Wikivoyage
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| Free travel information around the world | |
| Wiki of a free, collectively created online travel guide | |
| languages | 21st |
| operator | Wikimedia |
| editorial staff | registered and not registered authors |
| items | 15,731 pages in German (as of April 22, 2017) |
| user | 22,300 registered users, 149 active users (as of 22 Apr 2017) |
| Registration | optional |
| On-line | December 10, 2006 (currently active) |
| //www.wikivoyage.org/ | |
Wikivoyage [ ˌvɪkivo̯aˈjaːʒ ] ( English [ ˌwɪkiˈvɔjɪdʒ ]) is a free travel guide created by volunteer authors . The main focus of Wikivoyage is the provision of practically applicable knowledge on travel destinations and travel topics. The name is made up of the components " Wiki " and the French word "voyage" for travel.
In September 2006 by the national association of the same name Wikivoyage e. V., which has been available on the Internet since December 10, 2006, sees itself as free in every respect: its contents are under the copyleft license Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike - which also allows commercial use - and they are both online - as well as a downloadable offline version available free of charge and free of charge.
From mid-2012 there were efforts to continue Wikivoyage as a project of the Wikimedia Foundation . Since the beginning of November 2012, the articles and media files have been transferred to the Wikimedia Foundation servers . The official start date for this project was January 15, 2013.
history
The story goes back to October 7, 2004, when many of today's authors and administrators worked in the same way to develop the German branch of Wikitravel . In German-speaking countries in particular, there was great disappointment when the sale of wikitravel.org to Internet Brands was announced on April 20, 2006 . The additional dissatisfaction with the management style of the project led to the decision of most of the German administrators and authors to continue the project as a spin-off .
After a six-month preparatory phase, the now registered and non-profit association Wikivoyage was founded in Stuttgart on September 30, 2006. It owns the domains and operates the web server . On December 10, 2006, the project started on the Internet with the database taken over from Wikitravel . Just four months later, 30% of the article inventory was new.
Initially, only a German-language Wikivoyage was maintained. The inventory of the media data and the management of user access were already prepared for use with branches in different languages.
Shortly after the start, Wikivoyage had the largest wiki-based inventory of travel information in the German-speaking area. Even if there were still a few gaps, there was already extensive information for the travel destinations Egypt , Thailand and Switzerland and for the travel topic cycling . Despite the low inventory of around 4500 articles at the end of June 2007, the project was already a topic, especially in Swiss radio and the press.
On December 10, 2007, the second language version was opened with the Italian Wikivoyage.
Five years after the start, in December 2011, the German-language version had 11,400 articles with 26,300 images and graphics.
Organization and operation until November 2012
functionality
Similar to the free encyclopedia Wikipedia , Wikivoyage used the free software MediaWiki right from the start to enable registration-free, internet-based use including one's own authorship. The quality assurance was carried out in the same way as with Wikipedia by means of mutual checks by the users. Using the same software should simplify familiarization with the use of Wikivoyage.
License
The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license was used on Wikivoyage . In particular, this should legally simplify the production of printed guides. The same licenses were not preferred for images and other media. In contrast to the texts, the aim was to use public domain or doubly licensed (GNU, Creative Commons ) media files.
Information structure
In contrast to lexicons, the information stock was structured in a significantly more hierarchical manner. Articles belonging to a topic were grouped with the categories known from the Mediawiki software as well as with breadcrumb navigation , which shows the association with other articles. However, there were no categories in the article namespace.
Different namespaces were used to separate different topics. The main namespace included travel destinations in their geographic hierarchy. Two other important namespaces were reserved for travel topics and travel news. A close interweaving of travel destinations and topics was possible.
The content of the articles was the responsibility of the authors or the community, not the association.
Sponsorship Wikivoyage e. V.
The wiki "Wikivoyage" was created by the national association Wikivoyage e. V. based in Halle (Saale) . The association has members from all over Germany and Switzerland .
With the signing of the contract on November 3, 2012 between the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikivoyage e. V. Wikivoyage became a project of the Wikimedia Foundation and a sister project of Wikipedia.
The association remains in existence and has licensed the name Wikivoyage. He has applied for recognition as a thematic organization of the Wikimedia Foundation.
financing
Wikivoyage was financed by donations and membership fees from Wikivoyage e. V.
Preparing to create a new Wikimedia sister project
On March 20, 2012 the board member of Wikivoyage e. V., Roland Unger, asked by James Heilmann, President of the Canadian Chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation and member of the Sister Projects Committee for the establishment of new projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, whether Wikivoyage would not like to work with the Wikimedia Foundation. James Heilmann represented several dissatisfied authors and administrators of the English branch of Wikitravel, who did not appear publicly themselves and who conducted their discussion in a “conspiratorial” Google group.
On March 11, 2012, James Heilmann published a Request for Comments with the aim of creating a travel guide wiki. In addition to much approval for such a project, the question was intensively investigated whether travel guide information represented knowledge worthy of funding. At least this question could finally be answered in the affirmative. On May 27, 2012, James Heilmann forwarded the proposal to the Wikimedia Foundation. The proposal was approved on September 6, 2012.
At the 13th general meeting of Wikivoyage e. V. on June 9, 2012 in Cologne , it was decided to start negotiations with the Wikimedia Foundation about a new sister project.
