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[edit] BBC Persian

Wikitravel is the featured site of the week on BBC Persian. --Evan 14:25, 27 Apr 2004 (EDT)

[edit] Prix Ars Electronica

My congratulations to Evan and all of the Wikitravel team for winning an honorary mention in this year's Prix Ars Electronica. --Earle 09:54, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, Earle. Just to set the record straight, it was Maj who did most of the hard work applying for the Prix. And, of course, it's the hundreds of Wikitravellers who make this digital community a success. --Evan 09:34, 4 May 2004 (EDT)

[edit] Highest Google Position?

I haven't done any research on this myself - yet - but just wanted to pose the question: What's the highest position a Wikitravel article has yet achieved on Google? Anyone got any insights into this one? Would be an interesting indicator for our progress..... Pjamescowie 13:39, 31 Jul 2004 (EDT)

Search for "Geneva travel guide". -- Mark 16:42, 31 Jul 2004 (EDT)

discount airlines europe. -- JanSlupski 18:03, 10 Feb 2005 (EST)

[edit] Alexa

I know Wikipedia is slightly obsessed with Alexa ratings - this is Wikitravels if people are interested: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=wikitravel.org Caroline 16:26, 31 Jul 2004 (EDT)

There seem to have been a lot of new users recently. The Alexa daily reach has gone from a max of 20 per million at the end of Jan to 60 at the end of Mar and the traffic rank from 70,000 to 20,000. We've almost caught up with world66.com DanielC 22:23, 30 Mar 2005 (BST)

Rank of the day is 9,506. This seems to be the first time Wikitravel's made it into the top 10,000, and we've squeaked past World66 (#10,950) to boot. They're putting up a good fight, but our growth rate is clearly higher... [1] Jpatokal 10:14, 29 Jul 2005 (EDT)

[edit] New users on Sep 7

There seems to be a (comparatively) huge flood of new users today — where was Wikitravel linked/mentioned? Referrer logs, anybody? Jpatokal 12:56, 7 Sep 2004 (EDT)

New users appear to be German. I also notice they're more clueful than most new user deluges we get. -- Colin 18:25, 7 Sep 2004 (EDT)

There's an article in Der Spiegel about wikis, and it mentions Wikitravel. Also, you can always see the Wikitravel referrer [sic] statistics at http://wikitravel.org/webalizer/web. --Evan 11:41, 8 Sep 2004 (EDT)

These new folks seem to have enormous collections of relevant extlinks to share with us :-). If we were a web-only guide, that would be a good thing. -- Colin 11:46, 9 Sep 2004 (EDT)

[edit] Wikitravel mentioned

Hi, Wikitravel is mentioned here. Yann 06:15, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)

[edit] Gangsters in Osaka and Wikitravel

On October 8, Wikitravel's Osaka page got hit 25,000 times on one day — I tracked it down to an article (in Japanese) in Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest newspaper, on a report analyzing Osaka's image in foreign media and guidebooks. Links were provided to three places: Yahoo Japan, Wikitravel, and Lonely Planet, in that order. Osakans duly attempted to excise all negative comments about Osaka in the article, but evil ex-Tokyoite that I am, they're all back there now... Jpatokal 13:45, 10 Oct 2005 (EDT)

[edit] Alexa rating

Alexa Looks good. What happened at the end of september? --elgaard 10:29, 22 Nov 2005 (EST)

[edit] World's gone wild

This article, which talks about Wikitravel in its first three sentences and quotes Colin later on, was syndicated by Knight Ridder and thus plastered all over the US press. Jpatokal 01:35, 3 Jan 2006 (EST)

[edit] 2007 Webby

Although we didn't win the open-voting People's Choice award in the category, the panel of apparently more-discerning judges chose Wikitravel as the best Travel Website. - Todd VerBeek 09:17, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

CNet News.com mention:[2]. Maj 10:03, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Simple reference

This isn't an article about Wikitravel, but a simple reference to it, quoting from our Svalbard article "according to Wikitravel" without explaining what that is, no different from citing Some Other Guide. [3] - Todd VerBeek 07:43, 1 June 2007 (EDT)