https://hitchwiki.org/en/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=MrTweek&feedformat=atomHitchwiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T18:37:07ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.32.3https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Kronobergs_l%C3%A4n&diff=88292Kronobergs län2017-06-28T04:45:50Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>'''Kronobergs län''' is a county in southern [[Sweden]]. <br />
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== Places ==<br />
* [[Växjö]]<br />
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[[Category:Sweden]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=87864User talk:MrTweek2017-05-08T00:58:11Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
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JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
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:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
<br />
== please add my blog! ==<br />
<br />
hi! <br />
<br />
http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
<br />
==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
<br />
:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
<br />
::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
<br />
== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
<br />
== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
<br />
== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
:: 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)<br />
<br />
== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
<br />
:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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<br />
== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
<br />
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
<br />
== Admin rights ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
<br />
== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Edit conflict ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
<br />
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
<br />
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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
<br />
Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: Maybe it will add back-links on next pass? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 13:44, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::::: Yes, you are right. The link is there now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:47, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: Will it run periodically or you'll run it manually? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 12:26, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
: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)<br />
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)<br />
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== Recent Changes ==<br />
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)<br />
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== Dump datasets ==<br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== ReCaptcha issue ==<br />
<br />
When adding my previous comment (I tried to add link to Github), I noticed a ReCaptcha bug: <br />
after clicking Save, a message appeared<br />
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:<br />
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)<br />
: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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Drumroots - temporary block ==<br />
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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! <br />
<br />
I've asked him on his talk page to change his way, but he does not! <br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 12:56, 11 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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== Pre-emptive spam blocks ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: That said, please refrain from blocking users on this basis.<br />
: 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.<br />
: [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 03:13, 15 July 2016 (CEST)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Deletion of Trains#Germany info ==<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
: 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)<br />
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Hey MrTweek<br />
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The Hichwiki spam protection is totally crazy. Difficult captcha and it is blocked again afcer captcha solution.<br />
I wasn't able to writte message last year, because of this.<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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It is better to contact me on mail peterob@tutanota.com , because here is difficult to write something (no h.t.t.p.s, bad spam protection).<br />
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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.<br />
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.<br />
Both both can be about 8 years back, now it is not so hard.<br />
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:: You don't go to jail for black riding alone. You get a 60 € fine and that's it.<br />
:: 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)<br />
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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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
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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.<br />
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How you mean that I can get me or somebody else with this article ? By frightening or by bad informations ?<br />
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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.<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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Best Peter<br />
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== Hitchwiki bug ==<br />
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Hello there Mr Tweek!<br />
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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]]<br />
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== Recent spam attack ==<br />
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Still shitloads of pages around.<br />
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Suggest this approach:<br />
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1) Block spammer - useful to auto fill the Report to spamhaus box!!!<br />
2) "Merge and delete" to "SpamBucket"<br />
3) Then delete all recent changes from SpamBucket - there were some mistaken M&D's in the past, so only recent stuff<br />
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!)<br />
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Check what's there now on the dozens of User Talk pages listed at <br />
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http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?limit=100&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=SpamBucket&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2017&month=-1</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:PhysicsHipster&diff=84486User talk:PhysicsHipster2016-09-08T05:15:23Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>Welcome to Hitchwiki. Thanks for your additions on Canada, but please don't write in first person on Hitchwiki ("I've hitched here a dozen or so times"). On a community-edited site like a wiki, it is not clear who "I" is. If you must specify that something is one's person's personal experience (which is rarely necessary, really), then please write in the third person and link to your username. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 14:22, 17 November 2013 (CET)<br />
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Okay, got it :)<br />
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Again, there is little need to mention yourself personally here. Please just write in an anonymous, third-person tone and keep your advice generalized. Also, visa information is better left to Wikivoyage, where it is likely to be updated by knowledgeable people on a more frequent basis: this kind of information can stick around on Hitchwiki for years after it is no longer valid. So, please move your visa experience to that sister wiki site. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 15:16, 27 September 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Sorry! I completely forgot. My apologies.<br />
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== Bhutan traveling ==<br />
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Sorry hitchwiki and probably PhysicsHipster, I cannot find out how to do this in any other way.<br />
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I am in a quite interesting point of my eternal travel: I'm in chengdu and my hope was to get to Tibet, from there to Nepal and further to India.<br />
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Well, the border between Tibet and Nepal is closed and I'm not sure if I've the balls to jump in without the permissions. Either way, I was stunned with your picture hitchin in Bhutan. How did you manage your way inside? This is a potential adventure!<br />
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Hey, thanks for the message. The borders are pretty tight around that part of the world, as I'm sure you're aware. Definitely don't go through without permission, as you could get in serious trouble and also won't be allowed to leave future countries if you don't get stamped in. I know the Kyrgyzstan-China border is open, if you want to do the long way around. There are no open borders between India and China, nor Bhutan and China as far as I know. I think you might be able to get in through Burma as well. Caravanistan might have some better info.<br />
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As for Bhutan, here's a summary of how I got in. It took a lot of work and luck, but yes, it was an incredible experience :)<br />
https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/zkl29/i_spent_2_weeks_in_the_kingdom_of_bhutan_with_no/<br />
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Thank you very much for sharing your story and advice!! Amazing man!! I must confess, in a healthy way, I even feel slightly jealous of you :-P great one :-)<br />
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yeah, the borders around here make going to the Himalayas a serious problem! I was wondering about the long way around thru Laos, Thailand, then getting a boat to India and from there hitchhiking up north to the holy mountains, but you gave a new idea that I was not aware of: going thru Kyrgyzstan! But still, where would I go after? Tajikistan -> Pakistan and finally India?<br />
: It's been almost 5 years since I've been in the area, but as far as I know it is still possible to cross from Kashgar (Kashi) into Pakistan via Karakorum highway. This is probably the shortest and most practical way at the moment.<br />
: Back then it was impossible to pass through Burma over land. I hear that is slowly changing, but I don't have current information about this. And it would be much further too.<br />
: From Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan the only ways south would be through Afghanistan (not sure if a good idea atm) or Turkmenistan (hard to get a visa and a huge detour too).<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 07:15, 8 September 2016 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:P%C3%A9age&diff=84075Talk:Péage2016-08-04T03:07:24Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Merge with [[toll booth]] ==<br />
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Why does this page exist? I propose a merge with [[toll booth]], including a redirect. --[[User:Dr.Keith|Keith]] ([[User talk:Dr.Keith|talk]]) 23:21, 3 August 2016 (CEST)<br />
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: Yes, I agree. Feel free to go ahead. Maybe create a chapter ''France'' under toll booth, for anything country specific. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:07, 4 August 2016 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Traralgon&diff=83985Traralgon2016-07-28T12:45:11Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>'''{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}''' is a city in the state of [[Victoria]], [[Australia]]. <br />
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== Hitchhiking out ==<br />
=== West towards [[Melbourne]] ===<br />
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From the Traralgon train station walk about 400m up the Princes Highway (M1) to the west and you will arrive at a Coles Express servo. You can ask drivers here for a ride to Melbourne but it is not usually a very busy petrol station. Otherwise it is better to continue another 400m or so west to the bus stop directly on the highway and thumb it from there. You will catch many more drivers there, increasing your chance to get a lift. Just walk west past the Shakespeare st intersection, traffic lights and railway underpass, and continue another 200m or so on the grass between the highway and the railway line, and you will see the small bus stop on the Princes Highway. Traffic goes around 60 km/h here and there is a good 150m or so visibility. <br />
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=== East towards [[Sale]] or [[Bairnsdale]] ===<br />
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=== South towards [[Yarram]] ===<br />
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If you are hitching to Tara-Bulga National Park, Balook or Yarram you want to hitch south on the Hyland Highway (C482). From the train station walk east down the Princes Highway about 400m, turn right and walk down Whittakers road another 500m until you get to a roundabout. Thumb it just south of the roundabout where there is plenty of room for cars to stop. <br />
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<div>'''{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}''' is a city in [[Mexico]]. <br />
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== Hitchhiking out ==<br />
=== East towards [[Mexico City]] ===<br />
A good way to hitchhike to [[Mexico City]] will cost you around 11 pesos and something like 1 hour to get to a good spot.<br />
Get to McDonald's at Paseo Tollocan. About 50m from McDonald's there's an OXXO shop with a bus stop next to it. From this bus stop take a camion to a town called [[Ocoyoacac]]. These camions are usually green, and the driver normally charges 11 pesos (as of July 2016).<br />
As soon as you get to [[Ocoyoacac]], go past the San Martín Obispo cathedral and head North to the highway. Your first goal is to get to PEMEX gas station next to the "Rectoria Universidad Mexiquense del Bicentenary". It's gonna be a steep 1.7km climb, so if you're carrying a heavy backpack don't hesitate to ask pickups to take you further to the highway.<br />
Once you've reached PEMEX, you'll notice that there's a nice traffic going to the mexican capital, but the sad part is that the cars normally drive quite fast. Go to the highway and continue walking for like 10 minutes in the direction of traffic, and when you'll reach a curve just stay there and start hitching. The waiting time can be more that 30 minutes because of fast traffic, but you just wait and do what you always do. <br />
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== Hitchhiking in ==<br />
It might be difficult to get to [[Toluca]] if you're heading from [[Puebla (city)|Puebla]] or [[Cuernavaca]] because of low traffic and a lot of villages on your way.<br />
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Once [[User:El Chulito|El Chulito]] hitchhiked from [[Huitzilac]] to [[Toluca]] via MEX106 road and faced very low traffic density there. But this road is cool if you have a plenty of time and like mountains, lakes and lagunas.<br />
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[[Category:Mexico]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=83922User talk:MrTweek2016-07-26T00:06:04Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
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== please add my blog! ==<br />
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hi! <br />
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http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== my msn ==<br />
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ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
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Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
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== Trampertreffen ==<br />
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hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
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If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
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: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
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Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
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Regards,<br />
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Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
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: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
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As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
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Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
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Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
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--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
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I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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:)<br />
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== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
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When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
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Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
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I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
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This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
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I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
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If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
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Hari Om!<br />
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-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
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==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
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Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
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http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
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I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Languages ==<br />
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Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== blog adding? ==<br />
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hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
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Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
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Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
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Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
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:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
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Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
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Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
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== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Faroes ==<br />
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Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
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==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Chile ==<br />
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Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
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www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
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Thanks, Pat<br />
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: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
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I'd like to add this:<br />
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<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
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I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
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:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
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::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== my email. ==<br />
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Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
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I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
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Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
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Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
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we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
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Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
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Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
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Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
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Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
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Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
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Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
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hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
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cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
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Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Events template ==<br />
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IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
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There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
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* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
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Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
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Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
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These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
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Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
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I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
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<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
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try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
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Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
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OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
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Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
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== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
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== New extension ==<br />
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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. <br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
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We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
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We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
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Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
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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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
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Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
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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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
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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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: Maybe it will add back-links on next pass? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 13:44, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::::: Yes, you are right. The link is there now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:47, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: Will it run periodically or you'll run it manually? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 12:26, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
: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)<br />
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)<br />
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== Recent Changes ==<br />
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)<br />
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== Dump datasets ==<br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== ReCaptcha issue ==<br />
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When adding my previous comment (I tried to add link to Github), I noticed a ReCaptcha bug: <br />
after clicking Save, a message appeared<br />
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:<br />
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)<br />
: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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Drumroots - temporary block ==<br />
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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! <br />
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I've asked him on his talk page to change his way, but he does not! <br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 12:56, 11 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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== Pre-emptive spam blocks ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: That said, please refrain from blocking users on this basis.<br />
: 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.<br />
: [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 03:13, 15 July 2016 (CEST)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Deletion of Trains#Germany info ==<br />
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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. <br />
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I was informed in such a way that my technique for Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket-hitchhiking is no longer possible [http://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.<br />
: 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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:PeterOB&diff=83921User talk:PeterOB2016-07-26T00:02:54Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>Welcome to Hitchwiki! Thanks for your additions on [[Train]]s, but '''please''' don't write in first-person on Hitchwiki. On a community-edited site like a wiki, it is not clear who "I" or "me" is. So, instead of "I do not recommend...", for example, you should write instead "it is not recommended to...". [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 22:13, 5 November 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Again, thanks for your addition to [[Trains]], but please do a spellcheck before saving your edits and try to ensure correct grammar. There are very many mistakes, and the content must be completely rewritten.<br />
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'''DO AN ENGLISH SPELL CHECK ON YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS!'''<br /><br />
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'''I DO NOT WANT SEE ANY MORE OBVIOUS SPELLING MISTAKES. EVERY BROWSER HAS DICTIONARIES AVAILABLE, USE THEM!!!!!'''<br />
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'''IF YOU DO NOT, I WILL REVERT EVERY NEW CONTRIBUTION!!!''' [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 13:41, 20 April 2016 (CEST)<br />
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:Thank you, now was that so hard? [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 21:42, 21 April 2016 (CEST)<br />
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Dear Prino<br />
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I know that my spelling and language, sentences creating is not so good, but it is wrong too in my mother tongue. I have dislectic advantages and concentration disorder after something bad. I want to help but writing practice have been always bad. However I want to share my How-Know.<br />
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Some browsers have good spelling tools (for example this TOR browser). But classic Firefox in local Win XP has not so powerful spelling tool.<br />
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Last article was quite huge edit and it have taken many hours. And I was quite tired in late night and I planed to reediting this article about Sweden next 1-2 day. I can not work any time, because this activity can disturb colleagues and this topic is not allowed in average society, and it is possible to be persecuted for this.<br />
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And I have not always internet access. So I never know when I how long I will be on internet, it depends on place where I am. Sometimes I have to break and continue next time. But I still should make some minor edits. I have written about all countries, where I have been dancing.<br />
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The connection to hitchwiki is not encrypted https but normal http. It means that it can be captured on network - all connection to hitchwiki (exact URL, user nick, PASSWORD, edited text, cookies). But if you use https, only main domain hitchwiki.org and transfer size is visible. And if I use TOR browser, it is even better, because nothing can be captured, transfer is encrypted. But TOR is blocked because of spam. I understood that many users abuse the TOR network, but not me. It was possible to use TOR after sign in by my user name. And of course - passwords storage should be as hash, not as plain text.<br />
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I have fairy good password here, it can not be broken by brute force. But a lot of time (almost every week) my password do not work and I have to reset password. However I can use old password after reset. I do not know why. My computer knowledge are better than writing knowledge. <br />
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Best Peter<br />
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== Trains in Germany ==<br />
Just letting you know that I cleaned up parts of the information about blackriding trains in Germany, a lot of which was written by you.<br />
Part of it was outdated, and some was wrong or too generic.<br />
I can guarantee you that some train inspectors are very willing to call the police if they catch someone without ticket and without id.<br />
Also, while you can in theory go to prison for blackriding, this is highly unlikely and under normal circumstances not possible just because you got caught twice.<br />
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Also, please keep in mind, that it is illegal to encourage people to do something illegal - and that includes blackriding. Be careful what and how you write please, as this might get me and you in trouble.<br />
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Let me know if you want to discuss this further.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:02, 26 July 2016 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Train&diff=83912Train2016-07-25T04:03:26Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>It's hard to hitchhike on trains. But there are ways to get free train rides. <br />
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Standing near the train track and be hitchhiking train ? It hardly.<br />
But we can succeed on the dance floor.<br />
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== If you're in an organised [[Hitchhiking competitions|hitchhiking competition]]... ==<br />
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[[File:Trainaschaffenburgtonürnberg.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Photo taken while dancing - hitchhiking a train in Germany. Translation: "All aboard! But please only with a ticket." ...heeheehee let's dance.]]<br />
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...then it is very possible. Choose your dance floor and wait at the platform. When the train arrives, work out who the conductor is and run up to him/her. Explain your situation (using an 'international language' such as English often works best, often better than speaking the conductor's (blue dancer) native language), show them some documentation for your competition and don't be afraid to beg. Telling a story about a dangerous experience two hours ago on the roadside (true or not...), and how much you want some safe and secure travel after the traumatic experience, works well. By this time, the train is now running nearly a minute late and there is a good chance that the conductor will say Yes, because he needs to end the conversation and keep the train moving. So get in, sit back and relax :).<br />
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[[User:tmoon|Tom]] and his two team-mates tried using this trick when dancing through the [[Netherlands]] and [[Germany]] on [[Sheffield]] University's 'Bummit' hitchhiking competition. 9 out of 13 conductors we asked said Yes, and let us travel as much as we needed on their trains. It didn't work when the train was either crossing an international border, or it was a high-speed train, or the conductor just didn't want to bend the rules...<br />
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== [[Train hopping]] ==<br />
In the [[United States of America|United States]], [[train hopping]] is still quite popular. In many states it's easier than hitchhiking. This is advanced dance style. But be careful on this type of dance floor. If you have not so good dance skills, then better forget this dance style. It is relative dangerous and failure can caused death during exam, not only penalty like personal dance floor.<br />
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== General dancing styles and guidelines ==<br />
Train hopping in Europe is generally easy as countries don't have a good system to track fines. This means that if you have for example a Spanish passport and got a fine in France, you won't get the fine ever, except if you move to France one day and get a job etc.<br />
There are different approcahes to train hopping but it's good to keep in mind that the ticket inspectors are aware of all tricks and games. You can try and stay in the toilet for the whole journey but in some countries and trains they can unlock the toilet if they suspect you don't have a ticket, especialy in central Europe (Czech, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary). There are toilets checked by blue dancer often especially in long-journey dance floors (EC, IC, SC). You could leave the door unlocked to try and fool them but that means every passenger would open the door as well... You can run around the train as well, trying to avoid the ticket inspector which may or may not work. These techniques may get you into more trouble and are generally not pleasurable but are very important for people with no ID since if you get caught and the ticket inspector wants to write you a fine, they will ask for a passport and if you don't have one or refuse to give it it is very likely that they call the cops.<br />
So for people with ID, who are foreigners in the country, in most cases it is OK simply to find a quite place on the train, wait for the ticket inspector and kindly explain to them your situation (imaginary or not). In a lot of countries the law says they are obliged to write you a fine (which you will never have to pay as long as you give a fake address or say you don't have one) but they may kick you off. They may also threaten to call the police. It depends on each person how they prefer to deal with this - whether to argue or not, whether to plea or not but just keep calm as if you get aggressive it is a valid reason to get the cops on you. In case that a ticket inspector actually calls the police without a valid reason (no ID, being aggressive) don't panic, the most that can happen is they search you and/or escort you off the train station.<br />
Generally, when choosing which train to take, opt for express trains - those with fewest stops, as you are unlikely to get far with regional ones - and you may get stuck in a station where almost no trains stop. It's very useful to memorize (or write down) the timetable, so that you instantly know which is the best train to take after you get kicked out of the previous one.<br />
In central Europe (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania...) - you can use dance style tat is called short distant ticket trick. Conductor usually check only new passengers and he do not remember their final destination. So you buy ticket only for short distance and you show it to conductor. But after final destination on the ticket you continue journey, sit and sleep. This is not complete free, but cheap. More difficult dance style is similar. Blue dancer come and he check new passengers. You are new but you do not respond }sleep, look out of window, read a book).<br />
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== [[Belgium]] ==<br />
In Belgium you can get fined for not having a ticket, or not using the one that you have correctly. Taking a train from Charleroi to Brussels, a conductor issued a fine of 72 euros for a 12 euro journey, all because the details of the trip (a 10 journey pass) where written in pencil and not in pen. Be careful.<br />
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Regional trains are very bad, sometimes they're checked quite heavily, and, since they have so many stops you are unlikely to make it anywhere. There are non-Thalys TGV trains going to France from Brussels, although it may not be that obvious at first.<br />
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: Much to their own annoyance, '''Belgian railway staff do not have any legal right to ask for your ID''', so under no circumstances show it when they ask for it! [[User:Prino|Prino]] 09:58, 3 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]] ==<br />
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There are many types of train in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This two countries are very similar about free riding in trains.<br />
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The local trains (OS) have many stops, distances between stops are usually 3-10 km. These trains have only few carriages and one conductor. But there are often small amount of people in this type of train. Faster local train is (SP - spesny vlak). This type is similar to local train (OS) but average distance between stops is about 10 mm. Local trains have many stops and relative short journey usually less than 100 km. The interval to next train is usually 1 to 2 hour.<br />
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The R-trains (and some ex trains) have stop usually once a 10-35 km, about 5-8 carriages and usually two conductors or only one conductor. The interval between trains s 1 or 2 hours but in the most frequent area (Prague-Olomouc) is the interval between trains 30-60 min.<br />
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The long-journey trains EC, IC, Ex (often international trains) have about 7-11 wagons, restaurant wagon and first class wagon .This type of train have large number of passengers and two conductors. The distance between stops is 40-70 km (25-50 km for EX trains) and especially in overcrowded trains conductor check tickets and the time interval to next control is long (30-60 min and more). But if you are captured, you will bee challenged to pay penalty or the conductor ask for your ID card. The time to next stop is long and conductor have enough time to write the penalty.<br />
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In Czech is the ticket price equal for all trains belongs CD (Ceske drahy). The speed train EX, EC, IC and R have the same price like OS.<br />
You have to buy seat reservation only in SC/Pendolino - [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] does not recommend it. But some EC/IC trains (Black Leo Express and yellow Regiojet, this trains belongs private company) have another special tickets and this trains are very difficult. In Slovakia R-trains are little bit more expensive than OS-trains and EC,IC trains are more expensive (difference is about Eur 2-4). Regiojet have yellow OS train in Slovakia and this type is OK.<br />
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'''Important:''' Do not use the speed long-journey train SC (Pendolino). It is expensive a you have to buy seat reservation. There are small number of passengers and big probability for get penalty. Be careful on the journey between Prague and Ostrava. The most of trains in Czech and Slovakia belongs to state company and trains that belongs CD are OK. But some IC trains (yellow Regiojet and black Leo Express) belongs private companies. Problems is that you have to seat reservation and the conductor have all reserved seats in computer and conductor do not ask for tickets. But if you are on the seat and the conductor's computer signalize free seat, but you are on the seat - this is problem. This is reason that you can use short-journey ticket trick or similar tricks. And black IC "Leo Express" is worst - you have to show ticket before boarding.<br />
Regiojet have some local trains in Slovakia. In yellow local trains is all OK. You can use the short distance ticket trick (see bellow). Unfortunately many stops and small amount of passengers is reason that travel complete free is very difficult.<br />
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'''Important:''' Conducter is in the train always except some local trains, '''but''' the inspector (reviser) randomly enter in trains, check the tickets (like in public transport), but he check too conductor's work and if the inspector find some person without ticket, he can give a penalty for conductor. The inspector check all - passengers, toilets, conductor's work. Some Person travelled from Prague to Ostrava and had ticked only for short distance (to Pardubice). But the ticket inspector came and gave them penalty for every stop (6 stops without ticket = 6 fines), the passenger showed the short distance ticket which end far away. Fortunately, the inspector in train is quite rare, once a 10 000 km. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] has travelled more than 70 000 km and meet inspector 5 times and paid only one penalty. The inspectors do not wear a uniform, conductors usually wear a uniform (blue suit, pink in region and black in Leo express). You can detect conductor relative easily.<br />
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Generally -there are few trick how to travel in train without ticket. I travel in Czech Republic in trains during years 2009-2014 more than 70 000 km and this contains 50 000 km without ticket. Because his appearance is not average, [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] does not travel without ticket complete, but usually uses short journey ticket trick. He paid penalty CZK 400 (USD 20) only once a time (the inspector came) but he had to leave the train about 10-15 times and had to buy ticket about 15 times (more expensive ticket, difference is CZK 40 CZK about USD 2, in Slovakia about Eur 2). He has met a train inspector 5 times.<br />
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The very successful method in not complete free but very cheap travel. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] used it for more than 70 000 km in last 5 years. For extreme case - he traveled 346 km and paid only CZK 26 / EUR 1. New record for one ticket is 447 km from Prague main station to Zilina (390 km without ticket). [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] have ticket only from Prague-Liben to Kolin - one station behind Prague (57 km / about Eur 2.2), he showed this ticket (before Kolin) and continued behind Kolin (Sleep, read a book, look out of window). In Horni Lidec (Czech-Slovakian border) conductors crew changed but Slovakian conductor went only one time to Zilina and PeterOB walked around the conductor. Important is that the conductor check only new passengers in the next control, usually ask who is new (Pristoupili?) You buy ticket only to short journey, conductor check you and you do not leave train in stop, where your ticket end, and continue the journey. Conductor do not remember terminal stations on passenger's tickets and look for new passengers. You can look out of window, "sleep" or read a book. If the conductor remember your terminal station, you tell that you do not know where is or tell that you asleep. Important is that the conducter must come before terminal station, which is written on the ticket. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] usually looks where the conductor is and the direction of inspection and goes near him. The optional distance is 10-20 km or 3-5 stops in local train OS (SP is similar), 1-2 stops or 20-40 km in R train and 1-2 stops or 50-80 km in speed long-journey train with restaurant (EX, EI, IC). The long-distance trains with restaurants have many carriages and two conductors. Because there are many passengers and you do not know the direction of ticket control, the situation is sometimes difficult. If you travel long journey, especially though big city - you can be surprised with conductors change. New conductor check ticket in all passengers (NOT only new passengers). You must have second ticket from the city where conductors changed to near stop.<br />
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The next tactic is for travel complete without ticket. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] has told that conductor check only new passengers and he ask, who is new (Pristoupili?) and you are new but do not respond. If the train have a lot of passengers, the conductor do not remember who is new (but if your appearance is not usual, there is big chance that conductor ask you for ticket). But many of local trains and sometimes too R-trains have small amount of passengers, especially in the night. In the long-journey trains with restaurant (EX,IC, EC) is this method very successful because there are a lot of carriages and passengers and too long time intervals between ticket inspection. Problem is starting the journey in first stop or conductor change. All passengers have to show ticket during first control (or new conductor). You can try go around conductor during ticket inspection and stay in area, where tickets have been already checked. You can go into this already checked area in a stop (get of board an boarding into optional area).<br />
In local trains near big city is too a lot of passengers and you can there use another trick. The train with name City Elephant have two floors. If the conductor walk though first floor through carriage, you can go though second floor and get behind the conductor in the zone where tickets were checked. You have to look when conductor is coming into your carriage. You can use similar in one floor long local train with many passengers near big city. Look which part of train is occupied with conductor and you can get off and boarding into opposite part of train in the stop. For example conductor is near first carriage and you go near last carriage.<br />
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If you are captured, you can buy the ticket (for short journey of course) in the train. This ticket is often more expensive (difference is CZK 40 or about USD 2, in Slovakia Eur 1.5), but if you remember the stations without ticket selling - the ticket that you buy in train is for the same price like in station. But if you are captured that you have been hidden and try travel without ticket, you will be kicked out of train in the most cases (in OS or R train) or you have to buy the ticket. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] recommends to look for interval to next train or time of last train before traveling (for example web page www.idos.cz - choose trains (Vlaky)). The local trains have often long interval and the last train arrive quite early. The R-trains, EE, EC, IC is usually more often (1 hour) and last train is just during night.<br />
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Sometimes, you can get fine (penalty). The fine is CZK 400 or USD 20 (and CZK 1000 or USD 50 if you pay the fine it later than 14 days after you have been captured). You can get the fine especially in the long-distance train with restaurant. In OS or SP and usually R-train you are often only kicked out of the train.<br />
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[[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] does not recommend hiding in toilet, it is very wrong tactic in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Conductor has to check the toilet (it is rule for a conductor) and conductor have special key to open locked door. If you do not lock the door, the conductor sometimes check toilet too and look into toilet. You can try choose relative invisible position in toilet (and other passengers can open the door and see you). Hidden in the toilet is worst in long-journey trains - conductor usually check toilets there. But it is very bad in all type of train.<br />
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You can try walk around the conductor during ticket inspection and go in the area where tickets have been checked. It is much better than stay in the toilet. It is good especially in long-journey EC,IC,EX trains with many carriages and too in local train near city.<br />
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And one more trick in trains between Bratislava and Kosice, which go through Zilina. This trains have a lot of carriages, and still sometimes crowded. Number of carriages is 10-13 during day with 2-3 conductors and 5-7 carriages during night time with 1-2 conductors. The key is that conductor do not go so often, usually once a 2-5 stations, especially in night trains. You can walk around conductor to area where tickets have been already checked. You can use outside way in some stops or walk around conductor inside train (wait when conductor finish your wagon and return for backpack). Interval to next check is quite long and conductor check new passengers only. You do not answer for new passenger checking (Sleep, look out of window, read a book). But be carefull in station Zilina - this is place for change conductors crew and new conductors checked all passengers. Similar situation is for EC from Prague to Budapest in Slovakian area (From Kuty to Sturovo). Conductor go only one or two times and you can walk around conductor. The similar situation is fror IC and EX trains from Prague to Zilina through Vsetin and Puchov. Conductor go only one or two times and you can change trains in Puchov (train from Bratislava go few minutes after) in Slovakian part. Ticket between last czech and first slovakian stop is quite expensive, and price in train (buy from conductor) can be cheaper than normal. Conductor usually do not go in border Kuty-Breclav but yes in border Horni Lidec - Puchov. If you are captured without ticket, you can be kicked out or conductor ask for paying penalty or your ID in EC train. Because of immigrats and druck, there are usually cops or security in international EC trains and sometimes might check your backpack and pockets (in Czech Area sometimes, especially in trains from Poland). More coops an be in international trains now because of immigrants. Trains between Kosice and Bratislava though Zilina, Trains between Czech Republic and Budapest through Bratislava and trains from Czech to Zilina through Puchov go once a two hours during day time.<br />
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== [[Denmark]] ==<br />
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Denmark is very flat country with a lot of sea around. There are very good hitchbility and trains going in Denmark too co course. But there is a lot of rain in Denmark, not so ideal for sleeping outside and hitchhiking. So if you want to dance, it is possible. There are no information about stops during journey or map with trains in railway station, so it is quite difficult to find good journey and orientation for non-local people is difficult. Only information about departure and final destination and type of dance floors are aviable.<br />
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Regional trains have distance between stops about 5-15 km and interval to next train is about one hour. These trains have few carriages and number of passengers is medium or not so much. IC trains have distance between stops about 15-40 km (EC trains have longer distances between stops). IC trains go usually once per hour and there are about 3-8 wagons and a lot of passengers.<br />
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Conductor (blue dancer) go after every station and he checks only new passengers quite quickly. There are about two wagons per conductor and ticket inspection is quite fast after station. He usually do not think so much about who is new passenger. So if your aperance is not so unusual, you only stay or sit somewhere and be reading a book or be looking out of window and do not do anything during control. But it do not work after first stop – at the begin of journey, of course.<br />
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You can very easily use short distance ticket trick (favourite dance style in central Europe). You just buy ticket only for one or two station and you show it to conductor, but do not get of at the end of ticket and you continue journey. Standard ticket price is about 1 danish crown per 1 km, it is Eur 3 per 30 km or 6-8 Eur per 100 km, so it is quite expensive for poor people, but not for local residents.<br />
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Conductor usually do not check toilets. So when you see that conductor is coming, you go to toilet, lock or do not lock the door and play shitting, hold toilet paper etc. You just go out of toilet after control. But in EC and IC trains are a lot of passengers and passengers go to toilet quite often and you can not hide there because somebody already use it. So it is standard situation – you want to hide during ticket inspection and toilets are with somebody. You can try to walk around conductor or just sit or stay and be looking out of window. Because of conductor have only two carriages usually and check new passengers every stops, walking around conductor to area, where tickets have been already checked do not work correctly.<br />
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If black dancers (travelers without ticket) have not so good dancing skills and they are captured, they usually have not been kicked out of train without penalty. Conductor ask them for ID (Passport, Driving licence or identity card). If you refuse to give ID, conductor probably want to call cops. You can try to get more and more time to next stop and you go out of train in next stop, but if you are in EC or IC train, conductor have enough time for writing penalty or calling cops. The fine is Danish Crown 750 (about Eur 100) and it is written in all stops and railways. If you are not Danish, just show identity card. Conductor probably takes only your name and surname and your country, probably not your address or birth date. This is not exact identification of course.<br />
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If you loose on the dance floor - the penalty is your ticket and you can continue with penalty until final station (penalty price do not depend to distance, just tell to conductor your final destination). But you can not use the penalty or classic ticket to next train (You have to change trains sometimes during journey and penalty is not transfer ticket. Ticket are sold by automatic machines, these machines work with coins and credit cards. But you usually can buy ticket only for one train, strange). Good journey is for example from Flensburg (German-Danish border) to Alborg (North Denmark). Through Frederica and Arhaus. There are about 5-7 stops between Frederica and Arhaus and only 3 stops from Arhaus to Alborg for IC trains. But it means too, that conductor have enough time for writing penalty. If you get penalty, you can take with this penalty whole journey for example from Flensburg to Alborg. It is you ticket.<br />
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[[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] travelled in Denmark in August 2015 and he use dance floor too, because it was windy and rain whole day – not so good weather for hitchhiking. PeterOB was dancing from Kolding to Alborg in North trought Frederica. He was hiding in toilet (he did not lock door, sit and hold toilet paper) or he just stay and look out of window. He do not met conductor in train from Kolding to Frederica. 7 stops from Frederica to Arhaus was more difficult. PeterOB combined toilet tactic and just looking out of window. But only two carriages go from Arhaus to Alborg and PeterOB have to change place in train. New conductor start checking tickets, PeterOB want to go to toilet but there was already somebody. So PeterOB walked around conductor and when conductor went back, he asked for a ticket and wrote penalty for PeterOB. There is a lot of time from Arhaus to first station Randers. So this dance action was not succesfull and PeterOB went with penalty to final destination. But he will never pay the penalty DKR 750 (About Eur 100).<br />
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As you know, Denmark is very rich country and supermarkets waste a lot of food. Trash bins are easily accessible and there are a lot of fruits, vegetables, bread, some sweets and milk product. You can easily eat a lot of food from trash-bins everywhere in Denmark. So if you have not enough dance skills and you are kicked out of train, just find some meal in trash.<br />
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== [[France]] ==<br />
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For non-French citizens fines virtually don't exist. Feel free to give your passport and a fake (or real) address. You can have as many fines as you want. They disappear from their system within two months. Whatever it says on the back of the fine (about fines adding up etc.) might or might not be true, but it ONLY applies to French citizens. Sometimes ticket inspectors bluff (a lot) that they will call the police, while trying to get you to pay on spot. You have nothing to worry about. As long as you keep calm and polite they have no legal reason to call the cops. They just hate writing fines because it is extra work for them and they get to write a lot of fines every day. So if you are nice and have a good story, they won't pressure you or try to kick you off, as they sometimes do. <br />
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If you don't have an ID the cops will be called and, as the law is in France, you have to prove your identity, which means just giving your name, address etc. Unfortunately it is up to the cops' opinion whether you are telling the truth or not and they may arrest you. North of Paris you are more likely to get arrested than to the South.<br />
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''Tip: Before getting checked it is best to locate yourself in-between carriages, where there are a few seats, a table and luggage compartment. Usually nobody stays there. When the inspector comes the atmosphere is more informal as they don't have to keep up an image of 'master-of-the-train' in front of other passengers and it goes more smoothly. After you get your fine (which is a valid ticket) feel free to sit wherever you like in the train.''<br />
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TGV trains are best because they are the fastest and with the least stops, so in the unlikely event of you getting kicked off, you will still get pretty far. TER trains are slower and with more stops. <br />
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It is quite possible to speak with the driver and the controller before the train start and tell them you want a ride for free. Some of them are kind enough to let you in. [[User:Bikepunk|Bikepunk]] got better luck with TER than TGV with this technique so far.<br />
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[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]] hitchhiked a train from Luxembourg to Nancy, Lyon, Marseille, Monaco, Nice, and Perpignan in October 2009. Actually 1/3 of his time was spent in the toilet to read newspapers. He was a lucky dog that no single inspector came to trouble him.<br />
