Wikivoyage

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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/Perqué ? (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.

Lista de difusion

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

Currently going on

Lengas

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.

Data Lenga Còde
1 2006-12-10 alemand de
2 2007-12-10 italian it
3 2012-09-23 anglés en
4 2012-09-29 neerlandés nl
5 2012-10-03 francés fr
6 2012-10-06 suedés sv
7 2012-10-18 rus ru
8 2013-01-07 espanhòl es
9 portugués pt
10 2013-02-06 polonés pl
11 romanés ro
12 2013-03-21 ebrèu he
13 ucrainés uk
14 2013-05-17 grèc el
15 2013-08-11 vietnamian vi
16 2014-01-15 chinés zh
17 2014-10-02 perse fa
18 2016-11-30 finlandés fi
19 2017-09-25 Indi hi
20 2018-06-07 bengalin bn
21 pashto ps
22 2020-08-27 japonés ja
23 2020-12-15 esperanto eo
24 2021-01-19 turc tr
25 2022-03-24 xan 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.

Estatisticas

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 anglés en 32,485 171,091 4,850,060 36 2,304,193 607 1,818
2 alemand de 20,301 105,437 1,596,197 14 51,372 135 724
3 polonés pl 13,087 15,591 141,855 3 15,641 36 0
4 italian it 11,917 42,077 819,577 6 35,425 83 0
5 francés fr 8,867 25,771 564,066 5 51,085 56 90
6 perse fa 8,794 30,296 122,105 3 15,371 22 24
7 rus ru 6,690 33,874 662,212 5 37,883 68 15,899
8 chinés zh 5,498 24,190 194,135 7 17,216 40 217
9 neerlandés nl 4,272 12,535 147,480 4 16,308 20 0
10 portugués pt 3,997 10,666 139,313 1 17,317 19 0
11 espanhòl es 3,267 11,840 211,965 2 28,432 38 0
12 ebrèu he 2,447 16,221 259,545 2 10,577 20 125
13 vietnamian vi 1,931 61,221 110,010 1 11,003 15 0
14 finlandés fi 1,792 3,927 56,834 1 3,062 13 0
15 suedés sv 1,573 10,672 92,200 3 11,784 13 0
16 grèc el 1,439 2,771 27,121 1 5,155 14 1
17 japonés ja 1,298 5,012 45,566 2 3,838 38 0
18 esperanto eo 1,266 3,398 52,994 2 998 16 0
19 ucrainés uk 1,023 3,088 35,168 1 6,917 18 5
20 bengalin bn 960 3,380 33,104 3 3,589 20 0
21 romanés ro 914 2,702 21,677 2 3,325 12 0
22 turc tr 451 2,919 13,650 3 1,768 17 0
23 pashto ps 319 911 6,872 1 829 9 0
24 xan shn 176 2,002 7,560 2 479 8 0
25 Indi hi 131 649 7,837 1 2,046 11 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 134,895 602,241 10,219,103 111 2,655,613 1,348 18,903

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.

Associacion Wikiviatge

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.

Categoria

Sospaginas

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

Proposicion

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.

Gallery

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