Wikivoyage é um projeto para criar free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. It is built in collaboration by Wikivoyagers from around the globe. You can read more about Wikivoyage on the About page.

(Phew! That was an easy one.)

We're Wikivoyagers. People from all over the world who are dedicated to making Wikivoyage the best darn travel guide around. Most of us are people who stumbled across the site, just like you, and decided to share our knowledge.

We do. Wikivoyagers. We create articles and then edit them, and we organize the articles into hierarchies and make links between them and have navigational pages, and things like that.

That's the idea, yes. We use a technique called WikiWiki that lets any reader edit any page, instantly.

Bzzzt. Not a question.

Doesn't seem like it ever could, does it? With anyone able to edit any page, things should just descend into terrible chaos, shouldn't they? Madness, mayhem, and a horrible bog of unusable drivel.

Strangely enough, it doesn't. People who care about having well-written travel articles on this site are the majority. People who just want to vandalize or delete things eventually get bored with it -- and, you have to admit, it's not that much of a challenge -- and the rest of us come in and clean up.

The other great part is that wikis converge. One Wikivoyager adds as much as they know about a topic, and others start adding more information. Other people come through and condense it all so it reads well. As the topic changes -- new hotels open in a city, new bus routes start between regions -- more Wikivoyagers can add that in.

It's strange, and it doesn't make a lot of sense, but it just happens. It's really cool.

Bzzt.

Well, we have the existence proof of other projects that create references collaboratively. Probably the most famous one is Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Most of our policies and guidelines are borrowed from that project.

You are. Any Wikivoyager can change articles, rewrite navigation areas, even overwrite information about the site itself. We try to make decisions about policy and guidelines collaboratively, but if you have a good idea for how we should work, plunge forward and let us know.

That all said, there are certain Wikivoyagers who've been working on the site for a while, and they can become Administrators. Administrators generally get some higher access -- like really deleting pages instead of blanking them -- but not much. It's more of a burden than a privilege.

In really extreme situations, the founders (WT-en) Evan and (WT-en) Maj will set down some rules and precepts. But mostly we just decide for ourselves, and it kind of works out.

We use MediaWiki, the software developed by Wikipedia, with some totally tiny changes for Wikivoyage. You can get it from http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ .

Capital W, eye, kay, eye, tee, arr, ay, vee, ee, ell. The "t" in the middle is not capitalized -- try to avoid the temptation.

People vary on the "Wiki" part. It's either "WEE-kee-TRAH-vuhl" or "WIH-kee-TRAH-vuhl."

There isn't any. If you have a question about an article in particular, post it on the talk page for that article. If you have a question about Wikivoyage in general, try posting in the travellers' pub.

If you are from the press, contact either (WT-en) Maj or (WT-en) Evan using their user talk pages or the "e-mail this user" link on their user pages.

This is Wiki -- you can fix it yourself! Click the edit this page link, and change the parts that bug you. That's the whole idea.

We're still a new project, and there are huge parts of the globe we haven't even thought about writing about yet. Feel free to plunge forward and start the outline of an article. Maybe other Wikivoyagers will add to it.

You can also add a request for an article on that topic.

Like we said, we're still a new project, and there are huge parts of the globe we've only begun to work on. Some topics only have stubs covering them. If you don't think there's enough information on a topic, feel free to plunge forward and add more.

This is typical vandalism. Feel free to plunge forward and delete the vandal's garbage and replace it with a full article, or at least a stub.

Check out how to start a new page.

We have some article templates that tell how we like articles laid out. If you have info you want to share, we have a page that tells you where you can stick it.

Pages on Wikivoyage are formatted using Wiki markup. It looks funny at first, but after a while it seems like second nature. You should read about how to edit a page.

You should follow the instructions on how to upload files.

You should follow the instructions on Project:how to add an image.

Any Wikivoyager can edit any page. When you submit an article, it's subject to ruthless editing for style, subject matter, spelling, factual information, and just generally fitting into the Wikivoyage scheme of things. If you don't like that, you shouldn't work on Wikivoyage.

You're in an edit war. You need to go to the talk page for the topic you're writing about and work out your differences with the other article editors.

You can't delete a page directly. The procedure is somewhat more complicated: Go to Project:Votes for deletion and add a link to the page together with a reason for deletion. After fourteen days of discussion the page will be deleted unless there is a consensus to keep it.

When posting a message on a talk page it is customary to sign the posting with your user name and the posting date so that everyone knows who you are (for example: "(WT-en) User 15:35, 6 May 2005 (EDT)"). To get that text to appear automatically, simply type four tildes ("~~~~"), and they will be replaced with your user name and the current date when the edit is submitted.

Huh?

Yes, if there is a separate Wikivoyage version for your language. See Project:Language versions of Wikivoyage for the current list.

If Wikivoyage in your language does not exist yet, you can start your own language version! To find out more, see our language version policy.

Don't worry too much about the level of your English. Your spelling errors will be corrected by other people. We really want you to share your knowledge!

We prefer American English spelling, please. See Project:Spelling for details.