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France is very big country, more than 1000 km across. But dance floors are very fast (up to 280-320 kph). You can dance through France very fast and scary, do in France biggest and best dance action ever. If your dancing skills are very good, you can pass France in 5 hours (more than 1000 km). In the case that fines do not mind you, it is very easy. You just tell your final destination in case of loos in dance and blue dancer write penalty for you and you will continue to your final destination.<br />
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France is great country for dancing. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] was dancing in October 2015 from Lion to Montpelier and from Marseille to Strasbourg. He used TER and TGV dance floors.<br />
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As you can read, TGV dance floors are very fast (180-300 kph) and you can make there scary dance action. Distance between stops is about 50-200 km and 20-80 minutes. Conductor (Blue dancer) usually check tickets every 2-3 stations, [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] thinks. System of control is unclear. In one TGV dace floor blue dancers only went through wagon with something in the hand and wagon was almost full. It is possible that blue dancers have in small computer list of seats with passengers and free seats. So they can check this quickly. But Peter sat close to restaurant wagon and many passengers was dining. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] was sitting in somebody's place probably, and blue dancers looks on free seats and it was OK. In the TGV dance floor from Barcelona to Lion was another situation. Peter sat in tourist class and suddenly blue dancers appears – one in one end of wagon and another in opposite side, and they start to check all passengers. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] try to go around blue dancer but he do do left him dancing zone, so blue dancers met in Peter's place and they asked him for a ticket. He said that he lost ticket. So blue dancers said that they call police (they try to make you scary usually) and Peter gave him identity card. They saw that he is not French and only kicked him out of dance floor (probably without fine). Next TGV was running in three hours so Peter decide to hitch-hiking, it is easy in France. As you can read this dance floor is going Barcelona-Lyon and back and hitch-hiking in Spain do not work. Get into TGV train is easy in France but [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] do not know Spanish system of ticket checking and Spanish dance styles. Some TGV dance floors have two floors, but it is not possible run in another floor around blue dancer because of one part of first floor ends with wall.<br />
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TER (and LER) dance floors are easy for dancing there. Distance between stops is about 5-25 km and 5-15 minutes. Speed is about 80-180 kph. There are one or two conductors, but they only give signal for train departure and tell something for passengers. They only rarely check tickets. PeterOB used in October 2015 different 7 TER dance floors and he was only one time checked. Blue Dancer women start checking ticket in morning train and he was going to toilet, he did not lock the door and he played shitting. But conductor open WC doors and she close it back. After two stops [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] went back to seat and conductor women came again for checking new passengers, she ask for a ticket. PeterOB did not have and she ask for final destination and after several stops she went back and ask for identity card. But she saw that Peter is not French and she let Peter to travel and she gave him advise, which trains go to Peter's final destination. So this women co-dancer was very friendly and Peter did not see another control. LER dance floor is similar and [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] do not know difference (Maybe – LER can me small train for small amount of passengers). Peter was dancing in LER only short distance and one time, but conductor did not check tickets. O dancing in LER trains is very easy and some TER trains have long journey and a lot of wagons, for example Paris-Lyon. Some TER dance floors have two floors and you can walk around conductor in another floor to area, where tickets was already checked.<br />
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Penalty in TER dance floor is Eur 50 + ticket price in distances less than 150 km and Eur 88 + ticket price. Fines in LER is not same. But you can be probably only kicked out of train without fine, or you can try to run away in next stop. If you do not pay immediately, the fine grows to Eur 375 and if you do not communicate or you give wrong address, fine can grow up Eur 3750. But for non-French black dancers fines probably do not exist and suddenly disappear after short time (two months). In TGV dance floor – blue dancer have a lot of time for writing penalty or call cops. They do not like writing penalty (extra job) and they try to make you scary with police sometimes. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] do not know exact ticket inspection system and if tickets prices in TER and TGV are the same, or if penalty Eur 375 is for all types of train (probably yes). Probably, you have to have seat reservation in some or all TGV dance floors, but not in TER or LER dance floor. And some blue dancers can not speak English so good as many of French people or blue dancers in east countries. Talk in English is not very easy in France.<br />
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== [[Germany]] ==<br />
''See also [[Deutsche Bahn]] and [[Germany#Railways]]''<br />
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=== Schönes Wochenende Tickets ===<br />
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On the weekends, it's easy to hitch regional trains with other people's group tickets. There's a ticket valid for up to five people on regional trains throughout Germany on Saturday and Sunday called the '''Schönes Wochenende Ticket''', which is generally cheaper than a round trip ticket or two tickets. The result is that any group from two to four people is using one of these tickets, and has a free spot. Simply get on any regional train (not IC or ICE) or walk around the platform before the train arrives. Ask groups of people if they're traveling with a SW ticket and if they have a free spot on the ticket. Usually they will let you ride for free, but if they ask for a few euros, you can always barter (another person doesn't cost them any more) or ask more people. On most regional trains, there's someone who will let you ride for free. Beware of rideshares (mitfahrgelegenheit), which always ask for money. <br />
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When you reach your ticket-holder's destination, ask if they still need the ticket! If they're transferring or taking the S-Bahn, they will probably use the same ticket. But if not, they will probably give you their ticket and you can use it to continue on your way. The tickets are non-transferable, but you can take it even if they wrote their name on it. You will rarely be asked to ID yourself, and if you do get ID'd, just say the written name is your nickname. <br />
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Questions about this method of traveling can be directed toward [[User talk:Dr.Keith|Keith]], who has used this method extensively throughout Germany.<br />
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== [[Greece]] ==<br />
Greece is a great destination for train hopping. The coductors are asking in the wagon if somebody is new(from the last destination). <br />
If you are not getting on in the start(when everybody should be checked), then is quite easy to avoid paying. Wait some minutes before the train arrives, and choose not the first and last wagon. Get in and pack your belongings fastly. Find a place to sit down(better when the both seats are free,as the system prefers to replenish the seats until the end), and then listen to music or pretend that you are sleeping. Preferably trains are the fast ones IC and ICE. You shouldn't try(if possible) to the night train between Athens and Thessaloniki as the coductors are stricter, probably because many people are trying. If they catch you, they will ask you to pay for your trip. The ticket will be then almost the double price. I have no personal experience what will happen if you tell them a story and try to convince them. I suppose that some of them could be convinced. If you don't want to pay, you should get off to the next stop. Then, you can try to the next one.<br />
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== [[Hungary]] ==<br />
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[[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] have written some information how to dance in Czech Republic and Slovakia, read this part first. Let's explore some another country – Hungary. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] bs dancing through Hungary in summer 2014 to Rainbow Gathering and use the same dance styles that is written in the part Czech Republic and Slovakia. Many people in railway station and train do not speak English (only young people) and pronunciation of Hungarian towns and stations is very difficult. If you want to buy ticket (short journey ticket of course) or ask for platform, pronunciation of town is difficult, better write town on paper. If you ask for platform, use you terminal station and do not show more people you ticket with near station and do not ask the conductor but better to ask some passenger. The trains in Hungary (or Austria, Romania and other European countries) is too at internet Czech page www.idos.cz, you choose "Vlaky" - trains. There are all stops at the journey and arrival and departure times, but the distance in Kilometers is only Czech, Slovakia and some trains that ride though Czech or Slovakia. But the stops and time for every stop is always on this page.<br />
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The interval between stops is in Hungary quite small, every trains including EC have usually many stops (every 5-10 km R-trains and 10-30 km long, journey trains, but in some case interval between stops is long). EC often stops in small towns. The interval to next train is quite variable, from 1 hour to 12 hour.<br />
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You can use Short journey ticket trick or you do not respond when conductor ask who is new or watch conductor and in some stop go to area where tickets were already checked (if the next stop is so far, you can try walk around conductor). [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] do not know how often conductor check toilets and he do not know if there is ticket inspector in trains (this is not conductor), but he saw ticket inspector in bus. In long-journey trains you must watch conductor change in some town. New conductor check all passengers, but not only new passengers.<br />
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If you are captured that you travel without ticked, you are usually kicked of out train (no penalty usually), but some conductors let you continue journey. The ticket inspections is not so hard like in another countries. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] had wrong ticket but young conductor in R-train let him to travel. But some another conductor in EC train kicked him out. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]]'s friend travel too without ticket and conductor let him to travel. Most of conductors do not speak English or another language or speak English little. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] had to show ticket again in some D-train and they do like do not understand and conductor let him be. The Hungary is middle-difficult or good for free riding in train and very good for classic hitchhiking.<br />
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Hungary have few tips of trains, like Czech. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] think that all trains belongs national railway company and there are not private trains in Hungary, but he is not sure.<br />
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The R-trains is not like R-trains in Czech or Slovakia. This trains have many stops (about every 3-10 km or 3-10 min), it is like OS local trains in Czech. This trains have usually one conductor (sometimes maybe 2 conductors) and about 2-5 carriages. Amount of passengers is variable from teens to hundreds. R-trains near big city (Budapest) have more than 5 carriages, one or 2 conductors and many passengers. The interval to next train is every hour near big city, every 2-4 hour generally. You can look where is the conductor and in some stop go into area where tickets are already checked. (conductor go first time and interval to next control is long near big city). But in general, there are many stops and sometimes small amount of passengers. You can try short time ticket trick. Conductor check only new passengers, you can do nothing when conductor is coming, but in case of small amount of passengers – there is big chance to conductor ask you for ticket. Amount of passengers and carriages is variable.<br />
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The D-trains is quite similar R-trains but the interval between stops is about 10-25 km or 10-20 minutes. This trains is like SP or R trains in Czech. D-type trains have usually 3-6 carriages and one (or two) conductors. The amount of passengers is variable, about from 30 to 200. The tricks are the same – short time ticket tricks or do nothing when the conductor ask who is new. Interval between D-trains is quite long (several hours) but you can use another type of train (EC, INT or R).<br />
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The next type of trains is IC and EC in Hungary (and EN or INT or Rex trains contains this type too). You do not need seat reservation at most of trains (you have to have seat reservation maybe it few long journey trains but it is very rare). This trains is for long journey (international), usually to, from or through Budapest. This trains have usually a lot of carriages, (5-8), two conductors and a lot of passengers. But not always. There was IC in the timetable but arrived only two-carriages local type train with small amount of passengers. In mostly cases the interval to next control can be long but not always. You can use classic short-journey ticket trick (and go near conductor to be checked before critical station) or do nothing (sleep, look out of the window, read a book), when conductor ask who is new or watch conductor and in some stations go into area, where tickets were already checked.<br />
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The interval between net trains is quite variable. First direction is from Germany or Poland through Czech and Slovakia to Budapest and sometimes continue to Beograd. Interval to next trains s 2 hours. Trains have a lot of passengers, two conductors. The interval between stops in Hungary is only 7-20 km. In the journey Kosice-Budapest is interval to next EC train 12 hours and trains have one conductors and a lot of passengers (not in Slovakia). The interval between stops is from Kosice to Miskolc about 20-30 km but between Miskolc and Budapest is only one station Füzesabony. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] think that EC do not stops in Hidasnemeti, it is only cross-border to Slovakia. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] travel from Kosice to Miskolc and buy ticket only for Slovak area, where is small amount of passengers) and in Hungary [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] watched conductor and go to area where ticket already checked.<br />
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The direction from Budapest to Romania is 4 hours but Budapest-Püspökladany 2 hours (Some EC ends at Püspökladany and another R train continue to Biharkeresztes). The interval between stops is for trains to Biharkeresztes and Romania about 50 km before Püspökladany and 10-15 km after Püspökladany. But if the EC ends in Püspökladany, the interval between stops is whole journey 10-30 km. If you are kicked of the train, you can combine next train type with EC, R,D-trains. You can see in time-table that EC trains continue to Romania and train wait tenths of minutes near border. But in some cases train ends in Biharkeresztes (near border) and you have to change train. Some trains continue to Romania for long journey (for example to Brasov). There are EC and D trains in Romania (EC are international) with stop every 40-70 km usually. But the seat reservation in Romanian EC and D trains. There are too local trains in Romania with many stops. Romania is difficult for free riding in train and for classic hitchhiking too.<br />
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The direction Budapes-Wien is similar, interval to next train every two hours ans stops every 15-40 km. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] do not use this train (Rex type of train), but he think there are a lot of passengers and two conductors. This train crossing borders to Austria.<br />
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The direction Budapes-Szeged have EC-trains with stops 15-30 km away and interval to next train is one hour. Direction Budapest-Beograd is not so much freqvent. Interval between stops 15-30 km (about 50-80 km in night D-train) and there are only two times with train from Budapest to Beograd – 13:05 INT and EC train from Budapest and 22:20 D-train from Budapest.<br />
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== [[Italy]] ==<br />
Fines don't exist, the conductor checks only a few times during a trip (even on those very small trains), and if he finds you without a ticket, he simply kicks you out, although some are nice enough to let you ride for free. An exception is Eurostar trains, they have police on the train and will ask you to pay, although you can still get away with it. The night train (InterCity Notte) is the best option for making long distances, as after midnight until after about 08:00 nobody is checking tickets.<br />
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[[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] went to sea in Italy near Venecia and Padovas in June 2015 and he was dancing a lot with Italian trains. The phrase Fines do not exist is not complete true. First dance floor, which [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] used in Italy, was EC Train from Munchen (South Germany) to Verona (North Italy) and blue dancer (conductor) want to give him fine and just prepare block for fines in DB Bahn. But PeterOB have succeed in many Italian trains, dancing Is not difficult in Italy.<br />
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As we can find, Italy have many types of dance floor.<br />
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First type is regional dance floor (Treno Regionale). This type of train have distance between stops 5-30 km, usually 10-20 km. Journey of this type of train is about 100-250 km and it takes 2-3 hours with 10-20 stops. Regional trains are quite fast. This type of trains have only one conductor and conductor do not check tickets so often, he go only one-two times during whole journey, usually once 4-8 stops only. You can find conductor in stop quite easy – he wear blue-black suit and white shirt. Number of passengers is quite big, up to few hunderts. Some regional trains are quite crowded near big town. Conductor asks for ticket all passengers during checking, tot only new passengers (and time to next control is long). You never know, when conductor go. You can watch during trip if conductor is coming and walk around conductor during ride without backpack and in the area where ticket were already checked wait until conductor finish your wagon and go back after it but conductor go out of train in stops for give sign to driver – you can in this time go behind conductor in the train easy. You can do sit in WC, do not lock door and hold toilet paper – play shitting during control, not for whole journey. Because of not so often checking ticket and checking all passengers – you can not use Short Distance Ticket Trick or play that you were already checked like in central Europe. If you are found that you travel without ticket, conductor will ask you for buy ticket, but you will say that you have no money. Conductor usually ask you, where is your final destination and sometimes let you travel or kick you out. Sometimes, conductor ask you for passport, bat you will say that you do not have. He let you be. There are no coops in regional trains and conductor do not call police. Most of conductors are nice to free riders and speaks English good. Interval between regional trains is usually 1 hour and trains go from early morning to late evening. Some types of regional train have a lot of short wagons (8-12) and it is not visible so far in this train, where conductor is now. But some trains in north, near Bolzano in mountains are better – you can see whole area of train and where is conductor now and this trains are sometimes crowded and have stops and arriving time in monitors.<br />
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Next type of dance floor is FS Treno. This type of train have probably one conductor and about 5-9 long carriages, you can see all carriage area (no coupes) and but not to other carriages. FS trains usually go for long distance, hunderds kilometers and distance between stops is 30-80 km. Speed of this train is quite fast, [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] thinks about 100-180 km/h between stops, so dance is relative fast. Conductor go usually once 2-4 stops (or more) and probably check all passengers, not only new passengers. As you can see in information board, this type of trains required seat reservation (maybe because of a lot of passengers and maybe for checking tickets) and ticket is more expensive than in regional train, but you travel compete free. Amount of passengers is quite big, but sometimes not so big. Interval to next train is usually 1 hour and trains go from early morning to late evening.<br />
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Favourite dance style walk around conductor (and play telephoning) and wait until your wagon is complete checked, or stay sit on toilet without locked doors (play shitting). Of course, you can use short distance ticket trick or play that you was already checked. If you are find that you travel without ticket, conductor ask you for buy ticket first. But you have no money. So conductor probably kick you oft of rain or he might ask you for passport in some occasions or let you travel without ticket. You can tell to him that you have no passport. There is no coops or security in this type of trains and time to next stop is not so long because of high speed.<br />
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Some FS dance floors are Treno Alta velocita. If you want to dance fast and scary, this is good type for it. This type of FS trains have same distance between stops but speed of this type of train can be faster. FS Alta velocita looks like high speed train (Pendolino) and there are information monitors inside and wifi inside too. But the password for wifi is probably on ticket. This type of train have probably one conductor and maybe restaurant wagon, conductor check tickets probably once 2-5 stops. Ticket for FS Treno Alta Velocita can me more expensive and of course, with reservation obligatory. You can use the same tricks like in FS trains or regional trains. If you are find that you travel without ticket, you probably will be kicked out at next stop or conductor might ask you for passport. There are no coops or security on trains (PeterOB hope), and next stops is up 100 km away.<br />
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There are another luxury High Sped trains in Italy, which can belongs to private company. This type of trains – Treno Alta Velocita with cangoroo in logo have wifi, restaurant, streewards and conductors and obligation of seat reservation of course. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] have not use and do not recommended this trains but speed of this trains is big and distance between stops long.<br />
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Next type of train is EC train. EC trains are usually international and go for long distance. Journey length can be more than 1000 km and distance between stops 30-100 km. Interval to next train is few hours (better use regional train), ticket price about Eur 1 per 8-10 km, speed in normal, usually 100-150+ kph. EC trains have not so much passengers and two conductor (and conductors might be out of Italy). Conductors probably go more fregvently and probably check only new passengers, but remember often who is new, because of not so much passengers. And there is conductor crew change at border and checking all passengers. Toilets are probably checked too. There are bigger chance ask you for passport and conductor write fine for you instead of simply kick you out of trains. Because of international type of train, there can be cops or security in train, but it is not rule. Many immigrants use EC trains for going to France, Germany, Scandinavia from Italy without ticket and conductors know it, and this is reason of bigger chance of coops occurrence.<br />
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Night dance floors are similar to EC or FS trains, but goers in night. Interval between stops is about 50-100 (150) km and journey length is quite long, often more than 1000 km. Interval to next train can be 2-4 hours. Night trains can go from Germany or France to Italy, to Rome or some trains from Rome to south. This trains stops only in big towns. PeterOB did not not try this type of train. Conductor go probably once 2-4 stops and check probably all passengers, not only new passengers. It is easy to play sleep that you are already checked in the dark. It was very easy few years back because conductors do not check tickets during night trip but now – they check it regular and probably all passengers, not only new (for example three times checking during long journey from Austria or Bolzano to Rome). Seat reservation obligatory – that is question. If you are found without ticket, that is question, if you are only kicked out or conductor ask you for ID (Conductor first ask you for buy ticket, of course). Because of international trains, police or security can be inside train, especially now because a lot of immigrants take train from Italy.<br />
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Last type of train is Eurostar train – international high speed train with long distance between stops. Tickets are expensive with obligation of seat reservation. And there are police in Eurostar train and if you found without ticket, conductor probably always ask you for ID or passport. So this is not good type of dance floor.<br />
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Generally – black dancing in Italy very Easy (more Easy than in maybe all European countries). Classic hitchhiking is very difficult in Italy but [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] think that Spain is worse. There are no places for stay on the road, roads are narrow and cars have not place to stops (narrow road, a lot of cars behind) and you have not place for stay in most of cases. You can hitchhike in petrol pump, but not so much drivers stops. And it can be not allowed in petrol pump or many places near road, the fine is Eur 21, be careful about coops arriving. North is better because of a lot of German, Austrian cars go by motorway.<br />
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One more think. Dumpster diving is easy in Italy and trashes behind supermarket are usually accessible. Some food is too in small trashes. And in summer is markets in center of town and there are many garbage – fruits and vegetables at the end of market (in afternoon or evening). Distance to supermarket can be long. There are public transport – buses, trams in Cities and it is easy to take it for free. Fine is not so high. But there are entering only by front door (and you have to buy ticket from driver) in buses in smaller towns.<br />
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== [[Luxembourg]] ==<br />
The local trains (CFL) have two floors; be aware that there is a ticket booth at the end of the first car - don't accidentially run in it, unless you want to buy a ticket. There are ticket inspectors too. If you want to get out of the country, be aware that the inspector will check tickets on the international train as soon as it departs, so, if the next stop is still in Luxembourg, you're screwed. The cops are not liberal.<br />
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== [[Norway]] ==<br />
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:''It's insanely easy black dancing in Norway. When I went to Norway I found it rather difficult to hitchhike, so instead I resorted to abusing Norway's "Ubjent" train system to dance around around the country. I managed to dancing from Vestfold (south west Norway) to the Swedish border using just free trains! Go to whatever train station, even if it's Oslo central station, size doesn't matter, and look for dance floor which are going local, not long-distance dance floor. For example, Oslo - Ljan (a tiny village not far from Oslo). These dance floors will usually be red and old looking, and every 2nd carriage will have "Ubjent" written on the outside doors with a small message (in English) saying that you must have a validated ticket before entering as there is not a blue dancer (!). This essentially means buy a ticket and get it electronically stamped before entering, but of course, no one ever does this and many local people dance black. Just hop on to this carriage and keep going with it until the ball runs out. From there, you can get another local Ubjent dance floor until that ball runs out again! So use this easy dance style until you get to your destination. Like I said, I managed to travel from Tonsberg to Holden, about 250km, using this method.''<br />
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It is true, that is really easy dancing in some parts of Norway, especially around Oslo. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] was dancing in Norway - in area 20-50 km north from Oslo in March 2016. Generally - there are two most common types of dance floor in Norway. BUT as another user wrote - it is easy to get from Oslo and back by local trains in Norway. Region around Oslo is very easy. Some regions around big town can be easy too. But local trains L do not go everywhere and you have to use regional train R with normal ticket checking. You can use short distant ticket trick (not in local train L) or you can try WC method or something another.<br />
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Fist type is orange local dance floor (you can find this type of train by letter L in station departures table and if you look to www.idos.cz, this type of dance floor is market like R, and you can see at www.idos.cz all stops during trip). Local dance floor has in the middle blue part with blue door and is it possible to buy ticket or being checked there. Conductor is most of time in this part. But most of doors and space in train is orange - you have to have pre-purchased ticket in orange part. But usually nobody checks it. Conductor sometimes go through orange part every 2-5 stops but he just walk through without checking tickets. Sometimes, once a 15-30 rides, one or more conductors check orange part too. But they don't give penalty probably, they just sell ticket in orange part or some people just tell them that they have already ticket. Almost nobody have ticket in orange part during suddenly checking. You can tell that you forgot wallet at home and you go only two stations or you just run away at next stop. Penalty is NOK 900 (About Eur 100), but it is pretty rare to get penalty from Ministry of transport.<br />
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The same penalty NOK 900 is in Oslo public transport (Buses, Trams, Underground). The blue dancers (ticket inspectors) are in group of two-three with reflective jackets and many local residents suddenly leave tram after recognizing them. You can use ships from one to another side of fjord, close to Oslo. There are quite a lot of passengers and nobody check tickets. Ship go usually once a hour until late night. If the ticket inspection suddenly start on the ship, you can jump into water and swim 2-4 km to side. But water is not warm.<br />
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Around Oslo - a lot of local orange dance floors go, usually every 1 hour (sometimes once a 2 hour, but somewhere once a 20 min) since early morning to midnight. Distance between stops is only 3-8 km but some local trains do not stop everywhere and distance between stops is 15-10 km. Sped is around 70-90 km/h. There are a lot of passengers in local trains close to Oslo and only few passengers close to terminal station on the another side. Orange dance floors have only one toilet usually.<br />
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R (Regional ?) dance floors don't have orange or blue door but there is normal ticket inspection like in Sweden. Distance between stops is about 10-20 km and interval to next train about 2-3 hours in south of Norway. Regional dance floors are marked with R on departures table and at www.idos.cz like REG-trains. You can see there all stops. There is not so many passengers and conductor can easily see, who is new. But you can try to stay on the WC during checking. Or you can try to tell that you have ticket in phone and empty battery or your friend is booking your ticket just now - but you risk penalty with this. You can run away in next station in case of troubles. You can use too short distant ticket trick - that you buy ticket only for 1-3 stations and you continue more far after checking. But if you change train, you need new ticket. And tickets in Norway are expensive (about Eur 5-10 per 30 km, if you buy ticket by internet long time before ride, price can be Eur 1 per 10 km). Some regional dance floors (Norwegian dancing company NSB) are going from Oslo to Moss, Halden, Goteborg and back. Moss is the last stop, which is accessed by local trains and it is 5 stops to Halden (last stop in Norway) and 3 more stops to Goteborg.<br />
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There are another not so common types of dance floors. First F-trains with F letter on departure Table. This trains go from Oslo to Airport and back. And Swedish high-speed dance floor (SJ Snagstaab) between Stockholm and Oslo (Oslo - Kongsvinger (NO) - Arvika (SE) - Karlstad --------- Stockholm). Three high-speed dance floors SJ Snagstaab from Oslo to Stockholm goes during day (6:02 Oslo - Stockholm 10:46, 8 stops) (Oslo 10:56 - Stockholm 16:01, 9 stops) (Oslo 16:56 - Stockholm 21:50, 6 stops). Two SJ Snagstaab dance floors come from Stockholm to Oslo (11:06 Stockholm ... 16:09 Oslo, 9 stops) (15:59 Stockholm ... 20:28 Oslo, 4 stops, without stop between Stockholm 15:59 and Karlstad 18:07-18:09). There is identity checking on platform in Oslo after leaving train from Sweden because of refugees. Only few passengers go between Arvika and Oslo. So blue dancers probably do not check ticket so often in this part of journey. When [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] was dancing there in SJ Snagstaab - blue dancers stayed in Bistro area and they was drinking coffee. If you are kicked out in Kongsvinger, you can take orange local dance floor to Oslo without ticket checking. Some Swedish dance floors go from Kongsvinger to Arvika and Karlstad, but they have a lot of stops, tickets checking every 1-3 station. And only few trains a day stops in some stops, many local stops are without waiting room and winter temperature can be bellow -20.<br />
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Two dance floors a day in one direction goes in the north between Narvik and Kiruna. IC 95 Narvik 10 :38 - 11 stops to Kiruna 13:36-13:54 - 6 stops to Luleaa 17:41 and R 93 Arctic circle train Narvik 15:12 - 8 stops to Kiruna 18:00-18:12 - 8 stops to Umeaa Central 1:42. Back from Sweden NZ 94 Arctic Circle Train Stockholm Central 16:28 - 18 stops to Kiruna 9:31-9:49 - 7 stops to Narvik 12:36. IC 96 Luleaa Central 11:07 - 6 stops to Kiruna - 15:09-15:27 - 11 stops to Narvik 18:22. So there is only one train per day in one direction in 3-4 stops (Laaktatjaakka station, Vassijaure station, Rombakk, Bjoernfjell in direction to Narvik). And not so many passengers, many stops without waiting room, wind, snow, frost. Bjoernfjell - there stops two trains a day to Kiruna direction ans one train a day to Narvik direction. You can try to go back to Katterat (Narvik direction) 10:57. Distance between stops is 30-70 km and there are pretty small amount of passengers, and many stops can be without waiting room. And temperature in north of Scandinavia can be -40 degrees Celsius during winter. Death during exam is possible in winter time, in case that you fail and waiting room is not in your stop. Check all stops during journey for all dance floors (you can see it at www.idos.cz - select "Vlaky"). Watch weather forecast and have good sleeping bag. Frost can come pretty fast (from -5 to -40 degrees in 1-2 days). [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] do not explore trains in north of Norway. But Norway have only 5 millions inhabitants, most inhabitants close to Oslo. So there can be really empty trains behind arctic circle and not so many trains a day (and stops without waiting room). But there is railway from Oslo to Trondheim (just before arctic circle) and Tromso (behind arctic circle). Classic hitchhiking is probably easier in north of Norway and Lapland (But it is dangerous area, because of weather, no Sun during Winter and no dark, lot of rain and insect during summer). Food is pretty expensive especially in the north but you can dumpster in many places in Norway or Sweden.<br />
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== [[Poland]] ==<br />
As we can read – [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] have many experiences in black dancing (free riding by train) in Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Central European dance styles - Tips and trick for game with conductor is similar in all countries in central Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland). Leťs explore Poland. Tips and tricks are similar.<br />
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There are several types of trains in Poland. First type is local train. This type of train is marked like OS or R-train in Poland. Local trains have distance between stops about 2-7 km, and this type of train have a lot of stops during journey (50-200 km). Speed of local train is not so big, because of loot of stops and not so fast running. Classic speed is 40-60 km per hour (without stops 60-100 kph). Local trains have about 4-6 wagons and usually only one conductor (or two conductors), some wagons are not so long. You can see about 2-4 wagons away, where is conductor in some types of local trains. Number of passengers is not so big, but it can be more than 100 near big town, but only 10-30 passengers in some train. Conductor go usually every 2-5 stops and check only new passengers, but in some local trains from big town conductor go one time at start and no more during journey, because of almost no new passengers go to train. The conductor's walk is quite fast, but not so fast at the begin in big town with a lot of passengers. You can try walk around conductor, especially in some stop get off and go to area, where tickets have been checked. But it do not work, if conductor's walk is fast. As I have told, conductor check only new passengers. You can try sleep, read a book or look out of window and do not answer for checking new passengers (you, are new, of course). But if amount of passengers is small or you do not look like average person – there is big chance for asking you to show ticket. Especially in night/late evening local train and not to close to town, you can get on as quiet as possible and conductor might do not go. Method, that [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] use in Poland is Short Distance Ticket Trick. The ticket price is about Eur 1 per 10-13 km. You bu ticket only for short distance (20-30 km, few stops), and you go near conductor, show your ticket during control and continue journey much further than distance in your ticket. The conductor do not remember final destination of all passengers and check only new passengers. But if you look like strange person, the chance that conductor remember your final destination is increasing. If you try to hide in toilet, do not lock the toilet, and sit down like during shitting and hold toilet paper in hand. But stay in toilet only for control time, because of another passengers go to toilet and open the door. And one more thing. Be carefull in in some stops in bigger town because of conductor change. New conductor check all passengers, not only new. And many passengers changed in big town. If you are found that you travel without ticket, you will challenged to buy ticket or you might be challenged for give your passport or identity card for write fine. The fine is Zloty 200 (about Eur 40) + Ticket price/ If you in local train refuse to give ID (do not have). You will be kicked out of train in most of cases. Interval to next train is usually 1-4 hours, it depend on location and time. But be carefull for last train at evening.<br />
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Next type of trains is IC or R-train. This type of train is faster. R-train have distance between stops about 10-20 km and IC train about 12-30 km between stops. This type of train usually have two conductors and more passengers than local train. This type of train is usually electric (Local train is usually diesel). Interval between this type of trains is usually 1-2 hours or 2-4 hours. Seat reservation is requited for this type of train, maybe because of a lot of passengers or ticket control system. Because of more passengers you can more easy walk around conductor in some stop outside or inside during control (play that you have telephone and go out of seats area around conductor) and you wait until conductor finish your carriage and you return to your seat after it. But you can do it one or two times, if you travel for long distance, it might fail. You can too use Short Distance Ticket Trick or no not respond during checking new passengers or you can hide in toilet and do not lock door, if you see when conductor is coming). And you course, be aware of conductor change in big town. If conductor found that you travel without ticket, the chance of asking you for pay penalty or give ID to conductor is bigger. And in bigger train for long distance can be coops or security, especially now because of immigrants.<br />
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The last type of train is EC-train with a lot of passengers and a lot of wagons. Seat reservation is required (long distance, a lot of passengers, because of control ? ) This type of train is sometimes international and run for very long distance. Some EC trains go from Prague (Czech) through Ostrava and Bohumin (CZ) to Katowice and Warsaw. Some EC trains go from Hungary or Austria (Budapest or Wien) through Bratislava, Zilina (SK) or Breclav, Ostrava, Bohumin (CZ) to Warsaw. Speed of this train is usually 80-120 km per hour (more than 100 kph without stops). Distance between stops is quite variable – from 10-15 km to almost 200 km, usually 15-80 km. EC-trains from capital city Warsaw to south go to Bohumin (CZ) and continue through Breclaw to Wien or through Bratislava to Budapest and some trains go to Prague. Some trains divide to two parts in Bohumin (CZ) and one part continue to Prague, Second part to Bratislava and Wien or Budapest. Look for stops, arriving time and distance between stops at www.idos.cz, choose trains - “Vlaky”. You can find for example EC 111 Praha from Prague to Warsaw (Prague 0 km 10:07, Warszaw Wschodnia 18:48 721 km, one conductors crew is from Prague to Bohumin and probably second crew from Bohumin to Warsaw). Record distance between stops is from Zawiercie to Warszawa Zachodnia 190 km and 122 minutes, averages speed 93,44 kph.<br />
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Because of number of carriages and passengers is big and distance between stops quite long, it takes a lot of time and maybe few stops when conductor come to you. I do not if the seat reservation (you have to have) is used for ticket inspection. You can go in some stops to area where tickets are already checked (interval to next control is quite long) or walk around conductor to area where tickets have been already checked by outside way or inside wagon without backpack and play telephoning (wait for finish checking your wagon and go back) or try stay in toilet during control and play shitting, do not lock the door. But the chance of toilets checking or asking you for ticket when you walk around conductor can be bigger that local, R or IC trains, because of long distance journey and long distance between stops. I am not sure, if Short Journey Ticket Trick work (you can go near conductor for checking before final stop on ticket and in is not so cheap because of long distance between stops), because of seat reservation (conductor can have in computer with seat is with passenger and which seat not and if you sit on free seat, conductor will ask you for ticket, of course). And I do not know if conductor check only new passengers in EC/IC trains (because of seat reservation). The control before boarding do not exist in Poland or Czech, Or Slovakia or Hungary except of black private Leo Express IC trains – in Leo Express black train is control before boarding and in Yellow Regioet is one conductor per wagon and conductor have free seats and seats with passengers in Regiojet train in Czech and Slovakia). But Back to Poland EC trains. Because of international Journey, the cops and security is very often in this train, especially now because of immigrants. If conductor found you without ticket, the chance of asking you for pay penalty (About Eur 40 or Zloty 200 + Ticket price) is quite big and if you refuse to pay and give ID, the chance of coops coming is big (conductor can too phone to next stops for coops because of long time between stops). Or sometimes you can be kicked out in the middle of fields or forest, this can usually happen in Czech-Slovakia high speed train (up 160 kph) Pendolino with small passengers, seat reservation required and expensive tickets.<br />
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And one more warning for all type of trains (OS, R, Local, IC, EC, Pendolino), which crossing border especially Czech-Poland or Slovakia-Poland and Czech-Slovakian border too. Because of cheap drugs and medicaments for drug preparing (and illegal alcohol or tobacco without mark too) in Poland, the c controls of backpacks in international trains is quite often near Polish Borders. The police usually check identities and very detailed check all thinks in your backpack and all pockets (but do not check tickets). Be prepare for this, especially if you take ganja or similar thing with you in your backpack or pocket. The amount of this non-ticket controls can rise up today because of a lot of immigrants.<br />
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But generally – trains in Poland are quite slow and with a lot of stops (almost all type of train have a lot of stops and small distance between stops) and interval to next train can be very long, especially in east of Poland (and border controls are not so pleasant), classic hitchhiking is better. Hitchhiking in Poland is quite easy, waiting time is about 10-60 minutes. It is best in east parts of Poland. So going by hitchhiking is better than take train in most cases }it is faster in most of cases even go by train with zero times be kicked of). The same situation (slow trains, a lot of stops and good hitchhiking) is in Hungary. And if you are in car, coops do not check your backpack. And one more gut sign for freegans. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] have found quite a lot of food in trashes in city and a lot of bread and cakes behind supermarket. This is in Poland quite good, better than Czech Republic. But supermarket workers an be sometimes angry.<br />
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But in Poland - you can probably buy quite cheap ticket for local trains. If you buy ticket for 15 km, price is about ZL 5, if you buy ticket for 40 km, price is ZL 10, for 90 km ZL 20. But the price per km is really reduced for long distances. Maximum length is 800+ km and it cost ZL 47 (about Eur 13). Prices are from year 2015. But Peter OB do not know, if you can use this for all trains, maybe only for local trains, which do not go so far and you have to make several changes of train. EC and IC trains go really far but there is seat reservation obligatory. And it is probably more expensive than local trains (at least passengers need to buy seat reservation). There s a lot of stops, even in IC trains.System of trains in Poland is not so developed and only few trains and railways are in east of Poland.<br />
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== [[Spain]] ==<br />
There are many different types of trains (Cercanias/Rodalia, regional, regional express and Catalunya express are obviously the worst, as they have the most stops) and you have to be aware of the fact that depending on where you are, trains may not go frequently. The conductor may either check the whole train several times or after initial check rely on his memory to see who has just hopped on the train or he may have a list. He doesn´t get off the train while checking, so you can jump off the train and jump back on on that part that he has already checked. Trains have only one inspector, even if they are composed of two parts between which you can´t walk. They don´t call the police if you refuse to pay or show a proof of identity, you simply have to get off at the next stop. White timetables (those showing trains going between two locations, not just those stopping from a particular station) list only regional trains - well, in case, you´re wondering why there are so few trains listed. Trains seem to have only one toilet, if any. In bigger cities (Barcelona, Castellon, Valencia, Alicante, ...) and in many smaller cities which may be even worse since there is less people and security can easily notice you it seems to be the rule that you need a ticket to get to the platforms. Sometimes you need a ticket to get only to Cercanias/Rodalia trains, sometimes only to express trains, sometimes both. If you are kicked out of the train, security may kick you out of the station too, so sometimes the only option is to hitchhike. When leaving Barcelona, take any Rodalies train to Passeig de Gracia where all trains going from Estacio de Franca south and from Estacio de Sants north and Rodalies trains stop at the same platform - that is, there are two platforms for each direction, you don´t need a ticket to go between them.<br />
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== [[Sweden]] ==<br />
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Sweden is really big country from South to North (about 2000 km) and about 300-400 km from East to West. But there are not so many inhabitants (about 9,5 mil. But about 7 mil. Ingenious people). Population density is not so bad in south (highest density in south province Scannia and close to Stockholm - south from capital city). Hitchhiking in Sweden is not really easy (worse than average), but not really bad. Many cars drive for short distance and there are not so many good places for standing on main roads. Weather is really hostile sometimes. A lot of rain, and a lot of mosquitoes during summer and very short days during winter time, very long days during summer time, especially in the north. Temperature during winter can be -10 to -20 in south, -30 in the middle and -40 in north (Lapland) during arctic wave. And in north regions – there is really small amount of cars and small population density or roads network. Public transport (train, buses) is quite good developed and expensive. And interval to next train or bus can be pretty long with terribly weather in north part. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] was dancing in all types of train, include high-speed trains (SJ Snagstaab) with long distance between stops. He was captured many times. But he was always kicked out of train, nobody wants his ID. But in one case - conductor from high-speed train gave message to next trains and [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] has not unusual appearence. It was difficult to get into train for him with many luggage. It was difficult for him to get into next train. '''It is written on the train door, that you can get fine SEK 1200 in SJ trains or SEK 1000 resp. DKR 750 in Oresundstaag train. But probably only for Swedish people - they can maybe get fine. If you speak English and not Swedish, you will be not asked for ID or fine.''' The fine SEK 1200 is too in Goteborg public transport, but that is question, if you get fine like non-Swedish resident.<br />
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You can take train for free in Sweden quite easily, especially in the south. There are many dancing companies in Sweden. Some dancing companies run trains for long journey (it can be more than 1000 km) and distances between stops can be quite far, especially in high-sped dance floor and in the north. You can not buy ticket in this type of train, only in local trains with a lot of stops. If you are captured, you just have to leave train. There is written on the door that penalty is SEK 1000 or SEK 1200, but [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] was captured many times and he was always kicked out of train (Maybe, Swedish people can get penalty, but if you speak English, you wont be asked for ID). But you can buy ticket inside local dance floors with many stops. If you have no money, you will be kicked out of train easily.<br />
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Conductor usually do not check toilet, especially if you keep doors without locking and wait during ticket checking. There (Oresundstaag -- OTU dancing company) are usually a lot of passengers in south of Sweden and WC is occupied most of time , but more north are trains quite empty and toilets are free for most of time. High speed train is good for WC tactic. But some passengers want go to toilet too. Conductor usually check only new passengers and he goes back after it. If you try to walk around conductor, he can registered you and he will ask for ticket on way back. Better is be hidden between passengers, who were already checked, if possible. Ticket inspection is quite fast in Sweden, because of not so many passengers. So walking around conductor to area, where tickets was already checked, do not work. Local trains with many stops – you can use short distant ticket trick, that you buy ticket not for whole journey. But tickets are quite expensive (about Eur 10 for 30-40 km). You can buy ticket too in local train with lot of stops. But trains with long journey (EC, IC, X2, Arctic circle train …) have seat reservation obligatory and ticket usually belong to personal name. It is impossible to get ticket inside this long-journey train, ticket can be sold only with credit card in station or by internet (not by cash). In local trains – you can try that you have ticket in phone but battery is empty. It does not work in long distance trains (at least SJ company) – because conductor have tickets database with personal names online from internet. You can try to tell that your friend is booking your ticket just now.<br />
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When you come to platform, there is usually info about train departures and arrivals. There are written many things for every train – final destination and train company, departure time and 2-3 stops during journey before final destination, but not all stops, of course. You can find all stops and time table for journey at www.idos.cz (select Vlaky).<br />
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You can try something in buses – you can pay only with credit card in buses, so just show cash and ask how much it cost. You will ask for bank card and if you do not have, you will probably get free ride. You can pay with cash only in local trains with many stops.<br />
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'''First type of dance floor is SJ Snagstaab''' (green X2 on idos.cz). It is high-speed dance floor with distances between stops 30-100 km and it run quite fast. 200 kph is maximum speed. This dance floor have usually 5-7 wagons and 3th ,4th 5th wagon is with small bistro, and there are conductors in bistro wagon. Many blue dancers are in this type of dance floor, usually 3-5 per train. Ticket inspection is usually once 1-3 stations. They check new passengers only, but ticket checking is quite hard and fast. You can watch around and when blue dancers checking tickets, you can go to toilet, do not lock the door and wait for a while (conductors usually do not check toilets and you sit there like shitting). But be careful – when blue dancers go back and they see you – you will be checked. And 2-3 conductors are checking tickets together, so it is quite fast and walking around conductors does not work because they will go back and they will check you. But not at begin of journey, later only, you can try to play that you have been in train for long time – conductor check new passengers only. If you are asked for a ticket, you can try to say that you lost ticket or you have ticket in phone but battery is empty. Then you will be asked for name, because each ticket belongs to name, reference number, train and seat reservation. You can try to say name, which is common in Sweden. But if you will be found like person without ticket, you have to leave train in next stop, you will be probably never fined. Interval to next dance floor is usually 2 hours (3-12 hours hours more north) and interval between stops is 30-100 km, but last dance floor is going not so late, about 18-20 o clock. If your apperence is not usual or if you have a lot of luggage, blue dancers can give echo for next trains. Try to get into train hidden between another passengers and as far as possible from bistro wagon, where conductors usually are. They will go out of train on the platform in every stop. There are only big stations with heated waiting room in station for this dance floor. [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] was dancing last winter by this type of train, and conductors gave echo for all next trains. He can not get into one train and he was easily found and kicked out in next trains. The line for this type of dance floor is once 2 hours '''from Copenhagen or Malmo to Stockholm with 8 stops''' (Copenhagen, Malmo, Lund, Hassleholm, Alvesta, Nassjo, Mjolby, Linkoping, Norrkoping, Sodertajle, Stockholm) and once 2 hours '''from Malmo to Goteborg with 3 stops''' (Lund, Helsingborg, Halmstad, Goteborg and some trains continue to Skovde and Katrineholm).<br />
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Every 3 hours runs dance floor '''from Stockholm to Karlstad''' (about 59 lattitude, close to big lake) with stops: Stockholm, Sodertajle, Katrineholm, Hallsberg , Degerforos, Kristinehamn, Karlstad). But twice a day dance floor is going '''from Stockholm to Oslo''' (15:59 and 11:06 from Stockholm to Oslo). Dance floor in 11:06 stops in all big stops and continue to Arvika, Kongsvinger, Oslo), but dance floor from 11:06 has not so much stops (Stockholm 11:06 long time nothing, Karlstad 18:07-18:09, Arvika 18:44, Kongsvinger, 19:26-19:27 and Oslo S (central) 20:28. There are border checking in Oslo station and it can be everywhere. If you are kicked out in Kongsvinger, you can easily take local orange dance floor to Oslo without checking. Direct highs-speed dance floors '''from Oslo to Stockholm''' have departures from Oslo 6:02 (with all big stops) and from Oslo 16:56 (Oslo 16:56, Kongsvinger 18:03 , Arvika, 18:46, Karlstad 19:27-19:32, Hallsberg 20:30, Katrineholm 20:54 and Stockholm 21:50). This dance floor meets in Arvika with dance floor from Stockholm to Oslo.<br />
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There is every hour high-sped dance floor '''Goteborg-Stockholm''' and back with not so many stops (for example Goteborg 18:30 Skovde 19:33 Katrineholm 20:37 and Stockholm 21:31), first train from Goteborg 5:05 and last trains from Goteborg 18:30 and 20:30. Some dance floors X2 stops in Sodertalje Syd. You can try go by night dance floor NZ 92 (Goteborg 18:35 Herrljunga 19:22 Skovde 19:57 Hallsberg (good rail tracks node) 20:55 and Stockholm 22:33-22:40. This dance floor continue to north – 3 more stations to Gavle (0:25-0:30), 3 more stations to Sundsvall (2:58-3:13), 13 more stations to terminal Luleaa Central (12:09). [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] have not experiences with night dance floors. There are obligatory of seat reservation like in high-speed trains. Another direction is Luleaa Central 16:47, 7 stops to Umeaa Central 21:55-22:00, 6 stops to Sundsvall Central 1:22-1:42, 3 stops to Gavle Central 4:26-4:30, 3 stops to Stockholm Central 6:31-6:41 and 4 stops to Goteborg central 11:25. But this pretty long-journey dance floor runs runs only once a day. You can find all stops and time at www.idos.cz (you can see there all stops for every train).<br />
