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This page is a translated version of the page Wikivoyage and the translation is 7% complete.
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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.

Mailing list

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

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 Ñe'ẽ Ñe'ẽ jehaimbyky
1 2006-12-10 alemán de
2 2007-12-10 italiano it
3 2012-09-23 inglés en
4 2012-09-29 neerlandés nl
5 2012-10-03 francés fr
6 2012-10-06 sueco sv
7 2012-10-18 ruso ru
8 2013-01-07 español es
9 portugués pt
10 2013-02-06 polaco pl
11 rumano ro
12 2013-03-21 hebreo he
13 ucraniano uk
14 2013-05-17 griego el
15 2013-08-11 vietnamita vi
16 2014-01-15 chino zh
17 2014-10-02 persa fa
18 2016-11-30 finés fi
19 2017-09-25 hindi hi
20 2018-06-07 bengalí bn
21 pastún ps
22 2020-08-27 japonés ja
23 2020-12-15 esperanto eo
24 2021-01-19 turco tr
25 2022-03-24 shan shn
26 2024-07-24 checo cs

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 inglés en 32,798 173,031 4,949,666 37 2,314,269 565 1,817
2 alemán de 20,479 107,471 1,634,868 14 52,629 125 721
3 polaco pl 13,184 15,739 145,303 3 16,001 32 0
4 italiano it 12,291 42,618 837,367 6 36,267 50 0
5 francés fr 9,129 26,173 573,767 5 52,706 63 89
6 persa fa 8,861 30,814 123,447 2 15,766 13 24
7 ruso ru 6,775 34,605 689,850 5 39,198 119 16,391
8 chino zh 5,507 24,873 196,630 5 17,787 39 234
9 neerlandés nl 4,325 12,681 152,801 4 16,568 17 0
10 portugués pt 4,001 10,841 141,199 1 17,719 19 0
11 español es 3,308 12,031 217,438 2 29,035 43 0
12 hebreo he 2,450 16,233 259,998 2 10,882 12 124
13 vietnamita vi 1,931 61,268 110,721 1 11,258 16 0
14 finés fi 1,796 3,931 56,992 1 3,177 7 0
15 sueco sv 1,609 10,841 94,381 3 11,957 14 0
16 griego el 1,442 2,778 27,271 1 5,313 9 1
17 bengalí bn 1,357 4,613 43,536 3 4,244 232 0
18 japonés ja 1,361 5,419 50,846 3 4,189 22 0
19 esperanto eo 1,301 3,452 54,014 1 1,106 15 0
20 ucraniano uk 1,054 3,182 36,069 1 7,171 11 5
21 rumano ro 915 2,718 21,769 2 3,447 7 0
22 turco tr 466 3,170 14,420 3 1,975 14 0
23 checo cs 391 927 13,679 1 384 15 0
24 pastún ps 320 912 6,919 1 895 4 0
25 shan shn 177 2,006 7,833 2 549 9 0
26 hindi hi 143 661 8,030 1 2,159 9 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 137,371 612,988 10,468,814 110 2,676,651 1,481 19,406

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: 4396 listings with a Wikidata identifier property
  • German Wikivoyage: 3506 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.

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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.

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