Hitchwiki is "a collaborative project to build a free guide for

hitchhiker Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, autostop or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their car or other vehicle. The ride is usually, but not always, free. Signaling ...

s". 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. The project maintains a map of rated hitchhiking spots as well at hitchmap.com. There are also personal profiles of the hitchhikers, travel stories, photos, blogs and discussion forums. According to the Guardian, it is part of an "internet-fueled revival" of hitchhiking. The project was started on April 14, 2005, abandoned for a while and then moved to

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. 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 March 2025 there are 4,168 articles on the

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Hitchwiki, while the site is also available in other languages, notably

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, which had 1233 articles, but also smaller wikis in

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, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Bulgarian,

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

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Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

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, Turkish and

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. The website makes use of

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and

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and allows anonymous edits. Database dumps of the articles are available for download.

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