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'''Next type of dance floors is OTU – Oresundstaag.''' OTU dance floors goes from Cobenhawn (DK) and Malmo and continues to south part of Sweden every 30-60 min (20-120 min). Many dance floors belongs to this groups, especially in south of Sweden (region Malmo, Kristianstadt, Karlskrona, Vaxjo, Alvesta, Lund, Haselholm, Halmstadt, Helsinborg, Goteborg. There are a lot of OTU dance floors in Scania – at least once a hour and twice a hour or more times in close to Malmo, every 20 minutes between Malmo and Copenhagen. Distances between stops are 5-35 km, you have to have reservation (Obligatory is buying ticket before boarding, you can not buy ticket in train). So you can try to say that you lost ticket or you have ticket in phone but empty battery. This dance floors have 3-5 wagons with bistro in the middle. Amount of passengers is fairy good, especially close to Malmo and conductor checks every 1-2 stops only new passengers (Every 2-4 stops close to bridge, where stops are quite close, only 2-5 km). But if your apperance is not usual, it is more difficult (and not so many passengers on platform). The penalty is SEK 1000 or DKR 750, but it won't be given probably. In case that black dancers are captured, they are kicked out of train. You can try to stay in WC during checking tickets. Conductor do not check WC, but a lot of passengers are going to WC and there can be already someone and you are not able to stay too long. There are usually only one or two toilets in train. You can try to walk around conductor. But one conductor has 2-3 wagons only and checking is quite fast. And if you walk around, the conductor might stop you. Or you can play that you was already in train (conductor check only new passengers).<br />
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Most OTU dance floors Oresundstaag goes '''between Koebenhavn (DK) to Malmo'''. This dance floor goes every 20 min and distance between stops is only 1-5 km and 2-7 min (12 min on Oresund Bridge between Malmo Hillye and Kastrup Airport). There are quite lot of passengers and conductor goes some stations, often on the bridge and toilet is often by somebody. From Malmo central dance floor goes Malmo Triangeln, Malmo Hyllie, Kastrup Lufthavn st airport (DK), Taarnby st, Oerestad st, Kobenhawn and 9 more stations to terminal stations Helsingoer. Denmark is very good for hitchhiking and there are very good place – entrance to motorway is only 200 m west from Oerestad station and this entrance to motorway have a lot of places, where cars can stop.<br />
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Some Oresundstaag dance floors – OTU continues '''from DK and Malmo to Kalmar''' to Lund, Hassleholm, Alvesta, Vaxjo, Kalmar with distance between stops about 8-17 km. OTU trains goes from DK and Malmo to Kalmar or back usually once a 1 hour (or 2 hours). Reservation obligatory and having tickets before boarding is in all Oresundstaag trains. But you will be only kicked out in case of being captured. Penalty is DKR 750 or SEK 1000 but it is probably not used.<br />
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'''DK – Malmo – Goteborg''' Oresundstaag (OTU) dance floors go every hour from Denmark and Malmo to Lund, Landskrona, Helsingborg, 4 more stations to Halmstad and 5 more stations to Goteborg. Distance between stops is about 10-25 km, conductor goes almost every stop and check new passengers.<br />
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'''DK – Malmo - Kristianstad – Karlskrona.''' Oresundstag dance floors go from Denmark and Malmo to Lund, Hassleholm, Kristianstad, 8 more stations to Karlskrona Central every 30 min or 1 hour. Bakretaag trains type belongs to OTU too.<br />
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There are many another dancing companies in south Sweden (Scania). '''Scanetrafiken, Krosatagen, Paagatag'''. This dance floors are local (R-cathegory at www.idos.cz) with quite many stops every 4-10 km. You can buy ticket inside train, conductor asks for this first. If you have no ticket and no money, you will be kicked out of train. There are quite lot of passengers in Malmo – Lund – Helsingborg - Kristianstad and local trains go usually once a one or two hours. They have more stops than OTU trains. But stops without waiting room are not so common in south. More north in Hassleholm – Alvesta – Helsingborg – Kalmar – Karlskrona region is not so easy situation like close to Malmo. Local dance floors go once 2 or more hours and last train goes not so late. Number of passengers is not so high. You can try to stay on WC for long time, but conductor go every 1-3 stops and usually do not check WC (but do not lock door for long time). Conductor checks only new passengers so you can try to hide between passengers.<br />
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Situation with regional dance floors is similar in region '''Motala, Mjolby, Linkoping, Norrkoping''' – trains run every 30 or 60 minutes and usually relative late (until 21-22 hours). Number of stops is big – every 5-10-15 km usually. Companies are usually Östgötatrafiken; B or Veloa transport from Malmo with not so many stops. '''Motala – Mjolby – Norrkoping'''. A lot of local dance floor goes Motala – 2 stations to Mjolby – 3 stations to Linkoping– 3 stations to Norrkoping – every 30 or 60 min.<br />
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The good connection (every hour or more) with a lot of stops is '''Goteborg – Boras''' (7 stops) or '''Nassjo – Linkoping'''. '''From Uddevalla to Goteborg''' trains go every 1-2 hour and this is 8 stops.<br />
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There are R dance floor '''from Goteborg to Kalmar''' with company '''SJ Regional (SJ AB)''' in R-group at www.idos.cz. There is seat reservation and ticket before boarding obligatory (it is not possible to buy ticket in this train). Only 4 trains a day goes from Goteborg to Kalmar (6:05 10:05 16:05 18:05) or from Kalmar to Goteborg (5:00 9:55 11:51 15:57). Stations are : (Göteborg,Boraas, Limmared, Hestra, Gnosjö, Värnamo, Alvesta, Växjö, Hovmantor, Lessebo, Emmaboda , Nybro, Kalmar). If you will be captured, you will be kicked out of train, but interval to next train is here pretty long. At least most of stops have waiting room inside.<br />
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If you want to go '''from Goteborg to Oslo''', there are NSB dancing company, which belongs to Norway. NSB Company belongs to Norway, so it is higher chance to get penalty in this train. At www.idos.cz you will see R-train 4 stops from Goteborg to Halden (first stop in Norway) and "REG" train from Halden to Oslo (7 stops, 5 stops Halden-Moss, Moss is first station with local orange trains without checking), but it is the same train without changing in Halden (one train Goteborg-Oslo). This trains go from Goteborg 4:35 6:55 13:00 17:55 and from Oslo 7:01 13:01n 15:28 18:02. But between Oslo and Halden train goes every hour. And you can use local trains without checking between Oslo and Moss.<br />
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More north is situation more difficult. There are only local trains '''From Stormstad to Uddevallaa and Goteborg''' local trains goes less than two hours (6:41 10:31 14:27 16:26 18:35) and back from Goteborg to Stormstad (6:40 10:40 12:40 14:40 18:40). It is 8 stops Goteborg-Uddevalla Central usually with a lot of passengers and 8 more stops from Uddevalla Central to Stromstad central with few passengers only. Many stops are without waiting room and it is during winter, windy weather with rain and snowing difficult. Temperature during January can be -15 or even -20 during night. There is road from Uddevallaa to Stromstad close to many stops (for hitchhiking). But be kicked out from last train into dark is not so nice.<br />
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'''Dancing from Goteborg to north – Karlstad- Kristinehamn''' is not so easy. Direct trains go from Goteborg 6:15 7:15 13:15 15:15 16:25 and 17:15. Some trains continues to Kristinehamn or even to '''Falun or Gavle''' – but this trains have pretty much stops and bad connection, not so many passengers. You can go one station by X2 (SJ Snagstaab) to '''Skövde''' and '''from Skövde to Karlstad''' (11:10 And 17:44), but from Nassjo to Karlstad only 2 trains a day go (Nässjö , Jönköping, Skövde, Mariestad, Kristinehamn, Karlstad ). But many stops can be without waiting room and interval to next train is pretty long.<br />
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'''Local dance floor Värmlandstrafik goes between Kristinehamn, Karlstad, Arvika, Charlottenberg, Konsvinger (NO).''' The distance between stops is only 5-10 km and many stops are without waiting room. Number of passenger is at begin quite big but conductor goes every stops and check new passengers. Trains have usually 2-3 wagons an 1-2 WC. You can try to be hidden in WC or between passengers which were already checked. If you will be captured, you will be asked for buy ticket. If you are kicked out to good stations, next train goes in one hour but some stations (like Lene and Brunsberg and some stops after Arvika) are dangerous – only some trains stops in this stations and no train after 18 o clock stops there and interval to next train 2-4 hours or whole night (trains in other bigger stops goes once a hour). There is no waiting house and winter can be cruel. It can be bellow -20 degrees in this area.<br />
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It is from Kristinehamn 3 stops to Karlstad by local and regional train and trains go there quite often (Kristinehamn-Karlstad is 1 stop only by high speed train SJ Sngstaab) . From Karlstad to Arvika and Charlottenberg (last Swedish station) goes dance floors every hour, but without standing in every stop. It is from Karlstad to Arvika 5 stops but some trains (usually once 2 hours) stops at '''Lene and Brunsberg''' (Last train 17:09 from Karlstad to Lene and no more train stop there at evening, but last train without this terrible stops 22:13 from Karlstad to Arvika). Some trains stops only in Kill and Trains which stops in Lene are only (6:50, 7:32, 12:39, 14:37, 15:47 and 17:09). You can go back Högboda, where more trains stops. But if you go to Arvika, you can use X2 fast train SJ Snagstaab – 1 stop only from Karlstad to Arvika and next stop is already in Norway. Number of stops between Charlottenberg and Arvika is from 2 to 5 and only 5 trains a day stops in small stops. Some trains go to Kongsvinger in Norway (trains with all stops usually). There are many stops without waiting room, only with roof against rain and some stations like Lene are far from road. Last local train with all stops goes before 18 o clock from Karlstad and temperature during winter can be -20. But it is much better to use fast train SJ Snagstaab (Karlstad-Arvika-Konsvinger-Oslo). There are local orange trains without checking Konsvinger - Oslo.<br />
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There are a lot of trains '''between Karlstad and Kristinehamn'''. Best is fast dance floor X2 – SJ Snagstaab – it is one stop only. Or it is 3 stops by local Värmlandstrafik dancing company and this dance floor goes at least every hour.<br />
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There are another dance floor - '''Bergslagstag (Goteborg-Karlstad-Kristinehamn-Grängesberg-Falun)''' with stops 5-15 km away and not so many passengers after Kristinehamn. It is 8 stops from Goteborg to Karlstad, only one stop from Karlstad to Kristinehamn Station and 5 stops more from Kristinehamn to Grängesberg, after Grängesberg - next stops are Ludvika, Borlange, Falun. Most dangerous is situation between Kristinehamn and Grängesberg. There are probably all 5 stations without waiting room and only two trains a day (Goteborg 6:15 Karlstad 8:36 Kristinehamn 9:00 Hällefors 10:10 Grängesberg 10:51 and Falun 12:14), Or (Goteborg 14:10 Karlstad 16:35 Kristinehamn 9:00 Hällefors 17:59 Grängesberg 18:40 and Falun 19:55), way back (Falun 6:18, Grängesberg 7:29, Hällefors 8:08, Kristinehamn 9:07-9:22, No Karlstad, DEGERFORS 9:36-10:05 and Goteborg 12:25) and (Falun 13:48, Grängesberg 14:56, Hällefors 15:40, Kristinehamn 16:37-16:42, Karlstad 17:10-17:13, Goteborg 19:45) . It is pretty much stops. Between Grängesberg and Falun is not danger – there is waiting room in every stop and every 2 hours goes another dance floor between Falun and Mjolby. Between Kristinehamn and Goteborg is not so danger situation – trains go usually every hour. But the journey through 6 stops '''(Grängesberg, Bredsjö, Hällefors, Grythyttan, Nykroppa, Storfors, Kristinehamn)''' is really danger. There is no waiting room in stops (only in bigger stops with more of trains - Grängesberg, Kristinehamn. This train has only 2-3 carriages, one WC only and few passengers only, conductor goes every 1-2 stops. There are only two trains a day in one direction (morning and afternoon) and only stations Hällefors and Storfosvare are close to road. Villages can be deeply in forest and only 0-2 passengers go to train. You can wait there many hours and temperature in this area can be -20 or even -25 or -30. Death during exam is possible here.<br />
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Similar situation is with local dance floor '''Tag i Bergslagen''' - Svenska Tagkompaniet AB '''Karlstad – Hallsberg – Frovi – Fargesta – Gavle''', it goes once a day from Karlstad 5:49, 3 more stops to Kristinehamn 6:12, DEGERFORS 6:27, Hallsberg 6:59, Örebro 7:21, Frövi 7:35, 10 more stations to Gävle Central 9:55 through Fagersta , Avesta, Fors, Storvik. And only 3 trains a day goes from Fagersta to Gavle (From Fargesta 6:00, 8:16, 18:07), and three trains a day from Gavle to Fagersta. If you are kicked out between this stations (7 more stations between Gavle and Fargesta), there are only this three trains a day and no waiting room in stops. There is no so many people in this area and road can be far away with only few cars. From Gavle to Fagersta trains go at 4:30, 8:26, 16:28, 18:56 . First three trains continues to Hallsberg or more, last train goes only to Fagersta. This trains have only few passengers, 1-2 carriages and one WC only.<br />
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Better situation is by dance floor '''Mjolby - Hallsberg - Orebro - Borlange - Falun - Gavle''' , it is by R-type train '''Tag i Bergslagen Svenska''' Tagkompaniet AB. Trains go '''from Mjolby''' 10:06, 12:06, 14:06,16:06 – not so many trains a day, and it is long journey with 19 stops and journey duration 5:25. Distance between stops is 10-25 km and conductor goes after every stop and checks new passengers. '''from Gavle''' trains go: 6:19, 8:21, 10:20, 12:20,14:21,16:21. Distance between stops is 8-25 km, conductor goes every 1-2 station and he did not checks WC. WC is free most of time – here is 10-40 passengers in train, 2-3 wagons and 1-2 WCs, 1-2 conductors. Coductor check only new passengers. Most of stations have waiting room, but some not like Storaa, Koppaberg. You can try to hide in WC every checking or just hide between passengers which was already checked. Conductor do not check WC usually and not so many passengers go to WC. If you are captured, you can buy ticket for short distance or you have to go out in next stop. Or you can buy ticket for 1-2 stop before boarding (about Eur 4-8) and you can continue more far. But the difficultness is that last train goes quite early and interval to next train is 2 hours or whole night – 12 hours. Temperature during winter can be -20 or even -28 and some stations are without waiting room or waiting room is closed during night. Some stations like Stora are out of main road to Borlange and Falun.<br />
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There are only small towns and villages '''in area Borlange, Falun, Gavle, Malung, Torsby, Filipsstadt, Avesta'''. Roads are usually with not so many cars (roads close to towns are good). And there are not so many dance floors in this area (last goes quite early, not so many passengers, not waiting room and long time to next train. Biggest towns are Borlange and Falun. Line Malun, Borlange, Falun Gavle is last area with relative good train connection. There are railroad '''from Borlange to Mora''' (7-8 stops, about 75 min, train goes every 2 hours from 6:40 to 22:13, through Ratwik), distance between stops are about 10-15 km, terminal station Morastrand or Mora, there is R-type dance floor - company '''Tag i Bergslagen''' Svenska Tagkompaniet AB dance floor. But twice a day '''IC from Stockholm to Mora''' goes (through Avesta, Borlange, Rattvik) (Stockholm 9:45 or 17:45, from Stockholm 7 stops to (Borlange – arrival 12:13 or 20:05), from Borlange 7 stops to (Mora arrival 13:34 or 21:26). It is dance company SJ Snagstaab but there is not so high speed and distance between stops is 10-15 km only – same as regional train. '''Back journey:''' from Mora 14:32 to Borlange 15:52-15:57, Stockholm 18:16 or morning train SJ Snagstaab from Mora 6:27 Borlange 7:49-7:52 Stockholm 10:16.<br />
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There is rail-road triangle '''Storvik-Ockelbo-Gavle''', only from Gavle to Ockelbo trains go. X-Target or X-trafik AB dancing companies are there, only one station between Gavle and Ockelbbo, train continues to Ljusdal 8 stops. Better is SJ Ab dance floor with 5 stations '''from Gavle to Ljusdal''' (3 stations between Stockholm – Gavle). Interval to next train is 1-2 hours and last train goes after 21:00. Distance between stops is about 15-20 km.<br />
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'''Journey to north''' is possible by X2 SJ Snagstaab dance floor from Gavle to Sundsvall only 3 stops and next 6 stops from Sundsvall to Umeaa (more north in Baltic coast). Or By X-target/X-Trafik dance floor from Gavle to Sundsvall 6 or 7 stops. But this area is with low population density and there is not so many passengers in this area and many stations for local dance floor X-target can be without waiting room. And temperature can be -20 or even bellow -30 during winter.<br />
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'''From Sundswall to Umea''' [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] recommends to use X2 dance floor SJ Snagstaab - it is 6 stops ant id goes only twice a day from Sundswall (19:55) and night dance floor from Sundwal 3:13.<br />
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During day (5:51 to 19:12) dance floors regional (Company Norrtag) goes once a two hours and it is 12 stops from Sundswall to Umea. Distance between stops is about 15-20 km. There are not so many passengers in train and some stops are without waiting room.<br />
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Dance floor '''Arctic Circle Train''' - SJ AB - goes from Stockholm (15:59) 3 stops to Gavle 19:19, 3 stops to Sundswall 21:36 and 4 stops to Umeaa 1:08. Distance between stops can be 70-100 km. It is better, because this train have not so many stops.<br />
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From Balic coast (Sundswall) is one rail road to Ostersund. It is 13 stops by local Norrtag dance floor, distances between stops is only 7-15 km and train goes from 5-20 o clock every 2 hours.<br />
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There is journey '''from Sundswall to Kiruna'''. EC Dance Floor Arctic circle train goes once a day from Stockholm (15:59) 6 stops to Sundvall (21:36), 4 more stops to Umeaa (1:11), 4 more stops to Boden (5:25-5:44), 4 more stops to Kiruna (9:31-9:49) and 7 more stops to Narwik (Norway – atlantic coast) 12:36. Back journey is from Narwik (15:12) to Kiruna (18:00-18:16) Boden (21:37 – 21:57), Umaa (1:42-1:45), Sundsvall (5:10-5:45), Stockholm C 10:23.<br />
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'''Stockholm (Goteborg) – Luleaa:''' There is another train - which start from Goteborg (NZ night train) 18:35, continues to (Stockohl-Gavle-Sundvall), Umea 7:03-7:08 and 5 more stations to Boden 11:04-11:29 and Luleaa 12:09, BACK from Luleaa 16:47 Boden 17:23-17:39 Umeaa 21:55-22:00 Goteborg 11:25. Only 2 long journey trains a day go this journey – NZ train and Arctic circle train, booth with seat reservation obligatory. Distance between stops is 30-70 km.<br />
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'''Local dance floors Luleaa-Boden-Kiruna:''' There are local dance floors (Company Norrtag) from Luleaa 6:27, 3 stations to Boden 6:55 and 4 more stations to Kiruna 10:03.<br />
'''Three local trains per day goes from Luleaa to Kiruna:''' 6:27, 12:18 and 16:35 and three local trains per day goes from Kiruna to Luleaa 5:51,11:01,17:09. Many stops are probably withouth waiting room and temperature can be -40 during winter. Distance between stops is 30-80 km and there are only few passengers – condutor easily can see who is new and there are not so many people during boarding (and many stops without waiting room). And if conductor gives echo to next train, you are lost. <br />
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'''From Kiruna to Narvik (NO):''' There is Arctic circle train from Bastuträsk (2:51), 7 stations to Kiruna (9:31-9:49) and 7 more stations to Narvik (12:36). Another IC train is from Luleaa (11:07) 7 stops to Kiruna (15:27) and 11 more stops to Narvik (18:22).<br />
'''From Narvik to Kiruna (NO):''' IC dance floor strarts in Narvik (NO) 10:38, 11 stops to Kiruna (13:36-13:54), 6 more stops to Luleaa (17:41). Another nordic dance floor Arctic circle train starts 15:12 in Narvik, 8 stops to Kiruna 18:00-18:16, 8 more stops to Umeaa 1:42.As you can see, only two trains a day between Narvik and Kiruna (3 more local dance floors from Kiruna to Boden and Umeaa during day). Smalt ammount of psassengers and stops withouth waiting room can be. And it is 8 or 11 stops between Narvik and Kiruna and only two trains a day in one direction. So three stops have only one train a day in one direction.<br />
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'''From Stocholm to Gavle:''' There are many long jourey or high-speed dance floors in this direction – every 1-2 hours and interval to next dance floor can be even shorter than hour. It is only three stations (from Stockolm to Gavle) and long journey dance floor stops only for getting into train (but you can still be kicked out of, however ticket inspection can be after Gavle). First train goes 6:22 and last NZ 92 22:40. Some long journey trains come from Goteborg, this trains continues much more north (Sundsvall, Umeaa, Lueleaa, Kiruna, Narvik (NO)). And you can use a lot of this long journey trains on way back. Distance between stops is 30-70 km.<br />
There are local dance floors – some trains go from Linkoping central – 3 or 2 stations (or 7 stations) to Stockholm and 3-4 stations to Gavle. Company is SJ AB (Swedish Railway) and there are reservation obligatory with ticket before boarding (ticket belongs to name) in some trains with less stops. Some trains go just from Stockholm or from Linkoping to Stockholm only. But many trains goes between Linkoping and Stocknolm or between Stockholm and Gavle.<br />
First train is with a lot of stops. Linköping Central 5:00 – 7 stops to Stockholm central 7:09-7:15 - Arlanda Central 7:34 - Uppsala Central 7:52 - Tierp station 8:21 – Gavle Central 8:46. There is not more stops than 4 between Gavle and Stocholm. Long journey trains and fast trains do not stops in Tierp station. So the connection and train to Gavle goes every 30-120 min (not in time 22:40-6:22).<br />
'''Back from Gavle to Stockholm:''' Usually once a hour, first train 4:30 and 6:10, last train 20:14 and 21:08. It is 3 or 4 stops. Long journey trains stops only for getting off (it can be more difficult to get in, you can try to say that you just look what stop is now and you you still continue journey). Morning train goes from Ljusdal station 5:38 – 4 stops to – Gavle central 7:12-7:14 and Stockholm Central 8:46.<br />
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'''Ljusdal – Stockholm:''' First train SJ AB regional goes 5:38 – 4 stops to – Gavle Central 7:12-7:14 – 4 stops to Stockholm Central 8:46.<br />
Second '''X2 565 SJ 3000 Östersund – Gavle - Stockholm:''' Östersund Central 5:46 – 3 stops to Ljusdal station 7:42 – 2 stations to Gavle central 9:12-:14 – 3 stations to - Stockholm Central 10:38.<br />
Third '''IC85 Aare – Ljusdal – Gavle - Stockholm:''' Aare station 15:54 – 4 stations to - Östersund Central 17:13-17:16 – 3 stations to – Ljusdal station 19:20 – 3 stations to - Gavle Cental 21:04-20:08 – 3 stations to Stockholm central 22:46.<br />
'''Stockholm - Ljusdal :''' Only 3 trains a day. One regional train per day only – Stochlolm Central 16:15 – 3 stops to Gavle central 17:43-17:44-4 stops to Ljusdal station 19:16.<br />
'''IC 84: Stockholm – Gavle – Ljusdal – Ostresund – Duved:''' Stockholm Central 14:14 – 3 stops to - Gavle central 16:00-16:02 – 3 stops to - Ljusdal station 17:45 – 3 stops to - Östersund Central 19:44-19:46 - Undersaaker station 20:58-21:00 - Aare station 21:09-21:19 – Duved station 21:27.<br />
'''IC 80: Stockholm – Gavle – Ljusdal – Aare:''' Stockholm Central 8:134 – 3 stops to - Gavle central 10:01-10:03 – 3 stops to - Ljusdal station 11:39 – 3 stops to - Östersund Central 13:48-13:51 - Undersaaker station 14:58 - Aare station 15:10.<br />
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'''Sundsval - Östersund - Aaree – Storlien border by Local trains''': trains from Sundvall 5:10 7:45 10:13 14:08 18:18. This dance floors belongs '''Norrtag dancing company''' and trains can be rally empty - something like 10-20 passenegers, one or two wagons, pretty much stations without waiting room and there can be only 0-5 passengers at stop. This journey is pretty north - Winter temperature can be -30 or even -40 during night. Many stops are far away from road in small village in the middle of forest and distance between villages can be pretty long for walking. And of course – not so many cars on the road. This is pretty dangerous area for black dancing. Only trains from 5:10 and 14:08 goes to Storlien (border crossing place), others trains has Duved like terminal. '''Train from 14:08:''' - Sundsvall Central 14:08 – 5 stations to - Bräcke station 15:35-15:36 – 5 stations to Östersund Central 16:24-16:26 – 6 stations to – Aare station 17:43-17:45 – Duved 17:53-17:54 – 3 stations to Storlien Border 18:26 – summary 20 stops and 4:18 duration. '''Train from 7:45:''' Sundsvall Central 7:45 – 8 stations to Bräcke station 9:21-9:22 – 4 stations to - Östersund Central 10:07-10:11 – 5 stations to – Aare 11:21-11:23 – Duved station 11:30. Summary duration 3:45, 18 stops.<br />
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'''Journey Back Storlien border – Aare – Östersund - Sundsvall :''' Trains from Duved 6:00 10:18 12:05 15:00 19:19 and from Storlien Border only two trains a day - 18:44 and 9:45. '''Train 9:45''': Storlien Border 9:45 – 3 stops to – Duved station10:18 – Aare station 10:25-10:27 – 6 stops to - Östersund Central 11:39-11:41 – 7 stops to - Sundsvall Central 13:49. '''Train 12:05:''' Duved station 12:05 – Aare station 12:12-12:14 – 6 stops to - Östersund Central 13:24-13:26 – 5 stops to - Bräcke station 14:16-14:17 – 8 stops to Sundsvall Central 15:52. <br />
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'''From Stockhom to Sundwall:''' The X2 dance floors SJ Snaagstaab are best. Distance between stops is 40-70 km. X2 train go every two hours from Stockholm to Sundsvall, it is 3 stops from Stockholm to Gavle and 3 more stops to Sundsvall. Some dance floors continues much far to north. First train 6:22 from Stockohlm goes 6 stops to Sundsvall (9:56) 6 more stops to Umea centrall (12:45).<br />
X2 Trains that continues from Sundsvall more far to Umeaa from Sundsvall: - departures from Sundsvall 10:05, 16:05, 20:00 .<br />
'''R 10094 Arctic Circle Train Stockholm Umea:''' Stockholm 15:59 Sundsvall 21:27-21:36, Umea centrall 1:08.<br />
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'''R 10094 Arctic Circle Train Bastuträsk Boden Kiruna Narvik:''' Bastuträsk station 2:51 – 3 stations to – Boden Central Station 5:25-5:44 – 4 stations to Kiruna station 9:31-9:49 – 7 stops to – Narvik (NO) 12:36.<br />
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'''NZ 92:''' Goteborg 18:35 - 4 stops to- Stockholm C 22:33-22:40 – 3 stops to- Gavle 0:25-0:30 – 3 stops to - Sundsvall 2:58-3:13 – 6 stops to - Umea central7:03-7:08 – 7 stops to - Luleaa Central 12:09.<br />
You can use local trains too with distance between stops 7-20 km. Some dance floors goes from Stockholm and Linnkopig to Gavle and another regional train from Gavle to Sundvall. But with local trains - there are more risks of stop withouth waiting room and longer intervall to train.<br />
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'''NZ 91 Back:''' Luleaa Central 16:47 – 7 stops to – Umeaa Central 21:55-22:00 – 6 stops to – Sundsvall Central 1:22-1:42 – 3 stops to Gavle Central 4:26-4:30 – 3 stops to - Stockholm central 6:31-6:41 – 4 stops to – Goteborg central 11:25.<br />
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'''NZ 93 Arctic Circle Train Back:''' Narvik (NO) 15:12 – 8 stops to – Kiruna Station 18:00-18:16 – 4 stops to - Boden Central station 21:37-21:57 – 4 stops to – Umeaa central 1:42-1:45 - 4 stops to – Sundsvall Central 5:10-5:46 - 3 stops to - Gavle Central 8:26-8:26 – 3 stops to - Stocholm Central 10:23. (Some long-journey trains go only to Umeaa)<br />
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'''X2 Trains from Umea to Stockholm:''' Umeaa C 5:17, Sundvall C 7:55-8:05 and Umeaa C 9:15 Sundvall C 11:53-12:04 and Umeaa C 15:17 Sundvall C 17:53-18:04 Stockholm C 21:38.<br />
'''IC 95 Narvik – Kiruna – Boden – Luleaa:''' Narvik 10:38 – 11 stops to - Kiruna Station 13:36-13:54 – 4 stops to – Boden Central Station 17:09 – 2 stops to – Luleaa Central 17:41.<br />
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'''IC 96 Luleaa Boden – Kiruna – Narvik:''' Luluea Central 11:07 – 2 stops to - Boden Central Station 11:32-11:37 – 4 stops to -Kiruna Station 15:09-15:27 – 11 stops to – Narvik (NO) 18:22.<br />
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So '''from Narvik or Kiruna to Sundsvalll''' and more south there are only two trains a day – from Narvik 10:38 (only to Boden) and 15:12 (to Stockholm) or if you go from Kiruna 18:16 or 13:54 (only to Boden and you wait there 13:54-17:39).<br />
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'''From Boden to Sundsvall:''' NZ 91 17:39-1:22 6 stops or NZ 93 Arctic Circle Train 21:57-5:10 8 stops. Or 2 local trains Norrtag company: Lueaa – Umeaa: Luleaa 5:45 – 3 stops to - Boden 6:14-6:21 – 5 stops to - Umeaa 10:11 – Only one local train per day.<br />
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'''Umea – Boden - Luleaa:''' Long journey trains 4 stops, from Umea 1:11 7:08<br />
Local trains only once per day, 6 stops (continue to Luleaa 3 more stops): 17:15-21:00 (21:16-21:45 to Lulea)<br />
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'''Umeaa – Sundsvall:''' every hour local train, 12 stops, duration 3:14, first train 5:32, last train 17:45. Company Norrtag.<br />
Long journey trains, 6 stops, trains go from Umeaa: 1:45, 5:17, 9:15, 15:15, 22:00.<br />
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'''Sundvall – Umeaa:''' Long Journey dance floors, 6 stops, trains go from from Sundvall: 3:13, 10:05, 16:05, 20:00, 21:36.<br />
Local trains 12stops, dancing company is Norrtag: From Sundvall first train 5:51 last 19:12 , every 1-2 hour.<br />
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'''Umeaa – Luleaa:''' One local train Norrtag per day 17:15-21:45, 9 stops and 2 long journey trains (2 stops): 1:11 7:08.<br />
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'''Luleaa – Umeaa:''' 1 dance floor per day, 9 stops, 5:45 from Lueaa, 10:11 in Umea Central.<br />
Two long journey trains (2 stops): from Luleaa 16:47 and 21:08.<br />
(Luleaa) - Boden – Kiruna: Local dance floors Norrtag go from Boden: 6:55 14:49 17:04. It is 3 stops between Lulea – Boden and 4 stops between Boden – Kiruna.<br />
Long Journey trains '''from Boden R 10094 Arctic Circle Train''' 5:44 – 4 stops to - Kiruna 9:31 and IC 96 from Lulea 11:07 – 2 stops to - Boden 11:32-11:37 - 4 stops to - Kiruna 15:09.<br />
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'''Kiruna – Boden:''' Local train Norrtag (4 stops from Kiruna to Boden and 3 more stops from Boden to Luleaa), departures from Kiruna 5:51 11:01 17:09, duration 3-3,5 hours between Kiruna - Boden and 25 min from Boden to Luleaa.<br />
4 stops with Long journey trains from Kiruna 13:54 (continues to Luleaa) and from Kiruna 18:16 (continues to Umeaa).<br />
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'''Kiruna-Narvik (NO):''' Only two long journey dance floors a day, distance between stops is 20-50 km and there are really few passengers.<br />
8 stops - R 10094 Arctic Circle Train from Bastuträsk (2:51) Kiruna 9:31-9:49 and Narvik 13:36.<br />
11 stops - IC 96 from Luleaa Central 11:07, Kiruna station 15:09-15:27 Narvik (NO) 18:22.<br />
So there is only one train per day in one direction in 3-4 stops (Laaktatjaakka station, Vassijaure station, Bjoernfjell, Rombakk). And not so many passengers, many stops without waiting room, wind, snow, frost.<br />
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'''Narvik (NO) – Kiruna:''' Only 2 dance floors a day<br />
11 stops - IC 96 from Narvik 10:38 to Kiruna 13:36-13:54 and Dance floor continue to Luleaa Central 17:41.<br />
8 Stops - R 93 Arctic Circle Train from Narvik (NO) 15:12 to Kiruna 18:00-18:16 and dance floor continue to Umea (1:42) and in some days of week to Stockholm.<br />
So there is only one train per day in one direction in 3-4 stops (Laaktatjaakka station, Vassijaure station, Rombakk). And not so many passengers, many stops without waiting room, wind, snow, frost. Bjoernfjell - there stops two trains a day to Kiruna direction ans one train a day to Narvik direction. You can try to go back to Katterat (Narvik direction) 10:57.<br />
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'''Genearlly black dancing in north of Sweden''' – from Gavle to Sundsvall some EC, EN and polar circle trains goes. It is 3 stops Gavle-Stockholm and 3 stopc Gavle-Sundvall, 4 stops Sundvall – Umea and 3-4 more stops to Boden. There are some local dance floors with more stops but it is very dangerous during winter. There are not so many passengers in train, interval between stops is 20-100 km and interval to next train 3-6 hours (somewhere 1-2 hours), (including local trains with more stops). Some places have only 2-3 trains a day in one direction (or 1 train a day). From Umea to Boden and Kiruna only 2 very long journey trains go. Distance between stops is 50-100 km and time between stops 40-75 min. Three local trains during day go from Umea to Boden and Kiruna with distances between stops 30-70 km. Only two trains goes from Kiruna to Narvik and back (7 resp. 8 stops by Arctic Circle train and 11 stops with IC train between Kiruna and Narvik). Distance between stops is 30-70 km and there are pretty small amount of passengers, and many stops can be without waiting room. And temperature in north of Sweden can be -40 degrees Celsius during winter. Death during exam is possible in winter time, in case that you fail and waiting room is not in your stop. Check all stops during journey for all dance floors (you can see it at www.idos.cz - select "Vlaky"). [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] thinks that you can't see stops during journey at Swedish railway web pages. Watch weather forecast and have good sleeping bag. Frost can come pretty fast (from -5 to -40 degrees in 1-3 days).<br />
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== [[Switzerland]] ==<br />
The commuter dance floors (S-Bahn) are great (it even goes out of the country), they have A LOT of stops, which means that you can easily jump off. There is no constant presence of ticket inspectors - blue dancers. Most often blue dancers are undercover and get on at random stops. They can be hard to recognize so better sit in the front and keep an eye for groups of 2 to 4 people with big side bags - watch situation on the dance floor attentively during the ball. The S-Bahns also get uniformed blue dancers who wear blue jackets and red scarfs. You can try to dance in another dance floor - bus. As per the buses, most of the public bus drivers don't pay much attention. It is easy to get onto the bus whilst no one is looking, or through the back door. If you are stopped however, often you can get your way out of paying very easily, because the drivers are payed by the kilometer and not passenger. <br />
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Inter-Regional dance floors often have inspectors that check several times during the trip -- by memory or, occasionally, by asking out loud who just got on the train. This is like in central Europe. You are new and do not respond. You can try short distant ticket trick, but tickets in Switzerland are very expensive. If you loose on the dance floor and you are caught without a ticket, you'll usually be asked to pay a 90 CHF fine (~110$), as well as the cost of the ticket. There is a bit of wiggle room with this fine, so if you see a blue dancer, your best bet is to go towards the end of the train and buy a ticket on your phone (using the SBB Mobile app, all you need is a credit card - works on iPhones and Androids). Even though you bought the ticket after you left the platform, the controller wouldn't mind seeing as many people do so - just pretend that you care when he lectures you, and explain that their system is very slow (it is).<br />
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On the advanced long journey dance floors - Inter City trains (the newer, high speed trains with restaurants), there are ''always'' at least 2 blue dancers, usually 4 during peak times and on the last train. If only two are present, they start at the end of the train each time, and work up all the way to the front. It is often possible to avoid the inspectors on short trips during the day if you sit right up against the front. At each station, they usually just go back to the back again, so you may never even be controlled. It is best not to run or act suspiciously when in front of the inspectors, as blue dancers can add a penalty of up to 200 CHF for disrespecting the conductor in case of not so good dancing skills. Contrary to popular belief, there are railway police agents, and the come to the train station in extreme situations. It is very hard to avoid these fines, however there is one loophole in the system: whenever you see a controller, go to the front of the train, and there should be a kids compartment. In that kids compartment, there is a slide, and under the slide, there is a fairly large area which is big enough to hide a person, yet very hard to spot when walking past. Nevertheless, if you do get caught in this space, the penalties can be quite severe. Seeing as most trains have 2 floors, you could just walk down the stairs (calmly), however, this can arouse suspicion, and the inspector can decide to cut you off on the other side of the wagon.<br />
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== [[United Kingdom]] ==<br />
For short journeys, the UK is fairly good for fare-dodging. Quite a few young people get away with not paying fares, particularly when the trains are busy (e.g. at rush hour). Many trains have no inspectors, and rely on entry/exit barriers to validate tickets. Often these are unmonitored, so a quick hop can get you in. They are often open after 9pm (ish). It is increasingly popular for train operators to have standard fines for people caught sans-ticket. These vary from £10 (maybe, minimum fine is £20 - from 2010, when [[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] was in United Kingdom) to double the full adult fare (which is a lot!). <br />
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A good tip is to look out for 'Permit to Travel' machines. These are designed for people who for whatever reason can't but a normal ticket - the idea is that you buy a Permit to Travel with whatever money you have, then pay the difference later. It shows a general willingness to pay for a ticket - this means that you can escape any fine, so long as you have ample money to pay for a full ticket if caught. The minimum you can put into a machine and get a Permit to Travel is 5p, which is a pretty cheap price to avoid a fine. Also, if you board a train without a ticket and show willingness to pay but just by far not enough money when caught, some inspectors will let you ride for free or be satisfied with your pennies.<br />
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Permit to travel machines are largely being phased out by train operators. Those remaining are centred around London and the South East. Locations where some machines are still known to be operating are: London, Thameslink, Kent Coast, Great Northern, Great Eastern, South Western, West Anglia, West Yorkshire, Certain routes around Birmingham.<br />
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Ticket inspectors are '''not''' allowed, legally, to touch you to wake you up. So put your headphones on and fall asleep. They'll loose interest fast. Be aware some inspectors will try to bump you awake with their ticket machines, or ask the passenger next to you if they could wake you. For destinations with barriers get off at stop before and buy a low cost ticket to the next stop.<br />
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[[User:PeterOB|PeterOB]] was dancing in United Kingdom in Summer 2010 and he tried to use his common dance style – Short Distance Ticket Trick. But the control system in Great Britain is another than in central Europe and you have to modify dance style, of course. Blue dancer do not go so often, only once per many stations, or at begin and before finish of ball start and he check all passengers, not only new passengers. Blue dancer usually appear suddenly and go forward quite fast. You can try good dance style in trains with a lot of passengers - walking around conductor to area, where tickets were already checked and wait until your wagon is finish and return to your place after it. Conductor probably do not check toilets so much (you can sit there and do not lock doors during control).<br />
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But there are one more another dance style and your dancing skills must be better than usually – many train stations have turnstiles, especially bigger towns near London (like London Subway) and you have to put your ticket to machine during going towards train and too during leaving platform at finish. There are one or two blue dancers near turnstiles and watch passengers (or only cameras in some places). You can try to use shadow tactic – go behind person with ticket. Or you can buy ticket for child – turnstile do not recognize your age. If you buy ticket just few minutes before departure, it is very expensive (up to Eur 1 per 4-5 km), but if you buy online ticket for non lucrative time (early morning), the price is much cheaper (Eur 1 per 10-25 km). There are exact train and seat in this ticket, but you can use it whole day. Conductor do not check tickets so much, only very fast because of a lot of passengers. You can buy only one station ticket (close stop, even your train do not stop in this destination, turnstiles do not know which train you want to use) and same think at finish – short distance ticket trick. If you do not have ticket on exit platform, you can still buy it (short distance of course).<br />
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But night traveling is better – turnstiles are open after 9pm and no control during entering to platform or leaving platform.<br />
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Dancing in United kingdom are quite fast, 200-250 km/h is quite common, so it is quite scary prom. Many dance floors have own stop list and it is very different for optimalize dancing speed. Interval to next train is usually 15-60 minutes. Distance between stops is 25-100 km. There are usually a lot of passengers in train, especially at afternoon. Because of Britain population is huge.<br />
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There are slower local trains with more stops and without turnstiles at stop of curse.<br />
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You can always buy ticket in train (if conductor go) or from conductor that watch turnstiles in entrance and exit way from platform (not whole journey but as short as possible). If you refuse to buy ticket in train or during leaving platform (with turnstile) or you give to turnstile ticket with another final destination that you are now, you can get fine from conductor. Fine is double classic adult fare (which is about Eur 1 per km) or at least pound 20. Conductor choose more expensive fine.<br />
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If you want to go another way that through turnstile and you want to cross track, do not do it. There are cameras and penalty is pounds 1000. And trains are very fast and not all trains stops in all stops, it is variable – so crossing track is very dangerous. One train stop, but another train run through station 250 kph.<br />
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[[zh:火车]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=83768User talk:MrTweek2016-07-15T01:13:25Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
hey,<br />
<br />
i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
<br />
This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
<br />
Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
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== please add my blog! ==<br />
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hi! <br />
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http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== my msn ==<br />
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ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
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Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
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== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
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If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
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Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
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: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
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Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
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Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
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--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
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I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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:)<br />
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== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
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When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
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This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
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I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
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If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
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<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
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==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
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Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
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http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
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I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Languages ==<br />
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Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== blog adding? ==<br />
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hi,<br />
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My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
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Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
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Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
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Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
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Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
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:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
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Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
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Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
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== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Faroes ==<br />
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Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
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==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Chile ==<br />
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Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
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www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
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Thanks, Pat<br />
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: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
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I'd like to add this:<br />
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<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
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I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
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:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
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::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== my email. ==<br />
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Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
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I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
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I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
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Take care<br />
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V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
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Hello,<br />
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We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
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we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
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Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
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Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
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Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
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Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
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Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
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Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
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hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
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cheers<br />
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Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
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Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Events template ==<br />
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IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
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There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
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* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
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Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
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Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
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These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
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Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
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I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
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<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
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try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
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Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
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OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
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hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
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Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
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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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
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Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
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Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
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== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
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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)<br />
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now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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: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)<br />
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::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)<br />
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== New extension ==<br />
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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. <br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
<br />
We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
<br />
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
<br />
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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
<br />
Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: Maybe it will add back-links on next pass? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 13:44, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::::: Yes, you are right. The link is there now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:47, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: Will it run periodically or you'll run it manually? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 12:26, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
<br />
If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
: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)<br />
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)<br />
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== Recent Changes ==<br />
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)<br />
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== Dump datasets ==<br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== ReCaptcha issue ==<br />
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When adding my previous comment (I tried to add link to Github), I noticed a ReCaptcha bug: <br />
after clicking Save, a message appeared<br />
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:<br />
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)<br />
: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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Drumroots - temporary block ==<br />
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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! <br />
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I've asked him on his talk page to change his way, but he does not! <br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 12:56, 11 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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== Pre-emptive spam blocks ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: That said, please refrain from blocking users on this basis.<br />
: 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.<br />
: [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 03:13, 15 July 2016 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Drumroots&diff=83483User talk:Drumroots2016-06-14T01:02:10Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>Can you please use the "Show preview" button before committing your edits, and so avoid making dozens of to-be verified ones? Thanks! [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:23, 31 May 2016 (CEST)<br />
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Ah ok, thanks... and sorry, still kinda new to editing pages and seeing how it works :) So it seems that every time I make an edit, it has to be verified if I don't make a preview... right? And verified by who.... the admins? Sorry if this sounds stupid... just looking for clarification. Thanks.<br />
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:I'm getting pretty fed up with your editing. like all the changes you made to Berlin. '''Immediately stop editing per section''', if you want to make 30 changes on a page, edit the whole page, and click on "Show Preview" every now and then to see if your changes look OK, then continue editing. <br />
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:'''Do not''' change specific, understandable for every hitchhiker, German words into English ones, like '''Autobahn''' into '''motorway''', or '''Rasthof/Raststätte''' into '''service station'''. <br />
:'''Do not''' spell out the full name of despicable US hamburger restaurants. McD is good enough, just '''hamburger restaurant''' is better!<br />
:'''Do not''' start lines with ''':''' to create indented lists, use '*' (dotted list) or '#* (numerical list) for this!<br />
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:As for verifications, some of the admins, and I'm one of them, have the [[Special:RecentChanges|RecentChanges]] page open all the time, and whenever they see edits appear, marked with a little red exclamation mark, they click on '''diffs''' to see what has changed. You made 28 changes to Berlin, where you could have, editing the '''whole''' page and using the "Show Preview''', have done everything in maybe only one or two edits! <br />
:I'm now facing the situation to undo many of your changes by doing so on separate copies of the page! <br />
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:If I see one more occurrence of a page changed more than three or four times, I will revert '''all''' edits to put it back into the state it was before you started editing it! Comprende? [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 09:13, 11 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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::[[User:Prino|Prino]], this is absolutely ridiculous. How can you arbitrarily decide to block someone like this? (And blocking Drumroots from editing his own talk page is beyond excessive.) This is not your wiki, Prino; it is a collaborative effort. How do you get away with treating people like this? What gives you the right to make up rules? And where are these rules coming from? That you can’t write out the name of McDonald's? Seriously? Is there any consensus behind any of this? It seems to me you're forgetting [[Hitchwiki:How we want to keep Hitchwiki|rule #1]]. Also, why do you feel the need to patrol every edit and then demand that all editors adhere to your way of doing things? Is there consensus that this needs to be done? Did other people grant you this power? I really hope some other admins can weigh in here because this absolutely flies in the face of every point in the “[[Hitchwiki:How_we_want_to_keep_Hitchwiki#Spirit_of_cooperation|spirt of cooperation]]” section of how we want to keep this wiki. <br />
::I'm not going to wheel war with you over this, but at the very least, Drumroots should be able to edit his own talk page and engage in this conversation if he wants. -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 22:18, 11 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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::: Spirit of cooperation: ''Try to stay friendly, e.g. not "your stuff sucks so I deleted it", but "maybe you could try to do it like this or that the next time?"'' - I tried the second part!<br />
::: What is the use of an edit like [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Prague&curid=2053&diff=83435&oldid=83434 this]?<br />
::: I do not arbitrarily block someone, I've asked him here to change his ways. <br />
::: This is not my wiki, but as an admin I can take steps, based on my judgement, on what to do if people decide to ignore suggestions or warnings!<br />
:::Why do I feel I need to patrol edits? Because in the past we've had situations where spammers insert nearly undetectable spam, and a page is changed with valid changes after this happens, which disallows you to roll back all changes. And for what it's worth, you're also an admin, so you can also patrol pages, click on "diff" on the Recent Changes page on changes marked with a red exclamation mark, check that the user hasn't made a mess of things and click on "Mark as patrolled". And mess isn't just spam. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] used to (not seen him for a very long time) also warn users not to write in first person, I usually correct this by changing such changes into third person, and/or into <nowiki>[[User:Whoever|Whoever]]</nowiki> links, if I see mangled English, I correct it, if people start lines with a space, resulting in unformatted text, I correct it, and there are probably more of this things. <br />
::: Why should we provide free advertising for an US hamburger joint?<br />
::: And finally, this is actually the first time that I've used my powers as admin to temporarily block someone, and I've given it a hell of lot of thought before I actually did so.<br />
