Template:Wikivoyage

 Wikivoyage – the free worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit — is a collection of worldwide travel guide wiki sites in different languages, and now a major linguistic edition '' of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF).

The Wikivoyage project has the long-term to become a complete and up-to-date worldwide travel guide, the contributions of which come from '' all over the globe. Wikivoyage wants to fulfil the need of s to obtain up-to-date information as fast as possible, something that long book-publishing cycles are not able to meet.

Wikivoyage is similar to the well-known Wikipedia; carried by the 'spirit of knowledge exchange', which is so evident for lots of travellers. Travellers meeting during a trip like to exchange information about the places they want to or the ones they have already visited. Wikivoyage wants to facilitate this knowledge exchange; their copyleft licence creates the right conditions for folks to make their knowledge available to a huge community of interested people.

Wikivoyage was initially created primarily by some German writers of the earlier Wikitravel community (itself founded July 2003 in English as a by Evan Prodromou and Michelle Anne Jenkins); after it was was d in 2005 by Internet Brands, Inc. for US$1.7, a commercial 'for-profit' American consumer internet company. Internet Brands (IB) progressively changed the fundamental of the original Wikitravel; with the inclusion of advertising, and lack of technical support and software upgrades, and ultimately the denial of database dumps. The German language Wikivoyage community forked from Wikitravel in 2006, and in 2007, the Italian Wikivoyage community had also forked from Wikitravel. The (German: Wikivoyage e.V.), created in Germany in 2006 as a non-profit organisation by Roland Unger, was set up to host all Wikivoyage wiki site language versions. Wikivoyage and Wikitravel wiki sites continued to, though the original Wikitravel project lost the major core of its productive writers to the newer Wikivoyage; this meant the quality of articles began to ; Wikivoyage articles continued to (slowly) improve professionally and factually, whilst Wikitravel articles deteriorated in quality and accuracy.

Early 2012, members of the Wikivoyage Association with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), with discussions taking place across various platforms (Google Groups, Wikitravel, Wikivoyage, and Wikimedia Meta-Wiki). The driving force was to go back to basics of wiki writing, on a non-profit educational basis, free of advertising; and to gain the extensive and long-established technical support, development, and backup provided by the WMF. The goal would be to all existing Wikivoyage language wiki sites, users, admins, and page content onto WMF servers; and also import and merge in any useful content from Wikitravel too (which is allowed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license as used by Wikitravel, but which Wikitravel owners Internet Brands,  was trying to prevent, and also initiated legal action  to prevent). Discussions progressed, and during October 2012, the content of Wikitravel and Wikivoyage, along with all, to the Wikimedia Foundation. On 10 November 2012, the Wikivoyage project went live (as [adjective]) on Wikimedia servers, and its content pages displayed the Wikimedia Foundation logo. On 15 January 2013, the WMF announced that all existing language versions of Wikivoyage had been formally launched onto Wikimedia servers, and into the WMF. However, around that time period, the project was still in a status, as most [https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Wikivoyage:Cleanup&oldid=2468200#Photo_hunt! images] had still to be moved from the former Wikivoyage Shared repositories to Wikimedia Commons, and many links had to be manually fixed by the community. Textual content for all Wikivoyage wiki sites is made available under an open content free license: the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY-SA 3.0).

The Wikivoyage Association (Wikivoyage e.V.) had applied to become as an independent. It was approved on 3 May 2017.
 * Wikivoyage-Association.org — home wiki of Wikivoyage e.V. (de / en-gb)
 * www.Wikivoyage.org — Wikivoyage portal to all language versions
 * — Meta.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * Wikivoyage Statistics – site map — Wikistats v1 (public domain) (final release, 31 January 2019) from Erik Zachte, Stats.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Statistics


 * Wikiscan Wikivoyage statistics — independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, at Wikiscan.org
 * Wikivoyage Interactive Statistics — from Wikistatistics.net, via Archive.org; 2015-10-05
 * List of Wikivoyages — from WikiStats by S23.org
 * Wikivoyage database list — NOC.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia NOC; lists the 25 individual sites by language code
 * wikivoyage-l — Wikivoyage mailing list for discussing technical and community matters by email, Lists.Wikimedia.org at Wikimedia Lists
 * Wikivoyage Twitter feed — initially mainly in German, now almost exclusively in English
 * Wikivoyage.org site info — from Alexa.com, April 2022, via Archive.org
 * ''See also
 * JAMGuides — former earlier fork of Wikitravel which used the JAMWiki engine; after the Wikivoyage merge with the WMF, JAMGuides.com URLs redirected to Wikivoyage
 * OxygenGuide — an independent offline copy of the Wikivoyage travel guide, restyled for smartphones, based on work by all volunteers of Wikivoyage and Wikitravel
 * ''References
 * ''Related templates
 * Template: Wvoyage — a template which creates an interwiki link to any article on any Wikivoyage wiki site
 * Template: SeeWvoyage — a template which creates an indented 'see also' message to any article on any Wikivoyage wiki site
 * Template: WikiApiary-Wikivoyage — an interwiki template linking to its respective article on WikiApiary
 * Template: Wikistats v1 Summary-non-Wikipedia — a template for an 'at a glance' summary card for a Wikimedia Foundation wiki site from Wikistats v1
 * Template: Wikistats v1-tables-non-Wikipedia — a template for highly detailed statistics tables for a Wikimedia Foundation wiki site from Wikistats v1
 * Template: Wikistats v1-charts-non-Wikipedia — a template for graphical statistics charts on various metrics for a Wikimedia Foundation wiki site from Wikistats v1