Hitchnews

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Here you are welcome to mention current hitchhiking events, such as big hospitality exchange camps, hitchhike races or meet-ups.

Feel free to add news or events.

Contents 1 Upcoming events 2 News (and old news) 2.1 2008 2.2 2007 2.3 2006

Upcoming events

29 November 2008 - Hitchhikers meeting in Enschede, Netherlands. Check out this article for closer information!

5-6 December 2008 - Eurizons 2008: A Call for Climate Justice: Hitchhiking Campaign to the COP 14 (5.-6.12.08) and exhibition 'Voices from the South' in Poznan

13-14 December 2008 - Hitchhiking chase starting in Dublin, Ireland.

7–13 August 2009 - 2nd European Hitchhiking Week, 789 location yet to be determined.

News (and old news)

13 November - There is a call for participants for the Eurizons 2008: A Call for Climate Justice: Hitchhiking Campaign to the COP 14 (5.-6.12.08) and exhibition 'Voices from the South' in Poznan. - Check it out now and join!

3 November - We now added to-do lists for articles. If you think an article needs some cleanup, if you want to request specific information, or other things that could be on a todo list, then check out this template: todo template. If you want to add a todo-list, just go to the Talk page of an article (click discussion on top of the article) and type in {{toDo}}.

30 October - Trashwiki was started in the week that the English Hitchwiki reached 1000 articles. It has the same free-minded spirit and is focused on dumpster diving (conceptually similar to hitchhiking). Today we reached 60 articles!

19 October - A regional hitchhikers gathering in Argentina in the weekend of the 10th of October brought together 30 participants report.

16 October - The voting for next year's 789 meeting is open now! Log in at the forum and vote for your favorite destination.

29 September - You can now log in to Hitchwiki with your OpenID. Let Guaka know if there are any issues.

20 September - Another great story: The first official hitchhiking spot in Germany has been released in Potsdam yesterday! For more news, check out this article. (German)

15 September - Hurray! Postcards is the 1000th article of Hitchwiki! All this in less than 3 years. Thank you, all of you! We are also sending out a press-release. ^[1]

19 August - Some hitchhikers are currently working on a hitchhiking magazine. If you are interested in participating, check out the wiki brainstorming for Whatever the Random Roads.

2008

17 August – Back in the top ten of the Google search on hitchhiking.

12 August – There is a trailer available for the Viva Con Agua Charity Hitch, have a look here Trailer Hitchhiking Race

8th of August – Around 150 hitchhikers arrived in Paris for the first European Hitchhikers Gathering, the 888-project. Share your evaluation thoughts on the 888-Event

31 July – Hitchwiki now has a Portuguese language version. If you speak Portuguese, you could help a bit. It's maintained by Ataqlibert.

30 June – Finally we launched a Hitchhiking Planet. It collects blog entries from various hitchhikers around the world. If you want your blog added, contact MrTweek.

5 June – We now have a Finnish hitchwiki! As Liftari.org, the biggest finnish hitchhiking website, went down, Mikael decided to start a Finnish wiki instead. Good luck!

8 April – We now have 1295 articles in 5 languages!

4 March – Hitchwiki now even has a Russian language version :) It will be maintained by Lnx. If you speak Russian, it would be nice if you could help a bit. And if you know Russian speakers, please help to spread the word!

26 February – The German hitchhiking club Abgefahren e.V. is organizing a hitchhiking competition through Germany and Poland from 22th–25th May 2008! For more information check out abgefahren-ev.de, there you can register for the trip and get the latest information! See you on the road!

2007

28 December – From December 28 till 2nd January there's a New Year Hitchhiker Happening in Slab City, California. For more information, have a look here.

14 December – We recently launched blogs.hitchwiki.org, where you can start your own hitchhiking blog. Just log in with your hitchwiki user data and you can write your first post right away :) There's also a new feature at some country articles (see Germany or Bulgaria) called Hitchability. With this everyone can rate the countries on how good they are for hitchhiking. Want to rate your country? Have a look here.

5 November – We just added a little Question? Need Help? section to the Talk to us page. If you have any questions concerning the wiki, if you need city or country-specific information, don't hesitate to ask here. Whatever, good luck to all hitchhikers!

8 October – Hitchwiki is growing bigger and bigger! The only decrease was the number of pictures. Please upload your nice hitch pictures from this year's Summer and we'll put them in the relevant articles and if they're really nice, on the Main Page!

