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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

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Currently going on

Languages

There are 25 language versions of Wikivoyage.

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

№	Kwanan Wata	Harshe	Code
1	2006-12-10	Jamusanci	de
2	2007-12-10	Italiyanci	it
3	2012-09-23	Turanci	en
4	2012-09-29	Holanci	nl
5	2012-10-03	Faransanci	fr
6	2012-10-06	Harshen Suwedan	sv
7	2012-10-18	Rashanci	ru
8	2013-01-07	Sifaniyanci	es
9	2013-01-07	Harshen Potugis	pt
10	2013-02-06	Harshen Polan	pl
11	2013-02-06	Romaniyanci	ro
12	2013-03-21	Ibrananci	he
13	2013-03-21	Harshen Yukuren	uk
14	2013-05-17	Girkanci	el
15	2013-08-11	Harshen Biyetinam	vi
16	2014-01-15	Harshen Sinanci	zh
17	2014-10-02	Farisa	fa
18	2016-11-30	Yaren mutanen Finland	fi
19	2017-09-25	Harshen Hindi	hi
20	2018-06-07	Bengali	bn
21	2018-06-07	Pashtanci	ps
22	2020-08-27	Japananci	ja
23	2020-12-15	Esperanto	eo
24	2021-01-19	Harshen Turkiyya	tr
25	2022-03-24	Shan	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.

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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	Turanci	en	32,582	171,938	4,897,301	36	2,309,394	500	1,817
2	Jamusanci	de	20,376	106,364	1,613,853	14	51,960	114	725
3	Harshen Polan	pl	13,130	15,642	143,377	3	15,860	21	0
4	Italiyanci	it	12,134	42,298	828,570	6	35,898	72	0
5	Faransanci	fr	8,933	25,924	567,325	5	51,518	48	90
6	Farisa	fa	8,848	30,617	122,996	2	15,614	15	24
7	Rashanci	ru	6,747	34,300	676,734	5	38,311	58	16,193
8	Harshen Sinanci	zh	5,500	24,520	195,390	6	17,493	24	226
9	Holanci	nl	4,313	12,663	151,248	4	16,457	19	0
10	Harshen Potugis	pt	3,997	10,747	139,817	1	17,523	10	0
11	Sifaniyanci	es	3,287	11,941	215,253	2	28,774	23	0
12	Ibrananci	he	2,448	16,228	259,769	2	10,743	14	125
13	Harshen Biyetinam	vi	1,932	61,222	110,463	1	11,138	15	0
14	Yaren mutanen Finland	fi	1,792	3,927	56,891	1	3,118	7	0
15	Harshen Suwedan	sv	1,583	10,709	92,483	3	11,857	8	0
16	Girkanci	el	1,440	2,775	27,202	1	5,239	6	1
17	Japananci	ja	1,336	5,303	48,806	3	4,036	16	0
18	Esperanto	eo	1,290	3,423	53,514	2	1,053	8	0
19	Harshen Yukuren	uk	1,049	3,175	35,823	1	7,070	29	5
20	Bengali	bn	960	3,429	33,780	3	3,709	15	0
21	Romaniyanci	ro	914	2,707	21,710	2	3,380	5	0
22	Harshen Turkiyya	tr	455	3,048	13,976	3	1,871	15	0
23	Pashtanci	ps	319	911	6,884	1	855	3	0
24	Shan	shn	176	2,004	7,730	2	511	3	0
25	Harshen Hindi	hi	139	656	7,915	1	2,099	6	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	135,680	606,471	10,328,810	110	2,665,481	1,054	19,206

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.