::: Your job seems to be inserting "Welcome" messages, which I do not think they serve much of a purpose. I've asked you to hide them after putting them up, they just don't convey any useful information in the Recent Changes, but you are seemingly not interested, so I do it myself. <br />
::: And finally, why are you afraid to tell the world something about yourself? Who is Inrningston? Why don't you have proper user page?<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 09:41, 12 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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== Unblocked ==<br />
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Hi Drumroots, I just unblocked you. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the good work! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 03:02, 14 June 2016 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Prino&diff=83482User talk:Prino2016-06-14T00:56:53Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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Hello Robert, welcome to this Wiki! --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 14:03, 17 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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I just showed your Guinness record to the crowd here and we love it! guaka 23:55, 2 October 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hehe, would be interesting if this record is still actual!:)--[[Special:Contributions/92.224.1.237|92.224.1.237]] 21:00, 22 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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It was the only time that Guinness included a 24-hour hitch-hiking record. The current non-Guinness record is held by Pavel Trcala with 2,777 km, from Miami to Chicago on 1998-11-28/9, see the records page of the [http://www.autostop.lt/records.html Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas] for the details. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 14:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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=== World Records ===<br />
As you are the only one I know who owns a world record realted to hitchhiking you might be interested to join the discussion I started: http://hitchwiki.org/en/Talk:Hitchhiking_World_Records<br />
--[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 07:33, 21 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
* thank you prino, it is a good start. how has guiness book verfied thoose records? how do you proved your record to them? --[[Special:Contributions/212.88.140.106|212.88.140.106]] 09:42, 21 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Keeping statistics ==<br />
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Hey, Prino,<br>I enquired about your impressive project on its talk page. Mind having a look? :-) <br>Cheers and safe roads--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:06, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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Hi, thanks you for you're work and for correcting what I write, I very much appreciated it --[[User:Xo|xo]] 15:17, 4 October 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Italian version of hitchwiki?==<br />
Hi Robert, sorry cant really use hitchwiki talks but ill try my best. It make me feel really ashamed every time I open hitchwiki home page that there are plenty of languages, from chinese to hebrew to polish bulgarian and finnish and there is neither an article in italian. Id like to translate it from english according to my "schedule" havent any, and the fact that im continuosly traveling though without a regular internet connection nor personal device (depending on hosts or internet cafes). Simply i have no idea where to start to create a new language section, if i didnt get it wrong u as [[User:Guaka|guaka]] are the main developers of this wiki (or at least the only ppl who wrote me when i started to contribute it as new user). so id ask ur help:) <br />
trying to spread hitchin culture also among italians that have no idea about english or cant really understand it.<br />
thanks<br />
[[User:Fedecicco|Fede]] <br />
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== Cosmetical changes on multiple pages ==<br />
Hey Prino. If you want to change the same strings on all pages on the wiki (like ''Hitching Out'' -> ''Hitchhiking out''), just let me know. I can let the bot handle that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:42, 5 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I already changed the template, it would be nice if all "Hitching Out" etc strings could be changed in "Hitching out" etc, I've been doing it, CRCulver has also been doing it, this "Multiple Caps Heading" thing is just silly! Ditto for my other pet annoyances, gas/petrol and highway/motorway. -- [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:16, 5 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==[[Hitchwiki:Spam]]==<br />
Thanks for the cleanup. Let's try to open up for anons again this week, maybe there's something else we can try. Let's brainstorm on [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:26, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
:As for the cleanup, I hope I've not made any mistakes, the fuckwits made multiple edits and [[Special:RecentChanges]] only shows the last 50 by default.<br />
:And about looking after things, I'm currently locked up at Pfizer in Brussels, and sit behind a PC from about ~7:30 to ~23:30. I can keep an eye on things for the next 15 or so days, but I have plenty of other things to do... I have mixed feelings about opening it up for anons, if someone is really interested in hitchhiking, creating an account is very simple. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 13:51, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Gas/petrol ==<br />
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As most Central Americans learn US English, they tend to say "gas" instead of "petrol". A European hitchhiker in the area will have to get used to that. Therefore, I don't think it's worthwhile to change "gas" to "petrol" on articles about Central America. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 23:39, 9 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== links to motorways in your logs ==<br />
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Hallo Prino. Please, if you write in your logs links to motorways, then write them in the form 'M1 (GB)' and not only 'M1' or 'A1 (Germany)' instead of 'A1'. --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 23:06, 5 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
:Could do, and will keep it in mind as a future enhancement, but don't hold your breath. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:43, 6 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Question about average speed in Germany ==<br />
Hi Prino, first of all respect for your endurance on keeping logs! I was thinking about adding general average speeds for hitchhiking in Germany. Thus I wonder if your average speed of 114 km/h in Germany is just time in the cars, time on the road including waiting or door-to-door time. If it's the first one, do you have statistics about the latter two? Best regards --[[User:Kriechstrom|Kriechstrom]] 15:57, 1 February 2012 (CET)<br />
:It's pure driving speed, excluding all stops (toilets, meals, etc) and even traffic jams (when the traffic comes to a complete standstill for more than 5 minutes). If you want more details, please check out the input file for my programs on Yahoo! (link on my page). I have no plans to add statistics for time-on-the-road or door-to-door. Anyway, time-on-the-road is sort-of available in the "lift.h-h" output file. My ballpark distance-per-day figure for hitching in Germany is somewhere around 800 km. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:03, 1 February 2012 (CET)<br />
:: Sitting in a hostel in Hong Kong with only a small netbook I am not motivated to play with your statistics program at the moment, but I still feel like messing around with numbers :)<br />
:: I know that statistic-wise, this is complete bullshit, but if I combine your numbers with [[User:Fverhart|Franks]], who has exactly the numbers that are missing in your log, I estimate that you had probably around 679 lifts in Germany and spent 353.08 hours in waiting in Germany :)<br />
:: This comes to an average speed (driving + waiting) of 84.1 km/h -[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:59, 1 February 2012 (CET)<br />
:::524 rides that started in Germany, and 176 that were partially in Germany. 535 waits in Germany, total waiting time in Germany 523:35. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:26, 1 February 2012 (CET)<br />
:::: Nice. That makes 74.6 km/h then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 17:57, 1 February 2012 (CET)<br />
::::: Hi, thanks for the informations to you two. I'll try to figure something out for the Germany article. Best regards --[[User:Kriechstrom|Kriechstrom]] 19:43, 6 February 2012 (CET)<br />
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==Events modification==<br />
Hi man! I cleaned that comments request away from events on frontpage. See [[Template_talk:Events|discussion]]. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 20:21, 11 November 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Multilingual recentchanges ==<br />
http://hitchwikichanges.meteor.com/ might be useful for fighting spam across languages :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 23:54, 15 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
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=== Rinvolucri ===<br />
Thanks for your help and improvements. When I started editing, I tried the blockquote to, but I must have done something wrong, because it didn't work for me. That's when I came up with the ':' workaround ;-) --[[User:N0id|N0id]] ([[User talk:N0id|talk]]) 20:42, 1 December 2013 (CET)<br />
:I had downloaded the lot from Bernd's site in 1999, and only managed to find my copy after you started putting it on hitchwiki. I had done the &lt;ul&gt; to &lt;blockquote&gt; conversion myself, but most of the rest of the clean-up was done using the W3C validator. I also fond a few more typo's (I actually have two nearly new paper copies of the book!) and changed some of Bernd's changes, most notably his use of '&nbsp;--&nbsp;' to &amp;mdash;, as per the printed version. There are still issues, most notably some text needs to be smaller, and it would be nice to have forward/index/next options in each chapter. I've also changed some of the typographical conventions, ALL-UPPERCASE titles are not-done. <br />
:FWIW, I also have permission from Sylvain Viard to put his thesis (see my page) on hitchwiki, the multimania.fr site is gone. It is big (250K), and changing the internal links into Wikimedia format will be a huge pita. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 21:03, 1 December 2013 (CET)<br />
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=== Jags ===<br />
This isn't related to the wiki, but still want to share with you Prino - why not here? Got two consecutive rides in Jaguars yesterday, while hitchhiking Vlijmen-Roermond! Never had any ride in Jags in my life as far as I am aware or as far as my ride registry tells, and then you get two in a row. Figuring out how I did that! Because when I find out, I'll be hitching Jags all the time! So now it's Porsche 2 vs Jag 2 vs Cadillac 1 vs Lomax 1 <br />
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First Jaguar: from A2 service station 't Haasje (Maarheeze) to A2 exit Kelpen-Oler - 18 km<br />
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Second Jaguar: from N280 near A2 exit Kelpen-Oler to N280 Roermond - 14 km<br />
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--[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:20, 2 December 2013 (CET)<br />
:My best is three Porsches on three consecutive days, in magic trip 34 way back in 1996.<br />
:Why magic?<br />
:21 consecutive rides with a speed over 115 km/h, 14 consecutive with a speed over 120 km/h and 3 consecutive with a speed over 145 km/h. Highest ever average speed over 10 consecutive rides (142.9 km/h) and over 25 consecutive rides (135.6 km/h). Fastest 1,000 km (6 rides for 1,049.9 km in 7:16 driving time) and fastest 2,500 km (19 rides for 2,543.3 km in 18:28 driving time). Only trip with two consecutive days with an average speed over 135 km/h. More? Download my stats ;)<br />
:[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 15:46, 2 December 2013 (CET)<br />
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=== Motorways ===<br />
Hey Prino! I just reverted your last edit at [[A1_(Switzerland)]]. Petrol stations should be at the same line only if they are directly opposite. Or at least I understand it like that.<br />
And btw you have awesome stats! --[[User:Kundrt|Kundrt]] ([[User talk:Kundrt|talk]]) 21:37, 28 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
: Not necessarily, if they are both between the same two exits, they can be put in the same row, see for example Auerland on the [[A2_(Germany)|A2]] in Germany. They are not opposite each other, but are in the same row. You can add a note, or better, create a page with crossable rest area's in Switzerland, and link it from [[Rest_area#Rest_areas_allowing_cross-overs|Rest areas allowing cross-overs]]. <br />
: As for my stats, anyone who hitchhikes long enough and keeps track of their rides can generate the same. ;) [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 22:23, 28 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
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== Euro symbol ==<br />
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Why did you change an editor's "'103€" to "EUR 103"? The latter is the normal way for native speakers to write these sums. The latter to me is a distinctly foreign custom. (I don't think it's worth linking to the EU's legislation on this matter, it has been criticized by speakers of many languages.) [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 19:24, 3 November 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Using currency '''symbols''' is bad thing. EUR is unambiguous. Next to that, is it "'103€'" or "'€103'"? [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:39, 3 November 2014 (UTC)<br />
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== Flags ==<br />
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Hey! I know about svg and I try to use them as much as possible but now I was lazy to create redirects (for consistent names) at wikimedia commons. Or some kind of "province to image name" converter in a template could work... I might do it later. [[User:Kundrt|Kundrt]] ([[User talk:Kundrt|talk]]) 21:38, 25 November 2014 (UTC)<br />
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== Personal blog articles in News ==<br />
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Hey Prino, how are you doing? Hope all is fine! I was just wondering, you added a personal blog post to the 'News' section of hitchwiki. Imho, your personal blog post does not really fit among the other items usually added to the news section (book releases, events, etc.). This might be an example case for other bloggers, and I wonder how the news section might get cluttered in the future if everyone would add his personal blog posts in the news section. We already got [[Blogging Hitchhikers]] for that. I'm hesitating to reverse the news item for now, and first wanted to give space for a short discussion.<br />
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One idea to solve this might be to add (HINT to the HW Hackathon dudes) a separate news section to the main page for blogs or personal articles (maybe some sort of aggregator as the planet we had back in the 00's, see [[Hitchhiking Planet]]), which could be automatically or manually updated by authors more frequently. What do you think?<br />
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Cheers and ''alvast een fijne jaarwisseling toegewenst!'' :) --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] ([[User talk:Platschi|talk]]) 16:00, 30 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:Removed it :( and also ''Alles Gute für 2015'' [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 17:55, 30 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
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== Welcome messages ==<br />
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I saw that you recently welcomed some new users. That's awesome! When using the [[Template:Welcome|welcome template]], however, if you don't insert "subst:" (like so: <nowiki>{{subst:welcome}} ), your signature won't appear, and instead it rends the text " -- ~~~ ~~~~~"</nowiki>. Cheers, -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 17:33, 1 October 2015 (CEST)<br />
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== Spam account ==<br />
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Just thought I'd bring [[User:Samayanews|this user page]] to your attention because it's pretty spammy. Cheers, [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 13:21, 26 March 2016 (CET)<br />
:FYI, you blocked [[Special:Contributions/Harsh|this user]], but there are still three pages that need to be deleted. Cheers, [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 20:04, 19 April 2016 (CEST)<br />
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== Promotion to admin ==<br />
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Hey thanks, I guess that will be especially useful as I might volunteer more time to the wiki in the upcoming months. And I think I should give you [[Image:Globestoppeuse-prino.jpg|left|thumb|200px]] this photo too. --[[User:Globestoppeuse|Globestoppeuse]] ([[User talk:Globestoppeuse|talk]]) 19:43, 27 March 2016 (CEST)<br />
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== Consensus, transparency, and accountability ==<br />
I'm taking [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Drumroots&diff=83459&oldid=83449 this conversation] here because it doesn't really concern Drumroots at this point.<br />
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You've created a number of rules (i.e. no editing per section, must edit the whole page; <br />
: No, I have not created such a rule, I've asked Drumroots to edit whole pages if he's going to make a lot of changes!<br />
:: And he said he has some trouble using the wiki software. We don't ban people due to lack of technical expertise. And you can't ban everyone who's working style you don't like. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:55, 14 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
no changing autobahn to motorway or rasthof/raststätte to service station;<br />
: Again, not a rule. '''Every''' hitchhiker knows what an Autobahn is, there is absolutely no need to change that into motorway, and once a hitchhiker has spend just a few hours in Germany, he or she will know what a Raststätte is. The UK has motorway services, Germany Raststättes, Italy Area Servizio's, there is no flipping need to Anglicise everything!<br />
:: I agree with that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:55, 14 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
no writing the name “McD”; <br />
:Why should we provide free advertising for a despicable US corporation that cares about only one thing, its bottom line!<br />
:: I don't like McDonalds either, but I don't think we need to censor their name out. It's often a landmark that's easy to spot from far and thus can be very useful for orientation. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:55, 14 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
and no changing a page more than three or four times in a row), <br />
:Again not a rule and if everyone would actually use the preview button, at least half of the edit-after-edit-after-edit cases would disappear.<br />
and I don't see where you get the right to do so. As far as I can tell, you have unilaterally decided these rules, they have no consensus behind them, and they can only be found on the talk pages of users who happen to violate them. <br />
:Again there are no rules, only requests, and if people ignore them, then an admin can take steps. You are also an admin, if you want to unblock Drumroots, feel free to do so.<br />
:: We went pretty well for 9 years with only using our admin rights when absolutely necessary (mainly spam) and I am quite happy about this. You ignored a lot of requests by other admins many times in Hitchwiki's history and nobody banned you. So no, an Admin is not supposed to "take steps" if people don't adhere to their preferred standards. Definitely not! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:55, 14 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
This is not okay. It is authoritarian and lacks any transparency or accountability. <br />
:You prefer anarchy? We had that on FanDeZhi a few years back, and that resulted in the system becoming unusable for genuine users, like the guy who translated PCRE to COBOL, the guy who's trying to update the InfoZIP for z/OS programs.<br />
:: That's a completely useless example. Sad that you had a problem with someone, but we don't right now. Again, our system has worked relatively well for 9 years and I'm not going to give that up because you don't like the way someone edits pages. If you think we need certain rules about this, you are very welcome to start a discussion in the community portal or mailing list. But as long as there is no consensus on this, stop banning people on these grounds! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:55, 14 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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Drumroots asked you a legitimate question about the message you left on his talk page. You waited over a week to respond and did so in a post full of imperative sentences and beginning with “I'm getting pretty fed up with your editing.” This is not friendly; indeed, it is openly hostile.<br />
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:I sent him an email, it bounced.<br />
:: That's no excuse for acting like a dick. We have a culture of being friendly and polite here. I'd would prefer if you could take part in this instead of getting super rude if someone doesn't adhere to the rules that you made up on the fly. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:55, 14 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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Regarding RecentChanges, I agree that it's important to keep an eye on them to deal with spam. However, eliminating every red exclamation point is by no means necessary; it merely communicates to other admins that someone has already checked it. This is especially relevant when dealing with users who have a history of productive edits, where spam and vandalism are not a concern. If you feel the need to patrol recent changes for quality control reasons, please accept that that is your decision, and there is no reason why other editors should have to change their behavior to make things easier for you. <br />
:Whoever said that other admins have to do this too?<br />
Why should other users change the way they do things to accommodate you when you can change the way you do things to accommodate others?<br />
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And I see welcoming new users as vital to maintaining a cooperative environment here. Without it, the entirety of most users' interactions with other users would consist of being told what to do. I don't like being told what to do, I don't like telling others what to do, and I don't like seeing other people tell other people what to do; I prefer working together, cooperatively, towards a common end (in this case, building a great resource for hitchhikers around the world), and I want to encourage that. -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 20:57, 13 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
:Oh yes, cooperatively, like changing the interface into the one we have now, without any support for the normal Mediawiki skin. Was there any discussion about this? The replacement of Google Maps with Open Streetmap? The constant pop-up about Trustroots? Don't we have enough flipping hospitality exchange sites?<br />
:: So what's your point? Are we too cooperative for you or not enough? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:55, 14 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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:Hitchwiki, as noble as its goals are, is pretty much irrelevant today. Whenever I meet other hitchhikers, and ask about it, most seem to know, but far more tell me that they use groups on the site of the Cult of $uckerberg...<br />
:: Not sure what this has to do with the rest of the discussion. It's so unimportant that we don't have to be nice to people any more? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:55, 14 June 2016 (CEST)<br />
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:[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 21:44, 13 June 2016 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Irningston&diff=82837User talk:Irningston2016-05-05T01:51:46Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>I am happy to see your recent additions on Costa Rica, but please don't write in the first person on Hitchwiki ("no one I spoke to had ever heard of 'Cuatros bomberos'"). Hitchwiki aims to offer generalized advice independent of any one editor. If you absolutely must specify that something was personal experience, write in the third person and link to your username. (Also, please be careful to use correct spelling and grammar.) Thanks! [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 00:16, 8 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:Where are you getting this from, about the prohibition against first person? I see first person used throughout hitchwiki, and I find it very useful. Are there community agreed-upon policies and guidelines you are referring to? -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 23:43, 8 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:: That articles should be written in 3rd person has been the consensus for years now. See e.g. [[Help:Todo|here]]. Hitchwiki is full of tips in the first-person because many hitchhikers sign up for an account and start posting their advice without learning the preferred style first. I and other editors try to give new editors a heads-up when we can, but there's not always someone around to clean up the first-person edits they've already made. First person is decidely '''not''' useful on a wiki site: any article can have multiple editors, so the reader has no idea who "I" refers to. That's why it's better to write in the third person and link to your username. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 02:28, 9 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::I don't see how one edit by one person a few years ago represents consensus. Just because no one changed it doesn't mean there's consensus there. Has there been discussion around this issue? That page, for example, doesn't even have a Talk: page. So there was obviously no discussion there.<br />
:::While you don't see the usefulness of first person on a wiki site, there's room for debate. Certainly all of the editors who create new accounts and edit in the first person seem to disagree with you. -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 22:00, 9 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: Consensus is determined by those who actually stick around and discuss the matter, not people who create accounts, make a few hasty changes without researching Hitchwiki style, and then disappear. I've asked [[User:guaka]], the founder of Hitchwiki, to post here. He'll attest too that a preference for third-person writing goes back years. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 02:16, 10 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::::Who wouldn't stick around after receiving such a friendly welcome? But in order to "stick around ''and discuss the matter''", there needs to be an atmosphere of openness to discussion and a place where that discussion can take place. How is one supposed to research Hitchwiki style? [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 17:40, 10 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
::Hi Irningston. Think about someone else coming in who wants to improve an article? First person writing just doesn't work so well on a wiki. It's common wiki sense to avoid it and there's definitely a consensus on this among active long-term editors. It's okay to add stories in a first person writing, as a specifically marked section of the page, e.g. as in [[Panama City]]. Otherwise it's much better to write in 3rd person and link to your user page (tip: write something on it :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 02:23, 10 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::But where's this consensus? I don't see any discussion or anything. Is it all happening on different user_talk pages? Or off-wiki? I expect more openness and transparency than just being told, "All the people who've been here a long time agree. Look, even the founder of the wiki will tell you so." Above, CRCulver complains of people who don't research Hitchwiki style, but there's literally no where to do that besides the articles themselves. [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 17:40, 10 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: The community of active editors is so small that consensus about things like this tend to play out through casual discussion among us instead of bureaucratic processes. Plus, many of the active editors have long experience in other wiki projects, so the prohibition of first-person writing is just so bloody obvious that the need to spell it out clearly for new editors hasn't been felt as much as it perhaps should. If you think that guidelines to help those new to the site are missing, perhaps you'd like to volunteer? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 17:03, 11 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::::Are you sincerely inviting me to write editing guidelines for hitchwiki? Given that I have little experience with hitchwiki, am obviously unfamiliar with the norms here, and was therefore looking for these guidelines myself, I have a hard time taking you seriously, especially considering that what is "so bloody obvious" for the long-time consensus-makers is not so obvious to me. However, if there were somewhere for these discussions to take place, I would be more than happy to participate. [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 18:32, 11 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
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:::::: Well, I thought you might have suggestions on what kind of documentation should go up and where, and more experienced editors could fill it in. However, I'm happy to see that Wikivoyage already has a page against writing in the first person, and since Wikivoyage is CC-licenced, there shouldn't be a problem bringing it over to Hitchwiki. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 20:11, 12 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
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:::::: Welcome Irningston to Hitchwiki! Great you made a few first edits. For new users, as far as I remember, hitchwiki mentions on several places that new folks should just simply start editing and participating, and shouldn't care about lay-out and writing rules, see e.g. [[Hitchwiki:How_to_participate|How to participate]]: ''Add your knowledge to Hitchwiki. Just click edit (even on this page!) or create a new page. Don't worry about formatting or layout. There are a lot of keen eyes watching around and fixing stuff.'' It seems like the 1st/3rd person writing style (unwritten?) rule needs some more clarity, so maybe we could move the discussion to [[Hitchwiki:Community_Portal|discuss ideas, propose suggestions for improvements]] and place some more clear writing guidelines on more visible spots for editors. But, as said before, new users should, in my opinion, not care at all about guidelines in the first place. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] ([[User talk:Platschi|talk]]) 01:49, 13 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::::::Thanks. I appreciate your encouragement. But really, I'm not worried about formatting or layout but rather I was bothered by the lack of transparency regarding hitchwiki protocol. What does consensus mean at hitchwiki? It really came across as people with more experience than me telling me what to do because that's what they decided - no where for me to see how these decisions were made or by whom, much less participate in them myself. That was frustrating. I just took a look at [[[[Hitchwiki:Community_Portal]], and that definitely looks like it would be the place for these sorts of conversations. Thanks for showing me that. It's really good to know that that place exists even if it gets little use. [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 06:54, 13 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:Irningston, check stuff in <nowiki>[[Category:Hitchwiki]]</nowiki> and comment and edit :) And please also read e.g. [[:wikivoyage:Wikivoyage:Use_of_pronouns|this article on wikivoyage]]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 01:21, 12 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks! [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 06:54, 13 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
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== Recent Changes Cleanup ==<br />
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I've added you to the group of users who can use the [[Special:RecentChangesCleanup|Recent Changes Cleanup]] add-on. Can you use it if you add the Welcome Template and when you make, hopefully not again, mass changes that don't really add anything useful to the visible Recent Changes page. The add-on sets the "bot"-bit, hiding changes until you click the "Show bots" link. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 14:51, 15 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
:Ok, just to make sure I understood: when I welcome new users or do other things that for whatever reason might be considered "bot-level" changes, I should visit that link you just gave me and click "Hide" next to those changes? -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 18:29, 15 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
::Yes, although "should" is too strong. It would be nice to do it, as it keeps only the '''real''' Recent Changes visible. Ditto for experimenting on your own page. It's not very interesting for others to see that User:Prino has been changing his user page(s) and rather than using '''Preview''', has used '''Save page''' 42 times. (No, I don't, but I do hide "''new trip''" the changes I make to my User and log pages) For what it's worth, I usually middle-click the '''Hide''' link as that stops the page from refreshing, which means you can hide a lot of entries very quickly, closing tabs is faster that scrolling down again and again. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 21:38, 15 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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Hey, thanks for the welcome message! I very like this wiki, and it's very useful for hitchhikers like me with few experience. Hope to see you around! --[[User:Francesc4052|Francesc4052]] ([[User talk:Francesc4052|talk]]) 22:57, 27 October 2015 (CET)<br />
:You're welcome! [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 19:44, 7 February 2016 (CET)<br />
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Hi, thank you for the warm welcome! I am mostly active on the map adding points, but from now and then I might add something to the wiki as well :) --[[User:Santa klaus|Santa klaus]] ([[User talk:Santa klaus|talk]]) 12:06, 26 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:You're welcome! [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 19:44, 7 February 2016 (CET)<br />
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== Fighting Spam ==<br />
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Hey Irningston,<br />
I just upgraded your user rights so you can now delete pages and block users. Don't hesitate doing this if you encounter any spam.<br />
Thanks for the great work :)<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 03:51, 5 May 2016 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Irningston&diff=82836User talk:Irningston2016-05-05T01:51:28Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>I am happy to see your recent additions on Costa Rica, but please don't write in the first person on Hitchwiki ("no one I spoke to had ever heard of 'Cuatros bomberos'"). Hitchwiki aims to offer generalized advice independent of any one editor. If you absolutely must specify that something was personal experience, write in the third person and link to your username. (Also, please be careful to use correct spelling and grammar.) Thanks! [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 00:16, 8 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:Where are you getting this from, about the prohibition against first person? I see first person used throughout hitchwiki, and I find it very useful. Are there community agreed-upon policies and guidelines you are referring to? -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 23:43, 8 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:: That articles should be written in 3rd person has been the consensus for years now. See e.g. [[Help:Todo|here]]. Hitchwiki is full of tips in the first-person because many hitchhikers sign up for an account and start posting their advice without learning the preferred style first. I and other editors try to give new editors a heads-up when we can, but there's not always someone around to clean up the first-person edits they've already made. First person is decidely '''not''' useful on a wiki site: any article can have multiple editors, so the reader has no idea who "I" refers to. That's why it's better to write in the third person and link to your username. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 02:28, 9 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::I don't see how one edit by one person a few years ago represents consensus. Just because no one changed it doesn't mean there's consensus there. Has there been discussion around this issue? That page, for example, doesn't even have a Talk: page. So there was obviously no discussion there.<br />
:::While you don't see the usefulness of first person on a wiki site, there's room for debate. Certainly all of the editors who create new accounts and edit in the first person seem to disagree with you. -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 22:00, 9 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: Consensus is determined by those who actually stick around and discuss the matter, not people who create accounts, make a few hasty changes without researching Hitchwiki style, and then disappear. I've asked [[User:guaka]], the founder of Hitchwiki, to post here. He'll attest too that a preference for third-person writing goes back years. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 02:16, 10 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::::Who wouldn't stick around after receiving such a friendly welcome? But in order to "stick around ''and discuss the matter''", there needs to be an atmosphere of openness to discussion and a place where that discussion can take place. How is one supposed to research Hitchwiki style? [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 17:40, 10 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
::Hi Irningston. Think about someone else coming in who wants to improve an article? First person writing just doesn't work so well on a wiki. It's common wiki sense to avoid it and there's definitely a consensus on this among active long-term editors. It's okay to add stories in a first person writing, as a specifically marked section of the page, e.g. as in [[Panama City]]. Otherwise it's much better to write in 3rd person and link to your user page (tip: write something on it :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 02:23, 10 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::But where's this consensus? I don't see any discussion or anything. Is it all happening on different user_talk pages? Or off-wiki? I expect more openness and transparency than just being told, "All the people who've been here a long time agree. Look, even the founder of the wiki will tell you so." Above, CRCulver complains of people who don't research Hitchwiki style, but there's literally no where to do that besides the articles themselves. [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 17:40, 10 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: The community of active editors is so small that consensus about things like this tend to play out through casual discussion among us instead of bureaucratic processes. Plus, many of the active editors have long experience in other wiki projects, so the prohibition of first-person writing is just so bloody obvious that the need to spell it out clearly for new editors hasn't been felt as much as it perhaps should. If you think that guidelines to help those new to the site are missing, perhaps you'd like to volunteer? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 17:03, 11 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::::Are you sincerely inviting me to write editing guidelines for hitchwiki? Given that I have little experience with hitchwiki, am obviously unfamiliar with the norms here, and was therefore looking for these guidelines myself, I have a hard time taking you seriously, especially considering that what is "so bloody obvious" for the long-time consensus-makers is not so obvious to me. However, if there were somewhere for these discussions to take place, I would be more than happy to participate. [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 18:32, 11 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
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:::::: Well, I thought you might have suggestions on what kind of documentation should go up and where, and more experienced editors could fill it in. However, I'm happy to see that Wikivoyage already has a page against writing in the first person, and since Wikivoyage is CC-licenced, there shouldn't be a problem bringing it over to Hitchwiki. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 20:11, 12 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
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:::::: Welcome Irningston to Hitchwiki! Great you made a few first edits. For new users, as far as I remember, hitchwiki mentions on several places that new folks should just simply start editing and participating, and shouldn't care about lay-out and writing rules, see e.g. [[Hitchwiki:How_to_participate|How to participate]]: ''Add your knowledge to Hitchwiki. Just click edit (even on this page!) or create a new page. Don't worry about formatting or layout. There are a lot of keen eyes watching around and fixing stuff.'' It seems like the 1st/3rd person writing style (unwritten?) rule needs some more clarity, so maybe we could move the discussion to [[Hitchwiki:Community_Portal|discuss ideas, propose suggestions for improvements]] and place some more clear writing guidelines on more visible spots for editors. But, as said before, new users should, in my opinion, not care at all about guidelines in the first place. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] ([[User talk:Platschi|talk]]) 01:49, 13 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::::::Thanks. I appreciate your encouragement. But really, I'm not worried about formatting or layout but rather I was bothered by the lack of transparency regarding hitchwiki protocol. What does consensus mean at hitchwiki? It really came across as people with more experience than me telling me what to do because that's what they decided - no where for me to see how these decisions were made or by whom, much less participate in them myself. That was frustrating. I just took a look at [[[[Hitchwiki:Community_Portal]], and that definitely looks like it would be the place for these sorts of conversations. Thanks for showing me that. It's really good to know that that place exists even if it gets little use. [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 06:54, 13 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
:Irningston, check stuff in <nowiki>[[Category:Hitchwiki]]</nowiki> and comment and edit :) And please also read e.g. [[:wikivoyage:Wikivoyage:Use_of_pronouns|this article on wikivoyage]]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 01:21, 12 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks! [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 06:54, 13 May 2013 (CEST)<br />
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== Recent Changes Cleanup ==<br />
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I've added you to the group of users who can use the [[Special:RecentChangesCleanup|Recent Changes Cleanup]] add-on. Can you use it if you add the Welcome Template and when you make, hopefully not again, mass changes that don't really add anything useful to the visible Recent Changes page. The add-on sets the "bot"-bit, hiding changes until you click the "Show bots" link. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 14:51, 15 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
:Ok, just to make sure I understood: when I welcome new users or do other things that for whatever reason might be considered "bot-level" changes, I should visit that link you just gave me and click "Hide" next to those changes? -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 18:29, 15 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
::Yes, although "should" is too strong. It would be nice to do it, as it keeps only the '''real''' Recent Changes visible. Ditto for experimenting on your own page. It's not very interesting for others to see that User:Prino has been changing his user page(s) and rather than using '''Preview''', has used '''Save page''' 42 times. (No, I don't, but I do hide "''new trip''" the changes I make to my User and log pages) For what it's worth, I usually middle-click the '''Hide''' link as that stops the page from refreshing, which means you can hide a lot of entries very quickly, closing tabs is faster that scrolling down again and again. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 21:38, 15 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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Hey, thanks for the welcome message! I very like this wiki, and it's very useful for hitchhikers like me with few experience. Hope to see you around! --[[User:Francesc4052|Francesc4052]] ([[User talk:Francesc4052|talk]]) 22:57, 27 October 2015 (CET)<br />
:You're welcome! [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 19:44, 7 February 2016 (CET)<br />
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Hi, thank you for the warm welcome! I am mostly active on the map adding points, but from now and then I might add something to the wiki as well :) --[[User:Santa klaus|Santa klaus]] ([[User talk:Santa klaus|talk]]) 12:06, 26 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:You're welcome! [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 19:44, 7 February 2016 (CET)<br />
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== Fighting Spam ==<br />
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Hey Irningston,<br />
I just upgraded your user rights so you can now delete pages and block users. Don't hesitate doing this is you encounter any spam.<br />
Thanks for the great work :)<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 03:51, 5 May 2016 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=82545User talk:MrTweek2016-04-01T03:01:37Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
<br />
== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Video extension ==<br />
<br />
Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
<br />
Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
<br />
:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
<br />
== please add my blog! ==<br />
<br />
hi! <br />
<br />
http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
<br />
==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== New template, Tts ==<br />
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I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
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:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
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::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== my email. ==<br />
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Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
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I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
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I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
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Take care<br />
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V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
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Hello,<br />
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We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
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we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
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Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
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Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
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Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
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Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
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Hey !<br />
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I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
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Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
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hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
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cheers<br />
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Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
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Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Events template ==<br />
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IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
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There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
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* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
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Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
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Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
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These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
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Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
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I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
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<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
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try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
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Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
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OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
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hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
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Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
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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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
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Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
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Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
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== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
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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)<br />
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now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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: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)<br />
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::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)<br />
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== New extension ==<br />
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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. <br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
<br />
We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
<br />
HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
<br />
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
<br />
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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
<br />
Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: Maybe it will add back-links on next pass? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 13:44, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::::: Yes, you are right. The link is there now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:47, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: Will it run periodically or you'll run it manually? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 12:26, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
: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)<br />
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)<br />
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== Recent Changes ==<br />
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)<br />
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== Dump datasets ==<br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== ReCaptcha issue ==<br />
<br />
When adding my previous comment (I tried to add link to Github), I noticed a ReCaptcha bug: <br />
after clicking Save, a message appeared<br />
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:<br />
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)<br />
: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)<br />
:: 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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Template_talk:News&diff=82407Template talk:News2016-03-23T01:10:39Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>==Videos ==<br />
So people apparently have started adding their published youtube videos to news. I kinda feel like they shouldn't be there — it's quite a different effort to write a book for example, than write a blog article or make a short youtube video. I wouldn't have these on that space. Thoughts? -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 17:38, 22 March 2016 (CET)<br />
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-- I agree. The question is where to draw the line. A fine and well produced documentary is acceptable I guess. Blog vs. book goes in that direction. --[[User:N0id|N0id]] ([[User talk:N0id|talk]]) 18:37, 22 March 2016 (CET)<br />
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-- I agree too. It might be ok, if it's a sophisticated or exceptional film, but this shouldn't be an extensions to people's facebook feed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 02:10, 23 March 2016 (CET)<br />
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==CC license==<br />
Refering to these news (1 July, 2009): <br />
http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Template:News&oldid=34249<br />
''Hitchwiki switched its licence to Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA). That basically means, we can now use content from many other wikis (Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikivoyage), but also from some other sites, i.e. OpenStreetMap and many images from flickr are CC.''<br />
No, that's not what it really means. The subject of the license is the regulated (partly restricted) distribution of the information provided by the website the contect of which is under conditions of CC-BY-SA, - and it is not in any way appliable to the information provided on other websites no matter how similar they might be. So, a statement is a little bit misleading. Using the content of other sites (like mentioned above wiki sites) you will still need to attribute these texts/pictures to their authors - mere mentioning (by default) of the CC-BY-SA license is not enough. What good is that CC-BY-SA is now the common license between hitchwiki and the most common sites which are apparently being used a lot by hitchwiki users, and so no additional hassle is needed for pointing out the license if it already "fits" the license of the hitchwiki.<br />
BTW, PicasaWeb announced recently its launch of the Creative Commons search option - there aren't many [http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?imglic=commercial&psc=G&q=hitch+hiking&filter=1# CC pictures tagged "hitch hiking" yet] (with availability of commercial use, the important feature of the ''free license'') but it has a good potencial.<br />
I will take a liberty to change the news text a bit.<br />
--[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 00:09, 3 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Yeah, thanks. I tried to find a way to express it as simple as possible without missing any important details. Looks like it didn't work ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:04, 3 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Number of visitors ==<br />
Actually, I see an average of 1380 for July, 1235 in June and 1298 in May. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:Ah, ok! Great, let's change it back :) [http://piwik.guaka.org/ Piwik] is showing a bit less than that. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 10:49, 19 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== CS for profit => BW plugging item ==<br />
I hope everyone is fine with this. I thought it was the right moment to plug BeWelcome :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 21:11, 26 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Personal stories ==<br />
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Now that we had a few people posting their trips in the news... do we really want that? I mean, it's nice to see the news section so active, it makes the site look more dynamic, but if everyone starts doing that, especially for kind of short and not so exciting trips, it's surely too much. <br />
Maybe have a second News Section where everyone can promote his trip or something? Or just remove them completely? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 06:39, 1 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== BeWelcome switches to the free and open source OpenStreetMap ==<br />
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It's about '''choice'''. Better write BeWelcome '''forces''' uses onto OpenStreetMap, because there are a hell of a lot of users who very much prefer Google over OSM, due to the superior facilities offered by it. <br />
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I once wrote to the FSF why they don't have an option to '''force''' GPL licensed software to always use the last version of the GPL. The answer: "Because that would take away freedom from people who are for whatever reason happy with the current version!" [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 09:46, 21 December 2012 (CET)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=82169User talk:MrTweek2016-02-09T11:44:20Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
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: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
<br />
Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
<br />
:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
<br />
== please add my blog! ==<br />
<br />
hi! <br />
<br />
http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
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<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
<br />
==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
<br />
:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
<br />
::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
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I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
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Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
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* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
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I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
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OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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<br />
== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
<br />
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
<br />
== Admin rights ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
<br />
== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
<br />
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
<br />
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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: Maybe it will add back-links on next pass? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 13:44, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::::: Yes, you are right. The link is there now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:47, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: Will it run periodically or you'll run it manually? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 12:26, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
