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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 ۲۷ 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
۱ 2006-12-10 آلمانی de
۲ 2007-12-10 ئیتالیایی it
۳ 2012-09-23 ئینگیلیسی en
۴ 2012-09-29 ھولأندی nl
۵ 2012-10-03 فآرانسئ ئی fr
۶ 2012-10-06 سوٙئدی sv
۷ 2012-10-18 روٙسی ru
۸ 2013-01-07 ئسپانیایی es
۹ پورتئغالی pt
۱۰ 2013-02-06 لأھئستانی pl
۱۱ رومانیایی ro
۱۲ 2013-03-21 عئبری he
۱۳ ئوکراینی uk
۱۴ 2013-05-17 یوٙنانی el
۱۵ 2013-08-11 ڤییئتنامی vi
۱۶ 2014-01-15 چینی zh
۱۷ 2014-10-02 فارسی fa
۱۸ 2016-11-30 فأنلاندی fi
۱۹ 2017-09-25 ھئنی hi
۲۰ 2018-06-07 بأنگالی bn
۲۱ پأشتوٙ ps
۲۲ 2020-08-27 جاپوٙنی ja
۲۳ 2020-12-15 ئسپئرانتو eo
۲۴ 2021-01-19 تورکی tr
۲۵ 2022-03-24 شانی shn
۲۶ 2024-07-24 چکی cs
۲۷ 2024-12-02 أندونئزیایی 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 ئینگیلیسی en 32,934 173,808 4,989,401 35 2,317,393 564 1,823
2 آلمانی de 20,549 108,149 1,647,901 14 53,041 102 721
3 لأھئستانی pl 13,194 15,763 146,483 3 16,128 30 0
4 ئیتالیایی it 12,380 42,833 849,408 6 36,522 69 0
5 فآرانسئ ئی fr 9,252 26,388 579,642 6 52,978 46 88
6 فارسی fa 8,818 30,860 123,743 2 15,868 15 24
7 روٙسی ru 6,828 34,778 697,829 5 39,397 52 16,473
8 چینی zh 5,517 25,067 197,826 5 17,950 44 238
9 ھولأندی nl 4,325 12,681 153,597 4 16,649 20 0
10 پورتئغالی pt 4,004 11,041 142,060 1 17,974 22 0
11 ئسپانیایی es 3,342 12,135 219,952 2 29,198 39 0
12 عئبری he 2,451 16,242 260,111 2 10,960 12 124
13 بأنگالی bn 2,040 6,526 60,389 3 4,779 30 0
14 ڤییئتنامی vi 1,934 61,267 110,819 1 11,317 12 0
15 فأنلاندی fi 1,797 3,933 57,030 1 3,213 7 0
16 سوٙئدی sv 1,613 10,878 96,239 3 12,153 12 0
17 یوٙنانی el 1,443 2,779 27,317 1 5,364 8 1
18 أندونئزیایی id 1,432 3,058 25,739 1 327 32 0
19 جاپوٙنی ja 1,365 5,412 51,343 3 4,314 36 0
20 ئسپئرانتو eo 1,309 3,460 54,273 1 1,139 12 0
21 ئوکراینی uk 1,059 3,192 36,304 1 7,269 9 5
22 رومانیایی ro 916 2,722 21,809 2 3,487 4 0
23 تورکی tr 470 3,252 14,823 3 2,044 14 0
24 چکی cs 395 987 14,326 1 463 10 0
25 پأشتوٙ ps 320 916 6,941 1 925 5 0
26 شانی shn 178 2,009 7,882 2 574 5 0
27 ھئنی hi 144 662 8,110 1 2,201 8 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 140,009 620,798 10,601,297 110 2,683,627 1,219 19,497

Listings Wikidata integration

  • English Wikivoyage: ۲۶٬۱۲۸ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • French Wikivoyage: ۱۵٬۳۳۴ listings with a Wikidata identifier property, 18571 listings with a Wikipedia identifier property
  • Russian Wikivoyage: ۴٬۳۹۶ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • German Wikivoyage: ۳٬۵۰۶ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • Spanish Wikivoyage: ۲۰۵ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • Chinese Wikivoyage: ۱۳۵ 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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