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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.)

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

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

Currently going on

ٻوليون

There are ٢٥ language versions of Wikivoyage.

Creation

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

تاريخ ٻولي ڪوڊ
١ 2006-12-10 جرمن de
٢ 2007-12-10 اطالوي it
٣ 2012-09-23 انگريزي en
٤ 2012-09-29 ڊچ nl
٥ 2012-10-03 فرانسيسي fr
٦ 2012-10-06 سويڊش sv
٧ 2012-10-18 روسي ru
٨ 2013-01-07 هسپانوي es
٩ پورٽگليز pt
١٠ 2013-02-06 پولش pl
١١ روماني ro
١٢ 2013-03-21 عبراني he
١٣ يوڪراني uk
١٤ 2013-05-17 يوناني el
١٥ 2013-08-11 ويتنامي vi
١٦ 2014-01-15 چيني zh
١٧ 2014-10-02 فارسي fa
١٨ 2016-11-30 فنش fi
١٩ 2017-09-25 هندي hi
٢٠ 2018-06-07 بنگلا bn
٢١ پشتو ps
٢٢ 2020-08-27 جاپاني ja
٢٣ 2020-12-15 ايسپرانٽو eo
٢٤ 2021-01-19 ترڪش tr
٢٥ 2022-03-24 شان shn

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 a custom namespace within Alemannic Wikipedia, see w:als:Buech:Raisefierer.

شماريات

These statistics are updated four times a day. See commons:Data:Wikipedia statistics/data.tab for the date/time of last update.
Language Wiki Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 انگريزي en 32,552 171,617 4,880,731 36 2,307,585 650 1,815
2 جرمن de 20,353 106,056 1,605,647 14 51,766 125 724
3 پولش pl 13,120 15,630 142,860 3 15,782 28 0
4 اطالوي it 12,055 42,135 825,061 6 35,739 72 0
5 فرانسيسي fr 8,876 25,851 565,544 5 51,376 52 90
6 فارسي fa 8,845 30,553 122,831 2 15,556 19 24
7 روسي ru 6,713 34,136 671,403 5 38,141 79 16,085
8 چيني zh 5,498 24,387 194,946 6 17,379 36 222
9 ڊچ nl 4,272 12,549 148,886 4 16,408 14 0
10 پورٽگليز pt 3,997 10,727 139,684 1 17,460 12 0
11 هسپانوي es 3,279 11,920 214,322 2 28,674 27 0
12 عبراني he 2,447 16,222 259,654 2 10,677 18 125
13 ويتنامي vi 1,929 61,208 110,254 1 11,099 13 0
14 فنش fi 1,792 3,927 56,865 1 3,101 4 0
15 سويڊش sv 1,582 10,701 92,401 3 11,836 7 0
16 يوناني el 1,439 2,771 27,186 1 5,210 5 1
17 جاپاني ja 1,330 5,226 48,151 3 3,960 27 0
18 ايسپرانٽو eo 1,285 3,417 53,381 2 1,032 18 0
19 يوڪراني uk 1,032 3,123 35,541 1 7,019 22 5
20 بنگلا bn 963 3,404 33,419 3 3,651 14 0
21 روماني ro 914 2,706 21,700 2 3,360 5 0
22 ترڪش tr 450 2,995 13,827 3 1,835 14 0
23 پشتو ps 319 911 6,877 1 846 2 0
24 شان shn 176 2,003 7,634 2 499 5 0
25 هندي hi 133 649 7,858 1 2,072 5 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 135,351 604,824 10,286,663 110 2,662,063 1,273 19,091

Listings Wikidata integration

  • English Wikivoyage: ٢٦٬١٢٨ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • French Wikivoyage: ١٥٬٣٣٤ listings with a Wikidata identifier property, 18571 listings with a Wikipedia identifier property
  • Russian Wikivoyage: ٤٬٣٩٦ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • German Wikivoyage: ٣٬٥٠٦ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • Spanish Wikivoyage: ٢٠٥ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • Chinese Wikivoyage: ١٣٥ 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.

وڪي‌سفر سَٿَ

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?

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.

زمرو

ننڍصفحا

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

Subpages of Wikivoyage on Meta

Proposal

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

Challenges

  • 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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