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Wikitravel
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Wikitravel is a web-based collaborative travel guide based on the wiki format and owned by Internet Brands. It was most active from 2003 through 2012, when most of its editing community left and brought their contributions to the nonprofit Wikivoyage guide.
Wikitravel was a free online travel guide that anyone could edit and improve, similar to Wikipedia but focused on helping people plan trips to destinations around the world. Most of its volunteer editors abandoned it in 2012 to start a nonprofit alternative called Wikivoyage, significantly reducing Wikitravel's activity and relevance.
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Key facts
- Website.name
- Wikitravel
- Website.logo
- Wikitravellogo.svg
- Website.logo_alt
- The Wikitravel logo includes a stylized blue-grey compass rose.
- Website.logo_caption
- The Wikitravel logo includes a stylized blue-grey compass rose.
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.type
- Wiki travel guide with media repository
- Website.language
- Initially English, now also 20 other languages: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.content_license
- CC BY-SA
- Website.owner
- Internet Brands
- Website.author
- Evan ProdromouMichele Ann Jenkins
- Website.programming_language
- MediaWiki software, made in PHP
- Website.current_status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- wikitravel.org
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- inception
- 2003-07-01
- Commons category
- Wikitravel
- Commons gallery
- Wikitravel
- Alexa rank
- 16904
- social media followers
- 4924
- title
- Wikitravel
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Wikitravel is a web-based collaborative travel guide based on the wiki format and owned by Internet Brands. It was most active from 2003 through 2012, when most of its editing community left and brought their contributions to the nonprofit Wikivoyage guide.
The site was launched by Evan Prodromou and Michele Ann Jenkins in 2003 as a multilingual effort aiming to cover all the globe's destinations. In 2006, Internet Brands bought the trademark and servers and later introduced advertising to the website. This move met opposition from users, with many German and Italian editors leaving in December 2006 for a newly established wiki, Wikivoyage.