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:: Archive of '''Talk:Main Page''': [[Talk:Main Page/05-07|2005-2007]]:: ''Our [[Community Portal]] is a more appropriate place for questions, comments and discussions that are not directly related to the Main Page.''----== General Aspect To new members ==Please make your first contribution your own 'user' profile! This will stop showing your name in red and it will give your contributions more validity.

- Boo -- Also, if you are not a native speaker of a language, it might be worthwhile to access hitchwiki.org using Firefox and download the Main Page format has been blatantly ripped off dictionary from [httphttps://wikitraveladdons.mozilla.org Wikitravel/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 Mozilla]for the language in which you are writing your contribution, which is licensed under CC byso that you can spell-sacheck what you're typing. If you're editing the English language wiki, I'd suggest to use US spelling, not GFDLbut feel free to voice your objections. [[User:202.76.231.182Prino|202.76.231.182Prino]] 1920:4036, 19 Dec 2005 25 December 2008 (UTC)

:Hi! :) Well== Bug?? ==When linking from other sites or typing on the address bar, it might be good I often get sent to have some cities in there as well. To give an idea to people and to persuade people to add something about cities we dona ''double''t have yet! Although I want to get rid of the red links in page with a couple of monthscapital letter, which looks like the following: http://hitchwiki.org/en/Http://hitchwiki.org/index. Oh, and you can sign using <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>phpAnyone has an idea why? It seems to always do that if we link hitchwiki city page on the CS wiki travel page. Peace,love&hitchhike fun, It is done on every page from cswiki [[User:GuakaMaplefanta|GuakaMaplefanta]] 2205:5710, 28 Dec 2005 30 May 2009 (UTC)

- Hello:It's because of the intricacies of <tt>. Before discovering this place for discussion I already filled some boxes eg about Virgin hh, Poland and the Netherlandshtaccess</tt>. On one hand this The CS wiki is a good idea, because it has some (very small) potential linking to become an interesting source of information. However, I am not expecting this at alle. Which does not need to mean anythingg. Any new business usually takes some time - up to three or five years - to make a little bit more than it costs, and so it might be with this initiativehttp://www. As for what I've read it's some kind of starthitchwiki. However, I have doubts about the general neutrality of the content for noworg/Paris. For example - :So I read that a country can be skipped if an attempt to hitchhike there does not succeed. What a bullshit! This may be reasonable for random long distance travellers, however many people who hitchhike do so for very different reasonschecked [http://davidwalsh. For example because they don't have money, because there is name/no public transport and so on. Hitchhiking in the Netherlands "is possible". "It's possible" for some, for others it is easy, not just possible. So, my comment is a very positive one - I hope www-using-htaccess- which tries to say. What is the neutral point of view? Ah, I see that the hitchhikers point of view is wanted. If so, what is a hitchhiker, file some stuff] and what is the hitchhikers point of view? If a non-hitchhiker wanted to hitchhike out of town, what would be his or her point of view? Thathopefully it's allworking fine now. It's an ambitious project Let me know if you're thinking ofencounter any weird redirect errors. All the best with it. Regards Frank Verhart. Note - please don't copy information [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 18:40, 30 May 2009 (textUTC) from my website. It is copyrighted material that I do not offer for publication elsewhere. PS - I don't like the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

- Hey Hitchhikers! Just joined the new hitchhiking wiki here-- whew! there have been a few moves in these last 2 years, hope we are all able to make this a permanent stay here on hitchwiki.org.==Logo update==I contributed to hitchhikingguide.org and hitchhiking.wikia.com but do not feel the need to mark which contributions belong to me within this new wiki. As you will see from my user page, I am creator/webmaster/co-editor of digihitch.com. Some of the information I personally collected for digihitch I will also share here, and as with all hitchhikers I have a ton of info that has not yet been written. As I hitchhike primarily in the USA, I will have most to contribute to that section. (Don:''t believe the misinformation found on the web... there are still tens of thousands of hitchhikers in the USA).I -and the digihitch community- would really appreciate it if you cite digihitch.com for all information you collect from there. The website is community-run and has been the hard work of many world hitchhikers for over 5 years. Support our community when possible and all hitchhikers will benefit! I must admit that I was opposed moved to a hitchhiking wiki when Teppo first suggested it to me in April 2005. We at digihitch.com had just launched our [http[project://www.digihitch.com/world/ digihitch WorldLogo update]] section and I believed that all information would be best shared there among registered members (without all the spam maintenance required of a wiki), but since that time I understand the value of a wiki such as this and will attempt to share unbiased contributions where possible.Revel and Roll, [[User:Salman|Morgan 'Salman']] 21:38 01 December 2006 (UTC)

