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Type of site | Wiki |
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Available in | 26 active editions (English,
German, Polish, Italian, French, Persian, Russian, Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Finnish, Swedish, Greek, Japanese, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Bangla, Romanian, Turkish, Czech, Pashto, Shan, Hindi)[1] |
Headquarters | United States |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit) |
Created by | Wikivoyage e.V. association |
URL | wikivoyage |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | First version (German language) December 10, 2006 | . English-language version January 15, 2013
Content license | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Wikivoyage is a free web-based travel guide for travel destinations and travel topics written by volunteer authors. It is a sister project of Wikipedia and supported and hosted by the same non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Wikivoyage has been called the "Wikipedia of travel guides".[2]
The project began when editors at the German and then Italian versions of Wikitravel decided in September 2006 to move their editing activities and then current content to a new site, in accordance with the site copyright license, a procedure known as "forking". The resulting site went live as "Wikivoyage" on December 10, 2006, and was owned and operated by a German association set up for that purpose, Wikivoyage e.V. (which continues to be its representative association). Content was published under the copyleft license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.
In 2012, after a long history of problems with their existing host,[3] the English-language version community of Wikitravel also decided as a community to fork their project. In a two-way move, the English Wikitravel community re-merged with Wikivoyage under the Wikivoyage brand. In addition, all Wikivoyage language versions moved their operations to be hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization hosting several of the world's largest wiki-based communities such as Wikipedia.[4][5] Following agreements by the various communities involved and the Wikimedia Foundation, the site was moved to the WMF servers in December 2012 and the whole of Wikivoyage was officially re-launched as a Wikimedia project on January 15, 2013, the day of the 12th anniversary of Wikipedia's launch.[6]
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