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'''<big>Wikitravel</big> – ''The Free Travel Guide''''' (originally stylised '''WikiTravel''') — is a [[:Category:Travel guide|travel guide]] in a [[wiki]] format, [[:Category:Founded in 2003|founded in 2003]] by [[Evan Prodromou]] and Michelle Anne Jenkins.  Now owned by {{tag|Internet Brands|Internet Brands, Inc.}} (IB), Wikitravel is an [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]]-supported ([[:Category:Google advertising|Google Ads]] and Adtrue) free, [[:Category:Earth|world-wide]] [[:Category:Travel|travel]] guide in twenty-one (21) different [[:Category:Wiki language|languages]].  The Wikitravel [[What is a Wiki|wiki sites]] have several thousand {{Cambridge-Dictionary|destination}} guides and other articles written and edited by [https://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Wikitravellers 'Wikitravellers'] from around the [[:Category:Global|globe]] (some of whom just sit at home describing what's good about their surroundings).  [[:Category:Wikitravel|Wikitravel]] wiki sites previously supported the [[:Category:OpenID|OpenID]] universal {{Cambridge-Dictionary|log-in}} until the March 2013 software upgrade.  The individual language Wikitravel wiki sites do <u>not</u> support {{Mw|Extension:CentralAuth|CentralAuth}}, so [[editor]]s must register with a [[username]] for each wiki site individually, as well as [[Wikitravel Shared]], their multilingual image and media repository (and central '[[:Category:Meta|meta]]' wiki) for the Wikitravel project.

One of the more interesting [https://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Goals_and_non-goals project goals] is to create destination [[:Category:Guide|guides]] which are useful as {{Cambridge-Dictionary|printout}}s, i.e., <u>not</u> always linking to sub-pages (or separate [[article]] pages), but {{Cambridge-Dictionary|distill}}ing the most useful information about each travel [[:Category:Places|destination]] in to one single article.  For a good example, see the 'destination of the month' on the [[Wikitravel (en)|English Wikitravel]] [https://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page main page].

In April 2006, Wikitravel, along with [[World66]], both [[:Category:Open content|open content]] wiki travel guides, were acquired by Internet Brands, {{Cambridge-Dictionary|incorporated|Inc.}}, an [[:Category:United States of America|American]] commercial 'for profit' company that operates a number of consumer information websites.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080308215814/http://investors.InternetBrands.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=274198]  Following this acquisition, Internet Brands progressively {{Cambridge-Dictionary|alienate}}d their core Wikitravel [[editor]]s, by placing increasing amounts of [[:Category:Advertising|adverts]] on wiki pages, failing to provide technical support and [[:Category:Software|software]] upgrades, and denying [[:Category:Wiki database backup|wiki database downloads]] of [[user]]-submitted content.  As a result, a group of [[Wikitravel (de)|German Wikitravel]] editors [[fork]]ed their German- and [[Wikitravel (it)|Italian-language Wikitravel]] wiki sites to a new site which they called '[[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]]'; with other Wikitravel language versions subsequently doing the same.

