Hitchwiki:Community Portal
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Questions? Need help?
If you have any important questions about spots mentioned here at the wiki, or if you need help for cities that are not added yet, don't hesitate to ask here! Just click on the [edit] button just next to the title Questions? Need help?, and you can write down your concern in a little sweet box. Happy hitchhiking, platschisite, wikitalk 14:39, 5 November 2007 (CET)
- Does anyone know how to hitch out southwards of Trento in Italy? Please answer on the Talk:Trento page if you know specific information!
- Hey there! I'm a newbee with hitchwiki...how can I add a thumb symbol to the maps and write a description in the small box that appears? Please answer at Talk:Varkaus. And how can I add a map to the article about Helsinki? Thanks:) Annika
- Hi again! well, now I've added a couple of thumbs and my next question is how can I edit the text in the small boxes since I made a little mistake (I tend to mix up the words east and west, which can be pretty crucial when writing these direction ;D). Thanks again! Annika
- Hey Annika, congratulations :-) I guess you can edit your own points only when you logged in at liftershalte. If you made a mistake just tell me at User_talk:Platschi which point is wrong and I'll correct it for you. Otherwise I think you can just login with your hitchwiki name also at liftershalte the next time, then you can edit your own points just by clicking on the text. (a button "edit" appears then"). Hugs, platschisite, wikitalk 16:30, 24 March 2008 (CET)
new creation of a main page
Just created an idea of a maybe somewhat nicer main page at User:Platschi/Spielwiese. Additions, Corrections and Edits are welcome, also please comment the stuff at User talk:Platschi/Spielwiese. Thanks! platschisite, wikitalk 23:24, 11 January 2008 (CET)
Phrasebooks
Hey Hitchehikers,
i would like to contribute on the side: Phrasebooks. I am able to translate the sentences in Italian. But maybe i made a mistake, cause it doesn`t work. I can`t find the button edit. If you would change it, i could continue to translate....
Thanks
infobox country & cities
hey, i just recognized that the infoboxes are not shown correctly on IE 7.0. The boxes are on top of the articles, not on the left side as they should be. Also the borders are not shown correctly :(
hitchplanet
regarding the cheapest hostels.....my idea of hitchwiki: what i missed as a hitchhiker was a kind of lonely planet, but with only the most basic information. would be nice if hitchwiki could provide this. that means we should include border crossing (this makes not sense in western countries of course) and similar stuff (only the important one of course. so if you travel on your own you ve everything you need without bying the planet. wouldn t that be nice? Worldhitch 17:45, 7 October 2007 (CEST)
- Zac was working on a hitchzine. I think it's similar to this. (And I think planet should be reserved for this idea :) guakasite, wikitalk 17:46, 7 October 2007 (CEST)
cheapest hostels
i think we should include a list of the cheapest hostels in the mayor cities....if you have a LP or know cheap hostels please write em down in the city section under SLEEP.
- In some articles we already have that, like Hannover or Milano. However, in bigger cities there are usually hundreds of hostels and you can always find the cheapest one via Hostelworld, you can even check wether they have free beds. But if you know good hostels for any towns, just add them. --MrTweeksite, wikitalk 09:37, 4 October 2007 (CEST)
hostelworld is not too bad, but especially in south america there are lot of "local" hostels that tend to be much cheaper than the ones for the foreigners.
I m adding active hosting communities and their way of communication. I think thats way better. If there is nothing like this I think it would make sence to add hostels but as a second option! Fabzgy 03:52, 7 October 2007 (CEST)
- Is it possible to make one template where the links to all hostels / hospitality communities is in? Best would be when it would be flexible and depending of the city name, you would come on the right (city) page. --Alex 12:27, 7 October 2007 (CEST)
Future move to CC-BY-SA
Apparently it will be possible to move towards the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike in the future. After Wikipedia will have made the transition, we can do it as well. That would be great, since it would mean we will be able to copy to and from many more projects. guakasite, wikitalk 17:21, 28 December 2007 (CET)
"edit section" links
I'm currently using IE7 and noticing that the "edit section" links are displayed on the left (next to the heading) rather than on the right - would you think you would be able to upload a better CSS file? (from wikipedia, maybe?)
- I don't have IE7 here, so I can't test it. This is the default-configuration of MediaWiki, but I'm quite sure, I replaced it everywhere. What is your language setting? Does this also happen in the German oder Russian hitchwiki? Does it still happen, when you log out? --MrTweeksite, wikitalk 14:42, 10 March 2008 (CET)
- Well, on IE they are always on the left. Stupid browser ;-) You can also go to "my preferences" and set them out, so no more edit links will be shown :) platschisite, wikitalk 16:23, 10 March 2008 (CET)
- Not the Browsers fault this time. I just realized that MediaWiki has a separate css for IE. I'll try to fix that.
- Well, on IE they are always on the left. Stupid browser ;-) You can also go to "my preferences" and set them out, so no more edit links will be shown :) platschisite, wikitalk 16:23, 10 March 2008 (CET)
User info
Just stumbled upon Danielziom's profile and saw that he visited Romania, and actually came pretty close to my home town. Without me knowing. What I propose is: let's let people know that we're there. For example, at the end of the page for one's home town, one could supply a link to his/her CouchSurfing profile, at least. So when other hitchhikers are in the area, we can have some contact, help with the bonding within the HHing community (or at least the HitchWiki community). Let me know what you think. --TruckThor 21:56, 6 April 2008 (CEST)
