Hitchwiki

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. 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.^[2] According to the Guardian, it is part of an "internet-fueled revival" of hitchhiking.^[3]

Hitchwiki

Type of site	Wiki
Available in	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
URL	hitchwiki.org
Commercial	no
Launched	April 14, 2005 / November 2006
Current status	active

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 March 2025 there are 4,168 articles on the English language Hitchwiki, while the site is also available in other languages, notably German, which had 1233 articles, but also smaller wikis in Spanish, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Russian, Hebrew, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Turkish and Chinese. The website makes use of MediaWiki, WordPress and BuddyPress and allows anonymous edits. Database dumps of the articles are available for download.