11 September – Hitchwiki is going international!
SAn from Autostop Argentina started Autostopwiki in Spanish and they already have a lot of information about Argentina. With support from abgefahren e.V., we started Trampwiki in German and are just starting to translate information from the English wiki. Due to some general interest, we've also set up a French hitchwiki. If you speak one of these languages, you are very welcome to contribute. If you have an account here, you can use it in all these wikis, of course. Oh, and if you want to see hitchwiki in any other language and are willing to help a bit with that, just let us know.

10 September – If you are somewhat active here or interested in the future of hitchwiki, check Hitchwiki:Organization and leave your comments, if you have some.

6 September – We now have more than 500 articles! Actually, probably due to some weird technical problem 154 articles weren't counted, so we don't know when we precisely reached 500. Oh well, whatever. Nevermind.

18 August – We just created an IRC-Channel called #hitchhiking on EFNet.

14 August – A German hitchhiking club was founded, called abgefahren e.V.. They will also organize a hitchhiking camp/gathering near Freiburg im Breisgau from 6th to 9th of September. Check it out at abgefahren.hitchbase.com.

25 July – There's now some basic information on how to pick up hitchhikers. Feel free to add more!

4 July – A lot of great info about Canada has been added during the last days. If you have them, please upload some pictures from your Canadian hitching experiences.

15 June – The Lithuanian Hitch-hiking Gathering will take place at June 29 – July 01 in a very natural surrounding of Salcininkai, which is about 30 kilometres south from Vilnius. More info at autostop.lt

29 May – 100 users have registered since we moved all the stuff to hitchwiki.org. Huge thanks to everyone.

22 May – London to Paris Competition! There will be a London to Paris competition for young people, starting 2nd or 3rd of June at Trafalgar Square, London and ending that night (hopefully) at the Eiffel Tower, Paris. Buy-in is 10GBP and the winner gets all! If you are on Facebook search for "The Race to Paris" and join the group or leave a message on Andrews talk page.

08 May – There is now a hitchwiki email list, for any discussions related to Hitchwiki, feel free to join.

01 May – The "BERLIN HOSPITALITY CLUB BEACHCAMP", an international hospitality, backpacker and hitchhiker gathering will happen from May 24th – 28th in Berlin. Check http://www.happy-traveller.de/. You can probably meet other hitchwiki users there.

25 April – You can now include maps from Liftershalte.info directly into hitchwiki-articles. See how it works. Also check Mönchengladbach and Hannover.

24 April – A lot of new people have joined during the last months, and there is a lot of new information, check e.g. Norway, Romania, Mauritania and China.

14 February – We're number two if you Google for "hitchhiking wiki".

2006

18 December – MrTweek installed some cool wiki statistics software.

15 December – Server upgrade: up to 6 hours downtime one of these days.

7 December – amylin is working on a logo for the Hitchwiki. Please give your comments, or if you can do better: do it! Guaka has been changing the general layout a little bit. Feel free to discuss.

27 November – Let's organize the New Zealand hitch course 2007‎!

24 November – We've moved to hitchwiki.org! Update your bookmarks and tell your hitchhiking friends! It seems that Wikia has a different way of counting articles. So we're back to 115 :)

21 November – We were in the Google top 50 for "hitchhiking".

16 November – Let's work on a Hitchhiking Zine!

15 November – New people joined our efforts, with some great contributions, check out Poznan, Bulgaria, Granada, Skopje and other new pages! Welcome to our growing hitchhiking community!

6 November – New Zealand is a good country for hitchhiking, and you can start when you arrive at the airport in Auckland.

16 October - Boys Be Aware of the Homosexual, "It looks innocent enough, doesn't it? Lots of young people hitchhike...", a long time ago in the United States. See Hitchhiking in movies.

27 September - Help gather some information about Hitchhiking in the media.

24 September - We reached 200 articles. See also the statistics.

20 September - Hitchhiking from the United Kingdom to the European mainland isn't too hard at all? Cross the channel in Dover and find your ride to Turkey in Calais. The same trick, for Scandinavia can be tried in Puttgarden, Germany.

19 August - The Hitchhiking Wiki is now syndicated by the CouchSurfing Guide.

January 2006 - We reached 100 articles.

December 2005 - The Hitchhiking Wiki was moved to Wikia, from hitchhikingguide.org, where it was spammed to death.