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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.

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There are 27 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.

Date ⵜⵓⵜⵍⴰⵢⵉⵏ ⵉⵏⵉⴳⵍ
1 2006-12-10 ⵜⴰⵍⵉⵎⴰⵏⵜ de
2 2007-12-10 ⵜⴰⵟⴰⵍⵢⴰⵏⵜ it
3 2012-09-23 ⵜⴰⵏⴳⵍⵉⵣⵜ en
4 2012-09-29 ⵜⴰⵀⵓⵍⴰⵏⴷⵉⵜ nl
5 2012-10-03 ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵏⵙⵉⵙⵜ fr
6 2012-10-06 ⵜⴰⵙⵡⵉⴷⵉⵜ sv
7 2012-10-18 ⵜⴰⵔⵓⵙⵉⵜ ru
8 2013-01-07 ⵜⴰⵙⴱⵏⵢⵓⵍⵉⵜ es
9 ⵜⴰⴱⵕⵟⵇⵉⵣⵜ pt
10 2013-02-06 ⵜⴰⴱⵓⵍⵓⵏⵉⵜ pl
11 ⵜⴰⵔⵓⵎⴰⵏⵉⵜ ro
12 2013-03-21 Hebrew he
13 ⵜⵓⴽⵔⴰⵏⵉⵜ uk
14 2013-05-17 ⵜⴰⴳⵔⵉⴳⵉⵜ el
15 2013-08-11 ⵜⴰⴱⵉⵜⵏⴰⵎⵉⵜ vi
16 2014-01-15 ⵜⴰⵛⵉⵏⵡⵉⵜ zh
17 2014-10-02 ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵔⵙⵉⵜ fa
18 2016-11-30 Finnish fi
19 2017-09-25 ⵜⴰⵀⵉⵏⴷⵉⵜ hi
20 2018-06-07 ⵜⴰⴱⵏⵖⴰⵍⵉⵜ bn
21 Pashto ps
22 2020-08-27 ⵜⴰⵊⴰⴱⴱⵓⵏⵉⵜ ja
23 2020-12-15 Esperanto eo
24 2021-01-19 ⵜⴰⵜⵓⵔⴽⵉⵜ tr
25 2022-03-24 Shan shn
26 2024-07-24 ⵜⴰⵜⵛⵉⴽⵉⵜ cs
27 2024-12-02 ⵜⴰⵏⴷⵓⵏⵉⵙⵉⵜ 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 ⵜⴰⵏⴳⵍⵉⵣⵜ en 33,074 174,464 5,015,151 34 2,319,645 470 1,834
2 ⵜⴰⵍⵉⵎⴰⵏⵜ de 20,571 108,611 1,656,837 14 53,333 113 721
3 ⵜⴰⴱⵓⵍⵓⵏⵉⵜ pl 13,222 15,799 147,848 3 16,276 34 0
4 ⵜⴰⵟⴰⵍⵢⴰⵏⵜ it 12,463 43,030 857,530 6 36,736 61 0
5 ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵏⵙⵉⵙⵜ fr 9,279 26,431 582,819 6 53,223 42 88
6 ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵔⵙⵉⵜ fa 8,819 30,960 123,960 2 15,955 25 24
7 ⵜⴰⵔⵓⵙⵉⵜ ru 6,832 34,838 703,446 5 39,574 60 16,486
8 ⵜⴰⵛⵉⵏⵡⵉⵜ zh 5,536 25,387 201,229 5 18,221 43 242
9 ⵜⴰⵀⵓⵍⴰⵏⴷⵉⵜ nl 4,326 12,685 154,133 4 16,747 20 0
10 ⵜⴰⴱⵕⵟⵇⵉⵣⵜ pt 4,006 11,079 142,621 1 18,100 23 0
11 ⵜⴰⵙⴱⵏⵢⵓⵍⵉⵜ es 3,369 12,228 222,939 2 29,330 47 0
12 Hebrew he 2,451 16,245 260,196 2 11,013 18 124
13 ⵜⴰⴱⵏⵖⴰⵍⵉⵜ bn 2,048 6,653 61,390 3 4,885 27 0
14 ⵜⴰⴱⵉⵜⵏⴰⵎⵉⵜ vi 1,934 61,273 110,889 1 11,353 10 0
15 Finnish fi 1,797 3,934 57,063 1 3,260 12 0
16 ⵜⴰⵙⵡⵉⴷⵉⵜ sv 1,615 10,886 96,319 3 12,198 11 0
17 ⵜⴰⵏⴷⵓⵏⵉⵙⵉⵜ id 1,462 3,249 27,149 2 476 33 0
18 ⵜⴰⴳⵔⵉⴳⵉⵜ el 1,443 2,781 27,402 1 5,413 12 1
19 ⵜⴰⵊⴰⴱⴱⵓⵏⵉⵜ ja 1,418 5,585 51,992 3 4,451 24 0
20 Esperanto eo 1,327 3,490 54,483 1 1,172 8 0
21 ⵜⵓⴽⵔⴰⵏⵉⵜ uk 1,059 3,196 36,496 1 7,351 15 5
22 ⵜⴰⵔⵓⵎⴰⵏⵉⵜ ro 916 2,726 21,870 2 3,533 14 0
23 ⵜⴰⵜⵓⵔⴽⵉⵜ tr 472 3,324 15,010 3 2,097 13 0
24 ⵜⴰⵜⵛⵉⴽⵉⵜ cs 429 1,049 14,788 1 531 14 0
25 Pashto ps 320 917 6,948 1 948 4 0
26 Shan shn 180 2,016 7,930 2 603 8 0
27 ⵜⴰⵀⵉⵏⴷⵉⵜ hi 144 663 8,143 1 2,238 8 0
Totals Articles All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikivoyages 140,512 623,499 10,666,581 110 2,688,662 1,169 19,525

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.

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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