=== Writing style =Mainpage ==I just took the old news out of the mainpage news template. Now there is quite some free space. However, I think it is good to keep the mainpage simple and not too overloaded (and also keep in future just the last 10 site news entries). Any suggestions about what could be added there or how the page could be reordered? I would suggest to move the picture of the now to the left column and also put there a field with the most important content with a symbol (e.g. general info Top Tips, Where, Safety, Signs, First time, Picking up hitchhikers, country info). Maybe one of the design and graphic program gifted people could make some icons for this... It might also be worth to think about which content is important for new people (e.g. move the site news - what is normally for the more frequent users - to the right bottom side... --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 19:28, 23 July 2008 (CEST)

:: I was feeling that it would be more interesting and correct also suggest to split fix the 'factual information' of the edit'personnal experience', be buttons in the top box. Looks quite annoying and I guess that the factual information about a hitching spot comes first while the personnal ones would come in a 'this box anyway doesn't need much editing, so maybe we should set it to 'different paragraph which follows'admin edit only''. It would give a more professionnal look to the cities or country pages instead of having to read the subjective point of view of one person everytimeNews, which is interestingpics, but the factual reading is usually providing a straight to the point information that is often quickly neededevents etc. Having a little code about how to make it would enhance then can still be edited through the whole projecttemplates, of course. [[User:Maplefantaplatschi|Maplefantaplatschi]] 19<small>^{[http:55//blogs.hitchwiki.org/platschi site], 13 September 2007 (CEST)[[user talk:platschi|wikitalk]]}</small>

== Overview ==- For me::: agree, it always takes to long to find a specific country on the mainpage (especially doesn't make much sense since these boxes are not much edited in europe), because countries, continent-parts and cities are mixed. I would suggest removing at least the cities first place and maybe also as you say, the continent-parts (I think it's more likely that people are looking for a specific country). Does other boxes can still be edited by anyone agree with me? :) through the templates --[[User:MrTweekRobino|MrTweekRobino]] 1512:4145, 3 December 2006 18 August 2008 (CETCEST)

:Yeahwanted to propose to rearrange the boxes, one for wiki-news, one for general news, one for events, one for stories (upcoming), and one for 3 (through rss) most recent (planet) blogs. I think so too. It's good to have cities the general news should be on the main page to encourage developmenttop (left), then events, but maybe for then stories. On the Europe section we could remove them. right (help and then wiki-news) or something similar --[[User:Zac StewartRobino|ZacRobino]]<small>^{[[User talk12:Zac Stewart|talk]]}</small> 45, 18:47, 3 December 2006 August 2008 (CETCEST)

:Removed the European cities. What do you mean with "continent parts"? [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 03:15, 4 December 2006 (CET):: [[Eastern Europe]], [[Western Europe]], etcSounds good. --Feel free to play around on [[User:MrTweek|MrTweekPlatschi/Spielwiese]] 13:35, 4 December 2006 (CET):::We could remove used thatpage last time for editing ideas of the main page. But Let's see how do you want to group the European countries, one alphabetical list? we can make it much better :) [[User:Guakaplatschi|Guakaplatschi]] 22<small>^{[http:34//blogs.hitchwiki.org/platschi site], 4 December 2006 (CET)::::I reformatted it a little bit, now it even looks good on my little screen (1024x768) :) I noticed the &lt;big&gt;-tags there, but for some reason, they don't work here (Opera on Linux). I changed it to bold instead --[[Useruser talk:MrTweekplatschi|MrTweekwikitalk]] 01}</small> 12:0354, 5 December 2006 18 August 2008 (CETCEST)

