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Whenever travellers meet each other on the road, they swap info about the places they came from and ask questions about places they're going. We want to make it easy to share that knowledge and <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:How_to_re-use_Wikivoyage_guides" title="Wikivoyage:How to re-use Wikivoyage guides" id="mwEQ">let others share it</a>; our <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Copyleft" title="Wikivoyage:Copyleft" id="mwEg">copyleft</a> license means that the facts you know can spread far and wide. 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The more people that use the <b id="mwGQ">Edit</b> link, the <i id="mwGg">better</i> Wikivoyage becomes.</p> <p id="mwGw">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. Vandalism is usually reverted within minutes.</p> <p id="mwHA">We've achieved some <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Milestones" title="Wikivoyage:Milestones" id="mwHQ">milestones</a>, but we still have a long way to go. If you're <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Welcome,_newcomers" title="Wikivoyage:Welcome, newcomers" id="mwHg">new to Wikivoyage</a>, feel free to <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Plunge_forward" title="Wikivoyage:Plunge forward" id="mwHw">plunge forward</a> and <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Ways_to_help_Wikivoyage" title="Wikivoyage:Ways to help Wikivoyage" id="mwIA">help us</a>!</p> </section><section data-mw-section-id="1" id="mwIQ"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAA"><h3 id="Why_Wikivoyage" data-mw-thread-id="h-Why_Wikivoyage"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Why_Wikivoyage"></span>Why Wikivoyage<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Why_Wikivoyage"></span></h3></div> <p id="mwIg">At some point you may ask yourself: "Why edit and use Wikivoyage when there are already well-developed travel guides such as Lonely Planet?". Here are some good reasons. </p> <ul id="mwIw"><li id="mwJA">The great thing about Wikivoyage is that it is open content, released under Creative Commons license, as opposed to traditional guide books, whose copyright owners can decide how others can use or share their contents. Knowing this encourages people to contribute: they know it's a public project that everyone can use.</li> <li id="mwJQ">While traditional travel guides might be revised monthly or annually, Wikivoyage's guides are edited and updated on a regular basis and information often changes rapidly.</li> <li id="mwJg">Errors to Wikivoyage guides are usually corrected as soon as they are found, rather than within months or years, as it would be for a printed travel guide. If someone sees something wrong within an article or if a restaurant or hotel shuts down, they can amend the page themselves. Compare that to the long, arduous and tedious process that it requires to report and fix a problem in a printed travel guide.</li> <li id="mwJw">Unlike traditional guides, where one needs to be an experienced writer, Wikivoyage has no qualification requirements. Even if you're not the best at writing, you're most welcome here. In addition, there are no assignments, meaning that anyone can find an article on a part of the world that interests them and edit it immediately.</li> <li id="mwKA">Wikivoyage guides are very easy to edit. Anyone can click the "edit" button and get to work. Obtaining formal peer review for edits is not necessary at all, since review is a communal function here and everyone who reads an article and corrects it is a reviewer. Essentially, Wikivoyage is self-correcting: over time, articles improve from a multitude of contributions. There is an entire infrastructure for people seeking comments, or other opinions on editorial matters. We prefer (in most cases) that people just go in and make changes they deem necessary; the community is by and large quick to respond to dubious edits (if any) and either revert or question them – and to improve wording and formatting where needed. This is very efficient; our efforts seem more constructive than those in traditional guide books.</li> <li id="mwKQ">Unlike Wikipedians, we're not bound to provide sources of what we write. We're allowed to freely express a destination, but in fair manner. See also <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage_and_Wikipedia" title="Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage and Wikipedia" id="mwKg">Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage and Wikipedia</a>.</li> <li id="mwKw">And last, but not least, Wikivoyage is part of a great organization supporting free knowledge for everyone, the Wikimedia Foundation – a sister project of the world-renowned Wikipedia.</li></ul> </section><section data-mw-section-id="2" id="mwLA"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwUw"><h3 id="Wikivoyagers" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikivoyagers"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikivoyagers"></span>Wikivoyagers<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikivoyagers"></span></h3></div> <dl id="mwLQ"><dd id="mwLg"><i id="mwLw">"[Crew] wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success."</i> <span typeof="mw:Entity" id="mwMA">–</span> Apocryphal recruitment poster for 1914 Antarctic expedition of the <i id="mwMQ">Endurance</i></dd></dl> <p id="mwMg"><b id="mwMw">Wikivoyagers</b> are travel writers and members of a world-wide community of contributors to <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:About" class="mw-selflink selflink" id="mwNA">Wikivoyage</a>. Wikivoyagers are <b id="mwNQ">not</b> a special secret organization or a limited group. We are people just like you. Some of us are interested in travelling, some are interested in their local communities, and others are interested in wiki-housekeeping and organisation. What all of us have in common is that we want to share what we know with travellers everywhere. You can become a Wikivoyager <i id="mwNg">right now</i>! 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