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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.

Currently going on

Languages

There are ᱒᱕ language versions of Wikivoyage.

Creation

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

№	ᱢᱟᱹᱦᱤᱛ	ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ	Code
1	2006-12-10	ᱡᱟᱨᱢᱟᱱ	de
2	2007-12-10	ᱤᱴᱟᱞᱤᱟᱱ	it
3	2012-09-23	ᱟᱝᱜᱽᱨᱮᱡᱤ	en
4	2012-09-29	ᱰᱚᱪ	nl
5	2012-10-03	ᱯᱷᱨᱮᱧᱪ	fr
6	2012-10-06	ᱥᱣᱤᱫᱤᱥ	sv
7	2012-10-18	ᱨᱩᱥᱤᱭᱟᱱ	ru
8	2013-01-07	ᱥᱯᱮᱱᱤᱥ	es
9	2013-01-07	ᱯᱩᱨᱛᱜᱟᱞᱤ	pt
10	2013-02-06	ᱯᱚᱞᱤᱥ	pl
11	2013-02-06	ᱨᱚᱢᱟᱱᱤ	ro
12	2013-03-21	ᱦᱮᱵᱽᱨᱤᱣ	he
13	2013-03-21	ᱩᱠᱨᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱭ	uk
14	2013-05-17	ᱜᱽᱨᱤᱠ	el
15	2013-08-11	ᱣᱮᱭᱮᱛᱱᱟᱢᱤᱡᱽ	vi
16	2014-01-15	ᱪᱟᱭᱱᱤᱡᱽ	zh
17	2014-10-02	ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤᱭᱟᱭ	fa
18	2016-11-30	ᱯᱷᱤᱱᱤᱥ	fi
19	2017-09-25	ᱦᱤᱱᱫᱤ	hi
20	2018-06-07	ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟ	bn
21	2018-06-07	ᱯᱟᱥᱛᱚ	ps
22	2020-08-27	ᱡᱟᱯᱟᱱᱤ	ja
23	2020-12-15	ᱮᱥᱯᱟᱹᱨᱟᱱᱴᱳ	eo
24	2021-01-19	ᱛᱩᱨᱠᱤᱥ	tr
25	2022-03-24	ᱥᱟᱱ	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.

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	ᱟᱝᱜᱽᱨᱮᱡᱤ	en	32,323	169,895	4,780,718	37	2,298,117	522	1,817
2	ᱡᱟᱨᱢᱟᱱ	de	20,172	104,270	1,572,571	14	50,699	89	723
3	ᱯᱚᱞᱤᱥ	pl	13,039	15,533	140,109	3	15,359	41	0
4	ᱤᱴᱟᱞᱤᱟᱱ	it	11,687	41,413	807,216	6	34,934	61	0
5	ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤᱭᱟᱭ	fa	8,764	29,828	121,034	3	14,978	25	24
6	ᱯᱷᱨᱮᱧᱪ	fr	8,731	25,553	537,584	5	50,533	54	90
7	ᱨᱩᱥᱤᱭᱟᱱ	ru	6,639	33,343	633,465	5	37,481	84	15,562
8	ᱪᱟᱭᱱᱤᱡᱽ	zh	5,491	24,055	192,410	6	16,921	30	210
9	ᱰᱚᱪ	nl	4,258	12,514	146,489	4	16,158	24	0
10	ᱯᱩᱨᱛᱜᱟᱞᱤ	pt	3,996	10,611	137,964	1	17,085	18	0
11	ᱥᱯᱮᱱᱤᱥ	es	3,206	11,729	208,029	2	27,992	37	0
12	ᱦᱮᱵᱽᱨᱤᱣ	he	2,447	16,201	259,028	2	10,392	17	125
13	ᱣᱮᱭᱮᱛᱱᱟᱢᱤᱡᱽ	vi	1,931	61,163	109,713	1	10,845	16	0
14	ᱯᱷᱤᱱᱤᱥ	fi	1,792	3,926	56,751	1	2,991	11	0
15	ᱥᱣᱤᱫᱤᱥ	sv	1,571	10,662	91,991	3	11,690	13	0
16	ᱜᱽᱨᱤᱠ	el	1,441	2,769	26,884	1	5,003	6	1
17	ᱡᱟᱯᱟᱱᱤ	ja	1,224	4,824	43,808	2	3,629	36	0
18	ᱮᱥᱯᱟᱹᱨᱟᱱᱴᱳ	eo	1,198	3,307	52,338	2	937	12	0
19	ᱩᱠᱨᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱭ	uk	1,019	3,080	34,783	1	6,779	11	5
20	ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟ	bn	974	3,337	32,093	2	3,394	13	0
21	ᱨᱚᱢᱟᱱᱤ	ro	914	2,697	21,581	2	3,252	4	0
22	ᱛᱩᱨᱠᱤᱥ	tr	512	2,833	13,305	3	1,638	10	0
23	ᱯᱟᱥᱛᱚ	ps	319	908	6,842	1	794	3	0
24	ᱥᱟᱱ	shn	171	1,987	7,347	2	429	7	0
25	ᱦᱤᱱᱫᱤ	hi	128	643	7,777	1	1,993	3	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	133,947	597,081	10,041,830	110	2,644,023	1,147	18,557

Listings Wikidata integration

English Wikivoyage: ᱒᱖,᱑᱒᱘ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
French Wikivoyage: ᱑᱕,᱓᱓᱔ listings with a Wikidata identifier property, 18571 listings with a Wikipedia identifier property
Russian Wikivoyage: ᱔,᱓᱙᱖ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
German Wikivoyage: ᱓,᱕᱐᱖ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
Spanish Wikivoyage: ᱒᱐᱕ listings with a Wikidata identifier property
Chinese Wikivoyage: ᱑᱓᱕ 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.