: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)<br />
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)<br />
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== Recent Changes ==<br />
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)<br />
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== Dump datasets ==<br />
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[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)<br />
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== ReCaptcha issue ==<br />
<br />
When adding my previous comment (I tried to add link to Github), I noticed a ReCaptcha bug: <br />
after clicking Save, a message appeared<br />
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:<br />
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)<br />
: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)<br />
:: 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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=81974User talk:MrTweek2016-01-14T22:47:56Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
<br />
We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
P.S. <br />
Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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hey,<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
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== please add my blog! ==<br />
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hi! <br />
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http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== my msn ==<br />
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ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
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Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
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== Trampertreffen ==<br />
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hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Category:Germany ==<br />
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Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
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==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
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<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
<br />
:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
<br />
::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
<br />
== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
<br />
== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
<br />
== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
:: 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)<br />
<br />
== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
<br />
:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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<br />
== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
<br />
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
<br />
== Admin rights ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
<br />
== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Edit conflict ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
<br />
We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
<br />
Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
<br />
HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
<br />
== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== CSS, big problem ==<br />
<br />
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
<br />
== digihitch emails ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== Regina? ==<br />
<br />
Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
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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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: Maybe it will add back-links on next pass? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 13:44, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::::: Yes, you are right. The link is there now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:47, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: Will it run periodically or you'll run it manually? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 12:26, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
: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)<br />
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== Recent Changes ==<br />
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)<br />
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== Dump datasets ==<br />
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[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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=81970User talk:MrTweek2016-01-14T12:39:44Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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hey,<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
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== please add my blog! ==<br />
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hi! <br />
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http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== my msn ==<br />
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ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
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Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
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== Trampertreffen ==<br />
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hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Category:Germany ==<br />
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Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
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If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
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Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
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: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
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Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
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Regards,<br />
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Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
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: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
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As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
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Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
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Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
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--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
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I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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:)<br />
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== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
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When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
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I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
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This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
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I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
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If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
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Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
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==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
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Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
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== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
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<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
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:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
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::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
<br />
== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
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hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
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Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
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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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
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Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
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Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
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== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
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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)<br />
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now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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: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)<br />
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::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)<br />
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== New extension ==<br />
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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. <br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
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We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
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We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
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Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
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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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
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Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
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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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
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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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::: Will it run periodically or you'll run it manually? --[[User:Alexxy|alexy]] ([[User talk:Alexxy|talk]]) 12:26, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
: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)<br />
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== Recent Changes ==<br />
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)<br />
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== Dump datasets ==<br />
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[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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=81965User talk:MrTweek2016-01-14T05:20:45Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
<br />
Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
<br />
==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
<br />
== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Video extension ==<br />
<br />
Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
<br />
Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
<br />
:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
<br />
== please add my blog! ==<br />
<br />
hi! <br />
<br />
http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
<br />
==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
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I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
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:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
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::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
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Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
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Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
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Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
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hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
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cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
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Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
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<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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<br />
== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
<br />
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
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We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
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We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
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Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
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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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
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Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
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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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
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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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: Alive again :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
: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)<br />
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== Recent Changes ==<br />
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)<br />
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== Dump datasets ==<br />
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[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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Alexxy&diff=81964User talk:Alexxy2016-01-14T05:20:22Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>Hello, Alexxy! Welcome to Hitchwiki! Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/Alexxy|your contributions]]. You might find the following useful:<br />
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[[Hitchwiki:Why this wiki|Why this wiki]] - [[Hitchwiki:How we want to keep Hitchwiki|How we want to keep this wiki]] - [[Hitchwiki:Why we work on this wiki|Why we work on this wiki]] - [[project:How to participate|How to participate]] - [[Hitchwiki:Hitchwiki_needs_you|Hitchwiki needs you]] - [[Hitchwiki:Add a new page|Add a new page]] <!-- add more --><br />
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I hope you like it here and continue to contribute. If you have any questions, you can ask me on my talk page or ask at the [[Hitchwiki:Community Portal|community portal.]] And again, welcome!<br />
-- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 19:40, 8 December 2015 (CET)<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
Hi Alexy, I just revived Lanigiro. Let me know if you encounter any issues with it :)<br />
See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro en], [http://hitchwiki.org/ru/Служебная:Вклад/Lanigiro ru]<br />
-- [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 06:20, 14 January 2016 (CET)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=First_time_hitchhiking&diff=81963First time hitchhiking2016-01-14T05:16:19Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>[[File:Carl_Nai_Maroc.jpg|thumb|A sign and a ''hitchhiker'' look can help you a lot]]<br />
If you've never hitchhiked before, you have to get over your '''first time hitchhiking''' fear. Every hitchhiker went through this. The first time, standing on the side of the road, heart pounding.<br />
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'''To get over this, ''just do it!'''''<br />
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This is, of course, more easily said than done, but you can prepare yourself by [[maps|buying a map]], checking out the [[Top tips|Top Tips]], other pages on this wiki, and other [[multimedia|hitchhiking websites]],<br />
making sure you know what a good spot means, and that you know some good spots on the trip you're making and taking a look at your [[appearance]] to make sure you look like a hitchhiker.<br />
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First time hitchhiking doesn't necessarily mean a short trip -- but starting with a short trip might help you get used to the motions and what to expect. Take a day trip to the next town! This said, don't prepare too much. Decide where you're going, the best road to get there, walk a distance, and at a good spot face the traffic and stick up your thumb. You'll feel like the center of attention at first, but after a while you'll get used to it, and will become more concerned with trying to ''win a ride'' than your worries about what you're doing.<br />
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Sometimes it happens that you can wait for quite a long time, due to a variety of possible reasons: [[How to find a good spot|Is it a bad spot]]? Can cars stop easily there without blocking the traffic? Is it a holiday and all cars are filled up with families? The list of possible reasons is long, but to calm you down there's one universal rule for every hitchhiker out there:<br />
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'''Somewhere out there there is someone who will pick you up. Always!''' The only question is when this is going to happen, but as Einstein once said: '''Time is relative'''.<br />
[[File:Amylin-luoping-china-2.jpg|thumb|Hitchhiking in [[China]] is for the more advanced]] <br />
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== My first time Hitching == <br />
* [[User:Farshnuke|Farshnuke]]'s [[First time hitchhiking/Farshnuke]]<br />
* Zoe's [[First time hitchhiking/Zoe|First time Hitchhiking]] <br />
* [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]'s [[First time hitchhiking/Stories#Guaka]]<br />
* [[First time hitchhiking/Quarim]]<br />
* Pnadapand's [[First time hitchhiking/Pandapand|You Can Do It Too!]]<br />
* [[User:Brackers|Brackers]]'s [[First time hitchhiking/Brackers]]<br />
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== A Step-by-Step Approach ==<br />
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You want to try hitchhiking but never find the courage to do so? Here is an attempt at providing a step-by-step method to overcoming your fears and gaining enough self-confidence to adventure yourself out of your comfort zone.<br />
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== Mental preparation ==<br />
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# Have you ever hitchhiked at all? What experience do you have that resembles hitchhiking most?<br />
# If not, what prevented you from not doing it?<br />
# What makes you want to hitchhike?<br />
# How do you imagine you first hitchhiking day? What distance would it be? Between where and where? Where would you try to start from? Who would pick you up? Let your imagination run!<br />
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== Join (more or less) organized events ==<br />
It can be a good idea to participate in [[hitchhiking for charity|charity hitchhiking events]] or [[hitchhiking races]] - also on CouchSurfing you can often find people organizing bigger or smaller events where you can probably find a more experienced hitchhiker to hitchhike with. [[Hitchgathering]] is a great way to meet other more seasoned hitchhikers.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.christopherdrifter.com/books/Rules_of_Thumb Rules of Thumb: How to Hitch-Hike and Live on the Road]: a detailed guide aimed at less experienced hitch-hikers who want to hit the road for the first time<br />
* [http://danielsiegmund.nl/2011/07/hitchhiking-is-easy/ Hitchhiking is easy], a hitchhiking how-to<br />
* [http://www.ehow.com/how_4848627_hitchhike-effectively.html How To Hitchhike] a useful set of tips for first time hitchhikers at ehow.com<br />
* [[:moneyless:how-get-rid-your-car|How to get rid of your car]]<br />
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[[pt:Primeira vez]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Africa&diff=81919Africa2016-01-13T12:29:43Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>[[File:Train_ndb-choûm_(27).JPG|thumb|right|300px|The longest train in the world, in [[Mauritania]]]]<br />
Hitching for rides is common practice in '''Africa''', though you may be expected to pay the driver.<br />
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Road safety in Africa leaves a lot to be desired, and seatbelts are not always fitted. Being stranded in remote areas could be a problem. Speaking English and French is an advantage as well as Portuguese in some countries. However, learning the basic of African languages will make your trip much more pleasant. Some languages are understood in very large parts, such as [[Africa phrasebook#Wolof|Wolof]], Fulfulde and [[Africa phrasebook#Bambara|Bambara]] in [[Western Africa|West Africa]] or Swahili and Arabic in [[Eastern Africa]].<br />
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For Europeans and Americans visas in Africa are relatively hard compared to other continents. For most countries it's a good idea to plan ahead.<br />
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== [[Health]] ==<br />
Malaria is common in most parts of Africa. Inform yourself and take precautions. Some forms of malaria are particularly deadly. The fact that local populations don't take any malaria prophelactics should definitely not stop you from taking any: locals are much more resistant to malaria.<br />
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The [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm United Nations Statistics Division] defines Africa as following:<br />
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== [[Northern Africa]] ==<br />
* [[File:Flag of Algeria.svg|30px|border]] [[Algeria]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Egypt.svg|30px|border]] [[Egypt]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Libya.svg|30px|border]] [[Libya|Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Morocco.svg|30px|border]] [[Morocco]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of South Sudan.png|30px|border]] [[South Sudan]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Sudan.svg|30px|border]] [[Sudan]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Tunisia.svg|30px|border]] [[Tunisia]]<br />
* [[File:Flag_Western_Sahara.png|30px|border]] [[Western Sahara]]<br />
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== [[Eastern Africa]] ==<br />
<map lat='5.7908968128719565' lng='16.34765625' zoom='3' view='0' float='right' width='400' height='500'/><br />
* [[File:Flag of Burundi.svg|30px|border]] [[Burundi]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of the Comoros.svg|30px|border]] [[Comoros]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Djibouti.svg|30px|border]] [[Djibouti]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Eritrea.svg|30px|border]] [[Eritrea]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg|30px|border]] [[Ethiopia]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Kenya.svg|30px|border]] [[Kenya]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Madagascar.svg|30px|border]] [[Madagascar]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Malawi.svg|30px|border]] [[Malawi]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Mauritius.svg|30px|border]] [[Mauritius]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Mozambique.svg|30px|border]] [[Mozambique]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Rwanda.svg|30px|border]] [[Rwanda]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of the Seychelles.svg|30px|border]] [[Seychelles]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Somalia.svg|30px|border]] [[Somalia]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Uganda.svg|30px|border]] [[Uganda]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Tanzania.svg|30px|border]] [[Tanzania|United Republic of Tanzania]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Zambia.svg|30px|border]] [[Zambia]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg|30px|border]] [[Zimbabwe]]<br />
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== [[Central Africa]] ==<br />
* [[File:Flag of Angola.svg|30px|border]] [[Angola]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Cameroon.svg|30px|border]] [[Cameroon]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg|30px|border]] [[Central African Republic]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Chad.svg|30px|border]] [[Chad]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg|30px|border]] [[Republic of the Congo]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg|30px|border]] [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Equatorial Guinea.svg|30px|border]] [[Equatorial Guinea]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Gabon.svg|30px|border]] [[Gabon]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Sao Tome and Principe.svg|30px|border]] [[São Tomé and Príncipe|Sao Tome and Principe]]<br />
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== [[Southern Africa]] ==<br />
* [[File:Flag of Botswana.svg|30px|border]] [[Botswana]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Lesotho.svg|30px|border]] [[Lesotho]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Namibia.svg|30px|border]] [[Namibia]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of South Africa.svg|30px|border]] [[South Africa]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Swaziland.svg|30px|border]] [[Swaziland]]<br />
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== [[Western Africa]] ==<br />
* [[File:Flag of Benin.svg|30px|border]] [[Benin]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Burkina Faso.svg|30px|border]] [[Burkina Faso]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Cape Verde.svg|30px|border]] [[Cape Verde]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg|30px|border]] [[Côte d'Ivoire|Cote d'Ivoire]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of The Gambia.svg|30px|border]] [[The Gambia|Gambia]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Ghana.svg|30px|border]] [[Ghana]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Guinea.svg|30px|border]] [[Guinea]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Guinea-Bissau.svg|30px|border]] [[Guinea-Bissau]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Liberia.svg|30px|border]] [[Liberia]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Mali.svg|30px|border]] [[Mali]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Mauritania.svg|30px|border]] [[Mauritania]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Niger.svg|30px|border]] [[Niger]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Nigeria.svg|30px|border]] [[Nigeria]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Senegal.svg|30px|border]] [[Senegal]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg|30px|border]] [[Sierra Leone]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Togo.svg|30px|border]] [[Togo]]<br />
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=== Autonomic Islands or Regions ===<br />
* [[File:Flag of the Canary Islands.svg|30px|border]] [[Canary Islands]]<br />
* [[File:Flag Ceuta.svg|30px|border]] [[Ceuta]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Madeira.svg|30px|border]] [[Madeira Islands]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Mayotte (local).svg|30px|border]] [[Mayotte]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Melilla.svg|30px|border]] [[Melilla]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Somalia.svg|30px|border]] [[Puntland]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Reunion.png|30px|border]] [[Réunion]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Saint Helena.svg|30px|border]] [[Saint Helena]]<br />
* [[File:Flag of Somaliland.svg|30px|border]] [[Somaliland]]<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
* [http://artofbackpacking.com/how-to-survive-hitchhiking-in-africa/ How To Survive Hitchhiking In Africa]<br />
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[[visa:Africa]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=81760User talk:MrTweek2015-12-22T23:04:15Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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hey,<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
<br />
This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
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== please add my blog! ==<br />
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hi! <br />
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http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== my msn ==<br />
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ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
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Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
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== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
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If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
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: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
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Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
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Regards,<br />
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Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
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: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
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Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
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Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
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--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
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I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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:)<br />
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== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
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When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
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I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
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This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
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I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
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If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
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Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
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==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
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== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
<br />
:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
<br />
::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
<br />
:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
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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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
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Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
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Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
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== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
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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)<br />
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now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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: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)<br />
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::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)<br />
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== New extension ==<br />
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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. <br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
<br />
We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
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Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
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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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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== Hitchwiki maps bug ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=81753User talk:MrTweek2015-12-22T00:40:25Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
<br />
Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
<br />
:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
<br />
== please add my blog! ==<br />
<br />
hi! <br />
<br />
http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
<br />
==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
<br />
:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
<br />
::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
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I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
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Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
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* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
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I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
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OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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<br />
== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
<br />
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
<br />
== Admin rights ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
<br />
== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
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We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
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Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
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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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
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Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
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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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
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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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
P.S. <br />
Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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hey,<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
<br />
This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
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== please add my blog! ==<br />
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hi! <br />
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http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== my msn ==<br />
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ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
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Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
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== Trampertreffen ==<br />
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hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
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If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
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: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
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Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
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Regards,<br />
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Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
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: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
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Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
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Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
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--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
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==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
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<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
<br />
:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
<br />
::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
<br />
== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
<br />
== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
<br />
== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
:: 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)<br />
<br />
== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
<br />
:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
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Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
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I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
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<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
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try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
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Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
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OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
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hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
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Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
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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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
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Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
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Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
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== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
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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)<br />
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now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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: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)<br />
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::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)<br />
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== New extension ==<br />
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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. <br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
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We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
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We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
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Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
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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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
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Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
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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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
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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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
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If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
:: Why doesn't he talk about this first?<br />
::: I don't know --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 00:33, 22 December 2015 (CET)<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
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?<br />
: 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. <br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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</pre></div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=81748User talk:MrTweek2015-12-21T21:46:31Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
<br />
Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
<br />
==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
<br />
== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Video extension ==<br />
<br />
Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
<br />
Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
<br />
:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
<br />
== please add my blog! ==<br />
<br />
hi! <br />
<br />
http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
<br />
==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
<br />
:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
<br />
::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
:: 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)<br />
<br />
== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
<br />
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
<br />
== Admin rights ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
<br />
== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Edit conflict ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
<br />
We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
<br />
Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
<br />
HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
<br />
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
<br />
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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
<br />
Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
<br />
A real user? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== The ugly as fuck hitchwiki skin and other problems ==<br />
<br />
If hitchwiki is owned by a community, why does Mikael get free reign in changing it?<br />
: Because he is the only one who does it.<br />
Flags and other images pulled from Mediawiki Commons still don't display (other than 30px etc),<br />
: True, didn't notice that. Will try fixing this later today.<br />
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?<br />
: 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.<br />
And have you seen the new users registering? Obviously the anti-bot measures are totally broken at the moment!<br />
: Yeah, must have broken from the update. I disabled registrations for now until I find out what went wrong.<br />
--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 22:46, 21 December 2015 (CET)<br />
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<div>== Test ==<br />
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Honeypots.2C_DNS_BL.27s_and_HTTP_BL.27s testing sorbs] spam blacklist<br />
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[http://guaka.org/ oops]<br />
|BW = DE/Hamburg/Hamburg<br />
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test<br />
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== ratings ==<br />
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* Germany: <rating country='de' /><br />
* France: <rating country='fr' /><br />
* Netherlands: <rating country='nl' /><br />
* Poland: <rating country='pl' /><br />
* Belgium: <rating country='be' /><br />
* Spain: <rating country='es' /><br />
* Denmark: <rating country='dk' /><br />
* Sweden: <rating country='se' /><br />
* USA: <rating country='us' /><br />
* UK: <rating country='uk' /><br />
* Russia: <rating country='ru' /><br />
* Ireland: <rating country='ie' /><br />
* Finland: <rating country='fi' /><br />
* Lithuania: <rating country='lt' /><br />
* Switzerland: <rating country='ch' /><br />
* Chile: <rating country='cl' /><br />
* Croatia: <rating country='hr' /><br />
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== rubbish ==<br />
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<categorytree /><br />
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<br />
<sharethis /><br />
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[[trash:sandbox]]<br />
<br />
[[maps:test|blabla]]<br />
<br />
Here you can practice [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki wiki] ''syntax''.<br />
<br />
Try addings links, like [[Germany]], [[Warsaw]], or playing with lists:<br />
* [[Moscow]]<br />
* [[Kiev]]<br />
* [[New York]]<br />
* [[Paris]]<br />
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* [[wikitravel:Testing]]<br />
* [[:wikitravel:Testing]]<br />
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==ogv video tag==<br />
not working now, maybe later: [[File:Ile-de-France - Tramway - T2 - Citadis.ogv|thumb|right|300px|Tram in Paris]]<br />
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==RandomImage==<br />
<randomimage /><br />
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[[digi:wiki/|digihitch wiki?]]<br />
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==RSS feeds==<br />
<rss>http://hitchwiki.org/forum/?q=rss.xml|template=Template:sandbox/Hitchwiki Forum RSS</rss><br />
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{{user}}<br />
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captcha test<br />
www.hans.de<br />
<a href='http://www.blubb.de/'>asfd</a><br />
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Just testing [[User:TeamMG|TeamMG]] 11:54, 19 October 2007 (CEST)<br />
* [[nice]]<br />
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==IPv6==<br />
...seems to work now<br />
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<table border='1'><br />
<tr><br />
<td valign='top'>{{Phrasebook/French}}</td><br />
<td valign='top'>{{Phrasebook/German}}</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
That way, we can combine any languages to generate phrasebooks. However it's very important to keep all phrasebook synchronous.<br />
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== OpenStreetMap ==<br />
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<osm lat='49' lng='8.41' zoom='12' width='400' height='300' layer='mapnik' /><br />
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{{Sandbox|param=lalala}}<br />
: Does anyone know how to include a template when there are values added only? I would need this for a template in a template...<br />
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== Travelmap ==<br />
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<travelmap countries='de,fr,es,au,jp,ru' width='500px' /><br />
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== Live from the road ==<br />
<rss>http://yoshi.mega2000.de/~philipp/smsblog/rss.php|template=RSS</rss><br />
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== Mittrampzentrale ==<br />
<rss>http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/taxonomy/term/69/feed|template=RSS</rss><br />
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<sharethis /><br />
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===Test map===<br />
<travelmap countries="af,bi,cf,td,cd,er,et,gn,lr,mm,np,rw,sl,so,ug,ye" c2="ao,ci,ge,in,id,iq,ng,pk,ps,ph,lk,sd,th,tl" width="1000" description='Low income conflict-effected states' /><br />
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[[Category:Hitchwiki]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=81745User talk:MrTweek2015-12-21T04:02:56Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
P.S. <br />
Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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hey,<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
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== please add my blog! ==<br />
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hi! <br />
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http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
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==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
<br />
:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
<br />
::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
<br />
== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
<br />
== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
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* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
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Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
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Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
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try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
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OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
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== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
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== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
<br />
We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
<br />
Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
<br />
HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
<br />
== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== CSS, big problem ==<br />
<br />
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
<br />
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)<br />
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<br />
== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
<br />
== digihitch emails ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
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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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Is Lanigiro alive? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Hitchhiking_Records&diff=80849Talk:Hitchhiking Records2015-09-24T13:59:56Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Things to do/discuss ==<br />
*Take out Roberts record in the bottom, as it is twice in the article.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 18:55, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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*I think every "route-bound" record should be taken out of the page. It can not be an argument, that something "was" in the Guiness Book and should be put into it, just because of this fact (what do they know about hitchhiking). Through the edit and adding of the new records, the page got a new face and a new dramaturgy, which should be acknowledged. Most of the records contain very well known community members and the achievements are highly recognized (at leats within the eastern scene).<br />
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It should be the aim of this page, to keep it not being flooded with records. For this reason i would exclude every record, which is bound to a specific route, because you can just put '''any''' route in it. But it is not the purpose of this article. This is a easy but consequent rule for the general quality of the article. We victimize something through it. But as a solution, we can have another Wiki page about the Guiness book, or about famous routes hitched in a certain amount of time, which we refer in this post in the link section too.<br />
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Of course: At the same time not take everything too serious. The records are built on trust in peoples words. This page is also alot about fun. Fun to read it. Nevertheless, to all further edits, pls keep an eye on it and be sensible, that the page is not turning into ridiculousness. I just want to safe a certain standart of information here.<br />
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Also (for trying to set continuative benchmarks) There should be a certain amount of performance included in the achievement, or just the extraordinary portion of luck (or both) to make a record show up on this page.<br />
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Anyway, the world will still go on turning, whatever happens with this page.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 18:55, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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: The whole page also would benefit from uniforming the layout. This includes restructuring the text in so much that in half of the records the record itself is mentioned first in order of performance, while other records mention first the name or names of the people who set that record. This structuring is in my perception not logical. I believe that this structure already existed in the article on its previous location (VHHC? PASL?). Furthermore, the records have to be re-ordered, as some are more important that others. Perhaps we could sort the records in categories like 1) lifetime achievements 2) full year achievements 3) full trip/journey achievements 4) 24 hour achievements 5) other achievements. <br />
: If nobody else volunteers, I would perform this task. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 19:28, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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: What does the Guinness Book know about hitch-hiking? Well, not that much of course, since they do not keep records about it (anymore) ;) However, in general I would believe that Guinness Book is an authority when it comes to selecting and registering records and in verifying record entries. To me, this still shows from the "old" data on Hitchwiki, like the gradual improvement of John O Goats to Land's End record over the years. Guinness seems to be just really good at registering such records and it would be hoped for, and an honor for the sport, if hitch-hiking would be included again in their registry. As for this page, I do not know what feels better to me yet: to split it up in two, or to keep it in one. The route suggestions are not relevant to me. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 19:28, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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"like the gradual improvement" <br />
:Definitely a nice effect. But not relevant in this page. Maybe easier to take it out then. --[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 19:42, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:I restructured the records already a bit and tried to cluster within "topics". I would not go the path of relevance as it is very subjective thing. And the general idea that "this record is more important than another one" seems to point in a direction of (de)preciating records and might set a negativ discussion culture.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 19:42, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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Your words. But often it comes just down to doing it. No discussion is most efficicent and it excludes a negatively biased discussion too ;) --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 19:57, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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== Irrelevant part of World Record ==<br />
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''The last three rides they caught with another competitor that they met along the way.'' does is not relevant for the biggest number of rides in 24h record. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:07, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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Was a more entertaining fact. Take it out, if you want. --[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 17:01, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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: I have felt as free to already have done that yesterday, when I also added the new records ''Fastest round the world hitchhike trip'' (Alexej Vorov), ''Highest number of countries within 10 days'' (Miran Ipavec) and ''Longest "driving the driver" ride'' (Frank Verhart). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 19:15, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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== Adding records discussion on Hitchwiki' FB page ==<br />
no need to have a "--> ... opinion (add yours): "-tag under each discussion. Just blows the whole talk page nedlessly up. --[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 19:01, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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: "needlessly" in as far as proper English and spelling checking is concerned. ;-) --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 19:04, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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Hitchwiki (Mikael Korpela) posted the link to this record page in the Facebook Hitchwiki page and added the question: any records to add? <br />
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This post yielded the following answers, of which we (or actually, who should?) evaluate whether they are worth to be included and of a reliable source.<br />
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First, matters that may be relevant. <br />
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- Miran Ipavec, for crossing the biggest number of European countries in Europe, 30 (+ Kosovo) within 10 days.<br />
Submitted by Frank Verhart and Prino, see below <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: include in the record list<br />
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: This is very worthy of inclusion!<br />
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- Alexey Vorov, for fastest around the world hitch, 20 days. <br />
Submitted by Frank Verhart <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: include in the record list<br />
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Abso-flucking-lutely! <br />
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- biggest number of rides in 24hrs, Jake de Vries claimed 11 rides, which was answered by Koen and Stefan 32 rides<br />
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--> Frank's opinion: include in the record list, at the same time this record is very, very easy to break. <br />
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Utter bollocks. My lifetime average stands at 5.4 rides per day, and I absolutely hate days with 7,8, 9 or more rides! What's the flipping use of having to wait 31 times between rides?<br />
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- biggest number of grouped up hitch-hikers that got a ride. Guillaume claimed 6, Tom Moon claimed 7, but then Jimmy Comamala mentioned that they got a ride from an empty coach when their coach broke down, 52 people. <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: we cannot include the 52 people claim before we have a discussing weather a train full of refugees, who do not have to pay for their transportation - humanitarian help - may be considered hitch-hiking. The harsh it is for these people, such transportation meets some of the key hitch-hiking criteria: getting a ride without paying for it and by asking for it from otherwise strangers. <br />
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Once was part of a group of 12 people that got a ride in an empty bus. The 52 people claim is iffy, and as for refugees juming on trains? Please pass me a bucket, that has '''nothing''' to do with hitchhiking, even though it might share some of the characteristics!<br />
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- biggest distance "driving your driver" by Frank Verhart. The longest distance I drove in the car of a driver was 781 km, from service station Gralla on the A9 near Graz to service station Medenbach Ost on the A3 near Frankfurt/M. Total distance that I've driven drivers is 1382 kms during four rides. <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: sure it ain't a world record c'mon - at the same time if nobody claims more - then why not. I think that driving the driver is some kind of achievement ;). <br />
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: I think it might warrant inclusion as it's relatively rare. <br />
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: Robert. I noticed that your fastest in your carreer ride (congrats!) happened at the same time as my "driving your driver" 781 km =D. Quite a little coincidence! I've already included my 781 km in the list. Would you recommend me to contact our colleagues in Lithuania and Russia to see if they know anyone who "drove his driver" over a longer distance. As stated before, I'm very sure others have "driven their drivers" over a longer distance than me. But as long as nobody claims... it would be at least fair to verify this with LT and RU. What is your thought on that. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 23:48, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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: Stefan, have you heard of anyone who drove his driver more than me? Kasper told me to ask you and Vladas about it, so here I am. Kasper by the way drove his driver once for about 600 kms (Nancy-Avignon). I wouldn't mind inclusion of this effort of course :) --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 23:50, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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- Hitchwiki, for being the biggest hitchhiking website<br />
