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'''Wikivoyage – ''the free worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit''''' — is a collection of [[:Category:Earth|worldwide]] [[:Category:Travel|travel]] guide [[WhatIsWiki|wiki sites]] in different [[:Category:Wiki language|languages]], and now a major linguistic edition '{{WMF-Meta|Wikimedia projects|project}}' of the [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF).

This project has the long-term objective to become a complete and up-to-date '''[[:Category:Global|worldwide]] [[:Category:Travel guide|travel guide]]''', the contributions of which come from '{{WMF-Meta|Wikivoyage/Wikivoyager|Wikivoyagers}}' all over the globe.  [[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]] wants to fulfil the need of travellers to obtain up-to-date [[:Category:Information|information]] as fast as possible, something that long [[:Category:Books|book]]-publishing cycles are not able to meet.

Wikivoyage is similar to the well-known [[:Category:Wikipedia|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 [[:Category:Places|places]] they want to discover or the ones they have already visited.  Wikivoyage wants to facilitate this [[:Category:Knowledge|knowledge]] exchange; their [[:Category:Copyleft|copyleft]] [[:Category:Wiki license|licence]] creates the right conditions for folks to make their knowledge available to a huge community of interested [[:Category:People|people]].
[[File:Wikivoyage logo v1 red tick.png|thumb|left|150px|original [[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]] logo, as used before its merger with the [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]|alt=]]
[[File:Wikivoyage logo v1 blue tick.png|frame|left|and in blue|alt=]]

[[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]] was initially created primarily by some [[:Category:Wiki People from Germany|German writers]] of the earlier [[:Category:Wikitravel|Wikitravel]] community (itself founded July [[:Category:Founded in 2003|2003]] in English as a private enterprise by [[Evan Prodromou]] and Michelle Anne Jenkins); after it was was acquired in [[:Category:Founded in 2005|2005]] by [[:Category:Internet Brands|Internet Brands, Inc.]] for US$1.7&nbsp;million,<ref name=NYTimes>[https://www.NYTimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/once-a-profit-dream-wikitravel-now-bedevils-owner.html Travel site built on wiki ethos now bedevils its owner]; ''www.NYTimes.com'', The New York Times; 10 September 2012; retrieved 6 May 2021.</ref> a [[:Category:Commercial|commercial]] 'for-profit' [[:Category:United States of America|American]] consumer [[:Category:Internet|internet]] [[:Category:Company|company]].  Internet Brands (IB) progressively changed the fundamental ethos of the original Wikitravel; with the inclusion of [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]], and lack of technical support and software upgrades, and ultimately the denial of database dumps.<ref>[https://GovernanceXBorders.com/2012/07/13/challenges-of-merging-communities-the-case-of-wikitravel-and-wikivoyage/ Challenges of merging communities: the case of WikiTravel (SIC) and WikiVoyage (SIC)] (CC-BY-SA&nbsp;3.0); ''GovernanceXBorders.com'', governance across borders; 13 July 2012; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref><ref>[[Archive.org:20121106193041/http://Wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Database_dump|Wikitravel:Database dump]]; ''Wikitravel.org'', [[Wikitravel (en)|English Wikitravel]]; archived by [[Archive.org]] on 6 November 2012; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref>  The [[:Category:Wiki German|German language]] Wikivoyage community [[:Category:Fork|forked]] from [[Wikitravel (de)|Wikitravel]] in [[:Category:Founded in 2006|2006]],<ref name=NYTimes/> and subsequently in [[:Category:Founded in 2007|2007]], the Italian Wikivoyage community had also [[fork]]ed from [[Wikitravel (it)|Wikitravel]].  The {{WMF-Meta|Wikivoyage Association}} (''German:'' [http://Wikivoyage-eV.org Wikivoyage e.V.]), created in [[:Category:Germany|Germany]] in 2006 as a [[:Category:Non-profit|non-profit]] organisation by [[Roland Unger]],[http://Wikivoyage-Association.org/wiki/Benutzer:RolandUnger] was set up to host all Wikivoyage wikis.  Wikivoyage and Wikitravel wiki sites continued to co-exist, 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 diversify; Wikivoyage articles continued to (slowly) improve professionally and factually, whilst Wikitravel articles deteriorated in quality and accuracy.<ref name=TechCrunch>[https://TechCrunch.com/2012/09/29/lessons-from-the-dramatic-slow-motion-death-of-wikitravel/ Lessons from the dramatic slow-motion death of Wikiravel]; ''TechCrunch.com''; 29 September 2012; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref>
