Wikivoyage is the multilingual travel guide that anyone can edit.

Project logo: a red, green and blue arrows pointing different directions, similar to compass

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.

Currently going on

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Languages

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There are 25 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.

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 Portuguese pt
10 2013-02-06 Polish pl
11 Romanian ro
12 2013-03-21 Hebrew he
13 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 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

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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.
Language Wiki Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 English en 32,578 171,855 4,892,986 36 2,308,965 502 1,817
2 German de 20,374 106,303 1,611,638 14 51,914 119 725
3 Polish pl 13,130 15,642 143,239 3 15,840 26 0
4 Italian it 12,115 42,259 827,766 6 35,864 73 0
5 French fr 8,922 25,911 566,848 5 51,472 52 90
6 Persian fa 8,847 30,599 122,938 2 15,597 16 24
7 Russian ru 6,744 34,274 675,362 5 38,284 60 16,177
8 Chinese zh 5,499 24,484 195,282 6 17,461 28 224
9 Dutch nl 4,310 12,652 150,905 4 16,445 23 0
10 Portuguese pt 3,997 10,743 139,798 1 17,510 14 0
11 Spanish es 3,283 11,934 215,077 2 28,753 28 0
12 Hebrew he 2,447 16,224 259,745 2 10,725 16 125
13 Vietnamese vi 1,931 61,213 110,402 1 11,128 13 0
14 Finnish fi 1,792 3,927 56,889 1 3,114 10 0
15 Swedish sv 1,583 10,708 92,477 3 11,853 12 0
16 Greek el 1,440 2,772 27,195 1 5,232 6 1
17 Japanese ja 1,335 5,291 48,750 3 4,027 21 0
18 Esperanto eo 1,288 3,421 53,492 2 1,045 9 0
19 Ukrainian uk 1,049 3,172 35,786 1 7,060 30 5
20 Bangla bn 960 3,420 33,728 3 3,688 13 0
21 Romanian ro 914 2,707 21,707 2 3,374 6 0
22 Turkish tr 455 3,034 13,941 3 1,860 14 0
23 Pashto ps 319 911 6,880 1 853 2 0
24 Shan shn 176 2,003 7,700 2 509 3 0
25 Hindi hi 138 653 7,878 1 2,094 6 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 135,626 606,112 10,318,409 110 2,664,667 1,102 19,188

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 collapsable 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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