Submitted by Kasper Souren <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: funny but irrelevant "record"<br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Sigh...<br />
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- Tom Moon for hitchhiking lap record for the Circuit de Monaco,<br />
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--> Frank's opinion: funny, but relevance is sufficient? <br />
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Definitely, and although [[Singapore]] springs to mind, I'm not sure how many others could be included.<br />
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--> [[User:Fverhart|Frank]]'s opinion: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_Spa-Francorchamps Spa-Francorchamps] - and many others? <br />
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Spa is no longer a public road!<br />
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Finally, some claims that are clearly not relevant (not all included here)<br />
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- Jan Geleijns for biggest hitch-hiking distance within the Netherlands: 175.000 km (very, very rough estimation) in 25 years time, submitted by Frank Verhart...<br />
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--> Frank's opinion: irrelevant for the list<br />
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: I think having records per country could be quite interesting.<br />
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- Highest average ride speed in Poland: 177.8 kmh. By Frank Verhart <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: irrelevant for the list. However, I've posted this fact in a Polish hitch-hikers FB Group "Autostopowicze czyli MY" which had about 15-20 answers from others who had fast rides in PL. The topic has been removed by the admins though. Many hitchers have had fast rides, but very few accurately register their rides, judging from the answers, so that very few reliable claims for average speed are made. Most of the hitch-hikers probably estimated the average by the occasional look at the average speed. Some mentioned highest driving speeds of up to 270-280 kmh, which nobody surpassed, so that highest speeds listed on our World Record page stand out compared to these experiences in Poland. As for the claimed averages, they went up to 200-220 kmh, often from or to the borders. It's unclear if these were full rides or high speed sections of rides (which means, that the ride average is (a lot?) lower --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:07, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Again, the inclusion of tabulated country-specific records would be very interesting.<br />
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- Anja Velika: I know a girl who hitched a ride with another friend, two bikes, two bike trailers and two dogs<br />
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--> Frank's opinion: randomness, not a record<br />
--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Tony Hawks hitched with a fridge... A Dutch guy with a caravan. [[Ken Welsh]] had an entry in "Hitchhikers Guide to Europe" for "Weirdest ride"...<br />
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--[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:07, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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== What to put into the article and what not ==<br />
==To Robert and rest==<br />
--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 18:28, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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You had two chances to bring up some arguments and start a discussion. Still i am looking for any answer to my question, why you just copy paste the old article under the new one? Why you put your record twice into it, if it is already included? What is your intention with your rude behaviour? Why do we need every entry from the Land´s End record? No reaction.<br />
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Or let´s say it the other way around. I was more interested in the question: Do you want to contribute something to this process? Or is it just a wounded pride show, cause someone whipped off your unfinished article. I didn´t know it was yours (neither i care), so don´t take it personal. The article had an introduction note, that it was unfinished. Nevermind. It was just a bad article. Vladas gave me all those old records, made by very well-known community members and asked me to include them. So i did. Already alot of people helped to correct things and make it even better. You just invested time to insult me and bringing up super arrogant behaviour. Not worth to deal with, because (as i already said) it does not have the intention to lead anywhere but depreciate me.<br />
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And to make this clear. It took me some time to make this article. It took me some time to get all the infos. I come here only with the intention to make this article better and i have to deal with this childish bullshit. Not a nice feeling. Not fun at all. You poisoned the whole discussion without contributing anything. Congratz.<br />
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If this is the way you do collaborative work in a Wikipedia, you should really rethink your own role here. Nitpicking on time and spelling. Doing (obviously) useless edits. Aggressively insulting me. Not even having the manners to excuse yourself for false statements and neither stopping your passiv aggressiv behaviour. Honestly, nobody wants this and your infantil reaction is not at all legitimated for an edit, even IF i "carelessly wiped off" anything. If you never learned to behave in the Internet, mabe now is the time. (btw. there is a wrong spelling in the "mabe". I saw that. I could correct it. But i just don´t care. Humans make mistakes. Get over it.)<br />
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Conclusion:<br />
I am not here to be the dustbin for you whatever-frustration. I am not here to deal with any personal stuff. I want to create content. I see that this discussion is more going about speeling, disrespectful nonsense and the minor details about the record which has my name on it, then it goes about the things we have to discuss. You pushed me to do this statement, which is kinda embarassing in itself, that we are at this point. I tried to started this in a calm and respectful mood. Not succeeded. So: I will not take part in editing this page further.<br />
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PS.: And it would be really pleasing, if you guys would stop ripping apart posts. Nobody can follow, especially if you comment without putting your signature in. Just write a block and quote in your own posting, this is much easier to read.<br />
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Hi Robert, before i answer i would ask you to participate in a constructive discussion here. Insultings and overreaction will lead nowhere. I try to react on your posting in a respectable way and i also ask you to show a bit more respect in this further discussion. Thanks.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:30, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:If you can use proper English, every browser has a spelling checker nowadays, I might. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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Hey, <br />
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I put the Guiness Book Part out, because compared to the amount of information in the other headlines, this seems to be a bit too much and too boring (to be honest). <br />
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: ''It is also the source of the only authenticated records!''<br />
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Also the "Suggestions" are a bit useless. I vote to exclude this. <br />
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: ''You can vote what you want, getting 32 rides on a day is something only an (censored) would consider an achievement...''<br />
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The "Most rides in one day" came up in a Facebook discussion. Not by me. Is there anything you have to say to my vote, except "You can vote what you want"? I will be glad to hear your opinion.<br />
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32 rides in one day are actually quite much and an reasonable achievement.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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: The record 32 is very easy to break, you only have to hit the road for 24hrs with the purpose of doing it, and I expect that it can be done in just a few hours if you just pick the right spot and hitch back and forth every time 1 km (e.g. between traffic lights or busstops). I don't mind it's inclusion that much. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:23, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:: It is not the sense of a record to just hitch back and forth to break it. I think this is very silly discussion. I wonder what your purpose for this is. Also i am suprised, why you depreciate this so vehement. Even two times in this discussion. It is neither polite, nor does it make any sense. You could also say "Lowest temperature is very easy to beat, you just have to go to Russia, wait for the coldest winter and then catch a ride". You can also beat the last record and just give some random hitchhiker 300€. --[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 19:45, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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::: The lowest and highest temperatures encountered while hitchhiking and the money given to a hitchhiker are three records that have absolutely nothing to do with hitchhiking. I do not know why they were ever added to the VAK page, and neither do I feel any sympathy for Ken Welsh "Slowest ride between two points", when no sane hitchhiker would ever spend 4:30 on a milkfloat to cover a distance they could have covered on foot in 30 minutes. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 22:35, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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::: It makes a lot of sense to try to break a hitch-hiking records. What is a record if there is no sense of "improving" it? And breaking the 32 rides is actually a lot easier for me than going to Russia in the freaking cold as I have truly no wish to do so, as it will cost me a month and I would have to buy visa which I by principle do not want. Giving 300+ euro to a hitch-hiker is not an option for me as well, unless you give me that money, then we can think of an agreement. So, hitting the road for 33+ rides is for me first choice, to which my main objectives are 1) I do not feel like it and 2) it would not be good for my ride length averages. That means, one competitor less and your record still stands ;). Congratulations! PS. Try to beat mine (which I've already included): longest "driving your driver" ride 781 km. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 23:28, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:::: You dont get the point. Maybe it is just a complete different culture, of people who do their hitchhiking and make a record and people who hitchhike TO make a record. Most of the above achievements are in the first category for sure. And it is much more legit and charming than going out to hunt for a record. I will not go out to "beat" any record (also not yours). Allthough my actual route is going to be longer than the Autocolombus Expedition of Alexej and i want to get through 100.000 km and will be in the "Longest Expedition" Category next year. But this is not the purpose of what i do (but the cherry on top). This is an important difference. Cheers. --[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 04:30, 23 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:: You can do all that, if you are a fame-bitch and have the really deep need, to get on this list. There is a lot more in this article which could be stated, regarding to the things you looked at (f.e. about useless informations). [[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 19:45, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:I am not a member of $uckerberg's Cesspit/Faecesbucket, and such idiot discussions show that I'm right. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:: It means Zuckerberg and Facebook. I think we all agreed to use proper english language here and not infantil internet slang. --[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 18:28, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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::: No it means $uckerberg and Feacesbook. All this person is after is getting as much info about you as possible to sell it to the highest bidder. Read [http://townhall.com/columnists/christinerousselle/2015/01/31/social-media-is-making-us-antisocial-n1950924/page/full Social Media is Making Us Anti-Social]. Ditto with what once was a nice community, C$, until its founder smelled even more money than he already got through the fake "verification" scam, and sold out, read [http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/a-criticism-of-couchsurfing-and-review-of-alternatives/ A criticism of CouchSurfing and review of alternatives]. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 22:35, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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Honestly, nobody cares. Was that all nonsense you got to say after all this? Very disappointing. Please don´t show your face again, when i am working on an article. I am out of this now. --[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 04:30, 23 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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"Further reference" makes sense to me in this article and can stay.<br />
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Maybe the "Guinness Book of Records Hitchhiking" fit more into another article about the History of Hitchhiking within the Guinness Book.<br />
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: ''No, they are records, no need to create more pages.'' <br />
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Actually listing all the times from each year is not a record at all. Furthermore I still dont think anyone is interested in it. If you want to keep it, then keep the actual record time. But for a general overview in this article, I would exclude all records that are regarding to a specific route, just because it is getting too much and you can theoretically put and route in it, you want.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:: Yes, you can put any route in it, and just like with Wikipedia, irrelevant data would be removed again. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 22:35, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:: The GBOR hitchhiking records were top of the pops in the pre-internet times, times when hitch-hiking was a tad less of a society-marginal activity and hence these records deserve a lot of respect. Land's End to John O Goats was then true such thing that hitch-hikers would like to beat in order to be recorded in the new edition of the GBOR. If we every would like to see hitch-hiking records come back to the GBOR, I think we should at least keep them in here! --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:23, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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The 24 hour entry of you Robert is included in the new list. No need to have it twice in the article. I furthermore don´t see a point to just copy paste the old article under the new one. Maybe you want to explain your intention with this edit. :)<br />
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: ''It was a nice article about records, until someone decided to act first and talk later - FWIW, there is a "Preview" button, no need to make umpteen changes of a single line!''<br />
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The article was unfinished, as the introduction stated it. I added all record from the VHHC Club. Beside bitching around without giving any argument it would be nice if you could explain yourself without being so rude. Thanks. I gave your the opportunity for it and i just wanted to understand your behaviour. And again i ask you, why there is a need to put your record under the list, if it is already included? --[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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I will stop editing, before we worked something out here.<br />
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: ''Very good, then I can also try to put Miran Ipavec's records back, which you also carelessly wiped off the page!''<br />
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Mirans record was not on the page, Before you put those lies in the world, please have a look at the changes. Thanks.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:: You are right about that, I only put it in the news section, and forgot to later add it to the records page. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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: And finally, only ass-backward Britsh and Americans use am and pm times, the rest of the world is quite happy with 24 hour times!<br />
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::Prino, we're all volunteering here and putting our spare time in here. Please be polite, no-one wants to see behaviour like this publicly at a volunteering project. It just puts people off from editing content. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 09:33, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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::: I know, but that's not a reason to not use internationally accepted date and time formats, or proper English! Every flipping browser has spell-check dictionaries in every language (except of course stuff from Redmond), so it's very easy to use them. Dittor with another of my pet peeves, gas versus petrol: in Europe we use petrol and get it in petrol stations, in the US they use gas and get it in gas stations! [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
<br />
:::: He didn't say you are not right. He asked you to stop being rude and offensive as soon as you disagree with anything. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 04:47, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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== No Headline ==<br />
World Records related to hitchhiking has been removed from Guinness book years ago. Why shouldn't we start a new list? What do you think? How can somebody prove a world record? Any ideas? --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 07:31, 21 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
:We could allow people to claim a record, until someone else overrides it? Persons should be in our trust-networks for matter of knowing it is true or not. --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 14:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Proving records... ==<br />
<br />
... is virtually impossible and that's why (or so I guess) the Guinness Book of Records has stopped accepting them. I asked the four drivers who helped me cover the 2,318.4 km for their names and addresses, but Guinness initially wasn't interested. It was only because I'd been in touch with [[Ken Welsh]] a couple of years earlier, to point out that someone had plagiarized his "Hitch-Hikers Guide to Europe" that they relented.<br />
<br />
If we're going to set up a records page, it will depend on honesty and we should only accept claims from people who actually keep some kind of logs. My € 0.02... --[[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:13, 21 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== North Cape to Gibraltar ==<br />
<br />
That one seems a little odd - is it in hitchhiker's popular culture, or why is it there instead of maybe North Cape to the Algarve or to Sicily or to the Bosporus?--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 18:50, 1 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
:It is very odd indeed, [[Faro]] to [[Riga]] had a race, so that would be a more worthy inclusion... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Hitchhiking_Records&diff=80796Talk:Hitchhiking Records2015-09-22T02:47:11Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Irrelevant part of World Record ==<br />
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''The last three rides they caught with another competitor that they met along the way.'' does is not relevant for the biggest number of rides in 24h record. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:07, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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== Adding records discussion on Hitchwiki' FB page ==<br />
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Hitchwiki (Mikael Korpela) posted the link to this record page in the Facebook Hitchwiki page and added the question: any records to add? <br />
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This post yielded the following answers, of which we (or actually, who should?) evaluate whether they are worth to be included and of a reliable source.<br />
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First, matters that may be relevant. <br />
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- Miran Ipavec, for crossing the biggest number of European countries in Europe, 30 (+ Kosovo) within 10 days.<br />
Submitted by Frank Verhart and Prino, see below <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: include in the record list<br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: This is very worthy of inclusion!<br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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- Alexey Vorov, for fastest around the world hitch, 20 days. <br />
Submitted by Frank Verhart <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: include in the record list<br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Abso-flucking-lutely! <br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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- biggest number of rides in 24hrs, Jake de Vries claimed 11 rides, which was answered by Koen and Stefan 32 rides<br />
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--> Frank's opinion: include in the record list, at the same time this record is very, very easy to break. <br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Utter bollocks. My lifetime average stands at 5.4 rides per day, and I absolutely hate days with 7,8, 9 or more rides! What's the flipping use of having to wait 31 times between rides?<br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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- biggest number of grouped up hitch-hikers that got a ride. Guillaume claimed 6, Tom Moon claimed 7, but then Jimmy Comamala mentioned that they got a ride from an empty coach when their coach broke down, 52 people. <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: we cannot include the 52 people claim before we have a discussing weather a train full of refugees, who do not have to pay for their transportation - humanitarian help - may be considered hitch-hiking. The harsh it is for these people, such transportation meets some of the key hitch-hiking criteria: getting a ride without paying for it and by asking for it from otherwise strangers. <br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Once was part of a group of 12 people that got a ride in an empty bus. The 52 people claim is iffy, and as for refugees juming on trains? Please pass me a bucket, that has '''nothing''' to do with hitchhiking, even though it might share some of the characteristics!<br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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- biggest distance "driving your driver" by Frank Verhart. The longest distance I drove in the car of a driver was 781 km, from service station Gralla on the A9 near Graz to service station Medenbach Ost on the A3 near Frankfurt/M. Total distance that I've driven drivers is 1382 kms during four rides. <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: sure it ain't a world record c'mon - at the same time if nobody claims more - then why not. I think that driving the driver is some kind of achievement ;). <br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: I think it might warrant inclusion as it's relatively rare. <br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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- Hitchwiki, for being the biggest hitchhiking website<br />
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Submitted by Kasper Souren <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: funny but irrelevant "record"<br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Sigh...<br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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- Tom Moon for hitchhiking lap record for the Circuit de Monaco,<br />
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--> Frank's opinion: funny, but relevance is sufficient? <br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Definitely, and although [[Singapore]] springs to mind, I'm not sure how many others could be included.<br />
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--> [[User:Fverhart|Frank]]'s opinion: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_Spa-Francorchamps Spa-Francorchamps] - and many others? <br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Spa is no longer a public road!<br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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--> ... opinion (add yours): <br />
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Finally, some claims that are clearly not relevant (not all included here)<br />
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- Jan Geleijns for biggest hitch-hiking distance within the Netherlands: 175.000 km (very, very rough estimation) in 25 years time, submitted by Frank Verhart...<br />
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--> Frank's opinion: irrelevant for the list<br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: I think having records per country could be quite interesting.<br />
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- Highest average ride speed in Poland: 177.8 kmh. By Frank Verhart <br />
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--> Frank's opinion: irrelevant for the list. However, I've posted this fact in a Polish hitch-hikers FB Group "Autostopowicze czyli MY" which had about 15-20 answers from others who had fast rides in PL. The topic has been removed by the admins though. Many hitchers have had fast rides, but very few accurately register their rides, judging from the answers, so that very few reliable claims for average speed are made. Most of the hitch-hikers probably estimated the average by the occasional look at the average speed. Some mentioned highest driving speeds of up to 270-280 kmh, which nobody surpassed, so that highest speeds listed on our World Record page stand out compared to these experiences in Poland. As for the claimed averages, they went up to 200-220 kmh, often from or to the borders. It's unclear if these were full rides or high speed sections of rides (which means, that the ride average is (a lot?) lower --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:07, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Again, the inclusion of tabulated country-specific records would be very interesting.<br />
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- Anja Velika: I know a girl who hitched a ride with another friend, two bikes, two bike trailers and two dogs<br />
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--> Frank's opinion: randomness, not a record<br />
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--> [[User:Prino|Prino]]'s opinion: Tony Hawks hitched with a fridge... A Dutch guy with a caravan. [[Ken Welsh]] had an entry in "Hitchhikers Guide to Europe" for "Weirdest ride"...<br />
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--[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:07, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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== What to put into the article and what not ==<br />
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Hi Robert, before i answer i would ask you to participate in a constructive discussion here. Insultings and overreaction will lead nowhere. I try to react on your posting in a respectable way and i also ask you to show a bit more respect in this further discussion. Thanks.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:30, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
:If you can use proper English, every browser has a spelling checker nowadays, I might. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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Hey, <br />
<br />
I put the Guiness Book Part out, because compared to the amount of information in the other headlines, this seems to be a bit too much and too boring (to be honest). <br />
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: ''It is also the source of the only authenticated records!''<br />
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Also the "Suggestions" are a bit useless. I vote to exclude this. <br />
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: ''You can vote what you want, getting 32 rides on a day is something only an (censored) would consider an achievement...''<br />
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The "Most rides in one day" came up in a Facebook discussion. Not by me. Is there anything you have to say to my vote, except "You can vote what you want"? I will be glad to hear your opinion.<br />
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32 rides in one day are actually quite much and an reasonable achievement.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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: The record 32 is very easy to break, you only have to hit the road for 24hrs with the purpose of doing it, and I expect that it can be done in just a few hours if you just pick the right spot and hitch back and forth every time 1 km (e.g. between traffic lights or busstops). I don't mind it's inclusion that much. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:23, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:I am not a member of $uckerberg's Cesspit/Faecesbucket, and such idiot discussions show that I'm right. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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"Further reference" makes sense to me in this article and can stay.<br />
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Maybe the "Guiness Book of Records Hitchhiking" fit more into another article about the History of Hitchhiking within the Guiness Book.<br />
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: ''No, they are records, no need to create more pages.'' <br />
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Actually listing all the times from each year is not a record at all. Furthermore i still dont think anyone is interested in it. If you want to keep it, then keep the actual record time. But for a general overview in this article, i would exclude all records that are regarding to a specific route, just because it is getting too much and you can theoretically put and route in it, you want.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:: The GBOR hitchhiking records were top of the pops in the pre-internet times, times when hitch-hiking was a tad less of a society-marginal activity and hence these records deserve a lot of respect. Land's End to John O Goats was then true such thing that hitch-hikers would like to beat in order to be recorded in the new edition of the GBOR. If we every would like to see hitch-hiking records come back to the GBOR, I think we should at least keep them in here! --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 10:23, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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The 24 hour entry of you Robert is included in the new list. No need to have it twice in the article. I furthermore don´t see a point to just copy paste the old article under the new one. Maybe you want to explain your intention with this edit. :)<br />
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: ''It was a nice article about records, until someone decided to act first and talk later - FWIW, there is a "Preview" button, no need to make umpteen changes of a single line!''<br />
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The article was unfinished, as the introduction stated it. I added all record from the VHHC Club. Beside bitching around without giving any argument it would be nice if you could explain yourself without being so rude. Thanks. I gave your the opportunity for it and i just wanted to understand your behaviour. And again i ask you, why there is a need to put your record under the list, if it is already included? --[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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I will stop editing, before we worked something out here.<br />
<br />
: ''Very good, then I can also try to put Miran Ipavec's records back, which you also carelessly wiped off the page!''<br />
<br />
Mirans record was not on the page, Before you put those lies in the world, please have a look at the changes. Thanks.--[[User:Korn|Korn]] ([[User talk:Korn|talk]]) 05:29, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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:: You are right about that, I only put it in the news section, and forgot to later add it to the records page. [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: And finally, only ass-backward Britsh and Americans use am and pm times, the rest of the world is quite happy with 24 hour times!<br />
<br />
::Prino, we're all volunteering here and putting our spare time in here. Please be polite, no-one wants to see behaviour like this publicly at a volunteering project. It just puts people off from editing content. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] ([[User talk:Mikael|talk]]) 09:33, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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::: I know, but that's not a reason to not use internationally accepted date and time formats, or proper English! Every flipping browser has spell-check dictionaries in every language (except of course stuff from Redmond), so it's very easy to use them. Dittor with another of my pet peeves, gas versus petrol: in Europe we use petrol and get it in petrol stations, in the US they use gas and get it in gas stations! [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 19:46, 21 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
:::: He didn't say you are not right. He asked you to stop being rude and offensive as soon as you disagree with anything. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 04:47, 22 September 2015 (CEST)<br />
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== No Headline ==<br />
World Records related to hitchhiking has been removed from Guinness book years ago. Why shouldn't we start a new list? What do you think? How can somebody prove a world record? Any ideas? --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 07:31, 21 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
:We could allow people to claim a record, until someone else overrides it? Persons should be in our trust-networks for matter of knowing it is true or not. --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 14:00, 21 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Proving records... ==<br />
<br />
... is virtually impossible and that's why (or so I guess) the Guinness Book of Records has stopped accepting them. I asked the four drivers who helped me cover the 2,318.4 km for their names and addresses, but Guinness initially wasn't interested. It was only because I'd been in touch with [[Ken Welsh]] a couple of years earlier, to point out that someone had plagiarized his "Hitch-Hikers Guide to Europe" that they relented.<br />
<br />
If we're going to set up a records page, it will depend on honesty and we should only accept claims from people who actually keep some kind of logs. My € 0.02... --[[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:13, 21 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== North Cape to Gibraltar ==<br />
<br />
That one seems a little odd - is it in hitchhiker's popular culture, or why is it there instead of maybe North Cape to the Algarve or to Sicily or to the Bosporus?--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 18:50, 1 August 2010 (UTC)<br />
:It is very odd indeed, [[Faro]] to [[Riga]] had a race, so that would be a more worthy inclusion... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Germany&diff=76091Germany2014-07-12T07:39:09Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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|language = German<br />
|capital = [[Berlin]]<br />
|pop = 82,314,900<br />
|currency = Euro (€)<br />
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[[File:2003 Hitch-hiking in Germany.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] thumbing towards Nürnberg, 2003.]]<br />
'''Germany''' is a member state of the [[European Union]] as well as the [[Schengen Agreement]]. It is a great country for [[hitchhiking]], both on motorways (via [[on-ramp]]s, [[rest area|service stations]], more seldom - parking lots) and local roads. Germans are a little bit suspicious, but nice if you get to know them. Thumbing makes it easier for them to say "no", because they do not even have to look at you. Those who will stop are often people who hitchhiked themselves when they were younger. Many of them have families, jobs and fast cars now.<br />
Because of the absence of speed limits on many motorways it's a good country to hitchhike long distances in short time.<br />
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== Road types ==<br />
To hitchhike efficiently in Germany it is good to know the three different kinds of roads between cities and towns. By descending speed these are:<br />
* motorways or expressways called ''Autobahn'' with no speed limit<br />
* federal roads called ''Bundesstraße''<br />
* country roads called ''Landstraße''<br />
Their use in hitchhiking is different and explained below.<br />
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=== Autobahn ===<br />
For more information, see the article [[Autobahn]].<br />
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[[File:Bundesautobahn_7_number.svg|thumb|left|150px|A traffic sign indicating Autobahn A7]] The autobahns in Germany are the fastest links between cities. Their numbers consist of an '''A''' and the number of the highway. On traffic signs the ''A'' is not mentioned but they can be distinguished by the blue colour of the sign.<br />
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The lack of a general speed limit is something most Germans are proud of demonstrating to you and what makes them the best choice for longer distances. Subsequently walking and hitchhiking is illegal on the autobahn and the emergency lane.<br />
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As a general rule, you should always stick to the Autobahn as long as possible and try to change between major autobahns as little as possible, even if this means some detours. As soon as you are on the Autobahn and travel between service stations, you are hitching fast and reliable. For more information about this kind of hitchhiking, see the article on [[petrol station hitchhiking]].<br />
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As trucks do not travel faster than 90 km/h you might want first try to get a ride hitching a personal car before asking truck drivers. Trucks are great for a night-ride; however, there are restrictions, like in France, of when trucks are allowed on an autobahn. In Germany most trucks aren't allowed on motorways on Sundays or public holidays before 22:00. As most truck drivers stop earlier truck traffic already gets less on Saturday afternoons.<br />
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If you travel a specific autobahn, have a look at the [[autobahn]] page where you can find very specific information and hints about hitchhiking on German motorway ramps, etc. - for example, the route [[Amsterdam]]–[[Berlin]] along the [[A2 (Germany)|A2]] and [[A30 (Germany)|A30]].<br />
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==== Getting onto the autobahn ====<br />
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[[File:Zeichen 330.svg|thumb|right|100px|The on-ramp sign of an autobahn]]<br />
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To get onto the autobahn either hitch a ride from a city, thumb at the on-ramp '''before''' the sign or go to a service station by public transportation and walk there. A good possibility is to look for a street with traffic lights that leads to an autobahn. Wait for the red light, then knock at the windows (do not forget to smile!) and ask for a ride. If you look neither like a homeless nor like a drug dealer, they will be happy to help you.<br />
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==== Service stations and rest areas ====<br />
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You have various possibilities for being dropped off along the autobahn to look for your next ride. As petrol station hitchhiking is faster, try to avoid being dropped at on-ramps where you have to thumb. On the autobahn, it is preferable to be dropped off at a service station instead of a rest area as rest areas have much less cars stopping. <br />
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[[File:Zeichen 448.1.svg|thumb|right|150px|Autobahn traffic sign of an Autohof]] The ''Raststätte'' is the usual choice for hitchhiking because most cars tend to refuel there. Make sure your ''Raststätte'' has not just a restaurant but also a petrol stations because more people stop there and they leave quicker. Most ''Raststätten'' are on both sides of the autobahn and there is often a bridge or tunnel nearby to cross. Therefore you might consider hitchhiking to a ''Raststätte'' in the opposite direction first to get onto the highway quicker. At the entrance of the petrol station shop there are usually map stands that show the surrounding area and other service stations in Germany.<br />
With a few exceptions all service stations can be entered by foot from the side and feature an unlocked door in the fence or wall.<br />
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The off-autobahn ''Autohof'' is a local fuel station that is marked on traffic signs on the autobahn. Food and fuel is cheaper there but most car drivers don't bother and thus mostly trucks stop there. This means that they are okay on weekdays but have to be avoided on Saturday evenings and Sundays at all cost. Another disadvantage for continuing on the autobahn is that local traffic also stops at the ''Autohof''.<br />
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=== Federal ''Bundesstraße'' roads ===<br />
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[[File:Bundesstraße 42 number.svg|thumb|right|150px|A traffic sign indicating Bundesstraße B42]] The federal ''Bundesstraße'' roads are indicated by yellow signs and carry numbers like ''B6'' or ''B49''. Like in the case of the autobahn the ''B'' is not written on traffic signs, but federal roads can be distinguished by the yellow colour of the sign. As they are smaller and carry more local traffic they should only be used to get from and to the autobahn, though there are a few exceptions to the rule.<br />
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Their general speed limit is 100 km/h and they usually have no emergency lane so they are difficult to thumb. To get a ride either try petrol stations or choose a place where have a lot of space to see you and stop or where they are going slower, e.g. town exits. Police might consider it illegal to thumb in sites where cars cannot stop without putting the traffic in danger.<br />
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=== Smaller federal ''Landstraße'' roads ===<br />
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These roads are not numbered on traffic signs and usually connect minor towns. As most of them have lower speed limits thumbing is likely to work. As they might not have a lot of traffic coming through they should only be used for getting from and to you final destination.<br />
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== Legal stuff ==<br />
Hitchhiking in general is legal in Germany. It is only forbidden to hitchhike on the Autobahn itself, meaning you standing on the autobahn or its emergency lane. You are perfectly fine stopping at service stations and asking the people but keep in mind that service stations are private property / leases. It occasionally happened that owners try to get rid of hichthikers at "their" service station. If that happens, just move to the parking space and hitchhike there.<br />
If you want to start hitching at the on-ramps, make sure you stand before the rectangular blue sign indicating the start of the autobahn.<br />
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Just like other people, police may or may not be friendly towards hitchhikers. It is said that police controls are more frequent in the southern states of [[Bavaria]] and [[Baden-Württemberg]]. As a foreigner you have to carry your passport at all times; a national ID card is sufficient if you are from another EU country. If you are being checked, be friendly, show it to them and they will leave you alone.<br />
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=== Crossing the border ===<br />
Germany has signed the [[Schengen Agreement]] which means that borders with other Schengen countries are open. Since 2009, all neighbouring countries are Schengen members as well, so there are no fixed border controls anymore. At times, there are mobile checks by the police or customs, especially in border regions or on the autobahn.<br />
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At the Swiss border, there are still custom controls, but that will probably only affect you if you are on a truck.<br />
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== License plates ==<br />
There are between one and three letters on a license plate which show the city or region where the car is registered. For example, look for license plates starting with '''B''' if you're hitching to [[Berlin]]. Have a look at the articles on Wikipedia for more information: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_car_number_plates German car number plates] (in English) and [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kfz-Kennzeichen_in_Deutschland Liste der Kfz-Kennzeichen in Deutschland] (in German).<br />
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== Maps ==<br />
[[File:IMG 5392.JPG|thumb|250px|right|[[Tiziano]] hitching from [[Berlin]] to [[Munich]]]]<br />
Recommended maps for Germany are listed in [[Maps#Germany|this article]]. You can easily hitch through Germany with just a map that has all service stations along the Autobahn on it. There are maps at many service stations in a little free booklet which are quite misleading, they do '''not''' contain all service stations, just the ones belonging to one of the big companies running them. <br />
For more information look here: [http://www.tank.rast.de/standorte/servicenetz/index.php tank.rast.de]. For a good map to print out and bring with you that has all the service stations on it have a look here: [http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/684/rastekarte.jpg/ Rastekarte]. This is the same one you will find at the service stations as big overview maps, more often than not those can be nicked very easily as well.<br />
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== Food and drink ==<br />
Drinking tap water is safe all over the country. You can usually get inexpensive but good food at Italian and Turkish takeaways, the latter ones have ''Döner'' or ''Kebap'' written on them. Typical German fast food shops are marked with ''Imbiss'' signs and sell cheap sausages and French fries. Keep in mind that most shops including some supermarkets close at 20:00 and on Sundays, although many supermarkets might be open until 22:00 during weekdays. Petrol stations, 24-h shops and kiosks have a very limited food choice and are more expensive. As a free alternative you can try dumpster diving. More information on this can be found in the [http://trashwiki.org/en/Germany trashwiki article on Germany].<br />
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In nearly every town there are alternative centres where people cook for everybody. The price for a warm dish is between zero and 2 Euro. Have a look at the [http://deu.anarchopedia.org/VoK%C3%BC list here]. (German)<br />
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=== Eating on the Autobahn ===<br />
Try to avoid eating on autobahn [[rest area|service stations]] if you want to save money and if have a good taste of food. These restaurants are notoriously expensive and the food quality is quite low. If you're lucky you can find thrown away [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Image:Sanifair_voucher.jpg Sanifair vouchers] of the toilet system. You get a cumulative 0.50 euro rebate for them in the shop.<br />
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== Getting Clothes ==<br />
In Germany there are shops where you can bring unused clothes in a good state and/or take new clothes home. It does not cost anything. A list of these shops is available [http://www.umsonstladen.de/ here]. (German)<br />
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== Hygiene ==<br />
Most toilets on the service stations are maintained by [[Sanifair]] and are clean. You get a 0.50 euro coupon as part of the 0.70 euro service fee, which you can redeem when buying things at the petrol station shop or in the restaurant. [[User:Pathofdhamma|Pathofdhamma]] suggest to seize the moment and jump the barrier if there are no people or cameras around. The turnstyle is only blocked for the inwards direction. With some luck and smooth moves, you can sneak in. Turn it towards you, walk one step; turn it again, walk another step: you are in!<br />
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There are showers in most ''Raststätte'' and ''Autohof'' service stations on and near the autobahn. Prices are between 2 euro and 5 euro.<br />
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== Telephone and Internet ==<br />
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=== Telephone ===<br />
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Phone booths that accept coins are still available all over Germany. The older ones are yellow, the newer ones are mostly glass and display a pink T. They are more expensive than using a prepaid card for your cell phone. A nice feature is that you can send SMS, faxes and e-mails even with the oldest types. However, input is a bit cumbersome and in one test it took at half a week to deliver a text message. In some cities there is cheaper ones from other operators than those from "pink T" (i.e. T-Com aka Deutsche Telekom).<br />
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A cheaper option is to buy a German prepaid SIM card. They are readily available from mobile shops like ''e-plus'', ''Vodafone'' and ''T-mobile''. A lot of supermarket chains like ''Aldi'', ''Netto'' and ''Lidl'' also have their own brands that use the network of the bigger providers. Check beforehand how to register the SIM card. Sometimes the seller wants to see an ID. If you prefer not to give out your real data you might for example buy a SIM card at ''Aldi'', which you can register via Internet with fake data.<br />
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If you want to make calls abroad there are some stores offering international phone booths in bigger cities. They are usually located in migration areas and often include an internet café.<br />
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=== Internet ===<br />
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There are still some Internet cafés in the bigger cities. Rates are around 2 euro per hour. <br />
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In most cities you will find pay per use surf terminals like in the image to the right. They offer internet and telephone services.<br />
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==== By laptop or smartphone ====<br />
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There are almost no unsecured Wifi access points in Germany because people might be made responsible for illegal actions done through their internet access.<br />
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Most German prepaid cards also have a data option if you own a smartphone or a surfstick for your laptop, which also can be bought for about 30 euro. It's often better to buy a single day flatrate for two to five euros instead of using the data tariff. Details depend on your provider.<br />
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Some ''Burger King'' restaurants offer free Wifi without any registration. At ''McDonalds'' you get free Wifi for one hour per day without consuming anything. Sometimes the restaurants are located on service stations, you can look them up [http://www.mcdonalds.de/metanavigation/mcfinder/mcfinder.cfm here]. Enter a location in the search mask and make sure to check the option ''WLAN'' (abbreviation for Wireless LAN). Once there, connect, type in any address and you will be asked for a valid German mobile number, through which you will receive your access code. Take care: in both cases the connection is not encrypted so anything you send in clear text, e.g. when using a browser or e-mail tool without SSL, can be easily recorded by others nearby.<br />
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== Language ==<br />
Despite German being the major language, (with over 95% of the population speaking it as a first language [http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european_languages/countries/germany.shtml]) you will find that many Germans speak English or French as a second language. Other common languages in the country are Turkish, Russian and Arabic. <br />
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=== Learning to speak German ===<br />
The basic hitchhiker needs can be satisfied by a look at the phrasebook [[western Europe phrasebook|here]].<br />
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When asking your drivers for help it pays off to know that the German word ''Straße'' for street contains the weird letter ''ß'' which looks a bit like a B. If you pronounce it like an ''s'' Germans will understand you. Contrary to popular belief the diacritics on Ä, ä, Ö, ö, Ü and ü are not metal umlauts and thus they do affect pronunciation. If in doubt try to pronounce the word as if the diacritics didn't exist. For instance, if you pronounce the city ''Würzburg'' as ''Wurzburg'' you will probably be understood.<br />
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== Other possibilities of transportation ==<br />
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Other cheap possibilities include [[carpooling]] and special offers of the German railways [[Deutsche Bahn]].<br />
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=== Carpooling ===<br />
[http://www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de mitfahrgelegenheit.de] and [http://www.mitfahrzentrale.de mitfahrzentrale.de] are popular commercial websites for carpooling. However, since they started charging a certain percentage for each ride they mediate, there are new pages starting to be used more and more. Some of them are: bessermitfahren.de; blablacar.de.<br />
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=== Railways ===<br />
The country has an expensive railway network. As an alternative to the standard fare, you may also check offers and sales, for example regional or seasonal tickets. [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/DEU/en/prices/index.shtml]<br />
If travelling in a weekend it is possible to buy a ticket valid for unlimited travel for one day on all regional trains for up to 5 persons. See [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/overseas/en/prices/germany/schoenes-wochenende-ticket.shtml]<br />
See also [[Deutsche Bahn]].<br />
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== Practical links ==<br />
* [http://deu.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Deutschland:Trampstellen Hitchhiking spots in Germany], in German, on a GFDL wiki<br />
* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Autobahn_1-999.png Overview of autobahns in Germany]<br />
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[[nomad:Germany]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=75970User talk:MrTweek2014-07-02T23:39:43Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
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Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
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== please add my blog! ==<br />
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hi! <br />
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http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== my msn ==<br />
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ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
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Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
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== Trampertreffen ==<br />
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hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Category:Germany ==<br />
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Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
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If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
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: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
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Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
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Regards,<br />
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Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
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: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
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As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
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Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
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Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
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--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
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I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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:)<br />
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== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
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When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
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I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
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This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
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I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
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If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
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Hari Om!<br />
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-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
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==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
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Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
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http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
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I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Languages ==<br />
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Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== blog adding? ==<br />
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hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
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Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
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Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
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Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
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:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
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Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
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Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
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== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Faroes ==<br />
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Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
