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'''Wikitravel – ''The Free Travel Guide''''' — is a [[wiki]] [[:Category:Travel guide|travel guide]], founded in [[:Category:FoundedIn2003|2003]] by [[Evan Prodromou]] and Michelle Anne Jenkins.  Now currently owned by {{tag|Internet Brands|Internet Brands, Inc.}} (IB), it is an [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]]-supported ([[:Category:GoogleAds|GoogleAds]] and Adtrue) free, [[:Category:Earth|world-wide]] [[:Category:Travel|travel]] guide in twenty-one (21) different [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]].  The wikis have several thousand 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).  Wikitravel wikis previously supported the [[:Category:OpenID|OpenID]] universal log-in until the March 2013 software upgrade.  The individual language projects do not support [[mw:Extension:CentralAuth|CentralAuth]], so [[editor]]s must register for each wiki individually, as well as [[Wikitravel Shared]] – the multilingual media repository for the project.

In April 2006, Wikitravel and [[World66]], both [[:Category:Open content|open content]] wiki travel guides, were acquired by Internet Brands, Inc., an [[:Category:United States|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 alienated their core Wikitravel [[editor]]s, by placing increasing amounts of [[:Category:Advertising|adverts]] on wiki pages, failing to provide technical support and software upgrades, and denying [[:Category:Wiki Backups|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]] wikis to a new site which they called '[[Wikivoyage]]'; with other language versions subsequently doing the same.

In early 2013, [[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]] became an integral new 'project' of the [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF) – and whilst the two sites still co-exist, Wikitravel has declined in its quality of editing.  As a seemingly act of desperation, on the main front page of the English Wikitravel, there was a prominent claim – ''"(Wikitravel) ... is the premier travel wiki on the Internet"'' – with a link to [http://content.Time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1809858_1809957_1811566,00.html Time.com].  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"!

*[[MetaWiki:Wikitravel|Wikitravel]] — an early discussion from 2003-2005 at [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]]

*[[wikiapiary:Wikitravel|Wikitravel (de) profile]] — from [[WikiApiary]]

*[[Wikivoyage]] – a fork done by some German and Italian Wikitravellers in 2006, which aims 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)

;<big><big>All [[:Category:Wikitravel|Wikitravel]] wikis in these [[:Category:Wiki Language|languages]]</big> ^{([[Template:Wikitravel|view]] / [[edit:Template:Wikitravel|edit]])}</big> — [https://Wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:WikiNode WikiNode (en)] [https://Wikitravel.org/de/Wikitravel:WikiNode WikiNode (de)]

[[Wikitravel (en)|English]]&nbsp;(en),

[[Wikitravel (de)|German&nbsp;/&nbsp;Deutsch]]&nbsp;(de),

[[Wikitravel (es)|Spanish&nbsp;/&nbsp;Español]]&nbsp;(es),

[[Wikitravel (fi)|Finnish&nbsp;/&nbsp;suomi]]&nbsp;(fi),

[[Wikitravel (fr)|French&nbsp;/&nbsp;Français]]&nbsp;(fr),

[[Wikitravel (it)|Italian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Italiano]]&nbsp;(it),

[[Wikitravel (ja)|Japanese&nbsp;/&nbsp;日本語]]&nbsp;(ja),

[[Wikitravel (nl)|Dutch&nbsp;/&nbsp;Nederlands]]&nbsp;(nl),

[[Wikitravel (pl)|Polish&nbsp;/&nbsp;Polskie]]&nbsp;(pl),

[[Wikitravel (pt)|Portuguese&nbsp;/&nbsp;Português]]&nbsp;(pt),

[[Wikitravel (ru)|Russian&nbsp;/&nbsp;русский]]&nbsp;(ru),

[[Wikitravel (ar)|Arabic&nbsp;/&nbsp;عربى]]&nbsp;(ar),

[[Wikitravel (ca)|Catalan&nbsp;/&nbsp;Català]]&nbsp;(ca),

[[Wikitravel (eo)|Esperanto]]&nbsp;(eo),

[[Wikitravel (he)|Hebrew&nbsp;/&nbsp;עִברִית]]&nbsp;(he),

[[Wikitravel (hi)|Hindi&nbsp;/&nbsp;हिंदी]]&nbsp;(hi),

[[Wikitravel (hu)|Hungarian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Magyar]]&nbsp;(hu),

[[Wikitravel (ko)|Korean&nbsp;/&nbsp;한국어]]&nbsp;(ko),

[[Wikitravel (ro)|Romanian&nbsp;/&nbsp;Română]]&nbsp;(ro),