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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

ٻوليون

There are ٢٥ language versions of Wikivoyage.

Creation

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

تاريخ ٻولي ڪوڊ
١ 2006-12-10 جرمن de
٢ 2007-12-10 اطالوي it
٣ 2012-09-23 انگريزي en
٤ 2012-09-29 ڊچ nl
٥ 2012-10-03 فرانسيسي fr
٦ 2012-10-06 سويڊش sv
٧ 2012-10-18 روسي ru
٨ 2013-01-07 هسپانوي es
٩ پورٽگليز pt
١٠ 2013-02-06 پولش pl
١١ روماني ro
١٢ 2013-03-21 عبراني he
١٣ يوڪراني uk
١٤ 2013-05-17 يوناني el
١٥ 2013-08-11 ويتنامي vi
١٦ 2014-01-15 چيني zh
١٧ 2014-10-02 فارسي fa
١٨ 2016-11-30 فنش fi
١٩ 2017-09-25 هندي hi
٢٠ 2018-06-07 بنگلا bn
٢١ پشتو ps
٢٢ 2020-08-27 جاپاني ja
٢٣ 2020-12-15 ايسپرانٽو eo
٢٤ 2021-01-19 ترڪش tr
٢٥ 2022-03-24 شان 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.

شماريات

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 انگريزي en 32,511 171,311 4,863,443 36 2,305,493 559 1,808
2 جرمن de 20,321 105,683 1,600,947 14 51,525 121 724
3 پولش pl 13,103 15,611 142,361 3 15,698 33 0
4 اطالوي it 11,983 42,233 821,396 6 35,548 84 0
5 فرانسيسي fr 8,867 25,791 564,546 5 51,206 72 90
6 فارسي fa 8,798 30,379 122,348 3 15,442 16 24
7 روسي ru 6,696 33,961 665,583 5 37,989 64 15,971
8 چيني zh 5,499 24,279 194,369 6 17,285 30 219
9 ڊچ nl 4,272 12,547 148,053 4 16,348 17 0
10 پورٽگليز pt 3,997 10,682 139,510 1 17,370 16 0
11 هسپانوي es 3,283 11,863 213,035 2 28,512 37 0
12 عبراني he 2,447 16,222 259,583 2 10,615 12 125
13 ويتنامي vi 1,934 61,227 110,105 1 11,032 14 0
14 فنش fi 1,792 3,927 56,854 1 3,073 10 0
15 سويڊش sv 1,572 10,675 92,236 3 11,802 8 0
16 يوناني el 1,439 2,771 27,145 1 5,182 8 1
17 جاپاني ja 1,313 5,130 46,273 3 3,883 38 0
18 ايسپرانٽو eo 1,277 3,408 53,157 2 1,011 17 0
19 يوڪراني uk 1,023 3,088 35,272 1 6,958 15 5
20 بنگلا bn 961 3,386 33,164 3 3,620 12 0
21 روماني ro 914 2,702 21,683 2 3,341 3 0
22 ترڪش tr 450 2,945 13,695 3 1,796 11 0
23 پشتو ps 319 911 6,872 1 836 1 0
24 شان shn 176 2,003 7,586 2 487 5 0
25 هندي hi 131 649 7,841 1 2,056 7 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 135,078 603,384 10,247,057 111 2,658,108 1,210 18,967

Listings Wikidata integration

  • English Wikivoyage: ٢٦٬١٢٨ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • French Wikivoyage: ١٥٬٣٣٤ listings with a Wikidata identifier property, 18571 listings with a Wikipedia identifier property
  • Russian Wikivoyage: ٤٬٣٩٦ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • German Wikivoyage: ٣٬٥٠٦ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • Spanish Wikivoyage: ٢٠٥ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • Chinese Wikivoyage: ١٣٥ 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.

وڪي‌سفر سَٿَ

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.

زمرو

ننڍصفحا

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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