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The project started 14th of April 2005, even before the name ''Hitchwiki'' existed. However, the person (''Teppo'' from [[Finland]], he was also running a website for the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/liftarit/ Finnish hitchhikers community] at time) who started didn't respond when the wiki was constantly being spammed. Consequently, on December 17th [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] moved the wiki to Wikicities (now later Wikia and [httphttps://www.wikiafandom.com/ Wikiafandom]), a migration that was completed on the 19th of December 2005.

[[User:Guaka|Guaka]] organized the relaunch with a first English version of the wiki. A second and final relaunch was done at ''hitchwiki.org'' (registered on November 22nd 2006) by [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] and Guaka - thanks to Wikia's availability of the database dump. In 2007 Spanish, French and German versions were added, in 2008 Russian and Finnish versions and 2009 brought a Bulgarian language version. More and more versions have been added since (see [httphttps://hitchwiki.org/ the front page] for an overview). [[User:Mikael|Mikael]] joined Hitchwiki in 2008 after he had done the Finnish version and migrated it to Hitchwiki.org. Mikael wrote a new maps system in 2010 and is responsible for the layout, among other things. Later maps stopped working, [https://hitchmap.com/ hitchmap.com] is the place for maps now.

Many [[Category:Tech team|more people]] have been working on Hitchwiki over the years. There's also a bunch of actives folks working on mobile apps for Hitchwiki.

Same The same people are also running [https://nomadwiki.org Nomadwiki] (a bit broken in 2024) and [https://trashwiki.org Trashwiki.org]. Guaka and Mikael are also co-founders of [https://www.trustroots.org Trustroots.org] (Dec 2014). Both of them worked also on [https://www.bewelcome.org / BeWelcome.org] and Guaka on [https://www.couchsurfing.com / CouchSurfing.org] in the past.