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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.)

Lûn-tâm

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.

Gí-giân

There are 27 language versions of Wikivoyage.

Tshòng-tsō

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 德文 de
2 2007-12-10 義大利文 it
3 2012-09-23 英文 en
4 2012-09-29 荷蘭文 nl
5 2012-10-03 法文 fr
6 2012-10-06 瑞典文 sv
7 2012-10-18 俄文 ru
8 2013-01-07 西班牙文 es
9 葡萄牙文 pt
10 2013-02-06 波蘭文 pl
11 羅馬尼亞文 ro
12 2013-03-21 希伯來文 he
13 烏克蘭文 uk
14 2013-05-17 希臘文 el
15 2013-08-11 越南文 vi
16 2014-01-15 中文 zh
17 2014-10-02 波斯文 fa
18 2016-11-30 芬蘭文 fi
19 2017-09-25 印地文 hi
20 2018-06-07 孟加拉文 bn
21 普什圖文 ps
22 2020-08-27 日文 ja
23 2020-12-15 世界文 eo
24 2021-01-19 土耳其文 tr
25 2022-03-24 撣文 shn
26 2024-07-24 捷克文 cs
27 2024-12-02 印尼文 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 英文 en 32,938 173,815 4,989,738 35 2,317,407 564 1,823
2 德文 de 20,549 108,149 1,647,920 14 53,043 102 721
3 波蘭文 pl 13,194 15,763 146,485 3 16,129 30 0
4 義大利文 it 12,381 42,834 849,440 6 36,522 69 0
5 法文 fr 9,252 26,388 579,670 6 52,982 46 88
6 波斯文 fa 8,818 30,861 123,751 2 15,869 15 24
7 俄文 ru 6,828 34,778 697,880 5 39,397 52 16,473
8 中文 zh 5,517 25,067 197,828 5 17,950 44 238
9 荷蘭文 nl 4,325 12,681 153,613 4 16,649 20 0
10 葡萄牙文 pt 4,004 11,041 142,064 1 17,976 22 0
11 西班牙文 es 3,342 12,135 219,960 2 29,198 39 0
12 希伯來文 he 2,451 16,242 260,111 2 10,960 12 124
13 孟加拉文 bn 2,043 6,558 60,490 3 4,780 30 0
14 越南文 vi 1,934 61,267 110,819 1 11,317 12 0
15 芬蘭文 fi 1,797 3,933 57,030 1 3,213 7 0
16 瑞典文 sv 1,613 10,878 96,239 3 12,153 12 0
17 希臘文 el 1,443 2,779 27,317 1 5,365 8 1
18 印尼文 id 1,433 3,061 25,747 1 327 32 0
19 日文 ja 1,365 5,413 51,347 3 4,314 36 0
20 世界文 eo 1,309 3,460 54,275 1 1,139 12 0
21 烏克蘭文 uk 1,059 3,192 36,304 1 7,269 9 5
22 羅馬尼亞文 ro 916 2,722 21,809 2 3,487 4 0
23 土耳其文 tr 470 3,254 14,826 3 2,046 14 0
24 捷克文 cs 395 987 14,326 1 463 10 0
25 普什圖文 ps 320 916 6,941 1 925 5 0
26 撣文 shn 178 2,009 7,882 2 574 5 0
27 印地文 hi 144 662 8,110 1 2,201 8 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 140,018 620,845 10,601,922 110 2,683,655 1,219 19,497

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.

Luī-pia̍t

Tsú-ia̍h-bīn

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.

Gallery Voyager[Enter]

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