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The Wikivoyage association published its 2016 Annual Report.

The Affiliations Committee announced today that the Wikivoyage association became a Wikimedia Usergroup.

On the occasion of the 10th birthday a community meeting and a party are hold in Berlin.

Many greetings to Finland. Welcome to the Wikivoyage family. Please help to build up the new community:

• Finnish Wikivoyage

The 18. General Assembly of the Wikivoyage association takes place online at our association wiki between October 16, 2016 and October 30, 2016. Contents are readable by all visitors, writing is permitted to the association members only.

The chairman of the association, Roland Unger, hold a lecture on Open Street Mapm Usage in Wikivoyage: Bringing together: travel and maps.

On September 28, 2016 Samir Elsharbaty from Egypt Wikimedians published excerpts from a half-hour interview with the chairman of the Wikivoyage association, Roland Unger. Unger addressed both the origin of Wikivoyage and his most preferred travel destination Egypt. With more than 30 stays in Egypt, a wealth of experience has arisen, which he shared by writing over 600 articles.

On October 6, 2016 the WikiStammtisch Episode 0020 of Sebastian Wallroth with Roland Unger was released. In the one-hour podcast Roland Unger spoke about various topics on the web-based travel guide Wikivoyage. These include the fork from Wikitravel and the development of Wikivoyage, the Wikivoyage community, differences from Wikipedia, offline travel guides with Kiwix and the usage of Open Streetmap maps in travel guide articles. The travel guide is not yet complete. But everyone can help adding further content. The topic of Egypt took up some time, too.

• Discover Egypt with Roland Unger on Wikivoyage, blog post on blog.wikimedia.org of September 28, 2016.
• WikiStammtisch Episode 0020 mit Roland Unger, podcast of Sebastian Wallroth of October 6, 2016.

The chairman of the Wikivoyage association, Roland Unger, met again with the Egypt Wikimedians user group. The first meeting took place in the restaurant zööba on January 1, 2016, the second one on August 19, 2016 in the café Cilantro, both located in the Cairo suburb of Zamalek in the 26th July St. New developments in both projects were discussed, so the implementation of map extension Kartographer in Wikivoyage projects. Among others, Unger suggested that the Egyptians should design current and high-quality images of flags and seals of the Egyptian governorates.

The implementation of the map extension Kartographer will guarantee future-proofing.

The podcast talks on possibilities and problems of Wikivoyage.