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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.)

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 партугальская pt
10 2013-02-06 польская pl
11 румынская ro
12 2013-03-21 іўрыт he
13 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 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 32,193 169,019 4,737,258 37 2,294,981 524 1,806
2 нямецкая de 20,132 103,706 1,558,463 14 50,370 121 723
3 польская pl 13,033 15,516 138,979 3 15,175 32 0
4 італьянская it 11,546 41,121 802,368 6 34,651 54 0
5 фарсі fa 8,748 29,594 120,508 3 14,773 17 24
6 французская fr 8,626 25,386 534,277 5 50,146 51 89
7 руская ru 6,620 32,957 615,844 5 37,192 114 15,257
8 кітайская zh 5,493 24,016 190,851 6 16,733 43 206
9 нідэрландская nl 4,254 12,509 145,735 4 16,064 22 0
10 партугальская pt 3,996 10,557 137,780 1 16,938 14 0
11 іспанская es 3,186 11,697 205,082 2 27,725 40 0
12 іўрыт he 2,442 16,121 256,361 2 10,287 26 123
13 в’етнамская vi 1,930 61,153 109,562 1 10,727 14 0
14 фінская fi 1,792 3,925 56,707 1 2,940 4 0
15 шведская sv 1,538 10,619 91,679 3 11,629 8 0
16 грэчаская el 1,441 2,769 26,642 1 4,921 9 1
17 эсперанта eo 1,136 3,224 51,700 2 897 10 0
18 японская ja 1,129 4,627 41,095 2 3,423 46 0
19 украінская uk 1,016 3,072 34,438 1 6,667 14 5
20 бенгальская bn 978 3,267 31,207 2 3,302 27 0
21 румынская ro 914 2,694 21,518 2 3,203 7 0
22 турэцкая tr 511 2,752 13,133 3 1,557 19 0
23 пушту ps 319 907 6,800 1 770 2 0
24 шан shn 169 1,967 7,189 2 405 3 0
25 хіндзі hi 128 643 7,769 1 1,954 5 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 133,270 593,818 9,942,945 110 2,637,430 1,226 18,234
Tracked in Phabricator:
Bug 40009

NOTE: Because of bugzilla:40009, the numbers shown in the above table may not reflect the real status of each wiki.

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 32,193 169,019 4,737,258 37 2,294,981 524 1,806
2 нямецкая de 20,132 103,706 1,558,463 14 50,370 121 723
3 польская pl 13,033 15,516 138,979 3 15,175 32 0
4 італьянская it 11,546 41,121 802,368 6 34,651 54 0
5 фарсі fa 8,748 29,594 120,508 3 14,773 17 24
6 французская fr 8,626 25,386 534,277 5 50,146 51 89
7 руская ru 6,620 32,957 615,844 5 37,192 114 15,257
8 кітайская zh 5,493 24,016 190,851 6 16,733 43 206
9 нідэрландская nl 4,254 12,509 145,735 4 16,064 22 0
10 партугальская pt 3,996 10,557 137,780 1 16,938 14 0
11 іспанская es 3,186 11,697 205,082 2 27,725 40 0
12 іўрыт he 2,442 16,121 256,361 2 10,287 26 123
13 в’етнамская vi 1,930 61,153 109,562 1 10,727 14 0
14 фінская fi 1,792 3,925 56,707 1 2,940 4 0
15 шведская sv 1,538 10,619 91,679 3 11,629 8 0
16 грэчаская el 1,441 2,769 26,642 1 4,921 9 1
17 эсперанта eo 1,136 3,224 51,700 2 897 10 0
18 японская ja 1,129 4,627 41,095 2 3,423 46 0
19 украінская uk 1,016 3,072 34,438 1 6,667 14 5
20 бенгальская bn 978 3,267 31,207 2 3,302 27 0
21 румынская ro 914 2,694 21,518 2 3,203 7 0
22 турэцкая tr 511 2,752 13,133 3 1,557 19 0
23 пушту ps 319 907 6,800 1 770 2 0
24 шан shn 169 1,967 7,189 2 405 3 0
25 хіндзі hi 128 643 7,769 1 1,954 5 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 133,270 593,818 9,942,945 110 2,637,430 1,226 18,234

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. You can apply for membership to support the association and the Wikivoyage project.

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 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.

Gallery

Gallery Voyager[Enter]

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Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. en
Jura (Kanton). de pl nl
Berlin. es de en fr nl pt ru uk zh