Wikivoyage: New Travel Guide from Wikipedia

Foundation has launched a world tour guide with 50,000 entries in 12 languages, parallel to celebrate 12th birthday to Wikipedia
12th project of Wikimedia
Foundation, among other things, the internet and  has launched a new service: a global tour guide named Wikivoyage This is the 12th project of the Foundation, and like Wikipedia - also written will be held, modified and corrected by the users to do so voluntarily. With its release has been included where 50,000 entries and volunteers working group was appointed to two hundred people. The service is available in nine languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Local branch Wikimedia moral language has still people inside 'Incubator Project "- the process of building the frame, forming community of volunteer editors and writing basic content before exposure to the public.
Wikivoyage starting as a tour guide wiki based in Germany and Italy in 2006 and supported by the Association and the German Yakimsa'. Site donors sought to merge the contents and offered to donate the brand new project run under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia movement worldwide. The proposal was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation in October 2012, and the site was transferred to the Wikimedia servers in November 2012 and worked until the day trial version

"There is a huge worldwide demand for information on tours, but there are very few available non-commercial sources for such information.'s About to change," explained Sue Gardner, executive director of the World Foundation. "The goal of Wikivoyage is to promote education and knowledge of all the countries and regions in the world, and an understanding of nations," said Stephen Pusan ​​Wikimedia.