Hitchwiki
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| URL | hitchwiki.org |
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| Commercial? | no |
| Type of site | Wiki |
| Available language(s) | English, German, Spanish, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Russian, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Romanian, Dutch, Hebrew. |
| Owner | The copyright of the content is owned by the individual authors |
| Launched | April 14th, 2005 / November 2006 |
| Current status | active |
Hitchwiki is "a collaborative project to build a free guide for hitchhikers".[1] It is an international exchange for information about hitchhiking in many countries, and contains specific tips, for example, for hitchhiking out of the large cities, general information about equipment, safety and strategies to quickly and efficiently hitchhike. There are also personal profiles of the hitchhikers, travel stories, photos, videos, discussion forums.[2] According to the Guardian, it is part of an "internet-fueled revival" of hitchhiking.[3]
The project was started on April 14, 2005, abandoned for a while and then moved to Wikia. In November 2006 it was moved to hitchwiki.org and relaunched as Hitchwiki; at the same time versions of it in other languages were started. As of July 2010 there are 1'599 articles on the English language Hitchwiki, while the site is available in another 10 languages, such as German, Spanish, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Russian. The website makes use of the MediaWiki software and allows anonymous edits. It's possible to log in through OpenID. Database dumps of the articles are available for download.
[edit] References
- ^ "Hitchwiki mainpage (English)". Hitchwiki.org. http://hitchwiki.org/en/Main_Page. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
- ^ "Tramperwiki erreicht 1000 Artikel". Presse Anzeiger. http://www.presseanzeiger.de/meldungen/gesellschaft-kultur/260015.php.
- ^ Baker, Vicky (2008-10-04). "Hitchhiking via the internet". London: Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/blog/2008/oct/04/green.travel. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
[edit] External links
- Hitchwiki.org (multilingual portal)
