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	2013-01-07	Pọtiugiz	pt
10	2013-02-06	Pólánd Lángwej	pl
11	2013-02-06	Romániá Lángwej	ro
12	2013-03-21	Híbru Lángwej	he
13	2013-03-21	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	2018-06-07	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 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	Ínglish	en	34,255	181,059	5,291,791	34	2,422,290	985	1,917
2	Jámán Lángwej	de	20,917	112,195	1,769,179	12	57,718	193	724
3	Pólánd Lángwej	pl	13,686	16,352	157,336	3	17,458	33	0
4	Ítáli Lángwej	it	13,498	45,102	923,624	4	38,822	60	0
5	Frẹ́nch Lángwej	fr	10,086	27,487	666,618	5	56,612	101	88
6	Pẹ́shiá Lángwej	fa	8,666	31,712	126,045	1	16,738	12	24
7	Rọshiá Lángwej	ru	6,899	36,553	766,598	4	42,710	73	17,771
8	Mandarín Chainíz Lángwej	zh	5,590	26,778	218,404	7	19,824	37	269
9	Dọch Lángwej	nl	4,361	12,753	160,011	4	17,467	22	0
10	Pọtiugiz	pt	4,049	11,301	145,592	1	19,042	12	0
11	Spánish Lángwej	es	3,731	12,891	254,885	2	31,219	114	0
12	Híbru Lángwej	he	2,453	16,167	260,789	3	11,609	17	124
13	Bángla Lángwej	bn	2,375	7,974	76,771	3	6,373	15	0
14	Fínísh Lángwej	fi	1,800	3,953	57,448	1	3,594	6	0
15	Japan Lángwej	ja	1,650	6,315	57,512	2	5,393	21	0
16	Indoníshia Lángwej	id	1,627	3,964	33,946	3	1,387	25	0
17	Suwídẹ́n Lángwej	sv	1,615	10,899	97,200	3	12,651	4	0
18	Viẹ́tnám Lángwej	vi	1,508	58,106	121,490	2	11,914	11	0
19	Ẹsperánto Lángwej	eo	1,490	3,683	56,540	2	1,459	12	0
20	Grík Lángwej	el	1,436	2,769	27,794	1	5,775	8	1
21	Yukrénia	uk	1,230	3,581	42,735	3	9,009	39	4
22	Romániá Lángwej	ro	923	2,740	22,103	2	3,849	5	0
23	Chẹ́k Lángwej	cs	636	1,350	18,199	1	979	16	0
24	Tọ́ki	tr	504	3,987	16,875	3	2,619	14	0
25	Páshto	ps	331	938	7,053	1	1,120	1	0
26	Shán Lángwej	shn	206	2,125	8,514	2	817	8	0
27	Híndi Lángwej	hi	191	741	8,523	1	2,488	4	0

Totals	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Active users	Files
All active Wikivoyages	145,713	643,475	11,393,575	110	2,820,936	1,848	20,922

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, Shan, 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.

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.