning, how I remember there't really have s a policy about thiscity map for people entering the town. Regarding Gronegau, thanks for the information. The one time that I stood there, 27.12.2008, but MrTweek I got away in 3 minutes and I decided got a lift of 151 km to "promote" some more people Zweidorfer Holz, according to sysops on my list. For me it was great so. I remember a Dutch couple with a nice discussion about discovering the wikisimple ways of living in places... Of course we noticed your great contributions and decided to make If you into a sysop :) Check [[project:administrators]] asked me, I would try to read (a little bit) avoid Bay Oeyenhausen, but I've passed by no more about thisthan five-six times. --[[User:GuakaFverhart|GuakaFverhart]] 2108:0843, 7 August 2007 5 June 2009 (CESTUTC)

Thanks! :::Hey Frank, just used the bay a week ago and got a ride offer to Leipzig there within not even one minute. It was traffic jam though, but works pretty fine :) (Not sure if IIndeed there'm posting my reply in s a city map also; just put some little more information on the correct place hereOeynhausen article.Indeed you can avoid Oeynhausen, but when going onto the A30 or coming from there it's impossible not to get through there ;) --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 17:09, 24 October 2009 (UTC) How was ===Liftpunt.Tk===Hi, fellow Dutch hitchhiker. There is a new discussion forum about hitchhiking in the Balkans? Do you recommend solo hitchhiking at all? I'm starting Dutch language. Discover it, and feel free to wonder if hitchhiking by myself for my first time could be a bad idea join and become lonely, but I'm sure it would give me more opportunities for meeting people along share your knowledge. First spot on the way!net where we can discuss in our own language =). URL www.liftpunt.tk --[[User:MyshkinFverhart|MyshkinFverhart]] 1508:0643, 13 August 2007 5 June 2009 (CESTUTC)

== thanks Russia ==

thanks for welcome yep, more Sorry to hear you had such a hard time in Bashkiria. I'm hitching ve hitchhiked there and never waited more Ithan 5 minutes, just like in the rest of Russia. If you didn'm writing--[[User:Jonathaneo|Jonathaneo]] 17:06t get picked up by a truck right away, it was probably because you were too close to a DPS post, 2 October 2007 and truck drivers were too nervous to take two people past it (CESTthey can only have one passenger legally).

danke sehr:Hey Ralf, sagmal wennde in Russland unterwegs bist. and rememberGehen die Leute davon aus, the owls are not what they seemdass du was zahlst für den Lift. Machst du denen das beim Einsteigen gleich klar, dass du autostop machst und nix zahlen kannst/willst oder aber nehmen dich alle ganz selbstverständlich für umsonst mit? --[[User:seageometryQuarim|seageometryQuarim]]15:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

My pleasure writing to Hitchwiki. The more people know, Hey thanks for the better tutorial! As we are the trips - sending more they travel and more drivers trust us : )Letpeople from the CS group, it makes sense to have something to orientate newbies. It's make hitchgood to feel the working cooperation here!-hiking big like "in the old days" some drivers mention -[[User:Perilisk|Perilisk]] 01: 24, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and safe travelsGoddamn, schade, dass das Treffen nicht ne Woche eher oder spaeter ist, an dem WE ist mein Bruder hier. Waere gern gekommen um fuer Finnland zu voten ;) Viel Spass euch!Rein:N0id, du kannst auf [http://hitchgathering.org hitchgathering.org] voten! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 17:19, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

== topics Nederlands ==Hoi Platschi - d'r is nu ook eindelijk een hitchwiki in het Nederlands: http://hitchwiki.org/nlAls je je Nederlands wilt oefenen ga ik dat graag verbeteren :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 23:48, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Eh Hallo Platschi! Thanks a lotfor the warm welcome. I'm excited to be apart of this awesome project! Yeah, I was just at read the same time reading and trying to create my first region table..page for Texas - yikes. The state might not be so it has been doubled. Way not managed promising, but Austin is asking to make it look like yoursbe explored hitchwise... anyhow I don't think ll see what I will ever try can do! Say Hi to make table or impossible things as such anymorethe Netherlands and Germany for me! Wonderful and happy adventures. [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 18:21, 30 December 2007 ) - Safira (CET)BTW, my skype username is the same if that would ease talkingP.S.. [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 18:32I'm not really sure where to put this response, 30 December 2007 (CETso hope this is ok!)

hi platschi!thanks for your welcome message== Get an English spelling checker. i discovered hitchwiki three days ago. good idea!sometimes navigation is a bit difficult. hard to find the correct buttons. for example, how can i send you a private message/mail?congratulations to your serbia hitching!i crossed the country in 2003 on my way to istanbul (spielfeld-istanbul 3 days in the same truck) and hitched in 2004 from southern serbia (usce) to prishtina.in september 07 i was in sandjak and crna gora. still wild country in many aspects.if you cross thru regensburg, show up for a coffee.cheers,scheuer.==