[[File:Wikivoyage (WMF) logo v1.svg.png|frame|the original [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|WMF]] Wikivoyage logo, now superseded|alt=]]

Early [[:Category:Founded in 2012|2012]], members of the Wikivoyage Association {{WMF-Meta|Wikivoyage/Archive/2012-11-16|suggested a merge}} with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF),<ref>[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''; 12 July 2012; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref> with discussions taking place across various platforms (Google Groups, Wikitravel,<ref>[https://Wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Wikitravel:Travellers%27_pub&oldid=1916128#Moving_to_Wikimedia Wikitravel:Travellers' pub - Moving to Wikimedia]; ''Wikitravel.org'', [[Wikitravel (en)|English Wikitravel]]; 12 August 2012; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref> Wikivoyage,<ref>[[Archive.org:20121101112005/http://www.Wikivoyage.org/general/Migration_FAQ|Migration FAQ - Wikivoyage]]; ''www.Wikivoyage.org'', [[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage General]]; archived by [[Archive.org]] on 1 November 2012; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref> and [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]]).  The driving force was to go back to basics of collaborative [[wiki]] writing, on a non-profit [[:Category:Education|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 import all existing Wikivoyage [[:Category:Wiki language|language]] wiki sites, [[user]]s, [[Sysop|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,<ref name=NYTimes/> but which Wikitravel was trying to prevent, and also initiated [[:Category:Law|legal]] action<ref>[https://DavidGerard.co.uk/notes/2012/09/06/internet-brands-sues-people-for-forking-under-cc-by-sa/ Internet Brands sues people for forking under CC-BY-SA]; ''DavidGerard.co.uk''; 6 September 2012; retrieved 6 May 2021.</ref><ref>[https://Gyrovague.com/2012/09/15/no-cheeseburger-for-you-a-look-at-the-internet-brands-v-wikitravel-volunteers-lawsuit/ No cheeseburger for you: A look at the Internet Brands v. Wikitravel volunteers lawsuit]; ''Gyrovague.com''; 12 September 2012; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref> to prevent).  Discussions progressed, and during October 2012, {{Wvoyage|Wikivoyage:Migration to Wikimedia|Wikivoyage migrated}} the content of Wikitravel and Wikivoyage, along with all {{Wvoyage|Wikivoyage:User account migration|contributors}}, to the Wikimedia Foundation.<ref name=TechCrunch/>  On 10 November 2012, the Wikivoyage project went live (as beta) on Wikimedia servers, and its content pages displayed the Wikimedia Foundation logo.  On 15 January [[:Category:Founded in 2013|2013]], the WMF announced that all existing language versions of Wikivoyage had been formally launched onto Wikimedia servers, and [[Cambridge-Dictionary:incorporated|incorporated]] into the WMF.<ref>[https://Gyrovague.com/2013/01/14/free-travel-guide-wikivoyage-comes-out-of-beta-and-is-already-kicking-ass/ Free travel guide Wikivoyage comes out of beta and is already kicking ass]; ''Gyrovague.com''; 14 January 2013; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref>  However, around that time period, the project was still in a {{Wvoyage|Wikivoyage:Cleanup|transition}} 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 wikis is made available under an [[:Category:Open content|open content]] free [[:Category:Wiki license|license]]: the [[:Category:Wiki Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license]] (CC-BY-SA 3.0).

