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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.

Teldupost-listi

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

Mál

Tað eru í løtuni 27 málversjónir av Wikivoyage:

Creation

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

Upprættanar dagur Mál Málkota
1 2006-12-10 týskt de
2 2007-12-10 italskt it
3 2012-09-23 enskt en
4 2012-09-29 hálendskt nl
5 2012-10-03 franskt fr
6 2012-10-06 svenskt sv
7 2012-10-18 russiskt ru
8 2013-01-07 spanskt es
9 portugiskiskt pt
10 2013-02-06 pólskt pl
11 rumenskt ro
12 2013-03-21 hebraiskt he
13 ukrainskt uk
14 2013-05-17 grikskt el
15 2013-08-11 vjetnamesiskt vi
16 2014-01-15 kinesiskt zh
17 2014-10-02 persiskt fa
18 2016-11-30 finskt fi
19 2017-09-25 hindi hi
20 2018-06-07 bangla bn
21 pashto ps
22 2020-08-27 japanskt ja
23 2020-12-15 esperanto eo
24 2021-01-19 turkiskt tr
25 2022-03-24 shan shn
26 2024-07-24 kekkiskt cs
27 2024-12-02 indonesiskt 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 enskt en 33,331 175,507 5,057,386 34 2,324,042 551 1,843
2 týskt de 20,620 109,487 1,671,444 14 53,964 132 721
3 pólskt pl 13,281 15,863 149,463 3 16,554 28 0
4 italskt it 12,732 43,370 866,826 5 37,047 59 0
5 franskt fr 9,319 26,556 591,602 5 53,897 63 88
6 persiskt fa 8,813 31,095 124,384 1 16,103 18 24
7 russiskt ru 6,861 35,007 713,723 5 39,953 74 16,589
8 kinesiskt zh 5,555 25,685 202,980 6 18,476 38 248
9 hálendskt nl 4,330 12,690 154,957 4 16,893 31 0
10 portugiskiskt pt 4,012 11,116 143,998 1 18,270 20 0
11 spanskt es 3,390 12,104 228,870 3 29,636 59 0
12 hebraiskt he 2,450 16,156 260,418 3 11,135 15 124
13 bangla bn 2,195 6,868 62,609 4 5,032 22 0
14 vjetnamesiskt vi 1,934 61,275 111,017 1 11,443 13 0
15 finskt fi 1,799 3,940 57,126 1 3,350 12 0
16 svenskt sv 1,615 10,883 96,595 3 12,307 16 0
17 indonesiskt id 1,467 3,269 27,559 2 665 16 0
18 japanskt ja 1,452 5,769 52,794 3 4,625 21 0
19 grikskt el 1,443 2,780 27,455 1 5,506 8 1
20 esperanto eo 1,355 3,528 54,789 1 1,229 12 0
21 ukrainskt uk 1,080 3,236 37,355 1 7,494 37 5
22 rumenskt ro 916 2,729 21,918 2 3,619 7 0
23 kekkiskt cs 482 1,129 15,337 1 632 11 0
24 turkiskt tr 476 3,455 15,404 3 2,213 15 0
25 pashto ps 320 917 6,957 1 992 6 0
26 hindi hi 196 715 8,346 1 2,291 8 0
27 shan shn 180 2,036 8,004 2 647 7 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 141,604 627,165 10,769,316 111 2,698,015 1,299 19,643

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.

Hvussu kann eg læra meira?

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.

Bólkur

Undirsíður

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.

Undirsíður av Wikivoyage á Meta

Uppskot

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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