==questions==Please... ;) ::Dear Robert, a ''gas station''- is the American English pendant to ''petrol station'' used in Britain. As we have no specific regional English specified for this website, I guess ''gas station'' fits as well as petrol station. See [http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0328230#m_en_gb0328230] for an example. Nevertheless, installing a riddle? spelling checker might be useful, you're right. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 21:24, 6 November 2010 (CET)::If you have been following what I've been doing, you might notice that I stick to continental spelling, i can not get this.e.articles about Europe should mention petrol stations and motorways, articles about the US can mention gas stations and highways. ;-) The only thing I have trouble with is metre/meter -centre/center. I myself prefer the American spelling, but I leave them as-is. [[User:AlexPrino|AlexPrino]] 0122:3437, 27 February 2008 6 November 2010 (CET)'':::On the continent (not on the Islands) people usually use "highway" and "gas station", I hardly ever hear mainland Europeans say "motorways" or "petrol station" when they speak English, I actually had to look up the exact meaning when I saw it in one of your edits... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 23:04, 6 November 2010 (CET):Well,I never use the words petrol station or motorway while talking English. Maybe because I've never been to the UK. When writing articles I usually stick to the common language I use with drivers, mainly in Eastern Europe, and here it's hard sometimes (if no common language available) to even explain them the meaning of ''gas''Nostation, not to mention the word ''petrol''. The German-English mix of ''Tank Station'' sometimes helps wonders, though completely incorrect. I know it doesn't look very aesthetic on the wiki if different words of the same meaning are in use everywhere. We can either start writing a short ''common language guide'' for the experienced users that are more into editing minor grammar and spelling mistakes, we or just had leave it as it is. I prefer the first, to have an overview about specific writing styles throughout the English wiki. I guess a driver great percentage of users here are no native English speakers, so mistakes are normal and quite reasonable. I'm really happy we have users like you who was riding take care of correcting! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 23:25, 6 November 2010 (CET)::I'll do a scientific investigation (among Belgians, Germans and whoever else I might encounter) next time I'm on the road, which will hopefully be sometime before the end of the month. I '''do''' know that fastasking for gas stations in Scandinavia will not be understood, and in Sweden, Denmark and Norway they talk about ''motorväg/motorvei/motorvei'') [[User:Prino|Prino]] 23:40, 6 November 2010 (CET): FWIW, I hear "petrol station" all the time among European hitchhikers, to the point where I've come to adopt the term myself although I grew up speaking US English. "Gas station" definitely feels out of place in Europe. "Highway" seems more common than "motorway" on the continent, though. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 06:39, 7 November 2010 (CET)::Ok, maybe I was wrong. Well, one term not yet mentioned is "tank station", sometimes used by Dutch speakers -and no I'm not proposing we would ever leave that in our articles ;) [[User:platschiGuaka|platschiguaka]] 14:15, 7 November 2010 (CET)::Science? [http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&cr=countryBE&safe=off&tbs=ctr:countryBE&q=%22gas+station%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= 6890 results for "gas station" from Belgium], [http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&cr=countryBE&safe=off&tbs=ctr:countryBE&q=%22petrol+station%22&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= 1070 results for "petrol station from Belgium]<small>^{, [http://www.google.de/#hl=de&cr=countryDE&tbs=ctr%3AcountryDE&q=%22gas+station%22&aq=f&aqi=g5g-s1g4&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=ebe5277d802140aa 67600 results for "gas station" from Germany"], [http://blogswww.hitchwikigoogle.orgde/platschi site#hl=de&cr=countryDE&tbs=ctr%3AcountryDE&q=%22petrol+station%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=ebe5277d802140aa 19900 results for "petrol station" from Germany]. No, not science, but it could be a factor to take into account :) [[user talkUser:platschiGuaka|wikitalkguaka]]}</small> 14:0318, 27 February 2008 7 November 2010 (CET) ::: OK if we're going that way, you also need to change the language to Dutch (or French): [http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_nl&q=%22benzine+station%22+site%3A.be benzine station (3,930)], [http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_nl&q=%22petrol+station%22+site%3A.be petrol station (295)] and [http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_nl&q=%22gas+station%22+site%3A.be gas station (899)] Very few '''gas station''' results on the first returned page have anything to do with petrol stations... ==free travels==Why did you [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Template:News&action=historysubmit&diff=47755&oldid=47420 remove the great news about the Russian] stuff? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:22, 24 November 2010 (CET):Some authors from the AVP claimed their copyright on some content, so we have to fix this issues first before starting to copy/paste everything :( See [[:ru:Обсуждение участника:Platschi]]. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 13: ''By "riding fast"20, 24 November 2010 (CET) == New extension == Platschi,  If you mean "driving quickly"delete spammers, use [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesCleanup Recent Changes Cleanup] to hide your changes, so that the Change Log stay neat and tidy. In English[[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:51, "riding" is used 27 August 2012 (CEST) == Uruguay ==Yo! Check [http://nomadwiki.org/en/Uruguay this out]! :-) I moved some general bits from Hitchwiki to there. In the future there will be more visible linking between these wikis so we can keep Hitchwiki more for bicycleshitchhiking stuff and Nomadwiki for the rest.-[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 00:19, horses23 December 2014 (UTC) == Hitchwiki administration == Hello Platschi,<br>Are you still involved in the technical administration of Hitchwiki? If not, or motorcyclesdo you know ''who'' is? Thanks!--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] ([[User talk:Zenit|talk]]) 10:58, 3 November 2020 (CET) Hi Zenit, not really know who currently does which technical aspect but not carsI'm in some github repositories where some folks work on the wiki. AnywayContact me by email (platschi AT posteo DOT org) and I guide you further :) --platschi == Recent edits by [[User:Dxc]] == Hey platschi, sorry for writing on such small things, but I though you might be concerned by this. User dxc has done multiple edits that is fast! involves blanking pages you've created. He has seemingly been given administrator powers. [https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Tatarstan&diff=101044&oldid=58658 Here]'s an example of such edits.EDIT: no really I mean wtf: https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Leningrad_Oblast&diff=101053&oldid=37074. --[[User:) Swaden|Swaden]] ([[amylinUser talk:Swaden|talk]]) 13:16, 18 February 2021 (CET)