Wikivoyage/sat

Wikivoyage is the multi-lingual 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

A new Wikivoyage logo was selected in 2013. Please replace any references to the old one.

Please help with cleanup on:

English

Italian

Swedish

and then, once the language versions you are able to help on are fairly well sorted, help on:

Commons
Migrate your account
Technical migration work (at Mediawiki.org)

Are any of the activities above actually still current?

Languages

There are 24 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	German	de
2	2007-12-10	Italian	it
3	2012-09-23	English	en
4	2012-09-29	Dutch	nl
5	2012-10-03	French	fr
6	2012-10-06	Swedish	sv
7	2012-10-18	Russian	ru
8	2013-01-07	Spanish	es
9	2013-01-07	Portuguese	pt
10	2013-02-06	Polish	pl
11	2013-02-06	Romanian	ro
12	2013-03-21	Hebrew	he
13	2013-03-21	Ukrainian	uk
14	2013-05-17	Greek	el
15	2013-08-11	Vietnamese	vi
16	2014-01-15	Chinese	zh
17	2014-10-02	Persian	fa
18	2016-11-30	Finnish	fi
19	2017-09-25	Hindi	hi
20	2018-06-07	Bangla	bn
21	2018-06-07	Pashto	ps
22	2020-08-27	Japanese	ja
23	2020-12-15	Esperanto	eo
24	2021-01-19	Turkish	tr

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 several times a day. You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers.

№	Language	Wiki	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
1	ᱟᱝᱜᱽᱨᱮᱡᱤ	en	34,472	181,903	5,328,149	34	2,436,023	976	1,924
2	ᱡᱟᱨᱢᱟᱱ	de	20,981	112,431	1,783,446	12	58,156	188	724
3	ᱯᱚᱞᱤᱥ	pl	13,755	16,425	158,355	3	17,593	55	0
4	ᱤᱴᱟᱞᱤᱟᱱ	it	13,687	45,451	932,882	4	39,051	59	0
5	ᱯᱷᱨᱮᱧᱪ	fr	10,152	27,575	670,257	5	56,918	98	88
6	ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤᱭᱟᱭ	fa	8,662	31,732	126,185	1	16,847	21	24
7	ᱨᱩᱥᱤᱭᱟᱱ	ru	6,921	36,988	774,686	4	42,909	68	18,150
8	ᱪᱟᱭᱱᱤᱡᱽ	zh	5,593	26,855	219,443	7	19,985	44	269
9	ᱰᱚᱪ	nl	4,363	12,756	160,429	4	17,530	23	0
10	ᱯᱩᱨᱛᱜᱟᱞᱤ	pt	4,051	11,306	145,733	1	19,142	25	0
11	ᱥᱯᱮᱱᱤᱥ	es	3,755	12,958	256,234	2	31,423	59	0
12	ᱦᱮᱵᱽᱨᱤᱣ	he	2,453	16,169	260,855	3	11,667	18	124
13	ᱵᱟᱝᱞᱟ	bn	2,401	8,012	77,034	3	6,454	23	0
14	ᱯᱷᱤᱱᱤᱥ	fi	1,800	3,956	57,490	1	3,620	7	0
15	ᱡᱟᱯᱟᱱᱤ	ja	1,785	6,493	58,537	2	5,526	32	0
16	ᱤᱱᱰᱚᱱᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟᱹᱱ	id	1,635	4,076	36,098	2	1,490	41	0
17	ᱥᱣᱤᱫᱤᱥ	sv	1,615	10,911	97,299	3	12,686	9	0
18	ᱣᱮᱭᱮᱛᱱᱟᱢᱤᱡᱽ	vi	1,527	58,147	121,782	2	11,962	22	0
19	ᱮᱥᱯᱟᱹᱨᱟᱱᱴᱳ	eo	1,506	3,700	56,875	2	1,498	18	0
20	ᱜᱽᱨᱤᱠ	el	1,436	2,771	27,826	1	5,809	10	1
21	ᱩᱠᱨᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟᱭ	uk	1,234	3,593	42,957	2	9,078	19	4
22	ᱨᱚᱢᱟᱱᱤ	ro	938	2,745	22,160	2	3,890	10	0
23	ᱪᱮᱠ	cs	640	1,450	18,512	1	1,025	15	0
24	ᱛᱩᱨᱠᱤᱥ	tr	505	4,058	17,088	2	2,666	18	0
25	ᱯᱟᱥᱛᱚ	ps	317	923	7,073	1	1,147	7	0
26	ᱥᱟᱱ	shn	206	2,130	8,548	2	832	6	0
27	ᱦᱤᱱᱫᱤ	hi	193	750	8,550	1	2,517	9	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	146,583	646,264	11,474,483	107	2,837,444	1,880	21,308

Listings Wikidata integration

English Wikivoyage: 26128 listings with a Wikidata identifier property
French Wikivoyage: 15334 listings with a Wikidata identifier property, 18571 listings with a Wikipedia identifier property
Russian Wikivoyage: 4396 listings with a Wikidata identifier property
German Wikivoyage: 3506 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. You can apply for membership to support the association and the Wikivoyage project.

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.