Wikivoyage/sat

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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 ᱒᱕ 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

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	32,879	173,464	4,969,161	37	2,316,118	618	1,817
2	ᱡᱟᱨᱢᱟᱱ	de	20,518	107,845	1,642,148	14	52,836	123	721
3	ᱯᱚᱞᱤᱥ	pl	13,191	15,758	145,989	3	16,067	27	0
4	ᱤᱴᱟᱞᱤᱟᱱ	it	12,335	42,728	845,786	6	36,409	76	0
5	ᱯᱷᱨᱮᱧᱪ	fr	9,200	26,307	575,892	5	52,841	57	88
6	ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤᱭᱟᱭ	fa	8,814	30,801	123,600	2	15,816	22	24
7	ᱨᱩᱥᱤᱭᱟᱱ	ru	6,815	34,731	694,500	5	39,290	72	16,454
8	ᱪᱟᱭᱱᱤᱡᱽ	zh	5,515	24,978	197,047	5	17,876	41	235
9	ᱰᱚᱪ	nl	4,325	12,678	153,199	4	16,614	24	0
10	ᱯᱩᱨᱛᱜᱟᱞᱤ	pt	4,004	11,000	141,509	1	17,902	21	0
11	ᱥᱯᱮᱱᱤᱥ	es	3,319	12,052	218,390	2	29,126	37	0
12	ᱦᱮᱵᱽᱨᱤᱣ	he	2,449	16,232	260,038	2	10,921	16	124
13	ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟ	bn	2,046	6,429	59,540	3	4,710	157	0
14	ᱣᱮᱭᱮᱛᱱᱟᱢᱤᱡᱽ	vi	1,933	61,266	110,774	1	11,287	13	0
15	ᱯᱷᱤᱱᱤᱥ	fi	1,796	3,933	57,014	1	3,192	13	0
16	ᱥᱣᱤᱫᱤᱥ	sv	1,609	10,851	94,487	3	11,976	17	0
17	ᱜᱽᱨᱤᱠ	el	1,442	2,780	27,299	1	5,339	9	1
18	ᱡᱟᱯᱟᱱᱤ	ja	1,363	5,401	51,172	3	4,252	26	0
19	ᱮᱥᱯᱟᱹᱨᱟᱱᱴᱳ	eo	1,305	3,452	54,155	1	1,120	15	0
20	ᱩᱠᱨᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱭ	uk	1,056	3,188	36,229	1	7,231	39	5
21	ᱨᱚᱢᱟᱱᱤ	ro	916	2,721	21,801	2	3,463	9	0
22	ᱛᱩᱨᱠᱤᱥ	tr	467	3,207	14,622	3	2,010	19	0
23	ᱪᱮᱠ	cs	394	970	14,200	1	421	12	0
24	ᱯᱟᱥᱛᱚ	ps	320	915	6,938	1	909	8	0
25	ᱥᱟᱱ	shn	177	2,008	7,855	2	561	9	0
26	ᱦᱤᱱᱫᱤ	hi	143	661	8,090	1	2,180	12	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	138,331	616,356	10,531,435	110	2,680,467	1,492	19,469

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.