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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	English	en	31 914	167 674	4 667 313	38	2 288 375	499	1 789
2	German	de	20 100	102 376	1 531 136	14	49 442	114	721
3	Polish	pl	12 926	15 399	137 072	3	14 782	39	0
4	Italian	it	11 328	40 649	784 654	6	33 871	93	0
5	Persian	fa	8 687	29 193	119 297	3	14 481	14	24
6	French	fr	8 420	25 105	524 952	5	49 275	58	89
7	Russian	ru	6 600	32 319	585 574	5	35 811	81	14 765
8	Chinese	zh	5 492	23 955	189 839	6	16 216	40	196
9	Dutch	nl	4 253	12 501	145 053	4	15 772	15	0
10	Portuguese	pt	3 995	10 184	137 035	1	16 368	21	0
11	Spanish	es	3 139	11 158	199 737	2	27 033	32	0
12	Hebrew	he	2 441	16 069	254 227	2	10 028	17	123
13	Vietnamese	vi	1 926	61 131	109 225	1	10 397	17	0
14	Finnish	fi	1 790	3 923	56 624	1	2 830	6	0
15	Swedish	sv	1 536	10 608	91 434	3	11 450	9	0
16	Greek	el	1 434	2 758	26 430	1	4 773	13	1
17	Esperanto	eo	1 113	3 181	50 951	1	792	11	0
18	Ukrainian	uk	1 015	3 058	34 236	1	6 459	18	5
19	Japanese	ja	1 003	4 172	36 124	2	2 998	77	0
20	Bangla	bn	986	2 995	27 199	2	3 090	23	0
21	Romanian	ro	914	2 691	21 464	2	3 098	3	0
22	Turkish	tr	436	2 433	12 431	3	1 413	13	0
23	Pashto	ps	319	906	6 793	1	721	2	0
24	Shan	shn	167	1 849	6 849	2	340	5	0
25	Hindi	hi	118	612	7 570	1	1 865	8	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	132 052	586 899	9 763 219	110	2 621 680	1 228	17 713

Tracked in Phabricator:
Bug 40009

NOTE: Because of bugzilla:40009, the numbers shown in the above table may not reflect the real status of each wiki.

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	31 914	167 674	4 667 313	38	2 288 375	499	1 789
2	German	de	20 100	102 376	1 531 136	14	49 442	114	721
3	Polish	pl	12 926	15 399	137 072	3	14 782	39	0
4	Italian	it	11 328	40 649	784 654	6	33 871	93	0
5	Persian	fa	8 687	29 193	119 297	3	14 481	14	24
6	French	fr	8 420	25 105	524 952	5	49 275	58	89
7	Russian	ru	6 600	32 319	585 574	5	35 811	81	14 765
8	Chinese	zh	5 492	23 955	189 839	6	16 216	40	196
9	Dutch	nl	4 253	12 501	145 053	4	15 772	15	0
10	Portuguese	pt	3 995	10 184	137 035	1	16 368	21	0
11	Spanish	es	3 139	11 158	199 737	2	27 033	32	0
12	Hebrew	he	2 441	16 069	254 227	2	10 028	17	123
13	Vietnamese	vi	1 926	61 131	109 225	1	10 397	17	0
14	Finnish	fi	1 790	3 923	56 624	1	2 830	6	0
15	Swedish	sv	1 536	10 608	91 434	3	11 450	9	0
16	Greek	el	1 434	2 758	26 430	1	4 773	13	1
17	Esperanto	eo	1 113	3 181	50 951	1	792	11	0
18	Ukrainian	uk	1 015	3 058	34 236	1	6 459	18	5
19	Japanese	ja	1 003	4 172	36 124	2	2 998	77	0
20	Bangla	bn	986	2 995	27 199	2	3 090	23	0
21	Romanian	ro	914	2 691	21 464	2	3 098	3	0
22	Turkish	tr	436	2 433	12 431	3	1 413	13	0
23	Pashto	ps	319	906	6 793	1	721	2	0
24	Shan	shn	167	1 849	6 849	2	340	5	0
25	Hindi	hi	118	612	7 570	1	1 865	8	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	132 052	586 899	9 763 219	110	2 621 680	1 228	17 713

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. You can apply for membership to support the association and the Wikivoyage project.

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.