== Errors that need to be fixed Language of place name ==

Can we set some standards for place names? An example, what to use for Brugge (I just bumped into it)? It's now to be found under [[Bruges]], which I think is wrong. Cities should be put under the name they are known in the country they are and if necessary there can be a redirection page for foreign- Sorrylanguage versions of the name.:I think we already had that discussion a long time ago, and agreed to use the English names, wherever they are common. This seemed most logical for an English-speaking wiki. In general, we try to stick to wikipedia's standards for that. I hit edit instead think it's not so much of add commentan issue, because we always try to set redirects for all possible languages, so everyone will always find what one's looking for. (Although we are not really consequent, like at [[Köln]]). But Bruges seems to be the English name for Brugge. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:30, whoops 10 November 2008 (UTC)::Missed that discussion, probably before I joined, but my eur 0.02? You do it consistently or you keep the original name, you don't mix the two! --[[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC):::Yeah, we should really clean that up. But I think it's only about 5 articles maximum --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 00:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)::My €0,02; I agree with MrTweek, but it seems logical to me that the native name should be listed, perhaps in the city infobox. I tried to enable that yesterday, but I didn't get it right, so I didn't go ahead with it.[[User:Clint.hotvedt|clint.hotvedt]] 12:53, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

:Thanks Just wondering about the desirability to work out the economic aspect of hitchhiking. Wechner indicated finance as one the four main motivations for your contributions! hitchhiking, the other one being adventure, environment and social sharing [http:When you log //bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?03]. The incentive to this question at the moment is mainly the current economic crisis that is in you can "move" pages execution among banks, governments, public and business that in all likeliness will last for many many years to another titlecome, mostly in Northern America and Europe. That way Following the recent news there will also seems to be a redirect. Now both [[Kyiv]] and [[Kiev]] point already some reason to the same article.:Something wrong with HHGTG? Nah. Or do you mean Hitchhiker's Guide be concerned (which applies mostly to Hitchhikingpeople who are in debt). WellIn other words - would economic recession / depression increase again the number of hitchhikers, I think which in the title is a bit long. But maybe itUS and Europe basicly 's good. I'd used to be willing '' in decline since the 1980s. Will hitchhiking in the US and EU increase and popularize due to use any name, if there increasing poverty in the coming ten to twenty years? Such macro economic developments are enough folks who want that namefascinating. :) --[[User:GuakaFverhart|GuakaFverhart]] 2015:1249, 11 October 2006 9 December 2008 (UTC)

* == Frontpage is evolving ==Good! Frontpage is going trough changes at the very begining of the 2009. :-) Should "Basics" and "Places" be more bigger and first in line, when reader starts from top-left -corner? I want can try to see if I can get Wikistats installedvisualize my idea when i have more time. (For hitchwiki and the CS Wiki.) Icons are great spice to bring some colours, maybe they should be bigger? -[[User:GuakaMikael|GuakaMikael]] 0321:0419, 24 November 2006 7 January 2009 (CETUTC)

::Actually i came out with [[User:Mikael/Main_Page_09_a|these rather big changes]]. :- ) Comments? I tried organize the photos and whatnot to look a little better, but I candidn't really make test it look good. Someone with an aesthetic eye needs to handle it. Maybe itIE's just because of my resolution yet (1024i'm working with OSX) but the pictures block out all text in the left column making it all drop down below the picture. This leaves a huge whitespace gap Design is really close to the left of the pictures and doesn't look very nice[http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Etusivu fi.wikipedia -frontpage]. Another thing -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 01:07, 11 January 2009 (UTC):::Yeah man, I love it :) I noticed is that even though the columns are all 33%, the left column is smaller than the middle column because of margins. If we could even that up can test it might fix the above problem with the picturesin IE tomorrow.--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 15:20, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I bolded : About compatibility: With Firefox 3.0.3 it looks great, with IE7 the fonts look weird, also the top ''Hitchwiki'' text is somehow cut below, so only 3/4 of Canada, Mexicothe text is visible. All other boxes are okay, US and Greenland to make N America a little easier to navigatethough. By the way, Europe lookes very nice nowWill test with Safari Browser later. --[[User:Zac StewartPlatschi|ZacPlatschi]]<small>^{16:56, 19 January 2009 (UTC):: Here it works perfect in Safari. In IE7, the right border of the boxes is missing. All content is visible, so only a minor issue. --[[User talk:Zac StewartMrTweek|talkMrTweek]]}</small> 0417:4500, 13 December 2006 19 January 2009 (CETUTC)

