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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

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	нямецкая	de
2	2007-12-10	італьянская	it
3	2012-09-23	англійская	en
4	2012-09-29	нідэрландская	nl
5	2012-10-03	французская	fr
6	2012-10-06	шведская	sv
7	2012-10-18	руская	ru
8	2013-01-07	іспанская	es
9	2013-01-07	партугальская	pt
10	2013-02-06	польская	pl
11	2013-02-06	румынская	ro
12	2013-03-21	іўрыт	he
13	2013-03-21	украінская	uk
14	2013-05-17	грэчаская	el
15	2013-08-11	в’етнамская	vi
16	2014-01-15	кітайская	zh
17	2014-10-02	фарсі	fa
18	2016-11-30	фінская	fi
19	2017-09-25	хіндзі	hi
20	2018-06-07	бенгальская	bn
21	2018-06-07	пушту	ps
22	2020-08-27	японская	ja
23	2020-12-15	эсперанта	eo
24	2021-01-19	турэцкая	tr
25	2022-03-24	шан	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	англійская	en	32,621	172,123	4,906,738	36	2,310,281	519	1,823
2	нямецкая	de	20,396	106,540	1,616,475	14	52,058	109	725
3	польская	pl	13,132	15,644	143,667	3	15,892	27	0
4	італьянская	it	12,179	42,382	830,024	6	35,937	52	0
5	французская	fr	8,970	25,970	568,454	5	51,649	70	90
6	фарсі	fa	8,853	30,660	123,104	2	15,640	24	24
7	руская	ru	6,757	34,410	678,927	5	38,384	57	16,285
8	кітайская	zh	5,500	24,572	195,543	6	17,541	28	227
9	нідэрландская	nl	4,314	12,665	151,581	4	16,476	23	0
10	партугальская	pt	3,998	10,769	139,942	1	17,558	18	0
11	іспанская	es	3,289	11,954	215,663	2	28,830	42	0
12	іўрыт	he	2,448	16,231	259,803	2	10,769	19	125
13	в’етнамская	vi	1,932	61,223	110,491	1	11,151	13	0
14	фінская	fi	1,792	3,927	56,920	1	3,128	6	0
15	шведская	sv	1,583	10,709	92,495	3	11,872	7	0
16	грэчаская	el	1,440	2,776	27,217	1	5,252	6	1
17	японская	ja	1,341	5,338	49,055	3	4,060	19	0
18	эсперанта	eo	1,289	3,424	53,535	1	1,058	17	0
19	украінская	uk	1,050	3,176	35,893	1	7,089	18	5
20	бенгальская	bn	945	3,443	33,933	3	3,740	19	0
21	румынская	ro	914	2,707	21,719	2	3,394	5	0
22	турэцкая	tr	463	3,080	14,113	3	1,888	17	0
23	пушту	ps	319	911	6,888	1	859	3	0
24	шан	shn	177	2,004	7,775	2	519	5	0
25	хіндзі	hi	139	656	7,945	1	2,109	8	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	135,841	607,294	10,347,900	109	2,667,134	1,131	19,305

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.