The [[Wikivoyage Association]] (Wikivoyage e.V.) had applied to become {{WMF-Meta|Wikimedia movement affiliates/Models|affiliated with Wikimedia}} as an independent {{WMF-Meta|Wikimedia thematic organizations|thematic organisation}}.  It was approved on 3 May [[:Category:Founded in 2017|2017]].
*[http://Wikivoyage-Association.org Wikivoyage-Association.org] — home wiki of Wikivoyage e.V. (''de / en-gb'')
*[https://www.Wikivoyage.org www.Wikivoyage.org] — Wikivoyage [[:Category:Portal|portal]] to all language versions
*{{WMF-Meta|Wikivoyage}} — Meta.Wikimedia.org at [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]]
*[https://Stats.Wikimedia.org/wikivoyage/EN/Sitemap.htm Wikivoyage Statistics – site map] — Wikistats v1 ([[:Category:Wiki Public domain (generic)|public domain]]) (final release, 31 January 2019) from [[Erik Zachte]], Stats.Wikimedia.org at [[Wikimedia Statistics]]
{{Wikistats v2|all-wikivoyage-projects|All Wikivoyages}}
{{Wikistats 2.2-project|wv|Wikivoyages|Wikivoyage}}
*[https://Wikiscan.org/?menu=allsites&group=wikivoyage Wikiscan Wikivoyage statistics] — independent statistics site on Wikipedia and other wikis hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, at [[Wikiscan.org]]
*[[Archive.org:20151005050537/https://www.Wikistatistics.net/wikimedia#Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage Interactive Statistics]] — from [[Wikistatistics.net]], via [[Archive.org]]; 2015-10-05
*[https://S23.org/wikistats/wikivoyage_html.php List of Wikivoyages] — from WikiStats by [[S23-Wiki|S23.org]]
*[https://NOC.Wikimedia.org/conf/dblists/wikivoyage.dblist Wikivoyage database list] — NOC.Wikimedia.org at [[Wikimedia NOC]]; lists the 25 individual sites by language code
*[https://Lists.Wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikivoyage-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ wikivoyage-l] — Wikivoyage mailing list for discussing technical and community matters by email, Lists.Wikimedia.org at [[Wikimedia Lists]]
*[https://Twitter.com/Wikivoyage Wikivoyage Twitter feed] — initially mainly in German, now almost exclusively in English
*[[Archive.org:20220422214704/https://www.Alexa.com/siteinfo/wikivoyage.org|Wikivoyage.org site info]] — from Alexa.com, via [[Archive.org]]
;''See also
*[[JAMGuides]] – a mirror of [[:Category:Wikitravel|Wikitravel]] which uses the [[:Category:JAMWiki|JAMWiki]] engine; after the Wikivoyage merge with the WMF, JAMGuides redirects to Wikivoyage
*[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:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]] wiki sites in these [[:Category:Wiki language|languages]] </big><sup>([[Template:Wikivoyage|view]] / [[edit:Template:Wikivoyage|edit]] / [[Template talk:Wikivoyage|talk]])</sup></big>
As of November 2022, [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]] indicates that there are {{WMF-Meta|Wikivoyage#Languages|25 Wikivoyage}} wikis of different languages; tabulated and sorted by {{WMF-Meta|Wikivoyage#Creation|creation date}}, and {{WMF-Meta|Wikivoyage#Statistics|detailed statistics}}.  It is important to note that individual language versions created <u>before 2013</u> were [[:Category:Fork|forked]] from [[:Category:Wikitravel|Wikitravel]] (highlighted in bold); whereas those language versions created <u>during</u> or <u>after 2013</u> were approved from the [[Wikimedia Incubator]].  The non-profit charitable '''[[Wikivoyage Association]]''' (f.2006) (''German:'' Wikivoyage e.V.) wiki acts as a '[[:Category:Meta|meta]]' wiki and central portal for the entire Wikivoyage project.