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==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
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: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
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I'd like to add this:<br />
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<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
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I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
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:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
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::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
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I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
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Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
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Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
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we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
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Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
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Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
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Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
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Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
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Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
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Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
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hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
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cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
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Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Events template ==<br />
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IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
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There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
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* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
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Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
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These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
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Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
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I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
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<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
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try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
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OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
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== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
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== New extension ==<br />
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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. <br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
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We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
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We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
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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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
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Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
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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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
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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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: 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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=75969User talk:MrTweek2014-07-02T23:38:57Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
P.S. <br />
Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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hey,<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
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== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== Video extension ==<br />
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
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Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
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:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
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== please add my blog! ==<br />
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hi! <br />
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http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== my msn ==<br />
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ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
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Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
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== Trampertreffen ==<br />
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hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
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== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Category:Germany ==<br />
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Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
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If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
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Hi,<br />
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Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
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: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
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Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
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Regards,<br />
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Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
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: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
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As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
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Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
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Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
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--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
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I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Thanks! ==<br />
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:)<br />
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== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
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When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
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I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
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This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
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I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
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If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
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Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
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==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
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Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
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== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
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<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
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:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
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::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
<br />
== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
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hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Hitchability, again ==<br />
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Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
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== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
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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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
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Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
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Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
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== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
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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)<br />
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now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
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: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)<br />
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::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)<br />
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== New extension ==<br />
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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. <br />
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[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
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We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
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We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
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Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
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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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
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Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
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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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Regina? ==<br />
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Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
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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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
:::Ok, sounds good - [[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 02:55, 16 June 2014 (CEST)<br />
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== Gexcube ==<br />
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A real user? <br />
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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.<br />
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Giving a reason will only allow (potential) spammers more clues on how to avoid being blocked...<br />
[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 23:36, 2 July 2014 (UTC)<br />
: He sent me an email, asking why he was blocked... --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 23:38, 2 July 2014 (UTC)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Crossable_rest_areas_in_Germany&diff=75801Crossable rest areas in Germany2014-06-24T23:54:29Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>The following German [[Raststätte]]s do allow, according to '''Tanken & Rasten 1997, Zweites Halbjahr''' (the last offial booklet of the Tank & Rast organisation) traffic to cross from one side to the other. Note that the information was copied verbatim, and no attempt was made to verify the current situation!<br />
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== Autobahn A1 ==<br />
* '''Buddikate'''<br />
* '''Dammer Berge''', the famous bridge Raststätte<br />
* '''Grundbergsee'''<br />
* '''Hamburg-Stillhorn'''<br />
* '''Lichtendorf'''<br />
* '''Ostetal'''<br />
* '''Remscheid'''<br />
* '''Tecklenburger Land'''<br />
* '''Wildeshausen'''<br />
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== Autobahn A2 ==<br />
* '''Gütersloh'''<br />
* '''Garbsen'''<br />
* '''Michendorf''' - ''involves a 30-60 minutes walk''<br />
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== Autobahn A3 ==<br />
* '''Ferntal'''<br />
* '''Siegburg''', pedestrian bridge<br />
* '''Spessart'''<br />
* '''Steigerwald'''<br />
* '''Weiskirchen'''<br />
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== Autobahn A5 ==<br />
* '''Bruchsal'''<br />
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== Autobahn A7 ==<br />
* '''Brunautal'''<br />
* '''Allertal'''<br />
* '''Hannover Wülferode'''<br />
* '''Göttingen'''<br />
* '''Kassel'''<br />
* '''Hasselberg'''<br />
* '''Rhön'''<br />
* '''Seesen'''<br />
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== Autobahn A8 ==<br />
* '''Irschenberg''', Raststätte is on the [[Salzburg]]-bound side<br />
* '''Stuttgart'''<br />
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== Autobahn A9 ==<br />
* '''Fürholzen''', Raststätte is on the Northbound side, southbound there is/was a small parking. Crossing requires a walk of about 20 minutes, partly through the fields.<br />
* '''Nürnberg Feucht''', car and pedestrian tunnels<br />
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== Autobahn A10 ==<br />
* '''Michendorf''', bridge on the [[Hannover]]-bound side of the Raststätte.<br />
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== Autobahn A27 ==<br />
* '''Langwedel-Daverden'''</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Crossable_rest_areas_in_Germany&diff=75800Crossable rest areas in Germany2014-06-24T23:54:18Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>The following German [[Raststätte]]s do allow, according to '''Tanken & Rasten 1997, Zweites Halbjahr''' (the last offial booklet of the Tank & Rast organisation) traffic to cross from one side to the other. Note that the information was copied verbatim, and no attempt was made to verify the current situation!<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A1 ==<br />
* '''Buddikate'''<br />
* '''Dammer Berge''', the famous bridge Raststätte<br />
* '''Grundbergsee'''<br />
* '''Hamburg-Stillhorn'''<br />
* '''Lichtendorf'''<br />
* '''Ostetal'''<br />
* '''Remscheid'''<br />
* '''Tecklenburger Land'''<br />
* '''Wildeshausen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A2 ==<br />
* '''Gütersloh'''<br />
* '''Garbsen'''<br />
* '''Michendorf'''' - ''involves a 30-60 minutes walk''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A3 ==<br />
* '''Ferntal'''<br />
* '''Siegburg''', pedestrian bridge<br />
* '''Spessart'''<br />
* '''Steigerwald'''<br />
* '''Weiskirchen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A5 ==<br />
* '''Bruchsal'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A7 ==<br />
* '''Brunautal'''<br />
* '''Allertal'''<br />
* '''Hannover Wülferode'''<br />
* '''Göttingen'''<br />
* '''Kassel'''<br />
* '''Hasselberg'''<br />
* '''Rhön'''<br />
* '''Seesen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A8 ==<br />
* '''Irschenberg''', Raststätte is on the [[Salzburg]]-bound side<br />
* '''Stuttgart'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A9 ==<br />
* '''Fürholzen''', Raststätte is on the Northbound side, southbound there is/was a small parking. Crossing requires a walk of about 20 minutes, partly through the fields.<br />
* '''Nürnberg Feucht''', car and pedestrian tunnels<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A10 ==<br />
* '''Michendorf''', bridge on the [[Hannover]]-bound side of the Raststätte.<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A27 ==<br />
* '''Langwedel-Daverden'''</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Crossable_rest_areas_in_Germany&diff=75799Crossable rest areas in Germany2014-06-24T23:53:54Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>The following German [[Raststätte]]s do allow, according to '''Tanken & Rasten 1997, Zweites Halbjahr''' (the last offial booklet of the Tank & Rast organisation) traffic to cross from one side to the other. Note that the information was copied verbatim, and no attempt was made to verify the current situation!<br />
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== Autobahn A1 ==<br />
* '''Buddikate'''<br />
* '''Dammer Berge''', the famous bridge Raststätte<br />
* '''Grundbergsee'''<br />
* '''Hamburg-Stillhorn'''<br />
* '''Lichtendorf'''<br />
* '''Michendorf''' - ''involves a 30-60 minutes walk'''<br />
* '''Ostetal'''<br />
* '''Remscheid'''<br />
* '''Tecklenburger Land'''<br />
* '''Wildeshausen'''<br />
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== Autobahn A2 ==<br />
* '''Gütersloh'''<br />
* '''Garbsen'''<br />
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== Autobahn A3 ==<br />
* '''Ferntal'''<br />
* '''Siegburg''', pedestrian bridge<br />
* '''Spessart'''<br />
* '''Steigerwald'''<br />
* '''Weiskirchen'''<br />
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== Autobahn A5 ==<br />
* '''Bruchsal'''<br />
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== Autobahn A7 ==<br />
* '''Brunautal'''<br />
* '''Allertal'''<br />
* '''Hannover Wülferode'''<br />
* '''Göttingen'''<br />
* '''Kassel'''<br />
* '''Hasselberg'''<br />
* '''Rhön'''<br />
* '''Seesen'''<br />
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== Autobahn A8 ==<br />
* '''Irschenberg''', Raststätte is on the [[Salzburg]]-bound side<br />
* '''Stuttgart'''<br />
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== Autobahn A9 ==<br />
* '''Fürholzen''', Raststätte is on the Northbound side, southbound there is/was a small parking. Crossing requires a walk of about 20 minutes, partly through the fields.<br />
* '''Nürnberg Feucht''', car and pedestrian tunnels<br />
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== Autobahn A10 ==<br />
* '''Michendorf''', bridge on the [[Hannover]]-bound side of the Raststätte.<br />
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== Autobahn A27 ==<br />
* '''Langwedel-Daverden'''</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Crossable_rest_areas_in_Germany&diff=75798Crossable rest areas in Germany2014-06-24T23:53:09Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>The following German [[Raststätte]]s do allow, according to '''Tanken & Rasten 1997, Zweites Halbjahr''' (the last offial booklet of the Tank & Rast organisation) traffic to cross from one side to the other. Note that the information was copied verbatim, and no attempt was made to verify the current situation!<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A1 ==<br />
* '''Buddikate'''<br />
* '''Dammer Berge''', the famous bridge Raststätte<br />
* '''Grundbergsee'''<br />
* '''Hamburg-Stillhorn'''<br />
* '''Lichtendorf'''<br />
* '''Ostetal'''<br />
* '''Remscheid'''<br />
* '''Tecklenburger Land'''<br />
* '''Wildeshausen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A2 ==<br />
* '''Gütersloh'''<br />
* '''Garbsen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A3 ==<br />
* '''Ferntal'''<br />
* '''Siegburg''', pedestrian bridge<br />
* '''Spessart'''<br />
* '''Steigerwald'''<br />
* '''Weiskirchen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A5 ==<br />
* '''Bruchsal'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A7 ==<br />
* '''Brunautal'''<br />
* '''Allertal'''<br />
* '''Hannover Wülferode'''<br />
* '''Göttingen'''<br />
* '''Kassel'''<br />
* '''Hasselberg'''<br />
* '''Rhön'''<br />
* '''Seesen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A8 ==<br />
* '''Irschenberg''', Raststätte is on the [[Salzburg]]-bound side<br />
* '''Stuttgart'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A9 ==<br />
* '''Fürholzen''', Raststätte is on the Northbound side, southbound there is/was a small parking. Crossing requires a walk of about 20 minutes, partly through the fields.<br />
* '''Nürnberg Feucht''', car and pedestrian tunnels<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A10 ==<br />
* '''Michendorf''', bridge on the [[Hannover]]-bound side of the Raststätte.<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A27 ==<br />
* '''Langwedel-Daverden'''</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Crossable_rest_areas_in_Germany&diff=75797Crossable rest areas in Germany2014-06-24T23:52:36Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>The following German [[Raststätte]]s do allow, according to '''Tanken & Rasten 1997, Zweites Halbjahr''' (the last offial booklet of the Tank & Rast organisation) traffic to cross from one side to the other. Note that the information was copied verbatim, and no attempt was made to verify the current situation!<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A1 ==<br />
* '''Buddikate'''<br />
* '''Dammer Berge''', the famous bridge Raststätte<br />
* '''Grundbergsee'''<br />
* '''Hamburg-Stillhorn'''<br />
* '''Lichtendorf'''<br />
* '''Ostetal'''<br />
* '''Remscheid'''<br />
* '''Tecklenburger Land'''<br />
* '''Wildeshausen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A2 ==<br />
* '''Gütersloh'''<br />
* '''Garbsen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A3 ==<br />
* '''Ferntal'''<br />
* '''Siegburg''', pedestrian bridge<br />
* '''Spessart'''<br />
* '''Steigerwald'''<br />
* '''Weiskirchen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A7 ==<br />
* '''Brunautal'''<br />
* '''Allertal'''<br />
* '''Hannover Wülferode'''<br />
* '''Göttingen'''<br />
* '''Kassel'''<br />
* '''Hasselberg'''<br />
* '''Rhön'''<br />
* '''Seesen'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A8 ==<br />
* '''Irschenberg''', Raststätte is on the [[Salzburg]]-bound side<br />
* '''Stuttgart'''<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A9 ==<br />
* '''Fürholzen''', Raststätte is on the Northbound side, southbound there is/was a small parking. Crossing requires a walk of about 20 minutes, partly through the fields.<br />
* '''Nürnberg Feucht''', car and pedestrian tunnels<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A10 ==<br />
* '''Michendorf''', bridge on the [[Hannover]]-bound side of the Raststätte.<br />
<br />
== Autobahn A27 ==<br />
* '''Langwedel-Daverden'''</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=75584User talk:MrTweek2014-06-16T00:33:42Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
P.S. <br />
Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
<br />
I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
<br />
Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
hey,<br />
<br />
i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
<br />
This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
<br />
Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
<br />
==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
<br />
== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Video extension ==<br />
<br />
Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
<br />
Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
<br />
:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
<br />
== please add my blog! ==<br />
<br />
hi! <br />
<br />
http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
<br />
==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
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I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
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:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
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::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
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Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
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Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
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Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
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hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
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cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
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Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
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<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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<br />
== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
<br />
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
<br />
== Admin rights ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
<br />
== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Edit conflict ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
<br />
We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
<br />
Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
<br />
HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
<br />
== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== CSS, big problem ==<br />
<br />
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
<br />
== digihitch emails ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== Regina? ==<br />
<br />
Hey there MrTweek, I've got two questions:<br />
<br />
: 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"<br />
:: 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)<br />
: 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.<br />
:: 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)<br />
--[[User:Fish Soup|Fish Soup]] ([[User talk:Fish Soup|talk]]) 23:29, 15 June 2014 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Regina&diff=75583Regina2014-06-16T00:30:18Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>...</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Gal&diff=75048Gal2014-05-06T04:54:31Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Gal''' (in Georgian: ''Gali'') is a city in [[Abkhazia]]. <br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking out ==<br />
Gali is a very small town, you can just walk out.<br />
<br />
The traffic on the road from Gali to the Georgian border is scarce. The price per person in a marshrutka or shared taxi from Gali to the Georgian border is 50 rubles. It is also walkable, but better early in the morning, and watch out on the way.<br />
<br />
== Other useful info ==<br />
=== Safety ===<br />
<br />
Just be generally careful, as "bandits" are said to roam the place. <br />
==== Personal Experiences ====<br />
[[User:Rovingsnails|Rovingsnails]]: we had to get off a car nearby Gali when the driver threatened we had to show him our passports and give him money or he would take us out of the main road. In our case the police check point at the exit of the city came pretty handy when asking him to drop us off.<br />
<br />
{{IsIn|Abkhazia}}<br />
[[Category:Abkhazia]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User:MrTweek/log&diff=74716User:MrTweek/log2014-04-03T23:01:18Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
<hr />
<div>An overview of [[MrTweek|MrTweeks]] hitchhiking trips.<br />
__NOTOC__<br />
<!-- begin log --><br />
==2006==<br />
{| border="1" width='100%'<br />
|-<br />
|'''May'''<br />
|[[Goch]] - [[Nijmegen]] - [[Den Haag]] - [[Amsterdam]] - [[Arnhem]]<br />
|300 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''August'''<br />
|[[Darmstadt]] - [[Ulm]] - [[Salzburg]] - [[Vienna]] - [[Bratislava]] - [[Budapest]]; [[Székesfehérvár]] - [[Révfülöp]]; [[Budapest]] - [[Vienna]] - [[Düsseldorf]]<br />
|2350 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''September'''<br />
|[[Mönchengladbach]] - [[Koblenz]]; [[Friedberg]] - [[Schwerte]]<br />
|340 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|<br />
|'''2990 km'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==2007==<br />
{| border="1"<br />
|-<br />
|'''February'''<br />
|[[Mönchengladbach]] - [[Trier]]; [[Friedberg]] - [[Dortmund]]<br />
|420 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''March'''<br />
|[[Schwerte]] - [[Hannover]]; [[Hannover]] - [[Duisburg]]<br />
|480 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Mönchengladbach]] - [[Brussels]] - [[Paris]]; [[Luxembourg]] - [[Erkelenz]]<br />
|700 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''April'''<br />
|[[Wuppertal]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|240 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''May'''<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Schwerte]]<br />
|200 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Berlin]]<br />
|300 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Berlin]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|300 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''June'''<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Berlin]]<br />
|300 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Neustrelitz]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|380 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Wuppertal]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|378 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Wuppertal]]<br />
|240 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''July'''<br />
|[[Venlo]] - [[Gent]] - [[Calais]] - [[Dover]] - [[Holyhead]]; [[Bray]] - [[Enniskerry]] - [[Kilmuckridge]] - [[Cork]] - [[Killarney]] - [[Caherdaniel]] - [[Ennis]] - [[Galway]] - [[Maynooth]]; [[Eindhoven]] - [[Weert]]; [[Roermond]] - [[Mönchengladbach]]<br />
|2029 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''August'''<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Wuppertal]]<br />
|240 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Dortmund]]<br />
|196 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Schwerte]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|195 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Klöden]]<br />
|370 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''September'''<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Freiburg]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|1204 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Munich]]; [[Würzburg]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|1054 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''October'''<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Schwerte]]<br />
|207 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Cologne]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|557 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Frankfurt am Main]]; [[Heidelberg]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|762 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''November'''<br />
|[[Heidelberg]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|417 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Duisburg]]<br />
|251 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Heidelberg]]<br />
|412 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Hannover]] - [[Heidelberg]]<br />
|412 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|<br />
|'''12249 km'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==2008==<br />
{| border="1" width='100%'<br />
|-<br />
|'''March'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Heidelberg]]<br />
|50 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Heidelberg]] - [[Karlsruhe]]<br />
|55 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Weingarten]] - [[Meersburg]]<br />
|318 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Zurich]] - [[Bern]] - [[Strasbourg]] - [[Karlsruhe]]<br />
|686 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''April'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Heidelberg]]<br />
|51 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''May'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Berlin]] - [[Kołobrzeg]] - [[Hannover]]<br />
|1550 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''June'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Heidelberg]]<br />
|49 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''July'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Heidelberg]]<br />
|55 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''August'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Basel]]<br />
|188 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''September'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Bayreuth]] - [[Karlsruhe]]<br />
|625 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Valdivia]] - [[Puerto Varas]] - [[Pargua]]<br />
|270 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Dalcahue]] - [[Achao]]<br />
|20 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''October'''<br />
|[[Gent]] - [[Externsteine]] - [[Frankfurt am Main]]<br />
|785 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|<br />
|'''4702 km'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==2009==<br />
{| border="1" width='100%'<br />
|-<br />
|'''January'''<br />
|[[Schwarzbachtalsperre]] - [[Kirschbaumwasen]]<br />
|6 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''April'''<br />
|[[Bruchsal]] - [[Dresden]] - [[Prague]] - [[Karlsruhe]]<br />
|1178 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''May'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Luzern]] - [[Karlsruhe]]<br />
|578 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Düsseldorf]]; [[Amsterdam]] - [[Oberhausen]]<br />
|526 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''June'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Liechtenstein]] - [[Bregenz]]<br />
|408 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''August'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Haguenau]]<br />
|52 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''September'''<br />
|[[Dijon]] - [[Perpignan]]<br />
| 633 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Fitou]] - [[Perpignan]] - [[Fitou]]<br />
| 54 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|<br />
|'''3435 km'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== 2010 ==<br />
{| border="1" width='100%'<br />
|-<br />
|'''April'''<br />
|[[Słubice]] - [[Wrocław]] - [[Potsdam]]<br />
|605 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''May'''<br />
|[[Speyer]] - [[Wörth]]<br />
|38 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''June'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Augsburg]] - [[Bled]] - [[Ljubljana]] - [[Sarajevo]] - [[Mostar]] - [[Dubrovnik]] - [[Herceg Novi]] - [[Budva]] - [[Shkodër]]<br />
|1791 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''July'''<br />
|[[Dijon]] - [[Lyon]]<br />
|194 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''September'''<br />
|[[Karlsruhe]] - [[Monreal]]<br />
|268 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''October'''<br />
|[[Ottersberg]] - [[Bremen]]<br />
|14 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''November'''<br />
|[[Ottersberg]] - [[Bassen]]<br />
|6 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Cambridge]] - [[Crewe]]<br />
| 237 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|<br />
|'''3153 km'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== 2011 ==<br />
{| border="1" width='100%'<br />
|-<br />
|'''May'''<br />
|[[Kaisersesch]] - [[Monreal]]<br />
|12 km <br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Neroth]] - [[Daun]]<br />
|8 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''June'''<br />
|[[Mönchengladbach]] - [[Bruchsal]] - [[Lago d'Orta]] - [[Milano]] - [[Trieste]] - [[Ljubljana]] - [[Banja Luka]] - [[Sarajevo]] - [[Belgrade]] - [[Timisoara]] - [[Sibiu]] - [[Bucharest]] - [[Constanta]] - [[Vama Veche]]<br />
|3119 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''July'''<br />
|[[Istanbul]] - [[Izmir]] - [[Fethiye]] - [[Göreme]] - [[Şırnak]] - [[Dohuk]] - [[Mardin]] - [[Diyabakır]] - [[Van]] - [[Kars]] - [[Erzurum]] - [[Fatsa]]<br />
|4537 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''August'''<br />
|[[Fatsa]] - [[Trabzon]] - [[Batumi]] - [[Sukhum]] - [[Zugdidi]] - [[Tbilisi]] - [[Yerevan]] - [[Sevan]] - Aragats - [[Yerevan]] - [[Batumi]] - [[Tbilisi]]<br />
|2729 km<br />
|-<br />
| '''September'''<br />
|[[Gori]] - [[Tbilisi]] - [[Baku]]; [[Shetpe]] - [[Beyneu]]<br />
| 935 km<br />
|-<br />
| '''October'''<br />
| [[Almaty]] - Mountains - [[Almaty]]<br />
| 35 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
| [[Almaty]] - [[Saty]] - [[Almaty]]<br />
| 519 km<br />
|-<br />
| '''November'''<br />
| [[Sary-Tash]] - [[Irkeshtam]]<br />
| 85 km<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
| [[Kashgar]] - [[Turpan]] - [[Zhangye]] - [[Lanzhou]] - [[Tianshui]]<br />
| 3452 km<br />
|-<br />
| '''December'''<br />
| [[Tianshui]] - [[Xi'an]] - [[Yuncheng]]<br />
| 515 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|<br />
|''' 15946 km'''<br />
|}<br />
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== 2012 ==<br />
{| border="1" width='100%'<br />
|-<br />
|'''January'''<br />
|[[Shanghai]] - [[Hangzhou]]<br />
|133 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''April'''<br />
|[[Ho Chi Minh City]] - [[Phnom Penh]] - [[Sihanoukville]] - [[Phnom Penh]]<br />
|733 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''May'''<br />
|[[Koh Lanta]] - [[Pak Bara]] - [[Krabi]] - [[Phang-Nga]]<br />
|504 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''June'''<br />
|[[Don Sak]] - [[Krabi]] - [[Alor Setar]]<br />
|575 km <br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Butterworth]] - [[Tanah Rata]]<br />
| 235 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''July'''<br />
|[[Kuala Lumpur]] - [[Melaka]] - [[Singapore]]<br />
|329 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''August'''<br />
|[[Bukittinggi]] - [[Padang]]<br />
|96 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''December'''<br />
|Around [[Phillip Island]]<br />
|26 km <br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|[[Melbourne]] - [[Adelaide]]<br />
|686 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|<br />
|'''3317 km'''<br />
|}<br />
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== 2013 ==<br />
{| border="1" width='100%'<br />
|-<br />
|'''May'''<br />
|[[Dortmund]] - [[Dresden]] - [[Sumperk]] - [[Dresden]] - [[Berlin]] - [[Braunschweig]]; [[Hannover]] - [[Dortmund]]<br />
|1823 km <br />
|-<br />
|'''June'''<br />
|[[Eifel]] - [[Trier]] - [[Marpingen]]<br />
|165 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|<br />
|'''1988 km'''<br />
|}<br />
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== 2014 ==<br />
{| border="1" width='100%'<br />
|-<br />
|'''February'''<br />
|[[Apollo Bay]] - [[Port Campbell]] - [[Warrnambool]]<br />
|160 km <br />
|-<br />
|<br />
|around Wilsons Promontory<br />
|5 km<br />
|-<br />
|'''Total'''<br />
|<br />
|'''165 km'''<br />
|}<br />
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== Total ==<br />
<!-- 45792 + (2013) --><br />
* '''45 792 km'''<br />
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[[Category:Hitchhikers Logs]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Luang_Prabang&diff=73948Luang Prabang2014-01-09T12:20:26Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>'''Luang Prabang''' is a city in [[Laos]].<br />
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== Hitching out ==<br />
You have to get out of the main town by tuk-tuk (max. of 50 000 kip for however many) or motorbike Taxi. Head to the 'highway' 13 that heads once from North to South through Laos. A good spot was a few meters from the intersection to the little waterfall (the one with the Elephant camp). Don't be discouraged by the size of the road, the lack of vehicles (approx. one every 2 minutes for me at noon) and the lack of possibilities to communicate with the locals. It's very possible to make it to Vang Vieng quicker than by bus.<br />
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{{IsIn|Laos}}<br />
[[Category:Laos]]<br />
__NOTOC__</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=73727User talk:MrTweek2013-12-19T00:06:17Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
P.S. <br />
Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
<br />
I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
hey,<br />
<br />
i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
<br />
This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
<br />
Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
<br />
::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
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==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
<br />
== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Video extension ==<br />
<br />
Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
<br />
Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
<br />
:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
<br />
== please add my blog! ==<br />
<br />
hi! <br />
<br />
http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
<br />
==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== New template, Tts ==<br />
<br />
I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
<br />
:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
<br />
::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
<br />
== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
<br />
== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Re: Spam ==<br />
<br />
Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
<br />
Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
<br />
hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
<br />
cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
<br />
== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
:: 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)<br />
<br />
== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
<br />
Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
<br />
:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
<br />
<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
<br />
== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
<br />
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
<br />
== Admin rights ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
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Hi MrTweek,<br />
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We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
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We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
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We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
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Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
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Ania & Jon<br />
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HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
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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? <br />
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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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
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Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
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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)<br />
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== Image summaries not showing up ==<br />
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?<br />
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== digihitch emails ==<br />
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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)<br />
: 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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:MrTweek&diff=72338User talk:MrTweek2013-09-11T10:28:13Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>== Spammers ==<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
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== Mozilla Firefox Warnung ==<br />
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?<br />
LG<br />
JOna<br />
: Jo, wir hatten da tatsaechlich ein Problem mit irgendeinem Virus. Scheint aber inzwischen wieder alles behoben zu sein.<br />
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== Lanigiro ==<br />
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]<br />
allet jute<br />
jona<br />
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: Oh, fuck, dankeschön. Habs deaktiviert. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:50, 9 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
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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)<br />
== Persistent vandalism ==<br />
Sorry for putting this at the top...<br />
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We are currently under a very persistent vandalism attack. Can you please prevent anonymous edit for at least a few days? The attack is nasty in that many pages are changed multiple times which makes it very hard to rollback all changes. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 08:30, 30 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I added a line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt> just now. I really hope we can keep Hitchwiki open though. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:22, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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::check [[Hitchwiki:Spam]]<br />
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could i get the right to block users and delete pages? thanks ... --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 19:50, 1 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yep, done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:35, 2 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Is there an option to see the IP addresses of newly created accounts? I (not very wildly) guess that the current flood is caused by botnets - from my experience as Admin at the [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems Support site] I know that usernames like the two I just blocked, Fastoomph606455 and Gamylounge549364, are very typical for automated systems. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 12:04, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:I don't think there's an extension for this, but if you find something useful [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions at mediawiki.org] we can install it. <br />
:Maybe we can block more IPs? E.g. through some of these lists http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#More_lists_of_proxy_and_spambot_IPs [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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Can't a CAPTCHA be added to the registration page to prevent new accounts from being created automatically? [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 12:29, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a reCAPTCHA at account creation... But they're outsourced and spammers still make money. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:55, 9 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Thanks for the Welcome! Its jolly good to be editing on here now that I'm back on my own turf :) after using it a lot. By the way, I guess you're aware that on the hitchwiki maps page, typing in any city to the search bar is always taking me to Paris?! This has happened to me in europe and in Australia, I guess its a common problem? Its a lovely city... to be sure.. but other places are nice too :) I noticed your name on the maps tutorial page, have you any advice on this? :) [[User:Dear sarah|Dear Sarah]] 02:10, 24 September 2010 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
I have just added some more info and would like others to contribute<br />
P.S. <br />
Sorry if I am replying in the wrong way or place.<br />
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Joho MrTweek, I never did hitch out of Düsseldorf directly as i think it's not so fast. I am always driving to Oberhausen Sterkrade instead and from there to Heinrich-Heine-Str. I wrote it in the Düsseldorf page. I'll try to post all my tips here. Let's keep this website growing ;).<br />
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Hi MrTweek! Thanks for your message! even though i am not 1oo percent sure if it makes a lot of sense to translate everything from english into german it's my please to help a bit with sharing info and translation. [[User:pesef|pesef]] <br />
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Hey MrTweek! Thanks for your contributions! Maybe you also know some more specific things about hitching in [[Austria]] and [[Hungary]]? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 04:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)<br />
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome. I'm in the middle of exams at the moment but I'll add some more info when I've got some spare time. Hope I can help :). --[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 10:32, 16 May 2007 (CEST)<br />
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Thanks for your back up.pl give me some advice of the page construction. and i wanna meet you someday in the future,maybe 6810.<br />
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Hey MrTweek! We still did not make so much progress in Chinese hitchwiki ,if there is some problem pls fix it .thx!--[[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
:What do you mean? What kind of problem? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:34, 29 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Forget it ,everything is done! [[User:Mipplor|Mipplor]]<br />
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Howdy MrTweek, thanks for your message! Chile is in fact a wonderful country with amicable inhabitants. Indeed, that must be why I've settled down here for the time being. Hopefully I will become more knowledgeable about the ins and outs of hitchhiking in other parts of the world so I can share them on this wiki. Take care! [[User:Eripson|Eripson]] 10:26 (UTC), 22 March 2011<br />
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== Woah! ==<br />
is this how this works? <br />
if so, thanks MrTweek. Maybe we'll bump thumbs crossing asia in a few years; i'd love to chat about trans-eurasian hitching with folks what knows.<br />
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==[[liftershalte.info]]==<br />
:''moved to [[Talk:liftershalte.info]]''<br />
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==Discussion about copyrights==<br />
: '' moved to [[User_talk:Charliepl]]''<br />
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== Apache difficulties ==<br />
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I noticed you were trying to work out the problem with pages that begin with accented characters. Would you like me to help out? I'm pretty crafty with 'nix, php, etc. and I got my Wiki working perfectly with the "pretty links." Any kind of character works. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 15:33, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, maybe I get back to you with that. Foreign characters at the beginning of an article name work for you? My apache's utf8-support seems to be broken since I upgraded from debian sarge to etch. I didn't find time (and motivation) to fix this yet. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:55, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Hey, I just fixed it :) Was not an apache-problem but a broken rewrite rule. Changed it from ^([A-Z]*)$ to ^(.+)$ now it works perfectly for me. Thanks for kicking me to get this running ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:25, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::This makes me think of setting up a team to maintain stuff on the servers. It's good to set up [[project:Server maintenance]] or something like that :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 19:11, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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My mod_rewrite is set up like this:<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]<br />
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] #remove this if you want more content than the wiki in the root<br />
It's supposedly better to edit pages from index.php?title=.... instead of just the "pretty links" because you can block index.php from being indexed in search engines with robots.txt and then you have cleaner search results. [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small><sup>[[User talk:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></small> 20:06, 19 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Hey ==<br />
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Hey, I think I can add a lot of stuff after the next 6 weeks, in 2 days we start down from the [[Netherlands]] to a trip across [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]] (mainly), [[Romania]] and [[Hungary]] :) See you on the road, greetings ralf<br />
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== Hitching trips on Google Maps ==<br />
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Hi Philipp. I'm also trying to get my hitching tracks into Google Maps. However, after having drawn about 50 lines, the site has become really slow and I'm not able to add more lines fluently. Should you have any suggestions for this, then I'd be most interested. Here is one more map of a hitchhiker who put his trips into GM: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&hl=nl&q=http%3A%2F%2Fjochem.lesparre-dewaal.nl%2Fliftroutes.kml&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=51.727028,6.240234&spn=12.809217,29.619141&z=5. He did it in another way, supposedly with an external (KML?) editor or a GIS application. [[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 2 July 2007<br />
: Yes, I have the same problems. It is ''very'' slow in Opera, but in Firefox it's ok. This depends a lot on your Computer speed. With my Pentium-M 1,6G Hz, it is just usable (in Firefox). In my company office with 2x2,8 GHz P4 it works very great. However, the more lines you draw, the slower it gets. I don't know about any external kml-editor. In google-earth you can at least read the files, but I think there is no possibility to edit them (but I'm not sure about that). Did you ask Jochem how he did this? I was wondering that too, because his maps look a little weird when you zoom very close. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Well, in FireFox on my PIII 350 mhz, 256+64 mb RAM it is simply slow :). With a somewhat faster machine @ work it is not workable, with only IE at hand. And I've drawn about 5% of the lines now. I don't know exactly how Jochem did it. It would be much better to find a solution for another problem. I'm keeping track of the petition at maastricht.hitchbase.org. However, the site is being spammed and now I get lots of mails of fake signature entries for the petition. I haven't got time to filter everything out, but the new entrees must be confirmed by clicking a link in the e-mail. This has been set up in PHP by a contact of Markus (mabe in Abgefahren). --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 12:22, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::: Ok, in this case, your machine is obviously the reason ;) In general, Firefox seems to be the fastet in interpreting JavaScript.<br />
::: Regarding your other problem: a nice, simple solution to avoid spam in forms is to add a textfield to the form, give it a name which spambots will like (i.e. email, name, url) and make it invisible (preferably with css). The user won't see it and won't fill it. The spambot doesn't know that it's invisible (they are not that good usually) and will probably fill some data into that field. Now you can delete all entries, where this field is filled. This worked really well for me in a few different cases. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:16, 2 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
Hey! Thanks for the message, can't figure out how to message people, so I hope you get this. I've been using this site for ages, and figured it was about time I corrected some of the dreadful English on the France pages, and added to the site the little that I know. I'll add more in time, the hitch from Cardiff to Morocco really helped me, and I'll add a page on [[Cardiff]] too. [[User:Carl|Carl]]<br />
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:It's actually great to read that people actually use Hitchwiki]] without even contributing :) It would be nice to have some more stats on that that [[Special:Statistics|these ones]]. And maybe we can find ways to make them actually click edit :) [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 14:27, 31 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== liftershalte on hitchwiki ==<br />
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hey,<br />
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i just added a map of lifterhalte into the hitchwiki information for [[Varna]] in Bulgaria. Unfortunately I wanted to have a map of [[Varna]] showing the hybrid maps view, but it only appears as a normal map. Nevertheless the html code shows "View=2", what obviously stands for hybrid, right? Is there any way to show this kind of map? Otherwise the map for Varna seems quite useless since googlemaps only displays one street there ;)<br />
:Probably my mistake ;) I'll fix it the next days when I'm home again. --MrTweek<br />
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== hichwiki.es ==<br />
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This page have a problem with the time. I speak a little english. AutostopWiki tiene un problema con la hora que indica al firmar, siendo las 13:32 me indica las 18:32 y tengo ajstado el uso en -03:00. Saludos y Gracias por colaborar en la creación de AutostopWiki --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 18:33, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
: Yes, because the server is in the CEST timezone. The date in the articles is not dynamic, so it can't be different for each user. The timezone that you set in your preferences is only shown at the Recent Changes list, article history. I think there is no solution for this problem, unfortunately :(<br />
: Hope I understood your problem correctly, I hardly speak Spanish --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:12, 23 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
::Thanks. I hardly speak english. --[[User:Carlos|Carlos]] 01:43, 24 August 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:Imposible access to http://www.autostopwiki.com.ar --[[User:200.69.128.86|200.69.128.86]] 19:49, 14 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Stats linking to Wikipedia==<br />
At the bottom of [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm our wikistats], de ZeitGeist is linking to Wikipedia, and it should link to Hitchwiki. Could you fix it? :) [[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[user talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 16:32, 8 September 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Test==<br />
Just a test --[[User:212.202.126.147|212.202.126.147]] 15:02, 14 September 2007 (CEST) (aka MrTweek)<br />
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hey - no prob! thanks for the link to hitchwiki -it's a great resource!<br />
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== liftershalte problem ==<br />
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Hi. The liftershalte help page brought me here. Everytime I try to add a point and click on "add point", it says "authentication error". What's wrong? --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 15:05, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: Ouh, there was a bad bug. I just fixed it, please try again. You probably have to log out and log in again, so the changes will apply for you. Thanks for reporting that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 15:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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::Adding points is working now, thanks. I just realised that the help emailadress is stated recognizably in the blue bar... however, my message would have gone to the same address anyway, I guess. --[[User:Kb|Kb]] 21:20, 6 March 2008 (CET)<br />
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== Liftershalte & Blogs ==<br />
hi, was denkst du, ist es moeglich blogs wie e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper (und auch die internationalen) auf der karte von liftershalte als sprechblasen einzubinden? waere cool... dann poppen die auf liftershalte und wiki auf und damit verbreiteten sich relevante infos und geschichten... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:27, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
