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Wikitravel was started in July of 2003, inspired in part by Wikipedia. The project uses MediaWiki, which is also used by the Wikipedia. Unlike Wikipedia, Wikitravel uses the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license rather than the GNU Free Documentation License to keep the guide free. Among other things, this makes it easier to make free reprints of individual pages.
Wikitravel is a multilingual project, available in five languages: English, Romanian, French, German, and Swedish.
Press coverage of the project includes a mention in the North Adams Transcript as part of an article about wiki projects [1].
See also: World66