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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.

= Different-different language

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 Jámán Lángwej de
2 2007-12-10 Ítáli Lángwej it
3 2012-09-23 Ínglish en
4 2012-09-29 Dọch Lángwej nl
5 2012-10-03 Frẹ́nch Lángwej fr
6 2012-10-06 Suwídẹ́n Lángwej sv
7 2012-10-18 Rọshiá Lángwej ru
8 2013-01-07 Spánish Lángwej es
9 Pọtiugiz pt
10 2013-02-06 Pólánd Lángwej pl
11 Romániá Lángwej ro
12 2013-03-21 Híbru Lángwej he
13 Yukrénia uk
14 2013-05-17 Grík Lángwej el
15 2013-08-11 Viẹ́tnám Lángwej vi
16 2014-01-15 Mandarín Chainíz Lángwej zh
17 2014-10-02 Pẹ́shiá Lángwej fa
18 2016-11-30 Fínísh Lángwej fi
19 2017-09-25 Híndi Lángwej hi
20 2018-06-07 Bángla Lángwej bn
21 Páshto ps
22 2020-08-27 Japan Lángwej ja
23 2020-12-15 Ẹsperánto Lángwej eo
24 2021-01-19 Tọ́ki tr
25 2022-03-24 Shán Lángwej shn
26 2024-07-24 Chẹ́k Lángwej cs
27 2024-12-02 Indoníshia Lángwej 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 Ínglish en 33,269 175,266 5,048,850 34 2,323,097 499 1,833
2 Jámán Lángwej de 20,606 109,257 1,667,413 14 53,790 114 721
3 Pólánd Lángwej pl 13,267 15,849 149,140 3 16,501 29 0
4 Ítáli Lángwej it 12,699 43,301 863,918 5 36,979 55 0
5 Frẹ́nch Lángwej fr 9,313 26,545 590,527 5 53,647 64 88
6 Pẹ́shiá Lángwej fa 8,814 31,065 124,319 1 16,077 20 24
7 Rọshiá Lángwej ru 6,858 34,983 710,659 5 39,860 71 16,576
8 Mandarín Chainíz Lángwej zh 5,555 25,615 202,780 6 18,418 30 247
9 Dọch Lángwej nl 4,330 12,690 154,744 4 16,850 22 0
10 Pọtiugiz pt 4,012 11,110 143,757 1 18,237 16 0
11 Spánish Lángwej es 3,386 12,193 226,515 3 29,572 53 0
12 Híbru Lángwej he 2,450 16,156 260,328 3 11,113 15 124
13 Bángla Lángwej bn 2,059 6,700 62,104 4 4,999 18 0
14 Viẹ́tnám Lángwej vi 1,934 61,275 111,004 1 11,425 8 0
15 Fínísh Lángwej fi 1,799 3,940 57,116 1 3,334 6 0
16 Suwídẹ́n Lángwej sv 1,615 10,881 96,512 3 12,292 11 0
17 Indoníshia Lángwej id 1,467 3,262 27,515 2 637 16 0
18 Japan Lángwej ja 1,451 5,766 52,758 3 4,586 16 0
19 Grík Lángwej el 1,443 2,780 27,442 1 5,494 10 1
20 Ẹsperánto Lángwej eo 1,354 3,526 54,774 1 1,218 9 0
21 Yukrénia uk 1,074 3,224 37,099 1 7,469 23 5
22 Romániá Lángwej ro 916 2,729 21,916 2 3,601 7 0
23 Tọ́ki tr 474 3,434 15,326 3 2,193 16 0
24 Chẹ́k Lángwej cs 469 1,113 15,212 1 613 8 0
25 Páshto ps 320 917 6,956 1 984 2 0
26 Híndi Lángwej hi 197 715 8,338 1 2,283 8 0
27 Shán Lángwej shn 180 2,036 8,003 2 640 3 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 141,311 626,328 10,745,025 111 2,695,909 1,149 19,619

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 I fit learn more?

Start with these one them to learn 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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