:Cool:Hi! Great to see it in action. :-) I'm just going to change the picture stufftested it in Safari 3. It's good to have at least one picture21 under OSX - works great. But maybe we should just I also tweaked a ''Picture inline CSS of the weekH1-element ("Hitchwiki"-title). Can somebody test it in IE6 and 7? I think clipping problem was commong line-height -bug in IE. I'' or something like that? ll do some additional testing at office tomorrow. -[[User:GuakaMikael|GuakaMikael]] 0520:5513, 13 December 2006 19 January 2009 (CETUTC)

::Good idea [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]<small>^{Looks goog in Google Chrome except that left boxes are sqeezed a bit which creates 2,5 cm empty space under the Pictures of the Moment. --[[User talk:Zac StewartSigurdas|talkSigurdas]]}</small> 0610:3705, 13 December 2006 20 January 2009 (CETUTC)

::The left column is too small on the 9" screen of my Acer Aspire One. I've tried playing a bit with the width but I didn't quickly manage to fix it. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 10:51, 21 January 2009 (UTC):::ThatI have the same 'problem's enough wiki layout work for today. Also I hope y'all like would find it. Still needs some work cool to have pictures on the picture of screen without scrolling and also have the links to different hitchhikers available... this makes the week stuffwiki more personal. --[[User:GuakaAlex|GuakaAlex]] 0611:4901, 13 December 2006 21 January 2009 (CETUTC)

===[[Central Europe]]===::: I added "min-width" -attribute to the left column. It's not working with IE5-6, but what the heck. ;-) Another thing would be taking 4th picture out from the gallery, so right column could shrink smaller with small resolutions. I wouldn't add list of hitchhikers visible by default, but how about show/hide -stylish box? Maybe under "Also on Hitchwiki". -[[User:IndexMikael|IndexMikael]] 17:06, 29 July 2007 (CEST) There should be also and '''Central Europe''', just w N and E it is not enough23, adding central E itcan help with the navigation on the map. Who usually does that? 22 January 2009 (I am a new here, so excuse for eventually inapropriate Q:) UTC)

:That::: 'I wouldn't add list of hitchhikers visible by default's - Why not? Because there are not all contributers? Not a good ideabig thing in my opinion, not everybody wants to be linked there and it could be named accordingly. We are self-organizing: anybody is welcome I can't think of any other reasons... but I am curious to do (almost) anything here! So feel free get to try out editing [[Template:Mainpage-locations]]know some more views on this. You could also copy My point is that into e.g. [[User:Index/locations test]] if you don't feel ready yet it gives a more personal touch to change the Main Pagetechnical wiki, and then copy it to the is about real template when it's all goodpeople (as somebody also stated in why he works for Hitchwiki). Arguments around this more personal touch of Hitchwiki are welcomed too. :) --[[User:GuakaAlex|GuakaAlex]] 2204:3223, 29 July 2007 23 January 2009 (CESTUTC)

::There::: I think this wiki is quite personal already with or without hichhikres-list. My top reason was to prevent main page to grow too heavy with lot's a discussion at [[Template talk:Mainpageof text/link mass, though i'd also like to see some quick way to browse active hitchwiki-users. -locations]], probably a better place for this :) [[User:GuakaMikael|GuakaMikael]] 17:0117, 15 August 2007 26 January 2009 (CESTUTC)

::::: I [[User:Mikael/Main_Page_09_a|tested]] to float gallery to the right, but it's not working with smaller (under 1200px width) resolutions. :-/ With 24" It'moved stuff to s looking great. :-D -[[Community portalUser:Mikael|Mikael]]''17:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Once we get more states into :The '''News''' and '''Events''' boxes don't adapt themselves to the United Statesscreenwidth, do you want to divide it up into regional pages?which is extremely annoying! [[User:Prino|Prino]] 00:28, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

