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Hey, welcome on hitchwiki and thanks for your contributions :) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]<small><sup>[http://http://www.liftershalte.info/ site], [[user talk:MrTweek|wikitalk]]</sup></small> 09:39, 21 December 2007 (CET)
 
== Matsumoto ==
Thanks for your comments, I changed the entry. I mentioned the unconfirmed S.A. for Nagoya, I wonder if I did that right?
- Matsumoto Joe
== Syria ==
It's good to welcome n00bs. "Besides the poor English grammar and spelling" doesn't seem like the best way to keep folks around. No need to mention that on people's talk pages. I'd rather see 10 weekly new contributors with poor grammar than 1 with flawless English :)
Great you're alert on the 1st person issue... keep up the good work! [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 12:16, 14 October 2012 (CEST)
 
==Morocco caughts==
never used hitchwiki for talks so dont how actually it works, try to answer here what u wrote me about police. i was not "complaining" cause first i dont like doing it in general and secondly i dont think here is the place for that..sharing experiences and helping others is how i conceive this wiki, thats why i thought it was useful share mine. u r somehow right about my look/appearance, i didnt and dont like tourists in general, and morocco is overcrowded of them, that means (i guess u saw it) every 2 second, wherever, u r asked for rooms, hotel, any other tourist cheating stuff, they can clearly see u r european, especially with green eyes and white face, i was too bothered by that sort of racism (all around the world, everyone but ok..) and thought my djellaba, long beard and good enough arabic were a good choice to keep bothering people away, probably would have been enough answering them politely (as i did in iran, though persian people are so much calmer and insist less than arabs). these were the elements made police classifying me as sure terrorist, take my digitprints, etc when it was enough checking database on computer, asking few questions and let me go. iwas caught 3 times cause was not afraid nor suspicious by people and instead of looking for a spot by myself i always felt safer asking locals. once, the worse, in chaouen, they straightly called police and brought me at station, but others were the security man of the mosque (i asked for a spot for my tent and they offered me the inside school, but responsible for security didnt feel comf without authorization of cops) to call them, or them directly to come by me while hitchin, next to algerian border, with such ridiculous excuses. im sure as one hotel employee said me, main problem was that i was speaking arabic, and almost no foreigner do, that was surprised and made suspicious cops as locals though i thought and still think they are not friendly towards "vagabonds" (dont know what u refer to with that word, saying u dont like them, i used it cause cops called me in that way when i said them i didnt have any stable job but if u refer to freeloaders begging in the streets me neither i like them) that meant, unconventional tourists, hitchhikers especially (bikers normally are more understood). hope to have explained enough (though im never able to do it, especially at pc and in a foreign language). ill update again police section without any reference to personal exp that ill keep as u put it (giving more details). [[User: Fedecicco| Fede]]
==Cyprus Changes==
There is no point in me putting my hot accommodation tips on Wikivoyage, cos it is not focussed on budget travel.
.. It would be great if you could tell me where the page is which states Hitchwikis policy on listing accommodation [[User:Stewgreen|Stewgreen]] ([[User talk:Stewgreen|talk]]) 12:58, 16 April 2013 (CEST)
 
-I think i know what I am talking about.
<br>- Actually I led the seminar on Freecamping at Hitchgathering last year, and last night like most nights I freecamped. In 77 days in Cyprus I have freecamped most nights and only 3 nights have I paid more than €5 to sleep. Also the Dutch guy led a workshop on travelling on €1 a day .. and in 23 years travelling I average €10/day total spending. I think we agree that places which are especially cheap or free should be listed It is just a question where we draw the line. There were 2 free places a €4 place and 2 €5 places on that list you deleted all not mentioned in the guidebooks. I would say it's good to mention the cheapest place in town, cos that really helps the traveller, they know to move on quickly to next place or free camp. Their is a strong connection between hitchwiki and shoestring travel. (if there was a shoestring travel wiki it would heavily overlap hitchwiki)
<br>- I am not minded to start editing that Wikivoyage as it's a mess ..try getting to the info for North Cyprus from their main Cyprus page.
<br>- BTW if you search Hitchwiki for hostel is has hundreds of mentions of them .. will it be a project to delete them all ?
 
<br> Hi since there NOT YET an official policy on mentioning places to sleep I am starting a discussion over on the Google group https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/hitchwiki
I invite you to come with us all and discuss it there ..may I post your words also ?
 
