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=== How to contribute ===
Just click <tt>edit</tt> at the top of an article, make your changes and click <tt>Save page</tt>. A good article to start editing or writing is probably your home town. To create new articles you can add <code>[[</code> and <code>]]</code> around the title of the new article, in some other article, on your user page or even here on the main page. Save the page, click on the red link and start writing a new page. Be '''bold''' about editing, just do it!
If it feels a bit awkardawkward, you can practice in the [[Sandbox]].
There are als also some [[Help:Contents|help]] pages for people who are editing a wiki the first time.
=== Background ===
=== Idea behind the project ===
The idea in the hitchhiking wiki is not to compete with other already existing [[Hitchhiking websites|marvellous marvelous hitchhiking sites]], but to provide a way to reorganize a lot of the existing knowhow into one, easily searchable guide. Hopefully the hitchwiki can help all the other sites to flourish. It links to all known sites.
:''See also [[project:why we work on Hitchwiki|why we work on Hitchwiki]].''
: Yep, You can download daily generated database dumps [[Hitchwiki:Database dumps|here]].
; ''hitchhikingguide.org'', ''hitchhiking.wikia.com'', ''world.wikia.com'', ''hitchwiki.org'' – what is now what, what is related to what in which way?
: Originally this wiki was started at hitchhikingguide.org as ''Hitchhiker's Guide to Hitchhiking'', by Teppo Moisio (who is also the originator of one of the founders of [[websites|Liftari.org]]). Because it was spammed all the time there, with no maintainer in sight, it was relaunched on Wikia as ''Hitchhiking Wiki'' on hitchhiking.wikia.com. Now it has its own domain, '''[http://hitchwiki.org hitchwiki.org]''' and its current name, '''[[Hitchwiki]]'''. The wiki moved from hitchhiking.wikia.org to hitchwiki.org in November 2006. We transfered transferred all the pages (including user pages and images) to here, but unfortunately, Wikia didn't let us export user-accounts, so you will have to register here again. Also, unfortunately Wikia made the old URL redirects to world.wikia.com, and we can't do anything about that. This seems to confuse a lot of people. Anyway, now we have our own domain and own databases, so the wiki will stay here forever!
; How many people are contributing to the wiki?
: By September 2008 we've had contributions from 100s of logged in users, and an unknown number of people who never created an account. For detailed statistics about users, articles and databases, see [http://www.hitchwiki.org/stats/reports/EN/Sitemap.htm the statistics].