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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/Perqué ? (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.

Lista de difusion

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

Lengas

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.

Data Lenga Còde
1 2006-12-10 alemand de
2 2007-12-10 italian it
3 2012-09-23 anglés en
4 2012-09-29 neerlandés nl
5 2012-10-03 francés fr
6 2012-10-06 suedés sv
7 2012-10-18 rus ru
8 2013-01-07 espanhòl es
9 portugués pt
10 2013-02-06 polonés pl
11 romanés ro
12 2013-03-21 ebrèu he
13 ucrainés uk
14 2013-05-17 grèc el
15 2013-08-11 vietnamian vi
16 2014-01-15 chinés zh
17 2014-10-02 perse fa
18 2016-11-30 finlandés fi
19 2017-09-25 Indi hi
20 2018-06-07 bengalin bn
21 pashto ps
22 2020-08-27 japonés ja
23 2020-12-15 esperanto eo
24 2021-01-19 turc tr
25 2022-03-24 xan shn
26 2024-07-24 chèc cs
27 2024-12-02 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.

Estatisticas

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 anglés en 33,436 175,904 5,075,857 34 2,325,898 505 1,851
2 alemand de 20,646 109,863 1,679,698 14 54,222 122 721
3 polonés pl 13,301 15,884 149,972 3 16,628 29 0
4 italian it 12,833 43,592 872,085 5 37,187 59 0
5 francés fr 9,327 26,635 592,777 5 54,109 50 88
6 perse fa 8,784 31,251 124,661 1 16,237 21 24
7 rus ru 6,864 35,452 719,436 5 40,160 89 17,003
8 chinés zh 5,559 25,773 203,306 6 18,545 33 249
9 neerlandés nl 4,332 12,695 155,323 4 16,942 22 0
10 portugués pt 4,014 11,135 144,276 1 18,332 18 0
11 espanhòl es 3,447 12,205 234,125 2 29,764 53 0
12 ebrèu he 2,450 16,156 260,447 3 11,171 14 124
13 bengalin bn 2,110 6,870 62,970 4 5,078 20 0
14 vietnamian vi 1,933 61,276 111,046 1 11,465 9 0
15 finlandés fi 1,800 3,942 57,203 1 3,367 10 0
16 suedés sv 1,614 10,885 96,659 3 12,328 10 0
17 indonesian id 1,470 3,306 27,885 3 724 27 0
18 japonés ja 1,459 5,786 53,033 2 4,692 24 0
19 grèc el 1,441 2,780 27,468 1 5,521 2 1
20 esperanto eo 1,358 3,531 54,848 1 1,240 9 0
21 ucrainés uk 1,087 3,258 37,833 1 7,540 40 5
22 romanés ro 916 2,732 21,959 2 3,639 9 0
23 chèc cs 503 1,156 15,706 1 665 15 0
24 turc tr 476 3,511 15,570 3 2,243 6 0
25 pashto ps 320 917 6,964 1 996 3 0
26 Indi hi 195 719 8,394 1 2,306 7 0
27 xan shn 182 2,037 8,033 2 655 7 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 141,857 629,251 10,817,534 110 2,701,654 1,213 20,066

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.

Associacion Wikiviatge

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.

Categoria

Sospaginas

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

Proposicion

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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