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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.
== New Advise Article ==
It could be useful to take the article advice written on the [[Canada]] page about '''Winter Hitch-hiking''' hazard and maybe some other countries are having some too. They could be grouped together on this same page for all Winter Hazardous country or regions: [[Russia]], [[Scandinavia]], [[Iceland]], [[Canada]], [[Alaska]] ... [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 01:54, 19 January 2008 (CET)
::With some regions of Canada having marked way beneath the -50 Celsius on the thermometer last month, if someone knows where to set such page, the already existing info is on the [[Canada]] page, it is most likely needed. [[User:Maplefanta|Maplefanta]] 03:16, 4 March 2008 (CET)
=== 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><sup>[http:55//blogs.hitchwiki.org/platschi site], 13 September 2007 (CEST)[[user talk:platschi|wikitalk]]</sup></small>
: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><sup>[[User talk12:Zac Stewart|talk]]</sup></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><sup>[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 <big>-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</sup></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)
::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)
: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><sup>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]]</sup></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)
: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)
: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)
: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)
I don't know if somebody already suggested it, but is it possible to 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. Especially for smaller monitors, eg netbooks, you have to scroll down to reach it ;-) --[[User:jeensg|jeensg]] 13: There 53, 9 February 2010 (UTC) :I'm okay with it. What do other people think? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 23:04, 9 February 2010 (UTC) ::good idea! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 09:23, 10 February 2010 (UTC)::I agree with the idea, and I would even suggest to make the field a bit larger.--[[User:Grégoire|Grégoire]] 09:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC) :Hey, is an article it possible to move it up some time? I mean, I don't know much about the 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. --[[How 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 that logo and colors also to add maps the Hitchwiki and so far it looks like this. What do you think? If you don't 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 articlesthe 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? ;) Looks great, maybe only the color of the article count could be a bit darker, as here it looks pretty close to the background color. Or it's just my eyes that are quite bad :P The logo is cool, it'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 you still want, just install it to [[Hitchwiki:Start Page]] --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 13:58, 23 August 2010 (UTC) == Updated PNGs == I've updated a whole bunch of PNGs with versions that were generated directly from the SVG from Wikipedia (with 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 way, it should be 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 allow .SVG, just askbut I haven't tried it. However, you must be aware that older browsers do not support .SVG files and I'm happy not sure if one of the newer (aka the piece of junk from M$) ones does. Also, if I try to help upload '''Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg''' I get the following message: "# A file with this name exists already, please check File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg if youare not sure if you want to change it. It would " Clicking on the link will go to a page that tells me "This file is from a shared repository and may be kinda difficult for 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, 23 August 2010 (UTC) : Also, I wonder what the reason is, to add these maps to articles re-upload images in the same resolution? They look completely the same for areas where me. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:15, 23 August 2010 (UTC)::The PNGs I've never beenuploaded are exactly the same, but PNGOUT is capable of compressing them significantly better in many cases, nor do which should save some bandwidth... Look at some of the bigger files I know anything about Canadian geography replaced in the changelog! [[User:Prino|Prino]] 19:23, 23 August 2010 ( Hope UTC) [[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 work just use any file uploaded to wikimedia commons here. And that is also the reason for your error message: If you upload a file, that is also uploaded to wikimedia commons, you would replace it outlocally. This is fine, or someone who has been there you can helpdo that. It doesn't make much sense to upload the same file again, though. : It would be doesn't really great 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 more maps here . So, in general, SVG is always better than PNG or JPG, but 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 will probably not make any difference at all. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]]21:18, 23 August 2010 (UTC) == Navigation == On the right side sucks, BIG time... And while I'm writing this, the table with foreign characters shows as a series of "charinsert" tags, possibly because it's missing a final '}' [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 20:52, 1 October 2012 (CEST):And the colour of the links, a horrible blue also stinks. Why was this change required, what was wrong with the old design? [[User:Prino|Prino]] ([[User talk:Prino|talk]]) 22:03, 1 October 2012 (CEST)::And 9 cm of grey screen on either side of the text 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 new design but the old Monobook one is useful indeed. So go to [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering]] and choose MonoBook. That's what I just did, there are still some tidbits not working but 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]] ([[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 "<smallnowiki>{{ #<sup/nowiki>" at their beginning in the whole wiki. -[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 09:51, 4 October 2012 (CEST): Thanks for noting. We 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]]) 09:58, 4 October 2012 (CEST): many templates which I use for the motorways are broken: {{ramp}} {{junction}} {{gas}} {{rest}} {{very good}} {{good}}, look at {{Ade|1}} --[[User:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 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://http:hitchwiki.org/fr/wwwPrague], at the end of the page).liftershalteFor the english version, they just disappeared.info/ site.. Even if they are still in the editing page. --[[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:GeorgDerReisende|GeorgDerReisende]] ([[user User talk:GeorgDerReisende|talk]]) 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|wikitalkMrTweek]]</sup>([[User_talk:MrTweek|talk]])</smallsup> 1904:32, 28 October 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]]) 09:5712, 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 September 2007 , 21 July 2016 (CEST)