Since August 18, 2012, Wikivoyage e. V. another server in order to promote the migration of further language versions. The English branch was released on September 23, 2012, the Dutch branch on September 29, 2012, the French branch on October 3, 2012, the Swedish branch on October 6, 2012, and the Russian branch on October 18, 2012.
The Wikimedia community has decided by a large majority to keep the name Wikivoyage for the future Wikimedia sister project.
With the signing of the contract on November 3, 2012 between the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikivoyage e. V. Wikivoyage becomes a project of the Wikimedia Foundation and a sister project of Wikipedia. Around mid-November 2012, the articles created so far were transferred to the server of the Wikimedia Foundation.
On November 10, 2012, Wikivoyage was launched in beta status in the seven languages German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian and Swedish as a Wikimedia project. The German language version at that time comprised 12,067 articles.
On January 15, 2013, the start of the new Wikimedia Foundation project was officially announced.
On May 31, 2013, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that the new project logo, which had been chosen by the community in a two-stage process, had to be replaced because it was too similar to that of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Retransmission
A further distribution z. B. by mirror server is legally permissible and desirable. For this purpose, updated archives are made available weekly. The files contained in these archives are provided with all information required under license law, the attribution of the authors. A technical extension regarding the naming of the picture authors is in preparation.
Choosing the “Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike” license enables simplified distribution by naming the authors without giving the full license text.
Language versions
| No. | founding | language | code | items |
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| 1 | 12/10/2006 | German | de | 15,986 |
| 2 | 12/10/2007 | Italian | it | 7.156 |
| 3 | 09/23/2012 | English | en | 28,036 |
| 4th | 09/29/2012 | Dutch | nl | 3,656 |
| 5 | 03/10/2012 | French | fr | 6,873 |
| 6th | 06.10.2012 | Swedish | sv | 1,514 |
| 7th | October 18, 2012 | Russian | ru | 4,878 |
| 8th | 07/01/2013 | Spanish | it | 2,386 |
| 9 | 07/01/2013 | Portuguese | pt | 3,604 |
| 10 | 02/06/2013 | Polish | pl | 5.125 |
| 11 | 02/06/2013 | Romanian | ro | 875 |
| 12 | 03/21/2013 | Hebrew | hey | 2.007 |
| 13 | 03/21/2013 | Ukrainian | uk | 636 |
| 14th | 05/17/2013 | Greek | el | 1,326 |
| 15th | 08/11/2013 | Vietnamese | vi | 1,607 |
| 16 | 15/01/2014 | Chinese | zh | 2.154 |
| 17th | October 02, 2014 | Persian | fa | 493 |
| 18th | December 01, 2016 | Finnish | fi | 1,767 |
| 19th | 09/27/2017 | Hindi | Hi | 59 |
Geographic coverage
The geographical coverage in the individual language versions is different and depends heavily on the origin and the preferences of the authors or travelers. In the English branch, more than a quarter of the articles deal with travel destinations in the United States . Countries in which English is spoken as a mother tongue are represented with over 50 percent of the articles. India , the United Kingdom , Japan and Canada follow by a long way . In the German branch, Germany leads with over a quarter of the articles, followed by Egypt , Spain , Switzerland and Austria . Articles for German-speaking countries are only represented by a third. In the Italian and Spanish branches, Italian and Spanish travel destinations dominate. Articles on Egypt and the Italian edition on Greece are represented above average in the German edition. Countries with low gross national income and countries in southern Africa are underrepresented . The South American countries in the Spanish branch of Wikivoyage are an exception.
resonance
The project met with interest in the Swiss media in particular . The Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger and the Swiss radio DRS1 reported in extensive articles about the project without hiding the remaining weaknesses.
The project was supported mainly by German and Swiss authors in the initial phase.
literature
- Stefan Mey: Every travel guide can write here. Wikivoyage online portal. In: Spiegel Online . August 23, 2015, accessed January 30, 2016 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wikivoyage: Special: Statistics
- ^ Erin Peacock: Internet Brands Acquires Wikitravel and World66 Online Travel Guides; Company Will Fund Growth of Two of the World's Fastest Growing Wiki Travel Sites. In: Business Wire. April 20, 2006, accessed September 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Wikivoyage: Statistics / Page Numbers (accessed December 14, 2011)
- ^ Request to Wikivoyage by James Heilmann dated March 20, 2012.
- ↑ Announcement of the Board of Trustees dated September 6, 2012 (in English)
- ↑ Wikipedia: Kurier , Edition 6/2012.
- ↑ Documents for the 13th General Assembly of Wikivoyage e. V. of June 9, 2012.
- ↑ Wikivoyage / Naming Process , accessed October 16, 2012.
- ^ Daniel Zahn: Update and Disclaimer. Posting on the Wikivoyage-l mailing list. November 10, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
- ↑ Wikivoyage: Special: Statistics . In: de.wikivoyage.org. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ↑ Michelle Paulson: Logo announcement . In: Meta-Wiki. May 31, 2013.
- ^ Geographic Coverage of Wikivoyage, Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute, accessed August 9, 2014.
- ↑ Roger Zedi: A collection point for practical travel knowledge . In: Tages-Anzeiger January 20, 2007, p. 60.
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