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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.)

Lûn-tâm

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.

Gí-giân

There are 25 language versions of Wikivoyage.

Tshòng-tsō

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 德文 de
2 2007-12-10 義大利文 it
3 2012-09-23 英文 en
4 2012-09-29 荷蘭文 nl
5 2012-10-03 法文 fr
6 2012-10-06 瑞典文 sv
7 2012-10-18 俄文 ru
8 2013-01-07 西班牙文 es
9 葡萄牙文 pt
10 2013-02-06 波蘭文 pl
11 羅馬尼亞文 ro
12 2013-03-21 希伯來文 he
13 烏克蘭文 uk
14 2013-05-17 希臘文 el
15 2013-08-11 越南文 vi
16 2014-01-15 中文 zh
17 2014-10-02 波斯文 fa
18 2016-11-30 芬蘭文 fi
19 2017-09-25 印地文 hi
20 2018-06-07 孟加拉文 bn
21 普什圖文 ps
22 2020-08-27 日文 ja
23 2020-12-15 世界文 eo
24 2021-01-19 土耳其文 tr
25 2022-03-24 撣文 shn
26 2024-07-24 捷克文 cs

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 英文 en 32,788 172,974 4,947,819 37 2,314,092 563 1,817
2 德文 de 20,474 107,445 1,633,875 14 52,610 127 721
3 波蘭文 pl 13,175 15,727 145,217 3 15,997 34 0
4 義大利文 it 12,287 42,607 837,125 6 36,259 52 0
5 法文 fr 9,124 26,168 573,516 5 52,691 68 90
6 波斯文 fa 8,860 30,808 123,436 2 15,762 15 24
7 俄文 ru 6,774 34,598 689,526 5 39,188 122 16,388
8 中文 zh 5,502 24,846 196,460 5 17,780 39 233
9 荷蘭文 nl 4,325 12,681 152,766 4 16,565 18 0
10 葡萄牙文 pt 4,001 10,829 141,154 1 17,708 18 0
11 西班牙文 es 3,306 12,028 217,352 2 29,030 42 0
12 希伯來文 he 2,449 16,232 259,991 2 10,877 14 124
13 越南文 vi 1,931 61,268 110,721 1 11,253 17 0
14 芬蘭文 fi 1,796 3,931 56,989 1 3,176 9 0
15 瑞典文 sv 1,609 10,840 94,359 3 11,954 13 0
16 希臘文 el 1,442 2,778 27,267 1 5,311 10 1
17 日文 ja 1,361 5,415 50,752 3 4,180 23 0
18 世界文 eo 1,301 3,457 54,007 1 1,105 14 0
19 孟加拉文 bn 1,208 4,279 40,488 3 4,147 204 0
20 烏克蘭文 uk 1,054 3,182 36,068 1 7,169 13 5
21 羅馬尼亞文 ro 915 2,714 21,760 2 3,445 9 0
22 土耳其文 tr 466 3,169 14,413 3 1,974 19 0
23 捷克文 cs 391 922 13,552 1 383 15 0
24 普什圖文 ps 320 912 6,917 1 894 6 0
25 撣文 shn 177 2,006 7,830 1 548 9 0
26 印地文 hi 143 661 8,026 1 2,159 12 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 137,179 612,477 10,461,386 109 2,676,257 1,485 19,403

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.

Luī-pia̍t

Tsú-ia̍h-bīn

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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