Wikitravel — a wiki travel guide, currently owned by Internet Brands, Inc., is an ad-supported (GoogleAds) free, world-wide travel guide. They have several thousand destination guides, and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe (some of whom just sit at home describing what's good about their surroundings).
One of the more interesting project goals is to create destination guides which are useful as printouts, i.e., not always linking to sub-pages, but distilling the most useful information about each travel destination. For a good example see the "destination of the month" on the English Wikitravel main page
In April 2006, Wikitravel and World66, both open content wiki travel guides, were acquired by Internet Brands, Inc., an American commercial 'for profit' company that operates a number of consumer information websites. [1] [2] broken link as of 2010-07-09? [dead link] Following this acquisition, Internet Brands have progressively alienated their core Wikitravel editors, by placing increasing amounts of adverts on wiki pages, by failing to provide technical support and software upgrades, and by denying database downloads of user-submitted content.
- Wikitravel Interactive Statistics, from Wikistatistics
- Wikitravel editors abandon Internet Brands, join up with Wikipedia — Gyrovague.com
- Challenges of Merging Communities: The Case of WikiTravel and WikiVoyage — governance across borders
- See also
- Wikivoyage – a fork done by some German Wikitravellers in 2006, which aims to be a non-commercial alternative with transparent and democratic internal structures, along with their plans in 2012 to migrate to the Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenSeaMap
- All Wikitravels in these languages (edit) — Wikitravel WikiNode
1,000+:
Deutsch (de),
English (en),
Español (es),
Etusivu (fi),
Français (fr),
Pagina principale (it),
メインページ (ja),
Hoofdpagina (nl),
Página (pt),
Заглавная страница (ru),
Huvudsida (sv)
Bubbling under:
الرئيسية (ar),
Pàgina principal (ca),
Ĉefpaĝo (eo),
עמוד ראשי (he),
मुखपृष्ठ (hi),
Kezdőlap (hu),
대문 (ko),
Strona główna (pl),
Portal (ro),
首页 (zh)
- The red-links here need their Wikitravel URLs, the {{add}} template tag and the {{Wikitravel}} template tag added.