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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

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 партугальская pt
10 2013-02-06 польская pl
11 румынская ro
12 2013-03-21 іўрыт he
13 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 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 32,487 171,102 4,850,530 36 2,304,232 607 1,818
2 нямецкая de 20,301 105,438 1,596,286 14 51,377 135 724
3 польская pl 13,087 15,591 141,861 3 15,641 36 0
4 італьянская it 11,922 42,087 819,634 6 35,430 83 0
5 французская fr 8,866 25,770 564,095 5 51,087 56 90
6 фарсі fa 8,794 30,298 122,107 3 15,373 22 24
7 руская ru 6,690 33,875 662,257 5 37,884 68 15,899
8 кітайская zh 5,498 24,190 194,138 7 17,216 41 217
9 нідэрландская nl 4,272 12,535 147,482 4 16,311 20 0
10 партугальская pt 3,997 10,666 139,346 1 17,317 19 0
11 іспанская es 3,267 11,841 211,989 2 28,434 38 0
12 іўрыт he 2,447 16,221 259,547 2 10,578 20 125
13 в’етнамская vi 1,931 61,221 110,010 1 11,005 16 0
14 фінская fi 1,792 3,927 56,834 1 3,062 13 0
15 шведская sv 1,573 10,672 92,200 3 11,785 13 0
16 грэчаская el 1,439 2,771 27,121 1 5,155 14 1
17 японская ja 1,298 5,013 45,572 2 3,838 38 0
18 эсперанта eo 1,266 3,398 52,995 2 998 16 0
19 украінская uk 1,023 3,088 35,169 1 6,917 17 5
20 бенгальская bn 960 3,381 33,105 3 3,589 20 0
21 румынская ro 914 2,702 21,677 2 3,326 12 0
22 турэцкая tr 451 2,919 13,650 3 1,768 17 0
23 пушту ps 319 911 6,872 1 829 9 0
24 шан shn 176 2,002 7,563 2 479 8 0
25 хіндзі hi 131 649 7,837 1 2,046 11 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 134,901 602,268 10,219,877 111 2,655,677 1,349 18,903

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.

Category

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.

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