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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.

Languages

There are ᱒᱗ language versions of Wikivoyage.

Creation

Languages created before 2013 forked from Wikitravel. Languages created during or after 2013 were approved from the Wikimedia Incubator.

№	ᱢᱟᱹᱦᱤᱛ	ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ	Code
᱑	2006-12-10	ᱡᱟᱨᱢᱟᱱ	de
᱒	2007-12-10	ᱤᱴᱟᱞᱤᱟᱱ	it
᱓	2012-09-23	ᱟᱝᱜᱽᱨᱮᱡᱤ	en
᱔	2012-09-29	ᱰᱚᱪ	nl
᱕	2012-10-03	ᱯᱷᱨᱮᱧᱪ	fr
᱖	2012-10-06	ᱥᱣᱤᱫᱤᱥ	sv
᱗	2012-10-18	ᱨᱩᱥᱤᱭᱟᱱ	ru
᱘	2013-01-07	ᱥᱯᱮᱱᱤᱥ	es
᱙	2013-01-07	ᱯᱩᱨᱛᱜᱟᱞᱤ	pt
᱑᱐	2013-02-06	ᱯᱚᱞᱤᱥ	pl
᱑᱑	2013-02-06	ᱨᱚᱢᱟᱱᱤ	ro
᱑᱒	2013-03-21	ᱦᱮᱵᱽᱨᱤᱣ	he
᱑᱓	2013-03-21	ᱩᱠᱨᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱭ	uk
᱑᱔	2013-05-17	ᱜᱽᱨᱤᱠ	el
᱑᱕	2013-08-11	ᱣᱮᱭᱮᱛᱱᱟᱢᱤᱡᱽ	vi
᱑᱖	2014-01-15	ᱪᱟᱭᱱᱤᱡᱽ	zh
᱑᱗	2014-10-02	ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤᱭᱟᱭ	fa
᱑᱘	2016-11-30	ᱯᱷᱤᱱᱤᱥ	fi
᱑᱙	2017-09-25	ᱦᱤᱱᱫᱤ	hi
᱒᱐	2018-06-07	ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟ	bn
᱒᱑	2018-06-07	ᱯᱟᱥᱛᱚ	ps
᱒᱒	2020-08-27	ᱡᱟᱯᱟᱱᱤ	ja
᱒᱓	2020-12-15	ᱮᱥᱯᱟᱹᱨᱟᱱᱴᱳ	eo
᱒᱔	2021-01-19	ᱛᱩᱨᱠᱤᱥ	tr
᱒᱕	2022-03-24	ᱥᱟᱱ	shn
᱒᱖	2024-07-24	ᱪᱮᱠ	cs
᱒᱗	2024-12-02	ᱤᱱᱰᱚᱱᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟᱹᱱ	id

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 subpages in the Wikibooks 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	ᱟᱝᱜᱽᱨᱮᱡᱤ	en	32,940	173,820	4,990,142	35	2,317,426	583	1,823
2	ᱡᱟᱨᱢᱟᱱ	de	20,550	108,150	1,647,984	14	53,046	105	721
3	ᱯᱚᱞᱤᱥ	pl	13,196	15,767	146,517	3	16,130	28	0
4	ᱤᱴᱟᱞᱤᱟᱱ	it	12,382	42,836	849,474	6	36,528	51	0
5	ᱯᱷᱨᱮᱧᱪ	fr	9,252	26,388	579,679	6	52,983	50	88
6	ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤᱭᱟᱭ	fa	8,818	30,863	123,753	2	15,870	18	24
7	ᱨᱩᱥᱤᱭᱟᱱ	ru	6,828	34,779	697,915	5	39,398	60	16,473
8	ᱪᱟᱭᱱᱤᱡᱽ	zh	5,517	25,069	197,844	5	17,952	44	238
9	ᱰᱚᱪ	nl	4,325	12,681	153,624	4	16,649	21	0
10	ᱯᱩᱨᱛᱜᱟᱞᱤ	pt	4,004	11,041	142,064	1	17,976	24	0
11	ᱥᱯᱮᱱᱤᱥ	es	3,342	12,135	219,966	2	29,200	41	0
12	ᱦᱮᱵᱽᱨᱤᱣ	he	2,451	16,242	260,112	2	10,961	14	124
13	ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟ	bn	2,043	6,562	60,540	3	4,782	31	0
14	ᱣᱮᱭᱮᱛᱱᱟᱢᱤᱡᱽ	vi	1,934	61,267	110,823	1	11,317	14	0
15	ᱯᱷᱤᱱᱤᱥ	fi	1,797	3,933	57,030	1	3,213	9	0
16	ᱥᱣᱤᱫᱤᱥ	sv	1,613	10,878	96,240	3	12,154	13	0
17	ᱜᱽᱨᱤᱠ	el	1,443	2,779	27,317	1	5,365	10	1
18	ᱤᱱᱰᱚᱱᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟᱹᱱ	id	1,433	3,061	25,750	1	329	34	0
19	ᱡᱟᱯᱟᱱᱤ	ja	1,365	5,413	51,347	3	4,315	37	0
20	ᱮᱥᱯᱟᱹᱨᱟᱱᱴᱳ	eo	1,309	3,460	54,275	1	1,141	12	0
21	ᱩᱠᱨᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱭ	uk	1,059	3,192	36,304	1	7,269	11	5
22	ᱨᱚᱢᱟᱱᱤ	ro	916	2,722	21,809	2	3,487	6	0
23	ᱛᱩᱨᱠᱤᱥ	tr	470	3,262	14,841	3	2,048	14	0
24	ᱪᱮᱠ	cs	395	987	14,326	1	465	10	0
25	ᱯᱟᱥᱛᱚ	ps	320	916	6,941	1	926	7	0
26	ᱥᱟᱱ	shn	178	2,009	7,882	2	575	5	0
27	ᱦᱤᱱᱫᱤ	hi	144	662	8,110	1	2,201	10	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	140,024	620,874	10,602,609	110	2,683,706	1,262	19,497

Listings Wikidata integration

English Wikivoyage: ᱒᱖,᱑᱒᱘ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
French Wikivoyage: ᱑᱕,᱓᱓᱔ listings with a Wikidata identifier property, 18571 listings with a Wikipedia identifier property
Russian Wikivoyage: ᱔,᱓᱙᱖ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
German Wikivoyage: ᱓,᱕᱐᱖ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
Spanish Wikivoyage: ᱒᱐᱕ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
Chinese Wikivoyage: ᱑᱓᱕ 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 collapsible 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.