Hitchwiki:Community Portal

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Template for City pages

moved :) Guaka 16:03, 17 August 2007 (CEST)

Different names of cities in other languages

Hey, today I found out that there a dozen of other names of cities in other languages. This wikipage shows the most of them. I guess that we should at least redirect city names not from all languages (would be a lot of work) but from the most essential. Here the next question comes up, which languages are essential? I think redirects of city names in English, French, Spanish, German and Russian would cover the most at the moment. Any suggestions? platschi^{site, wikitalk} 14:45, 13 September 2007 (CEST)

IRC channel or message board

I was thinking last night while at work that it would be really nice if we had an IRC channel. I love the wiki, but I think that a channel would help strengthen our community. A message board I'm not quite as sure about, because I hate sites that try to serve content via a board, but I'd be willing to mod a punBB or something to integrate well with the wiki so that we didn't "split" our content or do away with talk pages. I'm already idling #hitchwiki on Efnet (I'm Gh0ul) if anyone is interested in it! Zac^talk 15:05, 17 August 2007 (CEST)

IRC would be fine for me. Maybe we can also use a jabber chat room (should also be compatible with google talk). I'm not sure if i like EFnet, yet, but I think I could live with it ;)

I really don't want a message board, that's hard to combine with a wiki in a senseful way. --MrTweek 21:25, 17 August 2007 (CEST)

Pictures of the now

I just thought about replacing the pictures of the now by random images. something like that: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomImage what do you (all) think? --MrTweek 21:25, 17 August 2007 (CEST)

Sounds good to me. Zac^talk

Good idea, if you find the time to do it sometime. I'd rather first see OpenID :) guaka^{site, wikitalk} 21:41, 12 September 2007 (CEST)

User Details

Is my email address publicly visible - if not, is it visible to those who register as users? --System.Exception 19:25, 29 August 2007 (CEST)

No, it is visible to nobody. You just have to enter it for verifying your account, or in case you lost your password and stuff --MrTweek 08:38, 30 August 2007 (CEST)

Well, actually it's probably visible to anyone with access to the actual database (not the database dumps) of Hitchwiki: MrTweek and myself (if I can find the login to the server again :) guaka^{site, wikitalk} 21:41, 12 September 2007 (CEST)

Happy to see this wiki - Multilingual coordination

I was justly thinking in my way from Croatia to France today that it should be great to have a wiki about hitchhaking and I see that it's done!. Unfortunaly my english is not good enough (OK i'm a french guy) to participate on it but it is steel a really good thing. I know a website in french http://membres.lycos.fr/bpierret/hitchike.htm wich have realy good information about where to do auto stop in the cities. Someone should translate it. --Kimdime69 22:18, 5 September 2007 (CEST)

If there is enough interest, we would be glad to start a french version of hitchwiki (there is already a spanish one). However I don't speak french, so it would be important that at least 1 or 2 people are responsible for taking care of it. Just let me know --MrTweek 22:44, 5 September 2007 (CEST)

Well I will not be the good man to start a french version, if there is one maybe I would participate but I'm quite sceptic about the viability of such thing when I see than even in the english version there is so much to do. --86.200.233.223 15:05, 6 September 2007 (CEST)

I'm interested in a French version. My French is waning and I need a chance to practice it, so I'd love to work on translating pages. Zac^talk 23:29, 6 September 2007 (CEST)

Bon, let's do it. I'm happy to keep an eye on it and help with some rough translations, and to communicate between the English and the French project. Alors, http://fr.hitchwiki.org, on y va? guaka^{site, wikitalk} 04:51, 7 September 2007 (CEST)

It would probably be cool to get some Babel template stuff here, from Wikipedia. guaka^{site, wikitalk} 04:58, 7 September 2007 (CEST)

Alright, I've set up http://fr.hitchwiki.org/ and http://de.hitchwiki.org/. I would suggest to create at least basic Main Pages before announcing them. I don't speak any french, so I'll leave it to you. It would be good to find some native french speaker as an admin. Please do not announce the German version yet. I will do that, after clarifying some organisational things with the guys from abgefahren. --MrTweek 11:17, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

Oh, and your logins work on all languages, of course. But admins/sysops/etc are not identical. --MrTweek 11:23, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

Great great great! I just started Multilingual coordination :) guaka^{site, wikitalk} 20:38, 10 September 2007 (CEST)

Truck companies

I think that there should be a place to write down witch truck companies that drives from witch places to witch and when. We all have some numbers to truckdrivers, not putting them on display here of course but telling the rout, company and times to role... I am googeling companys right now driving Paris to Barcelona, but I cant find anything in english... Anyone ideas about how to google or companies that might drive?

I'm not so sure if that information might really be so useful. Truck are always the slowest way to get somewhere, so I usually try to avoid getting picked up by trucks, especially when leaving big cities. Also, there are probably a lot of trucks on major routes like Paris->Barcelona every day. jm2c --MrTweek^{site, wikitalk} 16:06, 14 September 2007 (CEST)

On the other hand, it is a certain way to get somewhere. From Paris to Barcelona is hard to do during the daylight of one day (even on the 21st of June), so going with a truck would be a very good alternative. Maybe it would be good to know if there are companies that are likely to help hitchhikers somewhere. I have never tried it myself though... and I probably wouldn't. I don't like planning so much :) guaka^{site, wikitalk} 18:17, 14 September 2007 (CEST)

international start page?

moved to Hitchwiki talk:Start Page

Google Maps plugin

Maybe this is worth checking out: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Maps It might be the way for even more integration between liftershalte and hitchwiki! guaka^{site, wikitalk} 01:34, 24 September 2007 (CEST)

Wow, it has improved a lot since i checked the last time. I'll see what I can do. Any good ideas how to improve it? --MrTweek^{site, wikitalk} 09:35, 24 September 2007 (CEST)

political borders vs. cultural borders

I'm just thinking about how we should treat borders. In my opinion, cultural borders are more important than political borders. For example in Ireland, there is a political border, but it is open, and even the locals don't see this as a real border. Also, I'm sure there is no difference between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, regarding to hitchhiking. So I want the atricle Ireland to cover the whole Island and put a note about this in the article Northern Ireland. I'm not sure, wether there are other countries whith such a situation (maybe Belgium?) --MrTweek^{site, wikitalk} 10:36, 24 September 2007 (CEST)

We have to define clear guidelines for that. If we don t we soon get confrontated with Spanish Regions who want to be independen (Katalunia, Basque Country, Galicia, etc.) We have to state somewhere how we decide on those issues.

I would recommend to take the official definitions of countries and link in Ireland to the Northern Ireland Article and Vice Verse - might be easier for the search as well. Fabzgy 18:30, 25 September 2007 (CEST)

Hitchwiki GFDL?

As Wikipedia states we are using GFDL but thats not true, isn t it? We are Using CC as far as I know.