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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|wikis]] in different [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]], and now a major 'project' of the {{tag|Wikimedia Foundation}} (WMF).

[[Wikivoyage]] was initially created primarily by some [[:Category:Germany|German]] writers of the earlier [[:Category:Wikitravel|Wikitravel]] community (itself founded July [[:Category:FoundedIn2003|2003]] in English as a private enterprise by [[Evan Prodromou]] and Michelle Anne Jenkins); after it was was acquired by [[:Category:Internet Brands|Internet Brands, Inc.]], a commercial for-profit [[:Category:United States|American]] consumer [[:Category:Internet|internet]] [[:Category:Company|company]].  Internet Brands 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 and WikiVoyage] (CC-BY-SA&nbsp;3.0); ''GovernanceXBorders.com'', governance across borders; 13 July 2012; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref><ref>[https://web.Archive.org/web/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 German language Wikivoyage community [[:Category:Fork|forked]] from Wikitravel in [[:Category:FoundedIn2006|2006]], and subsequently in [[:Category:FoundedIn2007|2007]], the Italian Wikivoyage community had also [[fork]]ed from Wikitravel.  The [[Meta-Wiki:Wikivoyage Association|Wikivoyage Association]] (''German:'' Wikivoyage e.V.), created in Germany in 2006 as a [[:Category:Nonprofit|non-profit]] organisation, was set up to host all Wikivoyage wikis.  Wikivoyage and Wikitravel wikis continued to co-exist, though the original Wikitravel project lost the core of its productive writers to the newer Wikivoyage; this meant the quality of articles began to diversify; Wikivoyage articles continued to 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 Seprember 2012; retrieved 28 April 2021.</ref>

*[http://Wikivoyage-Association.org Wikivoyage-Association.org] — wiki homepage of Wikivoyage e.V. (''de / en-gb'')

*[https://noc.Wikimedia.org/conf/wikivoyage.dblist Wikivoyage database list] — at noc.Wikimedia.org; lists the 19 individual sites by language code