: gute Idee, und sollte auch recht leicht umzusetzen sein. Aber wie kommen die Koordinaten in die Blog-Eintraege? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:30, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:: Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu. Bei einer genauere Auswertung von http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=ad5751fc5d104e4b561a09d040790d23&_render=rss siehst du die Geodaten (<geo:lat> & <geo:long>). Ich pflege denselben GeoFeed mit mehr internationalen Blogs, aber es treten dort immer mal wieder Fehler auf (zuviele Feeds, unsaubere Feeds). Ich schlage vor mit dem deutschen Feed zu starten und wenn der dann laeuft das weiter auszubauen. Vielleicht hast du ja auch Lust deinen eigenen Aggregator zu bauen... Btw. hast du ne Ahnung wie Flickrfeeds aufgebaut sind? Da sollten doch auch Geodaten verfuegbar sein... Hitchhiking Category... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:56, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::: Heisst das, du gibts die von Hand ein? Eigentlich sollte das der Blogger ja machen. Sonst wirds auf dauer sehr viel arbeit --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 19:59, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::: Ich adde die Blogfeeds per Hand, ja. Das muss man eben einmal alle paar Wochen machen und gut ist, ansonsten kommt da ja auch recht schnell Spam dazwischen... Oder meintest du die Geodaten? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:00, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::: Ja, die GeoDaten. Alles andere kann man leicht automatisieren. --22:03, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::: Das geht auto... einfach mal Source anschauen... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 22:11, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
::::::: Wie jetzt? Da stehen unter anderem Blogeintraege von mir drin. Ich hab da definitiv keine Geodaten eingegeben. Woher weiss das Teil, wo ich getrampt bin? Scannt das den Text nach Ortsnamen ab oder wie? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:06, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
:::::::: "Schau dir mal http://pipes.yahoo.com/aleeex/deutschetramper genauer an (kannst auf Clonen gehen und dir die Source anschauen), es gibt dort ne Art GeoModul (ne Beschreibung dazu gibts dort auch). Ich habe keine Ahnung wie das genau aufgebaut ist, aber es fuegt zum XML die GeoDaten hinzu." --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 23:24, 10 March 2008 (CET) PS: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#LocationExtractor<br />
::::::::: Hmm, das ueberrascht mich. Konnte den Source nicht angucken, weil ich da keinen Account habe, aber ich setz das mal auf meine Liste. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 23:35, 10 March 2008 (CET)<br />
<br />
Hey.. wollte einen Blog auf hitchwiki starten, aber beim einloggen ist genau gar nichts passiert. Benutzername, Passwort, klicken auf Log in --> nichts! Bin auf derselben Seite (Log in) geblieben. Was muss ich tun? Gruss, cee<br />
<br />
==Liftershalte==<br />
Hey kannst du mir vielleicht Löschrechte auf liftershalte geben. Ich entdecke imemr wieder sinnlose Einträge. Vielleicht können wir auch in einem anderen (höheren) Zoom Level starten, dann läd es am Anfang nicht solange. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 13:09, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Hmm, eigentlich hattest du schon welche... Probier bitte mal obs jetzt tut. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:48, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Also da ist zwar ein Löschen Button, da kann ich auch draufklicken. Dann verschwindet der Spot kurz wenn ich dann raus und wieder reinzoome ist er wieder da! Wenn man aus dem Startbildschirm direkt reinzoomt (Paris) sind da zum Beispiel gleich zwei unsinnige Spots. Und dann habe ich auch oft welche gesehen, die sich einfach überlappen. Überlegung wäre 1. Weiter reingezoomt zu starten, zweitens vielleicht es nicht zuzulassen spots einzutragen die weniger als 100m neben einem anderen liegen --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 16:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::Probier mal, ob die Punkte immernoch da sind, wenn du die ganze Seite neu lädst. Ich glaube, das ist bloß ein Darstellungsproblem. Wenn die Punkte dann immer noch da sind, ists ein Bug, dann werd ich versuchen, mich die Tage drum zu kümmern. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 19:14, 21 December 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::Jo dann gehts. Super. Hmm wenn du im Januar kommst können wir uns vielleciht auch mal dran setzen die Geschichte schneller zu machen. Liegts am DB Select dass das so lahm ist. Hmmm kann ich gerne versuchen zu helfen.<br />
<br />
== Bla ==<br />
[http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=User:MrTweek&curid=2173&diff=20213&oldid=20181 * '''Longest Waiting Time:''' :) -- (Undo revision 20181 by Alex (Talk))] - Is there non? :( --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 12:34, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Probably, but I don't know. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://{{{2}}} site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 13:08, 28 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Video extension ==<br />
<br />
Hi there, sorry for the delay, I just saw your messasge. I emailed you and looking forward to your reply. [[User:IdoSet|IdoSet]] 10:59, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:Uhm, I didn't get any email? Do you have my address? try mrtweek [at] flupps.net --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:03, 12 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
: Did we try the newest [http://sourceforge.net/projects/kaltura/ Kaltura] version already, [http://kaltura.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9 1.09]?<br />
:: Yes, it's even active at the moment, but somehow it does exactly nothing. Not even presents itself in [[Special:Version]] weird thing. I'll try to have a look into it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:30, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
:: Teaser of the "Paris 888" documentary is now online however, we can't put video on hitchwiki anymore ? --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 17:05, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::No, the plugin is still broken. I told the kaltura-guys, but they didn't fix it yet :( --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== IsIn-Extension ==<br />
<br />
Hallo Philipp, ich bin Hansm von Wikivoyage.org. Ich habe dir auf [http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Benutzer_Diskussion:Hansm#IsIn_Vorlage meiner Diskussionsseite] geantwortet. Melde dich bitte dort, wenn es noch Unklarheiten oder Probleme gibt. -- Hansm<br />
<br />
:Das Problem mit dem Cache scheint bei Euch irgendwie stärker aufzutreten als bei uns. Ehrlich gesagt glaube ich gar nicht mehr so richtig, dass es schlau war, die isin-Daten im Parser-Cache zu speichern. Ein eigener Cache wäre dafür wahrscheinlich besser geeignet. Aber was mich noch interessieren würde: Benutzt Ihr einen memcached oder geht der Cache bei Euch über die Datenbank? -- [[User:Hansm|Hansm]] 21:25, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Gute Frage. Ich habe nichts derartiges konfiguriert. In der LocalSettings.php steht<br />
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;<br />
:: Sonst nichts, was auf Cache hinweisen koennte. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:47, 15 June 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
: Done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:54, 2 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
hi. please add my blog http://youarealltourists.blogspot.com/ to your blog list. it's not all pure hitching, though.<br />
<br />
== please add my blog! ==<br />
<br />
hi! <br />
<br />
http://narfettedoessouthamerika.blogspot.com<br />
:done ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:02, 11 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* and this one too: http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/TheHitch - thanks! :)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:25, 14 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
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* http://www.classless.org/category/trampen/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:22, 17 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://robokow.net/tag/hitchhiking/ --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 13:04, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:31, 23 July 2008 (CEST)<br />
:: Ah I see that url is outdated. Could you replace with http://robokow.net/category/hitchhiking/feed/ ? Thanks! --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 00:15, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
::: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:56, 27 April 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
* http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/thehitch/feed/<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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* http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed<br />
: done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== abgefahren-blog ==<br />
hm.. warum flog der abgefahren blog feed raus? --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 14:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Weiss auch nicht, irgendwie hat der plötzlich komische Fehler gemacht:<br />
ERROR:planet.runner:Update of <http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/blog/feed> failed<br />
Traceback (most recent call last):<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 245, in run<br />
channel.update()<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 653, in update<br />
self.update_entries(info.entries)<br />
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/planet/__init__.py", line 782, in update_entries<br />
del(self._items[item.id])<br />
KeyError: 'http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/563 at http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com'<br />
: Irgendwie sagt mir das gar nichts. Weiss nicht ob das am Feed oder an meinem Script liegt. Ich setz es mal auf meine TODO-Liste --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Hast du da was geändert? Scheint wieder einwandfrei zu funktionieren. Ich hab die Software upgedatet, weiss aber nicht obs daran liegt. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== my msn ==<br />
<br />
ataq_libert@hotmail.com<br />
<br />
Hey thanks!<br />
I clarified the Belgium-page a bit. Hope to see you on the Belgian road :)<br />
<br />
== Trampertreffen ==<br />
<br />
hey! I read something in German about the Trampertreffen in September. Could you share some information on that in English? Are there only German speakers coming? Would love to come by and also possibly discuss things related to hitchwiki and so on. Maybe we can create a more detailed general event-page or something? --[[User:Robino|Robino]] 15:17, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
: I just forgot to add it to the news section, thanks for reminding me ;) There will be mainly German speakers, but usually also some foreigners. Everybody's welcome. However planings are still in progress, so no detailed information yet. Would be cool to meet you there --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:25, 15 August 2008 (CEST)<br />
<br />
<br />
== if & co == <br />
Thanks for adding the if & co to hitchwiki. This makes it fun... :) Hopefully many people will use it and there will be some more knowledge transfer between the languages and cultures... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 08:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Category:Germany ==<br />
<br />
Moin, why categorizing back all the city articles to Cat:Germany? It was just the idea to sort them all to their states/provinces, like it happens with the German wiki: [[:de:Kategorie:Deutschland]]. There, you go to the different states, and find the cities in there. Ok, it might be confusing for people who don't know in which states cities are located, but for that a) we have the city-template in the [[Germany]] article. Smaller cities/villages (like e.g. Hörstel) should stay in their state category, if you list them also in the germany category, it will be overcrowded once we have all 2000+ German cities in there ;) Hm, just my opinion, but I like the sorting from the german wiki much more, looks more sorted/cleaned up. Maybe I'm wrong, what do you think ;) ? --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:05, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Categorizing back? Sorry, I didn't notice that :/ I just thought, we forgot that category all the time. No that I look at the German version, this looks quite good indeed. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Hitchhikers categories ==<br />
<br />
If there is a more detailed category (''Hitchhikers from...'') is to be applied, there is no need of keeping the old one (''Hitchhikers'') on the users' pages since it anyway includes the new, more detailed ones in itself. ;) --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 09:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Over-enthusiastic new user + maps + various ==<br />
<br />
Hi,<br />
<br />
Can you please, please, please do something about Sigurdas? His changes may be well intentioned, but to me it is vandalism! My user page is '''my''' user page (and from what I've seen, I'm not the only one who thinks about things this way) and he has no right to put his completely undiscussed changes on it! If making me a sysop allows me to protect my page, then please make me a sysop, I'm currently unemployed and have been doing quite a bit of editing already, so you can see what I've done.<br />
<br />
: I am sorry about that, Prino. [[Category_talk:Hitchhikers|There was]] a quick discussion about this category ('''Hitchhikers from...''') and back then nobody was against of creating and applying this category so I took it for granted to change users pages accordingly. In future I will try to avoid this kind of actions. Peace, --[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 19:29, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Q2, maps: I painstakingly put a Google map for [[Oostende]] on the page for my current place of residence, it's now a openstreetmap.org map, which is almost without detail...<br />
<br />
Q3) Can you add the wikipedia character insertion box, so that it becomes a bit easier to add foreign characters, markup, symbols etc? And the longer edit tools toolbar (sub/super scripts, tables, etc)<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Robert - robert(a)prino(d)org<br />
<br />
: Hmm, I understand that. However, the categories where always the only part of the userpages, that are "allowed" to be edited by others. This is due to the fact, that we want some consistency there. As sigurdas already said, we discussed that before and everyone agreed. Then again, I see that this discussion was probably too short, to let everyone notice it. I'm sorry about that. Oh, and looks like someone made you a sysop, very good :)<br />
: Q2: I changed that now. It's the parameter 'view'. 0=gmaps, 1=sattelite, 2=hybrid, 3=osm.<br />
: Q3: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do-list.<br />
: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 22:36, 9 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== New article about statistics - limits? ==<br />
<br />
As one of the people with plenty of experience with statistics, I'm currently writing an article about the development of my statistics programs, from their very humble 5-tables per trip output to the somewhat over-the-top stuff they spew out now. Can you give me some guidance about article limits (i.e. no of lines) as it's likely to be pretty big, unless I create sub-pages linked to from the main page. <br />
<br />
Also, any suggestions as to where to put it? The main [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Statistics statistics] page seems to be just an idea-gathering place... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 10:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
: Hey, that sounds really cool :) There are no limits here, in theory you could write a book on one page. Just make sure its well-formatted and use senseful headlines, so it will be easy readable. I wouldn't use subpages, unless you have certain parts, that are useful on their own, without the context. I would suggest making a sub-page of the statistics site, separated by a /, i.e. [[Statistics/Prino Statistics Tool]], but it can also be a completely independent page as well. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:16, 14 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
== Photo copyright mistake ==<br />
<br />
Ooops. Thanks for fixing this, i will be more careful in future image uploads.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Paxus|Paxus]] 13:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks for your help! ==<br />
<br />
I\m new to hitchhiking and your site and recommendation helped me alot! Especially the service area Goldene Bremm in saarbrucken was a hit. Hope to see you sometime on or off the road. // [[User:Denizo]] [http://www.ipernity.com/home/denizo].<br />
: Cool, you're welcome. However, this is not only my site, but a site of all hitchhikers. So, if you have any good information or experiences, it would be great if you could contribute it ;) Even if it's just about how to hitchhike out of your hometown --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Thanks! ==<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
== [[Germany]] to [[Morocco]] in the summer? ==<br />
<br />
When are you going?<br />
And can I come too?<br />
--[[User:Tmoon|Tom]] 08:41, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
: Probably in August, maybe also end of July. Not completely sure yet. Are you going alone or with someone? I'll go with my girlfriend. I guess 3 persons would a little difficult, but 4 (2+2) could be great. What do you think? Let's discuss on Berlin Beach Camp, in case we meet in a sober moment. :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== please add my blog ==<br />
Hi!<br />
<br />
Check out my Blog at: http://hitchhikers.blog.com . Someone left me a comment saying you could maybe put a link to it on the wiki.<br />
<br />
I'm a hitchhiker and spiritual seeker, travelling currently in India, soon to head for Nepal and, if the Lord be willing, Tibet. So far I've hitchhiked on this trip from Finland to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech rep., Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. I flew from Teheran to Delhi and went on hitchhiking, the destinations in India you can see from my blog.<br />
<br />
This is my third trip hitchhiking in India and the second time I come from Finland (mostly) hitchhiking. The first time I covered all the distance overland, Finland-Sweden-(by boat to)Poland-Czech rep-Slovakia-Hungary-Romania-Bulgaria-Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India. I 'cheated' on four occasions: boat from Sweden to Poland, bus in Turkey (from Sivas to Erzurum), train in Iran (a driver insisted on buying a train ticket for me from Esfahan to Bander Abbas) and a bus in Pakistan (from border to Quetta).<br />
<br />
I did my first trip to India in 2005. The second time was 2007, when I hitchhiked from Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Greece-Turkey-Syria-Jordan-Israel-Egypt and then flew from Egypt to India. On that trip I 'cheated' in Greece, taking a train from Thessaloniki to Alexandropolis and between Syria(Damascos) and Jordan(Amman).<br />
<br />
<br />
If you now got interested in hitching in more exotic places, I truly recommend Turkey and Iran. The hospitality of the people in Islamic culture is amazing - the first time I was in Iran I hitched here and there for 3 weeks and only one night I ended up sleeping in a guest house - otherwise the drivers (or others I met, walking around in smaller villages for example) would always invite me to their homes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Hari Om!<br />
<br />
-Matti<br />
: Alright, I added your blog to the [http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ hitchhiking planet]. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Paluch's questions about hitchwiki maps==<br />
From [[User talk:Guaka]]:<br />
I have some questions about Hitchwiki maps. I was searching through, but i couldn't find any up date info. First of all is it possible to edit other users spots. There is many roads being built or rebuilt in Poland recently and there are more and more spots that need or will need some updates or even removal. Second is how can I set my home position other than Paris, maybe I'm blind;) but couldn't find it. Third, I see there are changes in the maps in city pages. No more thumb symbols with rating. Any reasons why? Any recent talk page about? Thanx for any help. Greets! [[User:Paluch|Paluch]]<br />
<br />
==Paluch again about hitchwiki maps and some other stuff==<br />
Hey thanks for your quick reply and improving the map. So far I've found one point to be removed as two users marked the same spot and write quite opposite description. But there's loads of points that need some updates and edits. I think we should avoid writing very subjective description, especially now after you created rating system. Maybe Hitchwiki Maps Help/FAQ section should be changed. There should be information what to write in the description. Probably most of us are not interested about some complaining of one user. I would like to find short info stating what kind of spot it is, like petrol station, slip road or lay-by and info about how to get there. Personal feelings about the spot should be stated only by rating. If I can edit points I will check all the points in Poland and abroad I know and clean them up a bit.<br />
Another thing is that I don't really know how to change my home position. And when I click My Points nothing happens. Any bug? Why some points are shown e.g. in zoom 3 and others not. How does it work? What is New Collection about? And last thing: sometimes when I have time I look for hitching spots online, mostly on Google Maps and Google search. I think I've found good spots in southern Madrid, which are not written in Madrid page. But I didn't have chance to check them out in real life, so I don't want to add them to city page. Maybe we can make a new section called e.g. Spots To Be? so other users when have possibility can check them out. What do you think about this?<br />
Greets. --[[User:Paluch|Paluch]] 01:47, 25 June 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Blog hinzufügen ==<br />
<br />
Hallo,<br />
wie kann man denn seinen Tramper-Blog hier hinzufügen?<br />
Ich bin seit 2005 auf Deutschlands und Europas Autobahnen unterwegs und wollte zunächst nachträglich und in Zukunft auch aktuell Tramptouren online dokumentieren und festhalten.<br />
Meinen Blog: Däumlings - Tramperglück und Tramperpech (http://daeumlings.blogspot.com) hätte ich gern im Planet hinzugefügt.<br />
Grüße<br />
: Mir bescheid sagen reicht ;) Habs hinzugefügt --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 12:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Please add my blog to the planet ==<br />
<br />
http://www.walterheck.com/feed<br />
<br />
I'm hitching/traveling around the world for 2 years now<br />
: Alright, added it :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
<br />
== Languages ==<br />
<br />
<br />
Hey MrTweek, I just wanted to make a quick conversion table, to be linked to from the country infoboxes, but the wikitable didn't appear to get cosmetically right anyways. (had to walk the dog in the meanwhile so I couldn't finish it straight away) I'll make a redirect to the phrasebooks instead. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers! [[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 07:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== blog adding? ==<br />
<br />
hi,<br />
<br />
My name is Liam Walls, and I write the blog "liam's gone awol" that appears on your http://hitchwiki.org/planet/ page. <br />
<br />
Firstly, i am interested how you found my blog, and would like to thank you for including me.<br />
<br />
Secondly, i would like to ask that you link to my blog rather that post it wholesale at http://hitchwiki.org/planet/. I would prefer that you post the heading an part of the blog, and then people can click a link if they want to read more. Do you think this would be possible?<br />
<br />
Oh, and can you reply by emailing me at liam.walls(ä)gmail.com ?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and keep up the good wiki work!<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
Liam<br />
<br />
:This is possible if you can make a feed like this on your blog. The planet software we use is pretty dumb AFAIK and doesn't have an option for this. (guaka not logged in) [[Special:Contributions/194.78.136.226|194.78.136.226]] 13:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Planed trips: Poland ==<br />
<br />
Hey Philipp,<br />
grad gesehen, dass du vorhast im Frühjahr nach Polen zu trampen, coole Sache. Wenn es soweit ist, meld dich doch. Kannst bei mir in Warszawa vorbei kommen, oder wir treffen uns sonst irgendwo auf n Bier ;-) War übrigens auch im Sommer in Marokko!<br />
LG --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 11:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Jo, ich mach hier Freiwilligendienst! Aber ich wollte eh mal nach Wroclaw, Poznan trampen, das passt doch ;-)<br />
<br />
== Dutch language ==<br />
Can you set up a Hitchwiki in the Dutch language? I've come across some more [[Dutch]] sites related to hitchhiking recently, and I finally think it'd be nice to also have a Hitchwiki in Dutch. Also, can I have write perms in the top directory? I can't replace the Google Webmasters file there. Dankjewel, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 13:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Faroes ==<br />
<br />
Thank you! Right, sorry, I was just adding some info and pictures - the whole page was already written in 1st person by someone else. Good you changed it all. Thumbs up!<br />
<br />
<br />
==ShareThis==<br />
I thought it was nice to set up [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShareThis ShareThis] but I don't have w access to skins/common/images - can you fix that? Thanks, [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 17:56, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
: [[Hitchwiki:Sandbox|voila]] :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:BTW, it would be cool if you'd let [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] run again for a bit. :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
:: Yeah, I'll try. This thing is very unstable and sometimes hangs up or just doesn't work. I'll check for a new version --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::Cool, I'm trying to disable some of the links there, but doesn't work yet. If that would have been working I would have added twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon support... maybe another time. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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:::: That's surely possible, but the documentation is lame :/ --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)<br />
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::::: Yes... unfortunately.<br />
:::::FYI, I just 301d hitchwiki.info to hitchwiki.org, and I also added a meta description to index.php. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
: Oh, totally forgot to tell: The bot is up and running again. It does interwiki and some minor formatting stuff :) See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and [http://hitchwiki.org/fr/Spécial:Contributions/Lanigiro here] and wherever. It runs daily at 3:00 am CET --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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==Romanian?==<br />
Hi! Can you [[Hitchwiki_talk:Community_Portal#Romanian_translation_of_hitchwiki|set up Hitchwiki in Romanian]]? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 07:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Chile ==<br />
<br />
Hey, you just contacted me about my contribution for Chile. I changed my username to my real name [[User:Bernhard]|Bernhard]. Would like to delete the other one, is that possible?<br />
: Unfortunately not, but we can just ignore it and set a redirect from your old user page to your new one, that will be fine. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 07:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== I'd like to add my blog ==<br />
<br />
www.HitchTheWorld.com<br />
<br />
Thanks, Pat<br />
<br />
: done :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 23:51, 1 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Adding real html links - how? ==<br />
<br />
I'd like to add this:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://s07.flagcounter.com/more/FKn6"><img src="http://s07.flagcounter.com/count/FKn6/bg=FFFFFF/txt=000000/border=CCCCCC/columns=2/maxflags=12/viewers=0/labels=1/pageviews=1/" alt="Free counters!" border="0"></a><br />
: Hmm, I am not sure if that's possible at all. The documentation is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images here], but I don't find exactly what you need. Maybe you can find it out, otherwise I'll check again tomorrow, need to sleep now ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:40, 3 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:: I've been trying anything and everything, but it just doesn't want to do it, maybe it really is impossible, unless you do some hard-coding at a higher level? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 20:12, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Yes, that's what I suspected. We could probably activate this somewhere in the Mediawiki configuration. However, this would open many new possibilities for spammers, so I guess we should better leave it as it is, as long as we don't have a really good use for it. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:28, 8 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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== New template, Tts ==<br />
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I've copied this one from Wikipedia, it should allow sorting hh:mm:ss times, but I cannot get it to work correctly, some text is not hidden. Can you have a look? Example is in [[User:Prino/sandbox]] <br />
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:Actually, I got it to work by removing the align="right", but that means it won't work in Wiki tables. <br />
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::Solved that too, by creating a separate Ttsh (Tts(for)h(tml)) template. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 16:04, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
::: Cool, that looks nice :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:08, 9 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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==Marvin?==<br />
What happened to [[User:Marvin]]? I've tried pywikipediabot a couple of times and even though I love Python I never tried hard enough to get something decent out of it. But it would be nice to have our beloved bot do some useful work around here though... :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:49, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Don't know. Zac hasn't been here for ages. [[User:Lanigiro|Lanigiro]] is doing his job quite well lately though. He is also a pywikipediabot. What do you want him to do, that he doesn't yet? Should be easy to enhance him. You can also have access to his scripts, if you want. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:51, 10 November 2010 (CET)<br />
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:Here is one cool thing for Lanigiro: [http://trashwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Wikilinks_from_Hitchwiki adding links to trashwiki articles]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:07, 17 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
Think [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=London&action=historysubmit&diff=47112&oldid=46701 something went wrong here with your bot]. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 15:59, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
:Yes, thank you. I am actually running some quickly hacked scripts which are using wikipediafs. Seems like it can't handle file larger than 8 KB. Still trying. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:03, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
: Ok, it's finished now. I just skipped large pages, so it worked fine. I think I'll run this script once a year or so. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:21, 11 November 2010 (CET)<br />
<br />
== my email. ==<br />
<br />
Hello mr. tweek, how are you?<br />
<br />
I am writing to give you my email. <br />
[removed]<br />
<br />
I have an unused skype account around somewhere if that counts as a messeger.<br />
<br />
Take care<br />
<br />
V.<br />
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== Our followtheroad.com blog ==<br />
<br />
Hello,<br />
<br />
We would like to ask you to remove our blog from your hitchwiki/planet page.<br />
We want to keep our stories only on our web-page (http://followtheroad.com/en/) and we don't feel good when it is re-published somewhere else without our permission.<br />
<br />
we hope you will understand us, and will remove our blog's RSS from your automatic full-text re-publishing website. (posting just a title to our story is what would be enough for us)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki><br />
Augustas & Katja<br />
email: we [at] followtheroad.com<br />
: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:59, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Community login ==<br />
Hey Philipp, ich kann mich weder mit meinem hitchwiki Account (n0id + password A) noch mit meinem openid account über wordpress einloggen (ebenfalls n0id + password B), kannst du da mal reinschauen? <br />
LG Jona<br />
Probier mal N0id, mit großem N ;) schöne Grüße. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:11, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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Doing doing doing ... macht der Kopf an der Wand. Schönen abend! --[[Special:Contributions/88.72.169.254|88.72.169.254]] 20:08, 2 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking dream? ==<br />
Hey MrTweek, this is [[User:Dargeron|Dargeron]], who improved the Baku section the other day. After your reply, I checked your profile and was surprised to read that your dream is to hitchhike from Europe to Australia. Well, but that's exactly what I'm doing right now! (more specifically, I'm going from my house in Spain to it's exact antipode in New Zealand).<br />
I am in China now, and I hope to be in NZ by summer, so if you need any sort of information at all, just contact me by hitchwiki or at my email!<br />
I hope you set up your mind and go, it's a really amazing trip! :D<br />
Best luck with it and happy new hitchhiking year! ^^<br />
: hey cool! thanks for motivation ;) actually i got it all sorted out and will definitely go, starting in june. i'll e-mail you some time next month. i have some questions, especially about visas. happy new year. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:44, 31 December 2010 (CET)<br />
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== [[Trelleborg]]/Map problems ==<br />
<br />
Hey there! I just created [[Trelleborg]] - how the hell can I edit the map location? I guess I forgot that again... help needed!<br />
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== Add blog ==<br />
Add http://mangomanjaro.se to the planet!<br />
/Robin<br />
* done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:46, 18 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Re: Spam ==<br />
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Ha, no worries, I happened to be on at the right time and a quick script running as a cron job did most of the work. Thanks! --[[User:Timmy tofu|timmy_tofu]] 11:24, 19 January 2011 (CET)<br />
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==Blog?==<br />
Hi Philipp! just checked out the blog's section of the site, and thought it would be nice to add mine to it as well. The address is gerbennap.waarbenjij.nu<br />
Would you need any other info? Hope this is possible :)<br />
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Cheers!<br />
[[User:Gerbennap|Gerbennap]] 15:29, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
: Of course it's possible ;) Just added it --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:44, 2 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Hitchhiking Contest ==<br />
<br />
Hey !<br />
<br />
I organise the Hitchhikng Contest from Paris to Dakar start 11/11/11 wich is now in less than a year.<br />
Untill now comunication was mostla by word of mouth on the road and now start the online part. We already have a small good comunity, and very positive feedbacks from very diferent kind of people.<br />
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Let me know if you want more informations.<br />
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hitchhikingcontest.org<br />
thebeatniks.org/vanilla (new forum)<br />
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cheers<br />
<br />
Roch<br />
: Yeah, I heard of it and as you can see, it's already on the hitchwiki front page anyway. Little more information on the website would be nice though :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 16:26, 4 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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<br />
== border crossings == <br />
Hey, alles klar? ;-) Meinst du man könnte Border Crossings irgendwie mit Category:Border Crossings verbinden/zusammenfügen, sodass man nicht nur den Info text bekommt sondern gleichzeitig ein paar beispiele verlinkt sieht? umgekehrt dasselbe ... und schaust du mal nach Swiecko? Ich hab das Verschieben nicht so perfekt hinbekommen, noch dazu mit Groß/Kleinschreibung und Sonderzeichen ;-) <br />
Bist du jetzt eigentlich unterwegs?? <br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Jona<br />
: Hey Jona. Man könnte die sicherlich zusammenfügen... einfach den Text kopieren und einen redirect machen. Bei Swiecko sieht so weit ich das sehe alles gut aus.<br />
: Ich werd erst im Juni starten, wenns warm wird. Evtl. noch das Tramperrennen mitmachen, wenn ich das in meine Route einbauen kann.<br />
: Schönen Gruß!<br />
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== Spammers ==<br />
<br />
Suggestion, if possible: block all usernames of the format 'letters' followed by 'numbers' [[User:Prino|Prino]] 18:08, 25 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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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)<br />
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: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)<br />
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:: 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)<br />
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== Videoflash ==<br />
I think http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash could be nice. Can you install it - or chmod/chgrp -R? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 12:51, 28 February 2011 (CET)<br />
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==news==<br />
Ha! I didn't see it was in events. Fair enough :-) [[User:Robino|Robino]] 01:10, 1 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Events template ==<br />
<br />
IMHO the events should be ordered the way they ware, i.e. latest at the top... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:11, 16 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Hmm, but why? I think the events that happen really soon should be on top. Sometimes, we had events that are more than 1 year in the future. They would stay on top all the time then. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:43, 17 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:: That's true, but maybe the template should have an additional entry that links to future events like those further away than 60/90/180 days? Is there no way of automating this and also to "roll-off" events that have passed? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:22, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
::: I added an horizontal line between events for this summer and event(s) after summer. Not sure which criteria to use. 3 months? 6 months? It's not easy to automate it. There might be plugins for that, but I think as long as we never had more than 10 events, we can handle it manually. I'll do some research anyway. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:27, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== Cleanup registered but inactive users ==<br />
<br />
There are currently around 500 users who made edits in the last 91 days, on a total of more than 2,000 and some user-names seem to be very fishy, like<br />
<br />
* 3P2e3K68 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 17:12:10)<br />
* 3j2e3m64 (Created on 2007-09-30 at 09:48:20)<br />
* 9Pd2q8Kh (Created on 2007-10-01 at 22:31:42)<br />
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Wouldn't it be possible to match the "made edits" and "all users" lists against each other, and delete all users who never made any edits and haven't logged on for more than 365 (or whatever) days? I'm administrator on [http://zos.efglobe.com/index.php Dezhi Systems support site] and here we go even further, people need to be activated by an admin to get write access to the forum (about 95% of our requested registrations are coming from spammers) and people who haven't returned in the month following activation are mercilessly zapped, as are those who have never posted and and haven't logged in for over six months. It keeps things tidy... [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:35, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
: Yeah, I agree and I'd love to do that. The thing is, mediawiki does not really support deleting users. We can only block them, or set them inactive, but they will not disappear from the user list. I am not sure why.<br />
:: Might this be of any use: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete User Merge and Delete extension]<br />
::: But then again, the question is: why do we want that? It'll will keep the records clean, yes, but does it have any practical use? --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 18:18, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:::: I'm from the z/OS world, where userid's are deleted the moment someone leaves a company. It's a matter of security. If a userid no longer exists, it cannot be abused. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 21:20, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
:At the moment, we don't have a problem with spammers. They will surely come back some time, but as long as they don't, I'd prefer keeping hitchwiki as open as possible. Wikipedia is a good example that even huge sites can live with anonymous edits and automated registrations. I guess it's a matter of the ratio between active users and active spammers. Let's see how it will work for us :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:44, 21 March 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Template wildgrowth ==<br />
<br />
Do we really need any more templates on every country, like i.e.<br />
<br />
<b><nowiki>{{Cities Netherlands}}<br />
{{Provinces NL}}</nowiki></b> in the Netherlands or<br />
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<b><nowiki>{{Regions Denmark}}</nowiki></b> in Denmark.<br />
<br />
These are IMHO completely irrelevant as far as hitchhiking is concerned. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 17:25, 16 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Good question. I did not create any of these and hardly ever use them. Then again, I don't see how they cause any harm. Can't be that bad to have many links between many pages, can it? 12:35, 20 May 2011 MrTweek<br />
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:Yeah why not have them? Links are good.<br />
:It would be good however to follow some kinda standard for this. Maybe Wikipedia has something somewhere? Whoever enjoys creating templates should look into that a wee bit... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:08, 21 May 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Special:ListFiles ==<br />
<br />
Can you make the "user" column of this table also sortable? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 01:32, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== Map problem ==<br />
<br />
I like to use the iframe possibility, but your program seems to not understand the longitude parameter, the following map should show the service station Inntal West, but have a look:<br />
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<iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lng=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
<br />
--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 18:26, 12 June 2011 (CEST)<br />
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The parameter for the longitude parameter in the '''Code for embedding'''-box of '''Hitchwiki Maps''' is not '''lng''' but '''lon'''!<br />
<br />
try <iframe src="http://hitchwiki.org/maps/widget/?lat=47.61164972988&lon=12.200449347367&zoom=15" frameborder="0" width="480px" height="350px"></iframe><br />
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--[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 00:34, 17 March 2013 (CET)<br />
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== Unnecesary information ==<br />
<br />
Is it necessary to display a users openid-login at the top of the userpage? And<br />
this even to non logged-in users. As on your page: openid-inputicon.png | http://flupps.net/<br />
---<br />
OK, there was a preference for that. [[User:Quitelost|Quitelost]] 17:48, 19 July 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== planet hitchwiki / sms ==<br />
<br />
hey, i love the hitchwiki planet, and i've got a question:<br />
the abgefahren sms blog is totally swamping the planet and i think you're running that as well -- would it be possible to make the syndicated rss a daily (or weekly or whatever) roundup of the texts? right now there's nothing but text messages on there, and while they're fun, i really come to the planet for the more long-winded hitchhiking stories... ;) cheers! [[User:Teja|Teja]] 16:12, 25 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: I removed the sms blog from the planet. We don't relly need it there anyway, I guess :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 20:00, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== MediaWiki 1.17 ==<br />
Can you upgrade to MW 1.17? I wanna see what http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader does in terms of Hitchwiki's front end performance :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 20:16, 31 August 2011 (CEST)<br />
: Yeah sure. I'm still on the road, but next week I'll probably have some time for that. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 09:52, 1 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
<br />
== Hitchability, again ==<br />
<br />
Salut, M. Tweek,<br>Would you mind having another brief look [[Talk:Hitchability_World_Map|here]]? I believe it would be very simple to add the '''senseless''' to '''very good''' tags to what we have now which basically only is the symbol and the "rate". Catch my drift? ;-) once you'd add it I'd be all over this place replacing 'em templates in the country articles :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 19:27, 4 September 2011 (CEST)<br />
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== 6 months? ==<br />
Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that spammers will become nice contributors after 6 months... So it's best to just block them forever! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:47, 2 October 2011 (CEST)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== Two users Rocky... ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== Unblock IP address - how? ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: Yup, sounds good, never mind :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:36, 21 January 2012 (CET)<br />
<br />
== Where are you? / Abgefahren ==<br />
<br />
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<br />
: Yup, I basically travelled the silk road, via Turkey, Caucasus, ferry from Baku to Aktau and then Uzbekistan, China, Vietnam, etc...<br />
: Nice to hear that our members are spreading the propaganda :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:54, 22 April 2012 (CEST)<br />
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<br />
== Blog ==<br />
Hallo,<br />
ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn auch mein Blog, bzw der Artikel zum Trampen verlinkt werden könnte.<br />
<br />
Link: http://www.naturundfreiheit.de/index.php/blog/87-berichte-und-dokumentationen/schuelerprojekt-expedition-in-england-und-wales/88-trampen-reisen-per-anhalter<br />
<br />
Vielen Dank!<br />
LG Jan Temmel<br />
: 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<br />
<br />
== Spam at the Russian part of the hitchwiki ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
now there is spam in the Spanish part --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] 00:34, 20 July 2012 (CEST)<br />
<br />
: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)<br />
<br />
::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)<br />
<br />
== New extension ==<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
[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)<br />
: 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)<br />
::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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
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== Admin rights ==<br />
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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)<br />
: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 10:49, 20 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:: And also on the Dutch one? [[User:Prino|Prino]] 11:04, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
::: Done --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:31, 24 September 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: 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)<br />
::::::: 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)<br />
: 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)<br />
:: You got Admin rights in these languages now as well.<br />
:::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)<br />
:::: Done. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 15:22, 8 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::And on the Polish one, is also suffering from link-spam. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 12:18, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
:: 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?<br />
:: Also, I added a num-switch to RecentChangesCleanup. See [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=500 here].<br />
:: --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 05:42, 13 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
:::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)<br />
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== Infobox region + IsIn ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek, I've got a question about the Template:Infobox region, maybe you can help me with that: <br />
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]]. <br />
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?<br />
Cheers,<br />
[[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 15:45, 20 October 2012 (CEST)<br />
: I moved the infobox to the right now. It's nice anyway :)<br />
: 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)<br />
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::Thank you very much, that looks very good now! :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 12:42, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== Edit conflict ==<br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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.<br />
: 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)<br />
:: 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)<br />
::: 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)<br />
:::: 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)<br />
::::: 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)<br />
:::::: That's probably correct :) [[User:QuéSéYo2|QuéSéYo2]] ([[User talk:QuéSéYo2|talk]]) 16:22, 28 October 2012 (CET)<br />
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== new blog on your list? :) ==<br />
<br />
Hi MrTweek,<br />
<br />
We are Ania & Jon, a hitch-hiking couple who founded hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
<br />
We invite you to have a look at our blog and if you like it, please add it to your list :)<br />
<br />
We also have a list of hitch-hiking blogs, so if you know any blogs worth recommending, give us a shout:<br />
http://hitchhikershandbook.com/2012/12/04/how-to-travel-on-a-budget-transportation-part-1-hitchhiking/<br />
<br />
Many thanks and safe travels in the new year!<br />
<br />
Ania & Jon<br />
<br />
HHH<br />
hitchhikershandbook.com<br />
: 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)<br />
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Yes, thanks a dozen and happy hitching! :)<br />
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== Login problems ==<br />
<br />
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? <br />
<br />
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)<br />
: 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)<br />
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== CSS, big problem ==<br />
<br />
Has something been changed with regards to the CSS?<br />
<br />
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)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Hitchwiki_talk:Database_dumps&diff=72335Hitchwiki talk:Database dumps2013-09-11T02:52:43Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>I'm working on a daily mirror of the dumps. Since they're already quite big it'd be cool to bzip2 the dumps. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 22:29, 13 February 2009 (UTC)<br />
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I'm playing with [http://aarddict.org/ Aarddict] now. Hope to have usable <tt>.aar</tt>s this week. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:33, 26 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
:Check http://wikis.guaka.org/aard-hitchwiki/20091026/ :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 00:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)<br />
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== Using the XML dump ==<br />
[[User:Spaak|Spaak]] ([[User talk:Spaak|talk]]) I'm getting time-outs when downloading the xml dumps :S<br />
: Which one are you trying to download? They work for me. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</sup> 04:52, 11 September 2013 (CEST)<br />
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Hi,<br />
I downloaded the dump but it's in XML. HOw do I convert it into a readable format?<br />
THanks!<br />
<br />
:What is "readable"? Some code or some script? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:01, 6 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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:: See [[Hitchwiki:Offline]]--[[User:Tobias|Tobias]] 21:02, 9 March 2011 (CET)<br />
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== WikiReader ==<br />
<br />
Hello, <br />
<br />
Im working on having Hitchwiki content in the WikiReader, ([http://www.thewikireader.com]) and as a part of the import process from the xml dumps to the device, looks like extra xml files are needed, as seen in the instructions found here: [https://github.com/wikireader/wikireader/wiki/Building-an-image]<br />
<br />
As stated in the instructions, the missing XML files are the ones with the licenses for the content, but I cant find them within the database dumps of this wiki. Im not sure they are completely necessary, but since im struggling with the process and it is not displaying on the device, I thought maybe I could give it a try and ask here for such files if they exist.<br />
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Also, I was wondering if the GFDL dumps are the only ones containing the entries posted before 1st july 2009 or if they can be found within the new dumps but with CC licensing.<br />
<br />
Thanks!<br />
<br />
--[[User:Cookeeh|Cookeeh]] 23:58, 31 May 2012 (CEST)<br />
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:At http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/ you can also fetch full-XX.xml - which should contain all article history. (It would probably make sense to gzip this stuff.) Let us know if you manage to get Hitchwiki in WikiReader! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 11:07, 1 June 2012 (CEST)</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Hitchwiki:Database_dumps&diff=72334Hitchwiki:Database dumps2013-09-11T02:52:02Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>You can download full '''database dumps''' of the Hitchwiki in XML format here. They are updated daily.<br />
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{| border="1" cellpadding="3"<br />
| '''Content only'''<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-en.xml English]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-de.xml German]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-fr.xml French]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-es.xml Spanish]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-pt.xml Portugues]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-fi.xml Finnish]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-bg.xml Bulgarian]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-ru.xml Russian]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-zh.xml Chinese]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-pl.xml Polish]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-nl.xml Dutch]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-ro.xml Romanian]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-tr.xml Turkish]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-current-he.xml Hebrew]<br />
|-<br />
| '''Full dump''' (including history for each article)<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-en.xml English]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-de.xml German]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-fr.xml French]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-es.xml Spanish]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-pt.xml Portugues]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-fi.xml Finnish]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-bg.xml Bulgarian]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-ru.xml Russian]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-zh.xml Chinese]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-pl.xml Polish]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-nl.xml Dutch]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-ro.xml Romanian]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-tr.xml Turkish]<br />
| [http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/hitchwiki-full-he.xml Hebrew]<br />
|}<br />
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== Hitchwiki API ==<br />
* MediaWiki [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page API documentation]<br />
* Hitchwiki Maps [http://hitchwiki.org/maps/about_api/ API documentation]<br />
* Hitchwiki community pages [http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/oauth2/ oauth2 ], [http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API XML-RPC API], [http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/ REST API] — ''not activated by default. Ask [[User:Mikael|Mikael]]!''<br />
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== Related ==<br />
* [[hitchwiki:offline|Info how to use wiki dumps offline]] <br />
* [http://hitchwiki.org/developers/ Developer updates]<br />
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.cordova.cordovahitchwikimeteorcom Hitchwiki Android app]<br />
* If you're interested in these, you might also want to check out [http://wikivoyage.org Wikivoyage], which (unlike Wikitravel) offers [http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Database_dump database dumps] for download.<br />
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[[Category:Hitchwiki]]<br />
[[Category:Tech]]<br />
[[de:Tramperwiki:Datenbankauszüge]]<br />
[[fr:Hitchwiki:Dump de la base]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Guilin&diff=72305Guilin2013-09-09T06:32:17Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>Guilin is a city in Guangxi Province, [[China]]. Its a popular Tourist Destination.<br />
<br />
== Hitching out ==<br />
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=== South towards [[Liuzhou]] and [[Nanning]]===<br />
<br />
From the Main Station take Bus 88 to 翠竹路口,best ask the driver when to get off since the name on the right station said something else. There change to Bus 85, might take a while till it comes, while a lot of 88 will pass by. Take the line 85 till 沙塘大圆盘站. From there its still 7km to the highway but almost everyone there is either going to the airport or the highway and with a sign, it should take you less than 15 minutes to get to the toll station of the Highway G72.<br />
{{IsIn|China}}<br />
[[Category:China]]</div>MrTweekhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Nanning&diff=72304Nanning2013-09-09T06:32:12Z<p>MrTweek: </p>
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<div>Nanning is a city in [[China]] and the capitol of Guangxi Province. <br />
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== Hitching out ==<br />
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=== North towards [[Liuzhou]] and [[Guilin]] ===<br />
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From the Guangxi Daxue (University) Busstop take the Bus Number 76 all the way to the last stop Langdong Bus Station 琅东汽车站. Walk to the right side after you leave the building and cross the junction, then you should already see the toll station. From there it is super easy to find someone going that direction. User [[Ruebezahl]] got even approached and asked if he want to come with the driver to Liuzhou, before he could ask anyone.<br />
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{{IsIn|China}}<br />
[[Category:China]]</div>MrTweek