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Wikivoyage is the multilingual travel guide that anyone can edit.

Wikivoyage brought together the former Wikitravel community and content (in several languages), the German language Wikivoyage community, who had forked from Wikitravel in 2006, and the Italian Wikivoyage community, who had forked from Wikitravel in 2007, with the larger free content worldwide Wikimedia movement community. After a period of beta starting 10 November 2012, we formally launched on Wikimedia Foundation servers on 15 January 2013. We continue our always amazing travel guide writing experience with everyone! Thanks for supporting Wikivoyage!

Wikivoyage/Why ? (Go ahead, click on that link and write there why we are here and not at Wikitravel. This story needs telling. And this is a wiki.)

Forums

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The Lounge is for general discussion of the Wikivoyage project and matters affecting more than one language version.

The Summit page had monthly reports from the various language versions, but has been in abeyance since 2018.

Mailing list

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Join the Wikivoyage-l mailing list discussing technical and community matters by email.

Languages

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There are 27 language versions of Wikivoyage.

Creation

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Languages created before 2013 forked from Wikitravel. Languages created during or after 2013 were approved from the Wikimedia Incubator.

No Date Language Code
1 2006年12月10日 German de
2 2007年12月10日 Italian it
3 2012年09月23日 English en
4 2012年09月29日 Dutch nl
5 2012年10月03日 French fr
6 2012年10月06日 Swedish sv
7 2012年10月18日 Russian ru
8 2013年01月07日 Spanish es
9 Portuguese pt
10 2013年02月06日 Polish pl
11 Romanian ro
12 2013年03月21日 Hebrew he
13 Ukrainian uk
14 2013年05月17日 Greek el
15 2013年08月11日 Vietnamese vi
16 2014年01月15日 Chinese zh
17 2014年10月02日 Persian fa
18 2016年11月30日 Finnish fi
19 2017年09月25日 Hindi hi
20 2018年06月07日 Bangla bn
21 Pashto ps
22 2020年08月27日 Japanese ja
23 2020年12月15日 Esperanto eo
24 2021年01月19日 Turkish tr
25 2022年03月24日 Shan shn
26 2024年07月24日 Czech cs
27 2024年12月02日 Indonesian id

New language versions can be started on Wikimedia Incubator. If they grow large enough and develop a strong community there, they will be moved to their own subdomain. See the list of Wikivoyage projects on Incubator.

Note that Alemannic Wikivoyage is created using subpages in the Wikibooks namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia, see w:als:Buech:Raisefierer.

Statistics

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These statistics are updated four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update.
No Language Wiki Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 English en 33,018 174,243 5,007,769 34 2,318,914 497 1,831
2 German de 20,563 108,469 1,654,511 14 53,242 129 721
3 Polish pl 13,212 15,788 147,497 3 16,219 44 0
4 Italian it 12,434 42,978 852,058 6 36,665 56 0
5 French fr 9,278 26,424 582,113 6 53,153 62 88
6 Persian fa 8,819 30,921 123,892 2 15,918 22 24
7 Russian ru 6,831 34,828 701,437 5 39,516 63 16,484
8 Chinese zh 5,535 25,326 200,952 5 18,172 38 240
9 Dutch nl 4,325 12,681 153,998 4 16,715 16 0
10 Portuguese pt 4,003 11,059 142,310 1 18,060 19 0
11 Spanish es 3,354 12,179 221,431 2 29,280 37 0
12 Hebrew he 2,451 16,242 260,166 2 11,000 19 124
13 Bangla bn 2,046 6,600 61,056 3 4,849 29 0
14 Vietnamese vi 1,934 61,271 110,867 1 11,341 12 0
15 Finnish fi 1,797 3,933 57,048 1 3,236 10 0
16 Swedish sv 1,615 10,883 96,297 3 12,179 14 0
17 Indonesian id 1,451 3,231 26,748 2 428 36 0
18 Greek el 1,443 2,780 27,337 1 5,397 8 1
19 Japanese ja 1,384 5,458 51,606 3 4,402 25 0
20 Esperanto eo 1,321 3,482 54,433 1 1,157 5 0
21 Ukrainian uk 1,060 3,195 36,460 1 7,319 19 5
22 Romanian ro 916 2,723 21,837 2 3,515 9 0
23 Turkish tr 472 3,307 14,972 3 2,082 13 0
24 Czech cs 421 1,026 14,599 1 508 16 0
25 Pashto ps 320 916 6,946 1 940 2 0
26 Shan shn 180 2,015 7,925 2 592 5 0
27 Hindi hi 144 662 8,139 1 2,224 8 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 140,327 622,620 10,644,404 110 2,687,023 1,213 19,518

Listings Wikidata integration

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  • English Wikivoyage: 26,128 listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • French Wikivoyage: 15,334 listings with a Wikidata identifier property, 18571 listings with a Wikipedia identifier property
  • Russian Wikivoyage: 4,396 listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • German Wikivoyage: 3,506 listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • Spanish Wikivoyage: 205 listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • Chinese Wikivoyage: 135 listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • Ukrainian: Wikipedia identifier property present in listing template, not counted
  • Greek, Hebrew, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Vietnamese: No Wikidata property

... as of 2018, counted with the Wikivoyage Listings tool.

Wikidata could be used to:

  • Cross-validate listing details,
  • Factorize listing details,
  • Fill missing listing details,
  • Easily add new listings to articles that have too few (what transvoyage does right now),
  • Generate static information pages for languages that have no Wikivoyage yet, such as Hindi or Korean,
  • And many other things, new mashups appear everyday with Wikidata.

While every Wikivoyage has their own preferences on how far to go with Wikidata, having Wikidata identifier properties in listings helps in all cases.

Wikivoyage Association

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The Wikivoyage Association used to host the Wikivoyage project. It applied to become a Wikimedia thematic organization and was approved on 3 May 2017.

How do I learn more?

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Start with these to find out more about our project:

  • Goals and non-goals: "Wikivoyage is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide."
  • Lounge – Wikivoyage Lounge on Meta
  • Manual of style: Our Manual of style contains a collection of guidelines for giving our articles a good look and feel.
  • Welcome, Wikipedians: This article was written specially for people who are familiar with the free encyclopedia Wikipedia.
  • Wishlist: A roadmap for Wikivoyage's future.
  • Writing style.

Category

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Subpages

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Because Meta is a vast and wild wiki, we maintain our Meta Wikivoyage specific pages as subpages (e.g., Wikivoyage/Somepage). This makes it obvious they are part of our project and makes it easy to find and update them. All our pages are in English with the exception that translations, when desired, may be created as language code subpages of the respective English page (e.g., in German: Wikivoyage/Somepage/de).

Expand the collapsible box below to see all Wikivoyage subpages. Alternatively, see the equivalent special page.

Subpages of Wikivoyage on Meta

Proposal

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The travel guide project proposal, formerly on this page, is archived in Wikivoyage/Archive/2012-11-16 and its talk page.

Challenges

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  • Copy editing is relatively poor across the project, due to a high number of contributors writing in a language other than their native one.
  • As of 2020, Wikitravel remains a strong competitor to Wikivoyage (at least in English). Although its article quality is nearly uniformly inferior as a result of having almost no community of experienced editors, Wikitravel articles tend to outrank Wikivoyage articles in search results, reducing readership and garnering contributions from casual editors unaware of Wikivoyage.
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