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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

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Currently going on

Languages

There are 25 language versions of Wikivoyage.

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

№	Kwanan Wata	Harshe	Code
1	2006-12-10	Jamusanci	de
2	2007-12-10	Italiyanci	it
3	2012-09-23	Turanci	en
4	2012-09-29	Holanci	nl
5	2012-10-03	Faransanci	fr
6	2012-10-06	Harshen Suwedan	sv
7	2012-10-18	Rashanci	ru
8	2013-01-07	Sifaniyanci	es
9	2013-01-07	Harshen Potugis	pt
10	2013-02-06	Harshen Polan	pl
11	2013-02-06	Romaniyanci	ro
12	2013-03-21	Ibrananci	he
13	2013-03-21	Harshen Yukuren	uk
14	2013-05-17	Girkanci	el
15	2013-08-11	Harshen Biyetinam	vi
16	2014-01-15	Harshen Sinanci	zh
17	2014-10-02	Farisa	fa
18	2016-11-30	Yaren mutanen Finland	fi
19	2017-09-25	Harshen Hindi	hi
20	2018-06-07	Bengali	bn
21	2018-06-07	Pashtanci	ps
22	2020-08-27	Japananci	ja
23	2020-12-15	Esperanto	eo
24	2021-01-19	Harshen Turkiyya	tr
25	2022-03-24	Shan	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.

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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	Turanci	en	32,511	171,319	4,863,980	36	2,305,541	559	1,808
2	Jamusanci	de	20,323	105,692	1,601,113	14	51,531	121	724
3	Harshen Polan	pl	13,105	15,613	142,387	3	15,701	33	0
4	Italiyanci	it	11,985	42,235	821,487	6	35,550	84	0
5	Faransanci	fr	8,867	25,791	564,576	5	51,212	72	90
6	Farisa	fa	8,806	30,394	122,364	3	15,447	16	24
7	Rashanci	ru	6,696	33,961	665,662	5	37,993	64	15,971
8	Harshen Sinanci	zh	5,499	24,282	194,476	6	17,287	30	219
9	Holanci	nl	4,272	12,547	148,063	4	16,351	17	0
10	Harshen Potugis	pt	3,997	10,684	139,512	1	17,374	16	0
11	Sifaniyanci	es	3,283	11,863	213,046	2	28,518	37	0
12	Ibrananci	he	2,447	16,222	259,584	2	10,619	12	125
13	Harshen Biyetinam	vi	1,934	61,227	110,105	1	11,034	14	0
14	Yaren mutanen Finland	fi	1,792	3,927	56,854	1	3,074	10	0
15	Harshen Suwedan	sv	1,572	10,675	92,237	3	11,803	8	0
16	Girkanci	el	1,439	2,771	27,145	1	5,183	8	1
17	Japananci	ja	1,314	5,136	46,321	3	3,888	38	0
18	Esperanto	eo	1,277	3,408	53,162	2	1,013	17	0
19	Harshen Yukuren	uk	1,023	3,088	35,274	1	6,960	15	5
20	Bengali	bn	961	3,386	33,164	3	3,623	12	0
21	Romaniyanci	ro	914	2,702	21,683	2	3,342	3	0
22	Harshen Turkiyya	tr	450	2,946	13,698	3	1,797	11	0
23	Pashtanci	ps	319	911	6,872	1	837	1	0
24	Shan	shn	176	2,002	7,586	2	488	5	0
25	Harshen Hindi	hi	131	649	7,841	1	2,057	7	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	135,093	603,431	10,248,192	111	2,658,223	1,210	18,967

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.

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.