Wikimedia Launching Own Online Travel Guide?

Wikimedia, the parent of Wikipedia, may be making a competitor to TripAdvisor or Lonely Planet. Skift reports that the board of trustees have voted to approve an ad-free travel guide and will be built in partnership with other travel wikis and the administrators from Wikitravel and Wikivoyage have reportedly going to work with Wikimedia.

At the moment, there is little to know about the this, but Skift says that serious development will start in September. The free guide will be written by users and supervised by Wikitravel and Wikivoyage administrators and we may see some content imported from those sites as well. Wikimedia may not replace the well known travel guides, but it could raise the game on user-provided information and reviews.