Wikivoyage/lt

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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	vokiečių	de
2	2007-12-10	italų	it
3	2012-09-23	anglų	en
4	2012-09-29	olandų	nl
5	2012-10-03	prancūzų	fr
6	2012-10-06	švedų	sv
7	2012-10-18	rusų	ru
8	2013-01-07	ispanų	es
9	2013-01-07	portugalų	pt
10	2013-02-06	lenkų	pl
11	2013-02-06	rumunų	ro
12	2013-03-21	hebrajų	he
13	2013-03-21	ukrainiečių	uk
14	2013-05-17	graikų	el
15	2013-08-11	vietnamiečių	vi
16	2014-01-15	kinų	zh
17	2014-10-02	persų	fa
18	2016-11-30	suomių	fi
19	2017-09-25	hindi	hi
20	2018-06-07	bengalų	bn
21	2018-06-07	puštūnų	ps
22	2020-08-27	japonų	ja
23	2020-12-15	esperanto	eo
24	2021-01-19	turkų	tr
25	2022-03-24	šan	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	anglų	en	32,181	168,947	4,733,310	37	2,294,697	540	1,801
2	vokiečių	de	20,130	103,670	1,557,363	14	50,336	121	721
3	lenkų	pl	13,032	15,515	138,903	3	15,156	32	0
4	italų	it	11,540	41,110	802,125	6	34,627	54	0
5	persų	fa	8,746	29,575	120,461	3	14,758	17	24
6	prancūzų	fr	8,626	25,384	534,187	5	50,124	51	89
7	rusų	ru	6,620	32,897	614,310	5	37,044	114	15,210
8	kinų	zh	5,493	24,016	190,830	6	16,710	43	206
9	olandų	nl	4,254	12,509	145,713	4	16,060	22	0
10	portugalų	pt	3,997	10,552	137,768	1	16,926	14	0
11	ispanų	es	3,186	11,697	204,756	2	27,692	40	0
12	hebrajų	he	2,441	16,117	256,271	2	10,276	26	123
13	vietnamiečių	vi	1,930	61,153	109,559	1	10,718	14	0
14	suomių	fi	1,792	3,925	56,706	1	2,937	4	0
15	švedų	sv	1,537	10,615	91,643	3	11,622	8	0
16	graikų	el	1,441	2,769	26,642	1	4,910	9	1
17	esperanto	eo	1,133	3,220	51,667	2	894	13	0
18	japonų	ja	1,114	4,601	40,888	2	3,407	47	0
19	ukrainiečių	uk	1,016	3,071	34,428	1	6,663	14	5
20	bengalų	bn	956	3,179	30,507	2	3,289	27	0
21	rumunų	ro	914	2,694	21,515	2	3,200	7	0
22	turkų	tr	447	2,678	13,030	3	1,547	20	0
23	puštūnų	ps	319	907	6,800	1	769	2	0
24	šan	shn	168	1,953	7,161	2	404	3	0
25	hindi	hi	128	643	7,769	1	1,951	5	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	133,141	593,397	9,934,312	110	2,636,717	1,247	18,180

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.