User:DenisYurkin Voyage Tips and guide

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email/GTalk: [email protected]

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Time online

Most of my contributions are made over weekends--so if you'd like to patrol them, checking the latest dozen in Recent Changes won't show my edits.

I normally contribute from GMT+3 (Moscow).

Background and motivation

I work for Yandex (leading Russian search engine) and basically have not too much spare time. I travel outside Russia 2 or 3 times a year.

The original reason I came to Wikivoyage was to share very detailed pieces of my travel experiences. With time I turned to sharing the key findings and hidden gems from my travel. This experience helped me to find what's most important in my travel notes--and to share them with friends maximizing added value and minimizing useless infowaste.

Additionally, I take a printout of a Wikivoyage destination guide wherever I travel, scan them immeditately before each destination to find the key things I need--and mark pieces where structure doesn't help with scanning. And I contribute to ToDo sections of that articles' Talk pages on what was missing from my experience (of course, if I have answers I contribute them directly to the article).

For professional life, I contribute to and edit Wikivoyage to better understand how wiki sites and communities work and evolve. I use that experience in shaping our corporate wiki intranet, and in theory it can help in distant future to set up a wiki community for some niche topic, if/when my career urge me to.

Docent

I'm a Docent for Russia and Moscow where I live now, and for Altai where I was born and lived until age of 17. I can also help a bit on St. Petersburg as have many friends there, and being there myself several times.

I am also Docent for Morocco, Marrakech, Santorini and Oia where I've been recently, and made tons of notes out of which only few published yet here on Wikivoyage. Similarly for Hungary, Budapest, Szentendre and Eger, although I published almost all I know about these regions.

I never offer services as a guide helping you visit sights for a fee. I can only answer some questions on the destinations I am quite knowledgeable about.

Feel free to leave your questions on my Talk Page. If I don't seem to contribute for a long time, feel free to drop email (see contacts at the top of this page). IM is also possible on weekends, but I can't promise to have time on weekdays.

Need your help

Paper travel guides -- see talk page for details.
separating Airline Passenger Rights out of Tips for flying and Europe#By plane--need help in finishing a draft: User:DenisYurkin/Airline Passenger Rights

Articles I started

Renting a car (10 Nov 2006)
Project:How to describe yourself (29 Nov 2006)
New Year holidays in Hungary (3 Feb 2007)
Canyoning (9 Sep 2007)
Les Deux Alpes (21 Sep 2007)
Mayrhofen (25 Oct 2009)
Project:Celebrate a contribution (31 Oct 2010)

Deprecated

Phrasebook International (19 Nov 2006): was reorganized to Talk

Templates I created

Template:printDistricts

Deprecated

Travel experience

2007:

Sept: Spain (Barcelona, Cap de Creus, Cadaques, Girona, Figueres; canyoning in Alquezar and Aragon; San Sebastian, Bilbao, Hondarribia)

Personal templates

My own versions--before they become a general practice (or even set in stone in templates):

If you are from Russia, you may find ... less ... than you're accustomed to. (e.g. to compare prices for Massimo Dutti)

Understand

Travellers mix: For the case you'd like to follow your citizens (or alternatively to escape them while travelling), here's where travellers from different countries spend time on the holidays

Get out:

How to get out
Where to go

Get in:By plane

Terminals
Connections (airlines; destinations with direct flights)
Airport transfer
Duty Free Shopping at {Airport|Terminal X}
- From the airport to the city
Airport cafes

Get around

By foot: на каблуках; детская коляска; булыжная мостовая
By tube:

Where To Alight

Foo Line westbound: the last door of the last carriage

Foo Line eastbound: the first door of the first carriage

Bar Line eastbound: the third door of the first carriage

Bar Line westbound: the second door of the last carriage

See
прогулочным шагом: It takes around an hour to walk up at a leisurely pace
Buy

Money (currencies + credit cards)
Money exchange
What to buy? Apart from classical tourist souvenirs like postcards and trinkets, here are some things from this region that are hard to find elsewhere, or even unique.
Design (see Helsinki#Design)
unconventional (designer goods; souvenirs etc)

Eat

Main courses generally around ... (price ranges)
daily ..., Mon-Thu ...
upscale and modern
atmospheric place

Chains
Traditional (Region) cuisine
Non-(Region) cuisines

(place) declares to be "(quote)"

India: infobox listing most frequent dishes

London: what you can get for what money

Drink

club full of good-looking people
ambient bars
chilled out lounge bar

Sleep

availability is tight and prices can be crazy
for Santorini: it's not uncommon to be quoted over US$300/night for what would elsewhere be a distinctly ordinary business hotel going for a third of the price

Outstanding discussions

WF 2 weeks to plunge forward

(wait for 2 weeks since the date specified below)

2011-01-29 Project:Travellers' pub#how to organize extensive details on ClubMed: start the article
2011-01-04 create Airlines travel topic article [1]
2010-09-02 Template:Translate: simplify usage via arguments [2]
2010-08-19: Template talk:Translate#before or after article body?