:Continued at [[TalkI did some editing for the CSS and tested it with IE 5.5-7 under Windows XP. These worked as well:United States of America]] safari 3 (win/mac), firefox 3 (win/mac), opera 9.6 (win/mac). With IE6 and under png-transparengy doesn't work (''needs JS-hack or background-color added to the images''), first box doesn't have top-margin and it's contents had too big line-height. These are not minor problems. I also took 4rd PotM-image away, so page should now scale better with small screens (like tiny 9" computers). -[[User:GuakaMikael|GuakaMikael]] 1517:4317, 12 May 2006 26 January 2009 (UTC)

== Email list ==08 May - There is now a hitchwiki email list, for any discussions related :Maybe it would be better to Hitchwiki, feel free to join.Why don't you just use show less news entries on the yahoogroups hh liststartpage? Do you expect so much to discuss? I guess So the one or event box would be visible on the other email there over doesn't annoy peoplefirst sight on smaller screens. Upcoming events should catch more interest than 4 month old news, but might bring the one or other on the wiki.. ? --[[User:AlexGlobetrotter tt|AlexGlobetrotter tt]] 1908:2415, 11 May 2007 7 March 2009 (CESTUTC)

:I didn't think of that oneJust reduced the news-items to three, as the previous ones were outdated anyway. I think I was Better now on it though, and unsubscribed. How much traffic is there usuallysmaller screens :-) ? --[[User:GuakaPlatschi|GuakaPlatschi]] 0811:4525, 12 May 2007 7 March 2009 (CESTUTC)

::Could anyone able give some help to clean up the design of the frontpage of the French version of Hitchwiki? I'm subscribed since not very used to this kind of job, but I find it awful compared to the end of october 2006 and received 58 mails so farEnglish one. Thanks! --[[User:MrTweekGrégoire|MrTweekGrégoire]] 2312:1133, 13 May 2007 9 August 2009 (CESTUTC)

It would be useful to map some of the hitching departing point, on my case to complete and easy the comprehension on the information about Canada. I know it has been done by some in a couple of pages... would anyone help out with that? (Basically its because it's not something I know how==search-to) [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 19:43, 13 September 2007 (CEST)field==

: There I don't know if somebody already suggested it, but is an article about [[How it possible to add maps to articles]]move the search-field more up!? I think it's the most used field on the main page and should be directly under the hitchwiki-picture. If you still have problemsEspecially for smaller monitors, just askeg netbooks, I'm happy to help you. It would be kinda difficult for me have to add these maps scroll down to articles for areas where I've never been, nor do I know anything about Canadian geography :( Hope you can work reach it out, or someone who has been there can help. It would be really great to have more maps here ;-) --[[User:MrTweekjeensg|MrTweekjeensg]]<small>^{[http://http13://www.liftershalte.info/ site]53, [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]}</small> 19:57, 13 September 2007 9 February 2010 (CESTUTC)

lifterhalte.info .... how do we manage to login there? I did create point in the past but now :I can't log anymore as m okay with it put me as 'invalid'? Why isn't it the same information than on the wiki. What do other people think? [[User:MaplefantaGuaka|Maplefantaguaka]] 0223:0604, 21 October 2007 9 February 2010 (CESTUTC)

== Layout ==::good idea! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 09:23, 10 February 2010 (UTC)::I just changed the layout a little, but still I am not really satisfied agree with it. I think that it's not so obvious what hitchwiki is, when you see it the first time. There are like 100.000 linksidea, list of words, countries, names, etc, but not much text. I think we need a short and clear description on the main page, so that first time visitors can see at once, that they find any information they want here (Because I'm sure they can :)) And maybe we should put the images more on top, would even suggest to make the page more colorful, more inviting field a bit larger.--[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small>^{[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweekGrégoire|wikitalkGrégoire]]}</small> 1409:27, 10 October 2007 February 2010 (CESTUTC)