In early 2013, [[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]] became an integral new '{{WMF-Meta|Wikimedia projects|project}}' of the [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF); and whilst the two sites (Wikitravel and Wikivoyage) still {{Cambridge-Dictionary|co-exist}}, Wikitravel has {{Cambridge-Dictionary|decline}}d in its quality of editing.  As a {{Cambridge-Dictionary|seemingly}} act of {{Cambridge-Dictionary|desperation}}, on the [[Wiki main page|main front page]] of the English Wikitravel, there was a {{Cambridge-Dictionary|prominent}} claim: "(Wikitravel) ... is the premier travel wiki on the Internet", with a link to [[Archive.org:20130908023737/https://content.Time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1809858_1809957_1811566,00.html|Time Lists]].  However, the content contained within that ''Time'' link is extremely stale and out-dated; it was published in 2007 under the title: '50 Best Websites 2008'!
*{{WMF-Meta|Wikitravel}} — an early discussion from 2003-2005, at [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]]
*[[Meatball:WikiTravel|Article on Wikitravel]] — at [[MeatballWiki]]
*{{Wp|Wikitravel}} — at the [[English Wikipedia]]
*{{WM-Wikidata|Q2017|Wikitravel (Q2017)}} — at [[Wikimedia Wikidata]]
{{Wikistats v2.2-project|wr|Wikitravel wikis|Wikitravel|cat=no}}
*[[Archive.org:20160601185232/http://www.Wikistatistics.net/internet-brands|Wikitravel Interactive Statistics]] — from [[Wikistatistics.net]], via [[Archive.org]] from 2016
*[https://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/downloads/list?can=2&q=wikitravel Wikitravel downloads]<sup>[fix me]</sup> — [[Archive Team#WikiTeam|WikiTeam]]
*[https://gyrovague.com/2012/07/12/wikitravel-editors-abandon-internet-brands-join-up-with-wikipedia/ Wikitravel editors abandon Internet Brands, join up with Wikipedia] — Gyrovague.com; 2012-07-12
*[https://governancexborders.com/2012/07/13/challenges-of-merging-communities-the-case-of-wikitravel-and-wikivoyage/ Challenges of merging communities: the case of WikiTravel and WikiVoyage] — governance across borders; 2012-07-13
*{{Everything2|Wikitravel}} — personal commentary by Tempestas on 2007-07-08, at [[Everything2]]
*[[Archive.org:20170914005231/http://Couchwiki.org/en/User_talk:Guaka#Attribution|Wikitravel owners Internet Brands threaten legal action against a tiny community wiki]] — at [[Couchwiki]]
*{{Wv|Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage and Wikitravel|Wikivoyage and Wikitravel}} — at the [[English Wikivoyage]]
;''See also
*[[:Category:JAMGuides|JAMGuides]] — former original fork of Wikitravel powered by the [[:Category:JAMWiki|JAMWiki]] engine; after the Wikivoyage merge with the WMF, JAMGuides.com URLs redirected to Wikivoyage
*[[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]] — subsequent fork by German and Italian Wikitravellers in 2006, which aimed to be a non-commercial alternative with transparent and democratic internal structures, along with their plans in 2012 to [[Archive.org:20121101112005/http://www.Wikivoyage.org/general/Migration_FAQ|migrate]] to the [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF)
*[https://code.google.com/archive/p/oxygenguide/ OxygenGuide] — an independent offline copy of the Wikivoyage travel guide, restyled for smartphones, based on work by all volunteers of Wikivoyage and Wikitravel
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;<big><big>All [[:Category:Wikitravel|Wikitravel]] wiki sites in these [[:Category:Wiki language|languages]]</big> <sup>([[Template:Wikitravel|view]] / [[edit:Template:Wikitravel|edit]] / [[Template talk:Wikitravel|talk]])</sup></big> — <span class=plainlinks>[https://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:WikiNode WikiNode (en)]&nbsp;• [https://wikitravel.org/de/Wikitravel:WikiNode WikiNode (de)]</span>
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[[Wikitravel Shared]]&nbsp;<small>(image&nbsp;depository)</small>&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (en)|English]]&nbsp;(en)
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'''1,000+''':<!--multilingual first, then alphabetical by longhand anglophile language-->
[[Wikitravel (nl)|Dutch&nbsp;/&nbsp;Nederlands]]&nbsp;(nl)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (fi)|Finnish&nbsp;/&nbsp;suomi]]&nbsp;(fi)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (fr)|French&nbsp;/&nbsp;Français]]&nbsp;(fr)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (de)|German&nbsp;/&nbsp;Deutsch]]&nbsp;(de)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (it)|Italian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Italiano]]&nbsp;(it)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (ja)|Japanese&nbsp;/&nbsp;日本語]]&nbsp;(ja)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (ko)|Korean&nbsp;/&nbsp;한국어]]&nbsp;(ko)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (pl)|Polish&nbsp;/&nbsp;Polskie]]&nbsp;(pl)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (pt)|Portuguese&nbsp;/&nbsp;Português]]&nbsp;(pt)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (ru)|Russian&nbsp;/&nbsp;русский]]&nbsp;(ru)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (es)|Spanish&nbsp;/&nbsp;Español]]&nbsp;(es)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (sv)|Swedish&nbsp;/&nbsp;svenska]]&nbsp;(sv)
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<small>'''Bubbling under''':<!--multilingual first, then alphabetical by longhand anglophile language-->
[[Wikitravel (ar)|Arabic&nbsp;/&nbsp;عربى]]&nbsp;(ar)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (ca)|Catalan&nbsp;/&nbsp;Català]]&nbsp;(ca)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (zh)|Chinese&nbsp;/&nbsp;中文]]&nbsp;(zh)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (eo)|Esperanto]]&nbsp;(eo)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (he)|Hebrew&nbsp;/&nbsp;עִברִית]]&nbsp;(he)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (hi)|Hindi&nbsp;/&nbsp;हिंदी]]&nbsp;(hi)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (hu)|Hungarian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Magyar]]&nbsp;(hu)&nbsp;•
[[Wikitravel (ro)|Romanian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Română]]&nbsp;(ro)</small><noinclude>
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