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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.

Currently going on

Languages

There are 25 language versions of Wikivoyage.

Creation

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	нямецкая	de
2	2007-12-10	італьянская	it
3	2012-09-23	англійская	en
4	2012-09-29	нідэрландская	nl
5	2012-10-03	французская	fr
6	2012-10-06	шведская	sv
7	2012-10-18	руская	ru
8	2013-01-07	іспанская	es
9	2013-01-07	партугальская	pt
10	2013-02-06	польская	pl
11	2013-02-06	румынская	ro
12	2013-03-21	іўрыт	he
13	2013-03-21	украінская	uk
14	2013-05-17	грэчаская	el
15	2013-08-11	в’етнамская	vi
16	2014-01-15	кітайская	zh
17	2014-10-02	фарсі	fa
18	2016-11-30	фінская	fi
19	2017-09-25	хіндзі	hi
20	2018-06-07	бенгальская	bn
21	2018-06-07	пушту	ps
22	2020-08-27	японская	ja
23	2020-12-15	эсперанта	eo
24	2021-01-19	турэцкая	tr
25	2022-03-24	шан	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.

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	англійская	en	32,581	171,921	4,896,591	36	2,309,312	500	1,817
2	нямецкая	de	20,374	106,350	1,612,642	14	51,952	114	725
3	польская	pl	13,130	15,642	143,368	3	15,858	21	0
4	італьянская	it	12,131	42,289	828,446	6	35,887	72	0
5	французская	fr	8,932	25,921	567,279	5	51,507	48	90
6	фарсі	fa	8,848	30,614	122,968	2	15,611	15	24
7	руская	ru	6,747	34,299	676,516	5	38,305	58	16,193
8	кітайская	zh	5,500	24,514	195,354	6	17,488	24	225
9	нідэрландская	nl	4,313	12,655	151,122	4	16,454	19	0
10	партугальская	pt	3,997	10,747	139,817	1	17,522	10	0
11	іспанская	es	3,287	11,941	215,235	2	28,771	23	0
12	іўрыт	he	2,447	16,227	259,765	2	10,739	14	125
13	в’етнамская	vi	1,932	61,221	110,460	1	11,136	15	0
14	фінская	fi	1,792	3,927	56,891	1	3,117	7	0
15	шведская	sv	1,583	10,709	92,483	3	11,856	8	0
16	грэчаская	el	1,440	2,772	27,198	1	5,239	6	1
17	японская	ja	1,336	5,303	48,784	3	4,033	16	0
18	эсперанта	eo	1,290	3,423	53,503	2	1,053	8	0
19	украінская	uk	1,049	3,175	35,820	1	7,067	29	5
20	бенгальская	bn	960	3,421	33,768	3	3,707	15	0
21	румынская	ro	914	2,707	21,710	2	3,380	5	0
22	турэцкая	tr	455	3,045	13,971	3	1,869	15	0
23	пушту	ps	319	911	6,883	1	855	3	0
24	шан	shn	176	2,004	7,730	2	511	3	0
25	хіндзі	hi	139	656	7,908	1	2,099	6	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	135,672	606,394	10,326,212	110	2,665,328	1,054	19,205

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.

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 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.