Wikivoyage

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Wikivoyage is the multilingual travel guide that anyone can edit.

Project logo: a red, green and blue arrows pointing different directions, similar to compass

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

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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

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Join the Wikivoyage-l mailing list discussing technical and community matters by email.

Languages

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There are 27 language versions of Wikivoyage.

Creation

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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 German de
2 2007-12-10 Italian it
3 2012-09-23 English en
4 2012-09-29 Dutch nl
5 2012-10-03 French fr
6 2012-10-06 Swedish sv
7 2012-10-18 Russian ru
8 2013-01-07 Spanish es
9 Portuguese pt
10 2013-02-06 Polish pl
11 Romanian ro
12 2013-03-21 Hebrew he
13 Ukrainian uk
14 2013-05-17 Greek el
15 2013-08-11 Vietnamese vi
16 2014-01-15 Chinese zh
17 2014-10-02 Persian fa
18 2016-11-30 Finnish fi
19 2017-09-25 Hindi hi
20 2018-06-07 Bangla bn
21 Pashto ps
22 2020-08-27 Japanese ja
23 2020-12-15 Esperanto eo
24 2021-01-19 Turkish tr
25 2022-03-24 Shan shn
26 2024-07-24 Czech cs
27 2024-12-02 Indonesian 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

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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 English en 32,940 173,820 4,990,157 35 2,317,427 583 1,823
2 German de 20,550 108,150 1,647,986 14 53,046 105 721
3 Polish pl 13,196 15,767 146,517 3 16,130 28 0
4 Italian it 12,382 42,836 849,489 6 36,528 51 0
5 French fr 9,252 26,388 579,679 6 52,983 50 88
6 Persian fa 8,818 30,863 123,753 2 15,870 18 24
7 Russian ru 6,828 34,779 697,915 5 39,398 60 16,473
8 Chinese zh 5,517 25,069 197,844 5 17,952 44 238
9 Dutch nl 4,325 12,681 153,624 4 16,649 21 0
10 Portuguese pt 4,004 11,041 142,064 1 17,976 24 0
11 Spanish es 3,342 12,135 219,966 2 29,200 41 0
12 Hebrew he 2,451 16,242 260,112 2 10,961 14 124
13 Bangla bn 2,043 6,562 60,540 3 4,782 31 0
14 Vietnamese vi 1,934 61,267 110,823 1 11,317 14 0
15 Finnish fi 1,797 3,933 57,030 1 3,213 9 0
16 Swedish sv 1,613 10,878 96,240 3 12,154 13 0
17 Greek el 1,443 2,779 27,317 1 5,365 10 1
18 Indonesian id 1,433 3,061 25,750 1 329 34 0
19 Japanese ja 1,365 5,413 51,347 3 4,315 37 0
20 Esperanto eo 1,309 3,460 54,275 1 1,141 12 0
21 Ukrainian uk 1,059 3,192 36,304 1 7,270 11 5
22 Romanian ro 916 2,722 21,809 2 3,488 6 0
23 Turkish tr 470 3,262 14,841 3 2,048 14 0
24 Czech cs 395 987 14,326 1 465 10 0
25 Pashto ps 320 916 6,941 1 926 7 0
26 Shan shn 178 2,009 7,882 2 575 5 0
27 Hindi 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 10,602,641 110 2,683,709 1,262 19,497

Listings Wikidata integration

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  • 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

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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?

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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.

Category

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Subpages

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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

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The travel guide project proposal, formerly on this page, is archived in Wikivoyage/Archive/2012-11-16 and its talk page.

Challenges

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  • 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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