Yep:Hey, is it possible to move it up some time? I mean, good idea. Idon'm asking myself if t know much about the list of hitchhikers is construction and whether it's hard to do so, maybe we just forgot about it? --[[User:jeensg|jeensg]] 11:51, 5 March 2010 (UTC):: Yes, we forgot. Or rather: nobody felt responsible for doing it. I did it now. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 11:28, 5 March 2010 (UTC)::: Thanks a lot, I really do like it! --[[User:jeensg|jeensg]] 22:06, 22 March 2010 (UTC) ==New colors, logo and such==[[Image:Hitchwiki front proposal 2010 a.png|thumb|Frontpage proposal 1, by [[User:Mikael|Mikael]]|400px]] Hello! We've been building [http://github.com/MrTweek/maps.hitchwiki.org a new hitchwiki maps] and some days ago I designed [http://github.com/MrTweek/maps.hitchwiki.org/raw/master/_Documents/maps_gui.png a new GUI for it]. I got an idea to bring thatlogo and colors also to the Hitchwiki and so far it looks like this. What do you think? If you don'' usefult like colors, at least we could use this structure?  Hand in logo is from hitchgathering.org -logo, since it was CC-by-SA. :-) Is that okay? I also put randomroads and hitchgathering -links to the main menu. That square light box is a hovered link. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 17:35, 31 May 2010 (UTC) :Where is the "Like it" Button? Maybe we should have ;) Looks great, maybe only the color of the General Info about First timearticle count could be a bit darker, etcas here it looks pretty close to the background color. thereOr it's just my eyes that are quite bad :P The logo is cool, but remove some stuff youit'll find yourself if s simple and says it all. Lovei t. Anyway, go for it, Mikael! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 20:47, 31 May 2010 (UTC):: I love it :) If youwant, just install it to [[Hitchwiki:Start Page]] --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:58, 23 August 2010 (UTC) == Updated PNGs == I're going deeper into ve updated a whole bunch of PNGs with versions that were generated directly from the hitchhiking stuff SVG from Wikipedia (like Boats, Planes, Trainswith the GIMP).Height is around 400 pixels (or less) to keep the PNGs from adding dithered colors.Resulting PNGs were optimized with [http://advsys.net/ken/utils. htm#pngout PNGOUT]  So far I've done all flags for the countries I have visited. Flags for the additional nationalities of drivers that gave me rides will follow (in a future) [[User:Prino|Prino]] 13:28, 23 August 2010 (UTC): By the news can way, it should be more visible possible to upload SVGs here. That way we could completely avoid any conversion problems. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:56, 23 August 2010 (UTC)::The File upload page does not seem to see that thereallow .SVG, but I haven's activity.t tried it.However, you must be aware that older browsers do not support .SVG files and I'm not sure if one of the newer (aka the piece of junk from M$) etcones does. Also , if I try to upload '''Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg''' I get the list following message: "# A file with this name exists already, please check File:Flag of countries the Netherlands.svg if you are not sure if you want to change it." Clicking on the link will go to a page that tells me "This file is from a bit annoyingshared repository and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below" And it doesn't show up in [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:ListFiles?limit=50&ilsearch=Netherlands&title=Special%3AListFiles Special:ListFiles], so how does the link to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg Wikimedia Commons] work? Another problem is of course the case-sensitivity, if I try to upload "Flag_of_'''T'''he_Netherlands.svg", the system will happily let me do so. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 19:46, we can add some more new countries 23 August 2010 (thanks UTC) : Also, I wonder what the reason is, to re-upload images in the same resolution? They look completely the same for me. --[[User:worldhitchMrTweek|MrTweek]] ;14:15, 23 August 2010 (UTC) ) like Brunei etc. For that ::The PNGs I uploaded are exactly the list same, but PNGOUT is getting bigger and biggercapable of compressing them significantly better in many cases, and someday it will be impossible to list all 192+ states which should save some bandwidth... Look at some of the world there bigger files I replaced in the changelog! [[User:Prino|Prino]] 19:23, 23 August 2010 (UTC) Maybe we  [[File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg|150px|thumb|left|This a .SVG file]] : Hmm, ok. First of all: Hitchwiki is linked to wikimedia commons. That means, you can track just use any file uploaded to wikimedia commons here. And that is also the list more downreason for your error message: If you upload a file, that is also uploaded to wikimedia commons, you would replace it locally. This is fine, you can do that. What about It doesn't make much sense to upload the picturessame file again, though. hm: It doesn't really matter wether a browser supports svg.The wiki renders them to png pr jpg anyway.But it can render them in a much better quality, no matter which size they will have. no ideaSo, in general, SVG is always better than PNG or JPG, but currently not always possible.: I think bandwith is not so much of an issue nowadays. All modern browsers support on-the-fly-compression anyway, so it's will probably not the best solutionmake any difference at all. About --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 21:18, 23 August 2010 (UTC) == Navigation == On the new headerright side sucks, itBIG time...  