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[[: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:FoundedIn2003|2003]] in English as a private enterprise by [[Evan Prodromou]] and Michelle Anne Jenkins); after it was was acquired in [[:Category:FoundedIn2005|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 commercial for-profit [[:Category:United States of America|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 [[:Category:Wiki German|German language]] Wikivoyage community [[:Category:Fork|forked]] from [[Wikitravel (de)|Wikitravel]] in [[:Category:FoundedIn2006|2006]],<ref name=NYTimes/> and subsequently in [[:Category:FoundedIn2007|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:Nonprofit|non-profit]] organisation by [[Roland Unger]],[http://Wikivoyage-Association.org/wiki/Benutzer:RolandUnger] 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 (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>