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<big>'''10,000+''':
'''[[German Wikivoyage|German&nbsp;/&nbsp;Deutsch]]&nbsp;(de)'''&nbsp;(f.2006)&nbsp;•
'''[[English Wikivoyage|English]]&nbsp;(en)'''&nbsp;(f.2012)&nbsp;•
'''[[Italian Wikivoyage|Italian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Italiano]]&nbsp;(it)'''&nbsp;(f.2007)&nbsp;•
[[Polish Wikivoyage|Polish&nbsp;/&nbsp;Polski]]&nbsp;(pl)&nbsp;(f.2013)
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'''1,000+''':
[[Greek Wikivoyage|Greek&nbsp;/&nbsp;Ελληνικά]]&nbsp;(el)&nbsp;(f.2013)&nbsp;•
[[Esperanto Wikivoyage|Esperanto]]&nbsp;(eo)&nbsp;(f.2020)&nbsp;•
[[Spanish Wikivoyage|Spanish&nbsp;/&nbsp;Español]]&nbsp;(es)&nbsp;(f.2013)&nbsp;•
[[Persian Wikivoyage|Persian&nbsp;/&nbsp;فارسی]]&nbsp;(fa)&nbsp;(f.2014)&nbsp;•
[[Finnish Wikivoyage|Finnish&nbsp;/&nbsp;Suomi]]&nbsp;(fi)&nbsp;(f.2016)&nbsp;•
'''[[French Wikivoyage|French&nbsp;/&nbsp;Français]]&nbsp;(fr)'''&nbsp;(f.2012)&nbsp;•
[[Hebrew Wikivoyage|Hebrew&nbsp;/&nbsp;עברית]]&nbsp;(he)&nbsp;(f.2013)&nbsp;•
'''[[Dutch Wikivoyage|Dutch&nbsp;/&nbsp;Nederlands]]&nbsp;(nl)'''&nbsp;(f.2007)&nbsp;•
[[Portuguese Wikivoyage|Portuguese&nbsp;/&nbsp;Português]]&nbsp;(pt)&nbsp;(f.2013)&nbsp;•
'''[[Russian Wikivoyage|Russian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Русский]]&nbsp;(ru)'''&nbsp;(f.2012)&nbsp;•
'''[[Swedish Wikivoyage|Swedish&nbsp;/&nbsp;Svenska]]&nbsp;(sv)'''&nbsp;(f.2012)&nbsp;•
[[Ukrainian Wikivoyage|Ukrainian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Українська]]&nbsp;(uk)&nbsp;(f.2013)&nbsp;•
[[Vietnamese Wikivoyage|Vietnamese&nbsp;/&nbsp;Tiếng&nbsp;Việt]]&nbsp;(vi)&nbsp;(f.2013)&nbsp;•
[[Chinese Wikivoyage|Chinese&nbsp;/&nbsp;中文]]&nbsp;(zh)&nbsp;(f.2014)
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'''100+''':
[[Bengali Wikivoyage|Bengali&nbsp;/&nbsp;বাংলা]]&nbsp;(bn)&nbsp;(f.2018)&nbsp;•
[[Hindi Wikivoyage|Hindi&nbsp;/&nbsp;हिन्दी]]&nbsp;(hi)&nbsp;(f.2017)&nbsp;•
[[Japanese Wikivoyage|Japanese&nbsp;/&nbsp;日本語]]&nbsp;(ja)&nbsp;(f.2020)&nbsp;•
[[Pashto Wikivoyage|Pashto&nbsp;/&nbsp;پښتو]]&nbsp;(ps)&nbsp;(f.2018)&nbsp;•
[[Romanian Wikivoyage|Romanian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Română]]&nbsp;(ro)&nbsp;(f.2013)&nbsp;•
[[Shan Wikivoyage|Shan&nbsp;/&nbsp;လိၵ်ႈတႆး]]&nbsp;(shn)&nbsp;(f.2022)&nbsp;•
[[Turkish Wikivoyage|Turkish&nbsp;/&nbsp;Türkçe]]&nbsp;(tr)&nbsp;(f.2021)
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'''10+''':
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