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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 32,946 173,851 4,991,793 35 2,317,568 583 1,823
2 German de 20,555 108,200 1,648,874 14 53,065 99 721
3 Polish pl 13,197 15,770 146,579 3 16,138 30 0
4 Italian it 12,383 42,841 849,678 6 36,547 48 0
5 French fr 9,261 26,397 580,124 6 53,010 47 88
6 Persian fa 8,818 30,869 123,762 2 15,876 18 24
7 Russian ru 6,828 34,789 698,175 5 39,409 67 16,477
8 Chinese zh 5,517 25,074 197,880 5 17,955 47 238
9 Dutch nl 4,325 12,681 153,668 4 16,651 21 0
10 Portuguese pt 4,004 11,043 142,082 1 17,983 24 0
11 Spanish es 3,343 12,137 220,069 2 29,203 42 0
12 Hebrew he 2,451 16,242 260,115 2 10,965 14 124
13 Bangla bn 2,044 6,566 60,574 3 4,790 29 0
14 Vietnamese vi 1,934 61,267 110,824 1 11,319 14 0
15 Finnish fi 1,797 3,933 57,031 1 3,214 7 0
16 Swedish sv 1,613 10,878 96,244 3 12,158 12 0
17 Greek el 1,443 2,779 27,318 1 5,366 9 1
18 Indonesian id 1,433 3,095 25,836 1 339 34 0
19 Japanese ja 1,365 5,414 51,361 3 4,320 29 0
20 Esperanto eo 1,309 3,460 54,281 1 1,141 12 0
21 Ukrainian uk 1,059 3,192 36,315 1 7,273 12 5
22 Romanian ro 916 2,722 21,809 2 3,490 6 0
23 Turkish tr 470 3,262 14,849 3 2,049 15 0
24 Czech cs 396 989 14,342 1 473 12 0
25 Pashto ps 320 916 6,941 1 927 7 0
26 Shan shn 178 2,009 7,882 2 577 5 0
27 Hindi hi 144 662 8,111 1 2,202 9 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 140,049 621,038 10,606,517 110 2,684,008 1,252 19,501

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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