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'''Why add hitchhiking info to this wiki?'''
 
'''Why add hitchhiking info to this wiki?'''
  
* [[project:about|This project]] uses the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License], a free, copyleft license, implying that anyone can copy, modify or even sell it. And any copy and modification will also be under this license. (So if someone starts selling it, anyone can. So the price will be low, and improvements can easily be put back into this site.)
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* [[project:about|This project]] uses the Creative Commons ShareAlike Attribution license, a free, copyleft license, implying that anyone can copy, modify or even sell it. And any copy and modification will also be under this license. (So if someone starts selling it, anyone can. So the price will be low, and improvements can easily be put back into this site.)
 
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* It will be easy to take this information in your favourite portable device running GNU/Linux.  
* It will be easy to take this information in your favourite portable device running GNU/Linux. <small>[[User:Guaka|Guaka]] is working on downloadable versions of this wiki for the Nokia 770, and [http://industree.org/guaka/wiki/MaemoDict software to access it].</small>
 
 
 
 
* It's a wiki, so information is supposed to become more accurate over time.
 
* It's a wiki, so information is supposed to become more accurate over time.
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* Because you can!
  
* At some point we'll probably want to move to a nicer domain name, with no or less ads. <small>And please contact [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] if you're interested in helping with this.</small>
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== Related projects ==
  
* Because you can!
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=== [http://wikitravel.org/ Wikitravel] ===
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As of 2009 Wikitravel uses the same license, so it's possible to copy stuff back and forth.  It could be good to add information about hitchhiking to Wikitravel - just to promote the concept to a wider public. Note though that hitching info will get lost in big articles containing a lot of irrelevant information for hitchhikers.  Apart from that, a lot of stuff on Wikitravel simply gets deleted.  Also note that Wikitravel still doesn't provide a database dump and that is needed to make versions for devices like phones. (Hitchwiki database dumps are available at http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/). Since 2012 much of the editor activity (and a significant amount of the readership) has moved to the non-profit [https://en.wikivoyage.org Wikivoyage], a direct competitor with the support of Wikipedia's parent organization (see below).
  
==Why not to add to Wikitravel==
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=== [https://en.wikivoyage.org Wikivoyage] ===
* It gets lost in big articles containing irrelevant information for hitchhikers.
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Wikivoyage is the non-profit alternative to Wikitravel, run by the Wikimedia Foundation (like Wikipedia). Most of Wikitravel's original editors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitravel#Community_fork_in_2012 moved to Wikivoyage] in 2012 after major commercialization of Wikitravel and dissatisfaction with its management. It is also distributed under the same license as Hitchwiki, so things can be copied back and forth from it too, and it may also be a good place to spread the word about hitchhiking.
* Wikitravel likes to delete a lot of stuff.
 
* Wikitravel still doesn't provide a database dump and that is needed to make versions for devices like phones.
 
** [http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Database_download Wikia database dumps]
 
  
Of course, it is suggested you doubly-license your work here under both the GFDL and the CC-BY-SA licenses (all versions, since Wikitravel is still on version 1.0).
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=== [http://wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] ===
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Practical hitchhiking info doesn't really fit well into an encyclopedia, but there are some noteworthy articles though, and it's good to spread knowledge about hitchhiking in an encyclopedic way.
  
==Why not to add to Wikipedia==
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=== Other hitchhiking websites ===
* Hitchhiking info doesn't really fit well into an encyclopedia.
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* There are no other [[websites about hitchhiking|websites primarily about hitchhiking]] using a free license.  If there are any: please mention, it might be possible to cooperate.
  
==Why not add to other hitchhiking websites==
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[[Category:Philosophy]]
# There are no other [[websites about hitchhiking|websites primarily about hitchhiking]] using a free license. If there are any: please mention, it might be possible to cooperate.
 
# There are no other wikis about hitchhiking. And wikis are cool!
 

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Why add hitchhiking info to this wiki?

  • This project uses the Creative Commons ShareAlike Attribution license, a free, copyleft license, implying that anyone can copy, modify or even sell it. And any copy and modification will also be under this license. (So if someone starts selling it, anyone can. So the price will be low, and improvements can easily be put back into this site.)
  • It will be easy to take this information in your favourite portable device running GNU/Linux.
  • It's a wiki, so information is supposed to become more accurate over time.
  • Because you can!

Related projects

Wikitravel

As of 2009 Wikitravel uses the same license, so it's possible to copy stuff back and forth. It could be good to add information about hitchhiking to Wikitravel - just to promote the concept to a wider public. Note though that hitching info will get lost in big articles containing a lot of irrelevant information for hitchhikers. Apart from that, a lot of stuff on Wikitravel simply gets deleted. Also note that Wikitravel still doesn't provide a database dump and that is needed to make versions for devices like phones. (Hitchwiki database dumps are available at http://hitchwiki.org/dumps/). Since 2012 much of the editor activity (and a significant amount of the readership) has moved to the non-profit Wikivoyage, a direct competitor with the support of Wikipedia's parent organization (see below).

Wikivoyage

Wikivoyage is the non-profit alternative to Wikitravel, run by the Wikimedia Foundation (like Wikipedia). Most of Wikitravel's original editors moved to Wikivoyage in 2012 after major commercialization of Wikitravel and dissatisfaction with its management. It is also distributed under the same license as Hitchwiki, so things can be copied back and forth from it too, and it may also be a good place to spread the word about hitchhiking.

Wikipedia

Practical hitchhiking info doesn't really fit well into an encyclopedia, but there are some noteworthy articles though, and it's good to spread knowledge about hitchhiking in an encyclopedic way.

Other hitchhiking websites