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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 be de multilingual travel guide wey anybro fi 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 27 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 German de
2 2007-12-10 Italian it
3 2012-09-23 English en
4 2012-09-29 Dutch nl
5 2012-10-03 French fr
6 2012-10-06 Swedish sv
7 2012-10-18 Russian ru
8 2013-01-07 Spanish es
9 Portuguese pt
10 2013-02-06 Polish pl
11 Romanian ro
12 2013-03-21 Hebrew he
13 Ukrainian uk
14 2013-05-17 Greek el
15 2013-08-11 Vietnamese vi
16 2014-01-15 Chinese zh
17 2014-10-02 Persian fa
18 2016-11-30 Finnish fi
19 2017-09-25 Hindi hi
20 2018-06-07 Bangla bn
21 Pashto ps
22 2020-08-27 Japanese ja
23 2020-12-15 Esperanto eo
24 2021-01-19 Turkish tr
25 2022-03-24 Shan shn
26 2024-07-24 Czech cs
27 2024-12-04 Indonesian 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 English en 32,910 173,665 4,978,979 36 2,316,883 611 1,823
2 German de 20,536 107,974 1,645,345 14 52,913 116 721
3 Polish pl 13,194 15,761 146,304 3 16,094 33 0
4 Italian it 12,363 42,796 847,981 6 36,477 77 0
5 French fr 9,235 26,380 578,244 5 52,906 52 88
6 Persian fa 8,815 30,826 123,657 2 15,840 14 24
7 Russian ru 6,827 34,756 696,535 5 39,354 60 16,461
8 Chinese zh 5,516 25,023 197,413 5 17,912 40 237
9 Dutch nl 4,325 12,679 153,413 4 16,633 22 0
10 Portuguese pt 4,003 11,031 141,917 1 17,949 21 0
11 Spanish es 3,335 12,088 219,025 2 29,160 33 0
12 Hebrew he 2,451 16,242 260,086 2 10,937 17 124
13 Bangla bn 2,036 6,426 59,690 3 4,750 34 0
14 Vietnamese vi 1,933 61,266 110,802 1 11,299 13 0
15 Finnish fi 1,797 3,933 57,026 1 3,202 12 0
16 Swedish sv 1,611 10,854 94,512 3 11,988 15 0
17 Greek el 1,443 2,781 27,313 1 5,352 9 1
18 Indonesian id 1,424 2,934 25,176 1 266 25 0
19 Japanese ja 1,364 5,408 51,269 3 4,288 35 0
20 Esperanto eo 1,307 3,455 54,211 1 1,127 12 0
21 Ukrainian uk 1,058 3,190 36,271 1 7,248 13 5
22 Romanian ro 916 2,722 21,804 2 3,471 6 0
23 Turkish tr 470 3,237 14,773 3 2,029 16 0
24 Czech cs 395 973 14,265 1 443 12 0
25 Pashto ps 320 916 6,941 1 915 8 0
26 Shan shn 178 2,009 7,882 2 565 7 0
27 Hindi hi 144 661 8,103 1 2,187 10 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 139,906 619,986 10,578,937 110 2,682,188 1,323 19,484

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.

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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