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[[Wiki.trustroots.org]] is an independent wiki with information for people who are actively exchanging hospitality.
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:It's totally fine to copy from Wikipedia, just add a template <nowiki>{{wikipedia}}</nowiki> to indicate that it's copied from Wikipedia. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 16:03, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
:It's totally fine to copy from Wikipedia, just add a template <nowiki>{{wikipedia}}</nowiki> to indicate that it's copied from Wikipedia. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 16:03, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
== Copy across openid explanation from old plugin ==
@[[User:Guaka|guaka]]: The previous version of the plugin Couchwiki had a better and easier to understand explanation for why OpenID was good. Please recover that explanation and put it in the new plugin.
In a related note is it possible to assume credit for edits done before the plugin became available? --[[User:Daz|daz]] 19:08, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
== MediaWiki mobile plugin ==
Is there any interest in installing the mobile plugin that is being rapidly developed and used in WikiPedia? I want it but not sure if activity warrants it. On the otherhand this is a travel site so access to it in a mobile friendly format might actually increase activity. --[[User:Daz|daz]] 19:08, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Revision as of 20:08, 12 May 2010

Feel free to leave questions and comments here. Also see project:tech for technical issues.

For different organisation

Here a page about using couchwiki for BeWelcome, Hospitality Club, BeLodged, Global Freeloaders, Servas etc...

Interwiki links

I'm trying to set up some interwiki links. But there always seems to be a caching issue. So far I've done hitch, trash, cs and csgroup, if you want any others, just let me know. guaka 15:43, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Sharewiki.org please Matrixpoint 05:43, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

BW groups please Midsch 19:50, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

wikipedia (probably active by default) and wikitravel please --Metal.lunchbox 20:39, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikivoyage would be nice --MrTweek 10:20, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

would it be possible to make a page about interwiki in couchwiki (brief explanation and how to use it ?) Bikepunk 01:13, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a nice article about interwiki :) Of course it could be useful to have an article here as well, feel free to start it, and note that this wiki is license compatible with Wikipedia, so you can copy parts from the Wikipedia article. guaka 10:42, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Job done !!! Bikepunk 03:27, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Guaka, Are you the only person able to make interwiki links ? If no, how can we do that ? Bikepunk 15:34, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Other languages

There's also a version of Couchwiki in French now :) The links aren't working properly yet. I'll happily set up other languages if there's enough interest, (especially German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian or Swedish). We just need some people (or even just one person) who is willing to take care of it enough, i.e. put up a front page and check for spam regularly, and ideally make sure there are new articles every week. guaka 20:27, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Feature request: Category sitemap in footer

If we could find an extension to display a context-sensitive sitemap based on the categories of a page, wouldn't that be awesome? Maybe this could even be done with jquery, so the browser could cache the category information between requests, and it doesn't add up to page size.

(maybe "sitemap" is the wrong term here, because I only want to show related stuff)

I could work on that when I have time.

--Lemon-head 19:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)


Hey. Sure, could be nice. :) guaka 23:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Basic Organization of the wiki

Well there are a few pages and enough interest to start talking a little bit about how to organize the wiki. So far there seem to be 3 kinds of pages- location guide pages, pages about the wiki, and other pages. The later two will sort themselves out but the location guides follow an obvious logical hierarchy- World, region, country, (state,province), city, and extra pages attached to one of those levels like "Cycling in Germany" or "100 things to do in.." simple wiki links and templates could keep the pages organized according to the above logic and categories could help enforce it. does everyone pretty much agree on this?

I also want to say that generic categories like "Cities" or "country guides" are not useful and should be avoided. what do you guys think? --Metal.lunchbox 04:16, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Hey Lunchbox! I agree. Feel free to remove those generic categories. guaka 22:39, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Actually I like a category like Hamburg, as it keeps all Hamburg related stuff together. But obviously it doesn't make sense if there is only one page for a city. BTW: Heavy usage of templates makes everything look the same and clean, but it stops people from editing as it looks complicate at first. Midsch 19:52, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Shared user accounts and shared images

Now you can use your login on the English couchwiki also for the other languages (so far French and Italian). And you can use images that have been uploaded here in other languages as well. guaka 22:56, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

It's now possible to directly use images from Wikimedia Commons!

Just find the image you want to use and put it here, e.g. [[File:Bandeau_France.png|300px]] for Bandeau France.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bandeau_France.png guaka Almost all images on Wikimedia Commons have been checked on copyrights, and it's highly encouraged to use them, and also to upload your own work there and then use it here. :) guaka 23:35, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Main Page layout

The Main Page is getting messy and ugly : here is a first draft/attempt to make it a bit better. (I would like to know how to use the "class=" in mediawiki, I didn't find anything clear with google). What do you think about it ? Bikepunk 22:26, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I just moved the new layout to the mainpage, it's much better than before, but off course needs more improvement. Hey, css-gurus! Your turn! And the structure/navigation is also looking for some more improvement! Midsch 20:24, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Added cheat sheet from wikipedia - compatible licence?

I've copied across the Wikipedia cheat sheet to Help:Editing

Also needs a bit of a cleanup as templates in wikipedia aren't always here. --118.208.108.138 10th to 20th December 2009 (UTC)


It's totally fine to copy from Wikipedia, just add a template {{wikipedia}} to indicate that it's copied from Wikipedia. guaka 16:03, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Copy across openid explanation from old plugin

@guaka: The previous version of the plugin Couchwiki had a better and easier to understand explanation for why OpenID was good. Please recover that explanation and put it in the new plugin.

In a related note is it possible to assume credit for edits done before the plugin became available? --daz 19:08, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

MediaWiki mobile plugin

Is there any interest in installing the mobile plugin that is being rapidly developed and used in WikiPedia? I want it but not sure if activity warrants it. On the otherhand this is a travel site so access to it in a mobile friendly format might actually increase activity. --daz 19:08, 12 May 2010 (UTC)