Wikivoyage

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

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

Languages

There are 25 language versions of Wikivoyage.

Creation

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

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

Statistics

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	English	en	32,563	171,784	4,889,480	36	2,308,570	540	1,815
2	German	de	20,368	106,231	1,610,240	14	51,869	126	725
3	Polish	pl	13,128	15,640	143,149	3	15,821	28	0
4	Italian	it	12,106	42,238	826,844	6	35,825	69	0
5	French	fr	8,916	25,899	566,562	5	51,438	51	90
6	Persian	fa	8,846	30,582	122,904	2	15,582	17	24
7	Russian	ru	6,737	34,188	674,066	5	38,236	56	16,101
8	Chinese	zh	5,499	24,455	195,227	6	17,432	37	224
9	Dutch	nl	4,284	12,561	149,712	4	16,430	15	0
10	Portuguese	pt	3,997	10,740	139,755	1	17,495	17	0
11	Spanish	es	3,281	11,931	214,890	2	28,728	27	0
12	Hebrew	he	2,447	16,222	259,735	2	10,708	19	125
13	Vietnamese	vi	1,930	61,210	110,341	1	11,118	16	0
14	Finnish	fi	1,792	3,927	56,882	1	3,108	8	0
15	Swedish	sv	1,583	10,707	92,464	3	11,847	12	0
16	Greek	el	1,439	2,771	27,192	1	5,223	4	1
17	Japanese	ja	1,333	5,285	48,690	3	3,998	22	0
18	Esperanto	eo	1,287	3,419	53,450	2	1,036	11	0
19	Ukrainian	uk	1,048	3,171	35,766	1	7,050	35	5
20	Bangla	bn	957	3,410	33,549	3	3,674	15	0
21	Romanian	ro	914	2,707	21,707	2	3,368	5	0
22	Turkish	tr	453	3,021	13,909	3	1,851	15	0
23	Pashto	ps	319	911	6,880	1	850	2	0
24	Shan	shn	176	2,003	7,689	2	501	4	0
25	Hindi	hi	137	651	7,872	1	2,085	3	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	135,540	605,664	10,308,955	110	2,663,843	1,154	19,110

Listings Wikidata integration

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

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.

Subpages

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.