New thoughts after sleeping
<br> - What info do we keep in the Wiki ?
<br> STUFF THAT IS USEFUL TO HITCHERS ..that is helpful
<br> - What stuff do we delete ?
<br> - stuff that is NOT USEFUL or DUPLICATE easily found elsewhere
<br> The NO DUPLICATION rule is important but shouldn’t rule over the give helpful info rule
<br> so if it doesn’t exist elsewhere or it’s difficult to find then keep it in the wiki
<br><br> CRCulver misunderstood me he said ”Hitchwiki is not meant to include exhaustive listings of paid accommodation”, but all I did was post basically the cheapest known place for each region.
<br>You don’t post the Hilton cos that is not useful to hitcher. In a country where cheap places are not common then it is USEFUL to a hitcher to know the cheapest place cos
<br> - if it is a cold stormy day then he has the option to check in to a place for 1 night to do his washing ..and if the cheapest place is $40 he knows to look for a secret room etc.
<br> and I still think it good to keep SLEEP CHEAP TIP LIST on a separate page so that it doesn’t clog the main listing.
<br> as I said lets talk on the group
 
== Unacceptable username? ==
:15 April 2013
: 23:33 (Block log) . . CRCulver (Talk | contribs | block) blocked Edwardgrahamlii (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of indefinite (account creation disabled) ‎(Unacceptable username)
 
What's unacceptable about Edwardgrahamlii? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 18:05, 18 April 2013 (CEST)
 
== RE: Avoid mentioning yourself ==
 
Gotcha, edited. --[[User:Dr.Keith|Keith]] ([[User talk:Dr.Keith|talk]]) 13:56, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 
Same, cheers --[[User:Saebekassebil|Saebekassebil]] ([[User talk:Saebekassebil|talk]]) 18:16, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 
Same here! --[[User:ManiaArmyYurt|ManiaArmyYurt]] ([[User talk:ManiaArmyYurt|talk]]) 18:23, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 
Thanks for the suggestion; I've changed the first example you cited but not the second. "I didn't hitch on the roads in Musandam, but..." As I see it, either I need to include this caveat, or simply not mention hitching on land at all. Hitchwiki's greatest weakness is not the standard of writing; it's when people portray speculation as fact. It doesn't really make sense to include something like that in the 'personal experiences' section either. I guess I could have put "this writer has never hitched on the roads..." or "Tonypro thinks it's likely..." But I think what's currently written conveys an important bit of info in the best possible way, as much as I would love to support an academic standard of writing on Hitchwiki.
My feelings won't be hurt if someone else changes it, but I'mma leave it alone.
 
== Thank you ==
 
Thanks for your help. I used the same article for Biarritz but don`t have time to edit it right now. So feel free if you want! I will try to constribute as good as possible (with less exclamation marks^^) and also edit my profile soon!
elbjorno88
 
== Mentioning oneself in Berlin ==
That's the style I observed in many articles I read. And I have to say I find it useful.
I would consider it the natural evolution for an article - it gets more objective when more and more people try out some spot.
I'll try to edit the text in more neutral way, but I think it's important to stress when data is not reliable (yet).
That might be a good thing for some standard box, like "This spot is a stub [;p], it was tried by # contributors so far."
and after confirming or denying it gets the regular form.
 
 
== Paris edits ==
I think there is some info [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Paris&diff=76795&oldid=76792 here] that could stay. Also some people get a bit upset if you remove (most of) the info they added. Can you give it another try? :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 16:30, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 
== Deleting spammers ==
 
My current set-up to keep an eye on Hitchwiki is as follows, using Firefox. I have four pinned tabs:
 
* Tab n+0 - [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]
* Tab n+1 - [[Special:CheckUser|Check User]]
* Tab n+2 - [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Special:RecentChangesCleanup?num=1000 Recent Changes Cleanup]
* Tab n+3 - [http://www.stopforumspam.com/search Stop Spam Forum (Search page)]
 
Regularly refresh "Recent Changes" and as soon as user names of the format FirstnameLastname (F & L capitalized) appear, I copy them to the "Check User" tab to get the IP address, which is posted into the "Stop Spam Forum". If that results in a lot of output, the user is blocked and on the "Recent Changes Cleanup", the creation and block are both set to Hidden. Other names are checked on a random basis, turns out that even "normal" names occasionally belong to spammers... [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 20:34, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
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