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

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.

Languages

There are 27 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 немисче de
2 2007-12-10 италиянча it
3 2012-09-23 англисче en
4 2012-09-29 голландча nl
5 2012-10-03 французча fr
6 2012-10-06 шведче sv
7 2012-10-18 орусча ru
8 2013-01-07 испанча es
9 португалча pt
10 2013-02-06 полякча pl
11 румынча ro
12 2013-03-21 ивритче he
13 украинче uk
14 2013-05-17 грекче el
15 2013-08-11 вьетнамча vi
16 2014-01-15 кытайча zh
17 2014-10-02 фарсча fa
18 2016-11-30 финче fi
19 2017-09-25 хиндиче hi
20 2018-06-07 бангладешче bn
21 пуштуча ps
22 2020-08-27 жапончо ja
23 2020-12-15 эсперанто eo
24 2021-01-19 түркчө tr
25 2022-03-24 шанча shn
26 2024-07-24 чехче cs
27 2024-12-02 индонезияча 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

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 англисче en 33,215 175,044 5,039,604 34 2,322,148 480 1,833
2 немисче de 20,591 109,057 1,663,656 14 53,666 94 721
3 полякча pl 13,257 15,838 148,830 3 16,454 29 0
4 италиянча it 12,660 43,379 862,602 5 36,911 47 0
5 французча fr 9,306 26,505 588,142 5 53,509 64 88
6 фарсча fa 8,815 31,054 124,220 1 16,046 19 24
7 орусча ru 6,846 34,922 708,727 5 39,789 62 16,532
8 кытайча zh 5,551 25,560 202,466 6 18,360 28 246
9 голландча nl 4,329 12,690 154,640 4 16,828 19 0
10 португалча pt 4,011 11,106 143,542 1 18,215 16 0
11 испанча es 3,383 12,177 225,739 3 29,501 49 0
12 ивритче he 2,450 16,150 260,283 3 11,090 17 124
13 бангладешче bn 2,054 6,682 61,873 3 4,975 17 0
14 вьетнамча vi 1,934 61,275 110,970 1 11,413 10 0
15 финче fi 1,797 3,934 57,088 1 3,316 6 0
16 шведче sv 1,615 10,891 96,488 3 12,261 9 0
17 индонезияча id 1,466 3,257 27,458 2 609 9 0
18 жапончо ja 1,450 5,762 52,699 3 4,546 18 0
19 грекче el 1,443 2,781 27,433 1 5,473 6 1
20 эсперанто eo 1,343 3,510 54,664 1 1,208 9 0
21 украинче uk 1,072 3,221 36,930 1 7,441 25 5
22 румынча ro 916 2,728 21,899 2 3,584 10 0
23 түркчө tr 475 3,410 15,229 3 2,179 14 0
24 чехче cs 455 1,090 15,081 1 599 11 0
25 пуштуча ps 320 917 6,955 1 979 3 0
26 хиндиче hi 248 765 8,300 1 2,277 5 0
27 шанча shn 180 2,038 7,993 2 634 4 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 141,182 625,743 10,723,511 110 2,694,011 1,080 19,574

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.

Category

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.
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