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: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 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.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:Prino|Prino]] 22:37, 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'' station, 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, or just leave it as it is. I prefer the first, to have an overview about specific writing styles throughout the English wiki. I guess a 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 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 asking 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:Guaka|guaka]] 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], [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://www.google.de/#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:Guaka|guaka]] 14:18, 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]] 13:20, 24 November 2010 (CET)
== New extension ==
Platschi,
If you 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. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:51, 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 hitchhiking stuff and Nomadwiki for the rest.-[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 00:19, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
== Hitchwiki administration ==
Hello Platschi,<br>Are you still involved in the technical administration of Hitchwiki? If not, do 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 I'm in some github repositories where some folks work on the wiki. Contact 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 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]] ([[User talk:Swaden|talk]]) 13:16, 18 February 2021 (CET)