And while I's using 1/3 m writing this, the table with foreign characters shows as a series of my screen"charinsert" tags, possibly because it's definitely too big! missing a final '}' [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 20:52, 1 October 2012 (RememberCEST):And the colour of the links, not everyone has a 17" Wide-screen Monitor)horrible blue also stinks. AndWhy was this change required, can someone delete what was wrong with the list ''Based old design? [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 22:03, 1 October 2012 (CEST)::And 9 cm of grey screen on work by'' at either side of the main page? Ittext on a 23" monitor is also really useful. [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 11:56, 2 October 2012 (CEST) :I like Mikael's blowing up my screennew design but the old Monobook one is useful indeed. So go to [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering]] and choose MonoBook. In some browsers itThat's fixed what I guessjust did, there are still some tidbits not working but not for Safari and Firefox I'll fix them in [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]. :Charinsert is broken because the extension doesn't work anymore with MediaWiki 1.19. Will try to fix that as well today. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ( Hm[[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 12:05, 2 October 2012 (CEST) == Bug == Hey guys - having trouble adding places? It gives an error message and then you can't add anything Anyone else experiencing this problem? 15th November 2016. All templates are out of order, because they have a "<nowiki>{{ #</nowiki>" at their beginning in the whole wiki.-[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 09:51, 4 October 2012 (CEST): Thanks for noting.something elseWe know about this bug, but as far as I know, it only affect the Isin-Template? A quick Check on [[Germany]] which has a lot of templates shows me that most of them work fine. Please let us know if you know of any specific template that is broken as well --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] ([[User talk:MrTweek|talk]]) Want more people in 09:58, 4 October 2012 (CEST): many templates which I use for the chat ! motorways are broken: {{ramp}} {{junction}} {{gas}} {{rest}} {{very good}} {{good}}, look at {{Ade|1}} --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[Usertalk:platschiGeorgDerReisende|platschitalk]]<small>^{) 14:44, 8 October 2012 (CEST) * I don't know about the templates (except IsIn) but the all the links to Trashwiki aren't in the toolbow anymore, but at the end of the page... I speak about the french version (exemple: [http://hoerstelhitchwiki.org/fr/Prague], at the end of the page). For the english version, they just disappeared...travelblogEven if they are still in the editing page.ch site--[[User:Klodreamer|Klodreamer]] ([[User talk:Klodreamer|talk]]) 18:34, 9 October 2012 (CEST) * It seems to me, that for all pictures, which have been uploaded before October, the original files have been gone. That lead to the above problem, that my templates don't run any more. --[[user User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:platschiGeorgDerReisende|wikitalktalk]]) 17:55, 15 October 2012 (CEST): I just re-imported them, so most images should work again. Please let me know, if there are still a lot missing. If there are only a few missing, we can just upload them again manually. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]}([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</smallsup> 1404:3732, 10 28 October 2007 2012 (CET)* I'm already missing some symbols: {{rest}} {{average}} {{bad}} {{senseless}}, the logo don't show up, in the German wiki also the template ''gut'' has no picture. --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 16:06, 3 November 2012 (CET) == new bug == In the German part of this wiki actually I can't make edits, I always gets the answer: "Es ist ein Datenbankabfragefehler aufgetreten. Dies könnte auf einen Fehler in der Software hindeuten." --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 09:12, 27 July 2014 (UTC) == Trustroots advertisement == In my opinion the advertisement for Trustroots does not need to be here for years, mainly because Hitchwiki could (should!) behave like a proper commercial free, independent wiki, without its own agenda. The advertisement can repel potential users from Hitchwiki. Online hospex is not the same as hitch-hiking either and certainly not all hitch-hikers are interested in such service. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 23:13, 21 July 2016 (CEST)