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- Wikivoyage is a live collaboration, differing from paper-based traditional guide books in important ways. Unlike traditional guide books, Wikivoyage is continually edited and updated; unlike traditional travel guides, which are revised monthly or annually, Wikivoyage's guides are edited and updated continuously, as information changes rapidly.
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Wikivoyage goalsdiffer from Wikipedia in some important aspects. A couple of things stand out in particular: 1. Wikivoyage is traveller-focused. We don't want immense, detailed articles about anything and everything. We don't create articles for every attraction or cross-roads on the globe. Articlesin Wikivoyage are comprehensive references for tra...
Our Manual of Stylecovers more specifics, but here are some things you should look out for stylistically: 1. We really prefer an informal tone, not an encyclopedic one. Lively writingis welcome... and encouraged! 2. Unlike Wikipedia, we encourage original research. We want you to contribute both first-hand factual information as well as your subjec...
If you read What is an article?, you'll see that individual articles in Wikivoyage tend to be bigger and more comprehensive than articles in Wikipedia. Because one of our goals is to have printable guides that someone can take with them to use at a destination, we tend to try to write articles about a particular city, region or country all in one p...
The great majority of Wikivoyage articles tend to be about cities, countries, and regions. (That's not all, of course—see other ways of seeing travel for some more ideas.) We think having these articles organized somewhat the same makes it easier for readers to use the guides, so Wikivoyage articles usually have standard headings; they are not as f...
We use interwiki links to link to Wikipedia. You can see how to make these work on our "links to Wikipedia" page, which also explains why in-line links to Wikipedia are not used. Links between a Wikivoyage destination page and Wikipedia's corresponding page on the same subject are mostly provided using Wikidata (see Wikivoyage:Cooperating with Wiki...
Perhaps because of our relatively small size, Wikivoyage does not have the same problems with vandalism, edit wars, and other unwanted edits that the English Wikipedia does. For this reason, we tend to use SoftSecurity as a tool to handle unwanted editsmuch, much, much more often than technological means. We have very few protected pages (mainly fo...
We determine virtually everything by consensus. Fewdecisions are made on this site by majority-rule voting. So far, we've been lucky to avoid much conflict that couldn't be resolved through discussion. For this reason, we don'thave a lot of intercommunication overhead like committees, votes, arbitration, or mediation. We try to keep our processes f...
We really want to keep Wikivoyage free for everybody. But we also want to create a great travel guide. Accomplishing the latter sometimes means we want to show readers pictures of important artworks and buildings that may still be covered by copyright. Just like the English Wikipedia we created a non-free content policy to allow them to be uploaded...
Some terms you may be used to in Wikipedia have analogs in Wikivoyage. Some things you might be looking for: 1. "Be bold" → plunge forward 2. "Featured article" → star article or destination of the month 3. "NPOV" → be fair (not quitethe same thing!) 4. "Sandbox" → graffiti wall 5. "Quality assessment" → article status 6. "Village pump" or Simple E...
While Wikivoyage and Wikipedia have different goals, we do have overlap in some of the content we produce, and ideally, we will be able to take advantage of our Creative Commons licensingto share that content. Firstly, Wikipedia is not a travel guide. If you see content that is travel or tourism related on Wikipedia, it may be better suited to Wiki...
The domain names wikivoyage.org, wikivoyage.net and wikivoyage.com, and the equipment the site runs on is owned and operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Who pays for all this? [edit] Wikivoyage does not directly accept money from any attraction, restaurant, hotel, tour operator or other travel-related company in exchange for favorable coverage.
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".
Wikivoyage aims to be a complete travel guide -- not just an additional resource on the side of traditional guides. Make an atlas. Although travel is intimately intertwined with geography, Wikivoyage does not describe geographical features of the Earth just because they're there.
Aug 20, 2018 · The next travel book Gazzola showed me had a detailed, beautifully printed frontispiece. And a very long title: Quae intus continentur Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae ...
Jan 15, 2013 · The difference with travel is that people are looking for personally meaningful stories, not just a laundry list of information.” Ultimately, says Henshall, we’re in the early days of this...
