Whois & Analysis for wikitravel.org

Wikitravel is a web-based collaborative travel guide project, based upon the wiki model, launched by Evan Prodromou and Michele Ann Jenkins in 2003.

The site is a multi-lingual effort which aims to cover all of the globe's destinations and also hosts a free media repository known as Wikitravel Shared.

In 2006, Internet Brands bought the trademark and servers and later introduced advertising to the website.

This move met opposition from users, with many German and Italian editors leaving in December 2006 for a newly established wiki, Wikivoyage.

The open-source model is a decentralized development model that encourages open collaboration.

A main principle of open-source software development is peer production, with products such as source code, blueprints, and documentation freely available to the public.

The open-source movement in software began as a response to the limitations of proprietary code.

The model is used for projects such as in open-source appropriate technologies, and open-source drug discovery.

A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists".

It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities.

Maps of varying detail and historical and cultural information are often included.

Different kinds of guide books exist, focusing on different aspects of travel, from adventure travel to relaxation, or aimed at travelers with different incomes, or focusing on sexual orientation or types of diet.