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Wikitravel:List of related projects
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This is just an alphabetical list, with some commentary, of some other projects that are related to Wikitravel.
For more information on how Wikitravel can cooperate with other projects see the Fellow Traveller Expedition page.
see also: Wikitravel:Cooperating with the Activity Holidays Guide
The Activity Holidays Guide provides free and comprehensive information about activity holidays and special interest vacations. In contrast to most travel guides, the emphasis is on activities and things to do, rather than the location, although there is clearly an overlap.
An independent travel Web site. They publish travelogues and travel stories, and provide trip-planning services. They also have local travel guides, maintained by individual writers, which are somewhat analogous to Wikitravel's guides. BootsnAll.com has great karma in the Internet travel community, and tends to be very positive about supporting other travel-related sites and blogs with their BootsnAll Travel Network. All content is proprietary, but it would probably be possible for BootsnAll.com to republish Wikitravel guides if they so wished.
see also: Cooperating with Citizendium
A project to create a free encyclopedia, similar in many ways to Wikipedia.
Proprietary traveller-written guides to cities in Europe.
Travelogues by independent travellers from around the world.
see also: Cooperating with Consumerium
A project to create "a healthy buying infrastructure".
see also: Cooperating with CouchSurfing
Great and fast growing hospitality exchange network - built in the same spirit of sharing and helping as Wikitravel. CouchSurfing helps you make connections worldwide. You can use the network to meet people and then go and surf other members' couches! It also has a free wiki.
Outdoor activities-focused wiki with some focus on camping.
The Hitchwiki is a collaborative project to build a free guide for hitchhikers. It's a compilation of tips about good spots to hitchhike, info about hitchhiking in different countries, general knowhow about what to pack and when to go, what to eat and how to stay safe.
see also: Cooperating with Hospitality Club
The largest hospitality exchange network - officially built in the same spirit of sharing and helping as Wikitravel. There are wiki-like travel sections on the site already.
see also: Cooperating with OpenGuides
A network of free, community-maintained wiki guidebooks to places around the world, which uses custom-built OpenGuides wiki software. They don't have a lot of information about the project on their site, but it seems that their mission is somewhat different from Wikitravel's.
A traveller-written but proprietary guide including photos, with an emphasis on reviews/recommendations for hotels, restaurants, etc.
A wiki-based travel guide, similar to Wikitravel, but in Esperanto. Not a lot of license or other information available, but may be an example of a sister site in another language (see Language version policy).
September 2006: Turismo Vikio to merge with Wikitravel - see Wikitravel talk:Esperanto Wikitravel Expedition#Contents
Engineering spectacles around the world. Power stations, big dams, historic sewage system features, giant tunnels, spy stations, bomb shelters, architectural marvels and follies, bridges, engineering accidents, atomic bomb test sites and other things of interest to engineering geeks.
The site includes photos, historical information, transport information, opening hours and prices, details of preferred viewing sites and GPS coordinates.
"Just because you're on holiday doesn't mean you're not a geek." (Creative Commons License)
Wiki travel guide with Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 1.0 for world guide text content.
More close to World66 and its Crossroads, it's a pile of authors' "traveller tips" each talking about his own experience, organized around topics defined by volunteer editors, one or few per region.
Compatability of their license with Wikitraveller's is a question.
A travelogue site for sharing current travels and networking with other travellers.
A project to build a Free events calendar with loads of semantic data for redistribution. See Wikitravel:Cooperating with Wikevent.
see also: Cooperating with World Wiki
Not yet clear [1] what their goal is, but clearly a fellow traveller. See also:
Wikia also hosts dedicated wikis for individual cities, e.g. sanfrancisco.wikia.com.
A wiki for English teachers.
see also: Cooperating with WikiOutdoors
WikiOutdoors is a community-contributed resource devoted to all things outdoors. Using MediaWiki technology, outdoor enthusiast have contributed articles on trails, kayaking runs and bike rides. There's also a start to writing reviews about gear and about outdoor programs.
see also: Cooperating with Wikipedia
A project to create a free encyclopedia. It was one of the models that Wikitravel was based on, and we use the software (MediaWiki) developed for Wikipedia.
A site to describe scuba diving locations around the world.
see also: Links to World66
A wiki-based Open Content travel guide, this is probably the most similar project on the Internet to Wikitravel; not coincidentally, the site was purchased by Internet Brands at the same time as Wikitravel, making it a "sister site". It's a merger of the www.CapitanCook.com project with the previously proprietary World66 site. The content is under the same license that we use (but was previously GFDL), so content sharing is an option; interlinking between the two is encouraged. Their main page says they have over 10,000 articles available, but many of their articles are at a finer level of granularity than on Wikitravel - individual attractions have articles, for example.
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