Transition to Wikivoyage

For those who are interested: today I pointed the WikiSherpa server away from wikitravel.org and towards wikivoyage.org, as per recent events.

Jon

iTravel is dead. Long live WikiSherpa!

The latest iteration of the app comes with that most fundamental of changes, a new name. Why? Well, largely due to a trademark dispute, which frankly I think was bogus, but fighting it didn't seem worth the time and money that would be required. And I think the new name might be better. Welcome to WikiSherpa!

Since bandwidth has gotten cheaper over the last couple of years, I've also restructured the app so that you can bulk-download all of Wikitravel (and its associated Wikipedia pages) even from the free version. The only difference between the free version (WikiSherpa) and the paid version (WikiSherpa+) is that the latter is (and always will be) entirely ad-free.

Hope you like the changes, and have fun out there!

Jon Evans

Most Popular

A little data for you, courtesy of Google Analytics: the 100 most-viewed destination pages on iTravel/iTravelFree over the last 30 days. Of interest:

• A whopping 49 of them are in Southeast Asia.
• 19 more are European cities.
• The remaining 32 are scattered as you might expect.
• All of them are English pages except for a mere one, in Japanese. I would have expected several German pages to crack the top 100.

Without further ado, the full list:

1. Bangkok
2. Chiang Mai
3. Singapore
4. Paris
5. Kuala Lumpur
6. Ho Chi Minh City
7. Thailand
8. Rome
9. Langkawi
10. London
11. Beijing
12. Dubai
13. Amsterdam
14. Siem Reap
15. Luang Prabang
16. Hong Kong
17. Seoul
18. Bali
19. Budapest
20. Berlin
21. Florence
22. Frankfurt
23. Malaysia
24. Myanmar
25. Vienna
26. Delhi
27. Hanoi
28. Marrakech
29. Phnom Penh
30. Angkor Archaeological Park
31. Prague
32. Barcelona
33. Lisbon
34. Pai
35. Tokyo
36. Ayutthaya
37. Sydney
38. Ko Tao
39. Bangkok/Khao San Road
40. Ko Pha Ngan
41. Milan
42. Hyderabad
43. Jerusalem
44. Phonsavan
45. Bogotá
46. Stockholm
47. Phuket
48. Indonesia
49. Kuala Lumpur/Golden Triangle
50. Chiang Rai
51. Vietnam
52. Chicago
53. Laos
54. Ubud
55. Ko Samui
56. Kyoto
57. Melbourne
58. Taipei
59. Lijiang
60. San Francisco
61. Madrid
62. Jaipur
63. New York City
64. Surat Thani
65. Reykjavik
66. Mumbai
67. Pattaya
68. Beijing/Dongcheng
69. Penang
70. Nha Trang
71. Three days in Singapore
72. Munich
73. Morocco
74. Krabi Province
75. Cambodia
76. Vang Vieng
77. Miami
78. Guayaquil
79. Bangkok/Silom
80. Kuching
81. Kanchanaburi
82. Shenzhen
83. Singapore/Little India
84. ルアンパバーン (Japanese Wikitravel)
85. Bratislava
86. Guilin
87. Sihanoukville
88. Kathmandu
89. San Carlos de Bariloche
90. Hong Kong/Kowloon
91. Sri Lanka
92. India
93. Sukhothai
94. Georgetown (Malaysia
95. Goa
96. Israel
97. San Francisco/Haight
98. Istanbul
99. Kochi
100. Hamburg

2011 endeth

Happy New Year, iTravellers! I released a new iOS version this month, a new Android version just today, and I'm now hard at work on FourSquare integration. Look for that come the new year!

Android 4.0

G'day, iTravellers. Just wanted you to know that the new 4.0 version of the Android app, with a relatively flashy new interface and a few bug fixes, is now out and available in the Android Market. Enjoy!

And the redesign begins

Hola, iTravellers. I've decided to get rid of the complicated message-board structure I've had going for the last year or so and replace it with this simple blog. Comment away if you have bug reports, feature requests, or other commentary!

In the meantime, a quick update: I'm back from my own travels (two months spread across Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, England, France, and India - see my personal blog for details and pictures) and busy updating the app again.

Android version 3.6, which is out now, and iPhone Version 3.4, which should hopefully be approved by the App Store by the time you read this, include a bunch of helpful UI tweaks, such as indicating which pages or sections or empty, and automatically setting the map to show your last category selection; an option to view a hierarchical tree of the pages you've downloaded, instead of just a flast list; links to Yelp and TripAdvisor in eat/drink/buy and sleep listings, respectively, when online; a new "About" page that shows you how much of your precious space the app is using; and more!

So give 'em a whirl, and if you run into any bugs, please email me at
itravel@rezendi.com posthaste, and I'll fix 'em before you know it.

Thanks!

Jon Evans
www.rezendi.com