Wikimedia will Create New Service Focused on the Travel Guide

Wikipedia is likely to make a tour guide who will be the rival of the Lonely Planet. According Skift, the ranks of the Wikimedia Foundation is discussing the possibility of a free tourist guide services that can be freely edited the public, and will decide on this proposal six weeks after consultation with the public, although some say this proposal is approved.

Currently the service is not yet named that was discussed in July 11 stairs where 31 of 48 admin of Wikitravel expressed interest in new services. Wikivoyage also said to be joined with Wikimedia, donating their URL, the board of directors, admin, and more than 36,000 articles in German and Italian.

Wikimedia fact now is thinking about running a travel guide that can be affected to a similar service already exists, which would probably raise the standard in the way of writing the guide and the collection of articles in order to achieve success.

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