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The [[:Category:Wikivoyage|Wikivoyage]] project has the long-term {{Cambridge-Dictionary|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.  Wikivoyage wants to fulfil the need of {{Cambridge-Dictionary|traveller}}s 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 {{Cambridge-Dictionary|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]].

[[: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 {{Cambridge-Dictionary|private-enterprise|private enterprise}} by [[Evan Prodromou]] and Michelle Anne Jenkins); after it was was {{Cambridge-Dictionary|acquire}}d in [[:Category:Founded in 2005|2005]] by [[:Category:Internet Brands|Internet Brands, Inc.]] for US$1.7&nbsp;{{Cambridge-Dictionary|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 {{Cambridge-Dictionary|ethos}} of the original Wikitravel; with the inclusion of [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]], and lack of technical support and [[:Category:Software|software]] upgrades, and ultimately the denial of [[:Category:Database|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 [[German Wikivoyage|German language Wikivoyage]] community [[:Category:Fork|forked]] from [[Wikitravel (de)|Wikitravel]] in [[:Category:Founded in 2006|2006]],<ref name=NYTimes/> and {{Cambridge-Dictionary|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]] [[:Category:Organisation|organisation]] by [[Roland Unger]],[http://wikivoyage-association.org/wiki/Benutzer:RolandUnger] was set up to host all Wikivoyage wiki site language versions. Wikivoyage and Wikitravel wiki sites continued to {{Cambridge-Dictionary|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 {{Cambridge-Dictionary|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>

*[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]]

As of November 2022, [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]] indicates that there are {{WMF-Meta|Wikivoyage#Languages|25 Wikivoyage}} wikis of different languages; {{Cambridge-Dictionary|tabulate}}d 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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