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Early [[:Category:FoundedIn2012|2012]], members of the Wikivoyage Association [[Meta-Wiki: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>[https://web.Archive.org/web/20121101112005/http://www.Wikivoyage.org/general/Migration_FAQ Migration FAQ - Wikivoyage]; ''www.Wikivoyage.org'', [[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]] wikis, [[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, but which Wikitravel was trying to prevent, and also initiated [[:Category:Law|legal]] action to prevent).  Discussions progressed, and during October 2012, [[wikivoyage:Wikivoyage:Migration to Wikimedia|Wikivoyage migrated]] the content of Wikitravel and Wikivoyage, along with all [[wikivoyage: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:FoundedIn2013|2013]], the WMF announced that all existing language versions of Wikivoyage had been formally launched onto Wikimedia servers, and 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 [[wikivoyage: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).