Waiting for reply

Other actionable

rework into a page or section in Wikivoyage: namespace: Wikivoyage_talk:Don't tout#listings: examples of de-touting and summarizing
shopping and what things cost:
- Talk:Travel_topics#Shopping_articles: encourage to expand Saint Thomas#Buy into worldwide-applicable
- User:DenisYurkin/Shopping
- User:DenisYurkin/Shopping around the world
- User:DenisYurkin/What things cost

Project:Don't tout#should superlatives be sourceable?
WF: Talk:Discount airlines in Europe#group airlines by their base country?
WF objections/more support/2weeks: Project:Using talk pages#avatars/userpics for easier scanning?
WF interest: Project:Romanization#Russian
WF: any previous discussions?: User talk:Bill-on-the-Hill#vfd's
propose site-wide standards per cuisine / restaurant type, as there're too few contributors to discuss this with, for many megapolises (even countries): Project:Restaurant listings#price ranges
propose checklist/what we do/n't want on info on restaurants: (was: my turn "as long as neither is reality yet, hence my proposal"): Project:Restaurant listings#encourage evolution of reviews
WF comments; Jani for 2 weeks: Project:Accommodation listings#nearest attractions
- stops: [3]
WF ideas on making progress: Project:Restaurant listings#How to write multiple branches of restaurants?

Rome reverts

North Center: currently we list:

Residence Frattina: #298 at TripAdvisor
Hotel Claridge: #253
Duke Hotel, $347: #64
Lord Byron, $444: #38 (added later)
Residenza Borghese: not at TA at all (added later)

But we don't:

Villa Borghese Resort, $78: #357, but Top Value at TA
Casa Montani, $267: #14 [4]
Aldrovandi Palace Villa Borghese, $404: #60 [5]
Villa Morgagni, $230: #76

(and more, although some are not from this district: [6])

Colloseo: we list:

Hotel Ivanhoe: (unrated at TA--why?)
Hotel Labelle: #687
Torre Colonna: #28

Esquilno-San Giovanni: we list:

La Casa di Amy B & B: #143, reviews mostly positive
Mosaic Hostel: #65, Only 3 "very good"+1 "avg"

Nomentano: we list:

Hotel Sonya: #96; mostly Excellent and VeryGood

Rankings of what looked like a Yellow Pages copy-paste

Esquilino-San_Giovanni [7]:

Same-template address: (Cap: 00185, Rome, Italy)
- Ariana B&B Rome: #807 (terrible prevailing)
- Bella Beatrice B&B: not rated; only one mention in forums: [8]
- La Casa di Amy B & B Rome: (34 exc, 37 very good--but the description was clearly flowery)
- Panoramic Hostel Rome: not rated; no mention in forums
- B&B Sergio Rome: #635; equal number of every ranking (but too view rankings after all)

only Rome in the name:
- Hotel Center Rome: #552 (30 very good, 50 avg, 25 poor, 18 terrible)
- Hotel Taormina Rome: #288 (18 very good; 9 exc; 10 avg)

Colloseo [9] (always only Rome in name)

Aenea Superior Inn Rome: #68
Hotel Adas Rome: #808 (8 avg; 10 terrible)
Hotel Ivanhoe Rome: #598 (5 very good, but quite few reviews)
Hotel Labelle Rome: #690 (7 very good)
YWCA Foyer di Roma: not rated
Intown Luxury House Rome: #217; (10 excel, 4 very good)

Postponed

new discussions on patrolling and cost of communication with other users: Project:Travellers' pub/December 2007#template for inviting to discussion

Edits/removals to challenge

Someday-maybe

redirect of Atlas Mountain to North Africa per Talk:Morocco#Regions. My only contrib. --DenisYurkin 03:43, 14 June 2008 (EDT)

Places to avoid

Pest: Cafe Pataya [10]

Personal Bookmarks

for districtifying Barcelona, excellent pattern to ask for the "all together now" help: Mexico COTM
Project:What is a dive guide? -- an example of a very detailed instruction for researcher and contributor (first of its kind here?)

Rome/Trastevere -- a star district to consider for foodies, very restaurants-rich place

Editing is always more fun if there are at least two of you working on an article. Here are a few articles I'm interested in working on. If you do to, tell me and we can work together! © User:Hrcolyer

books for further reading

Wikivoyage_talk:Where_you_can_stick_it#Recommended_.2F_further_reading_.2F_destination_travel_books_and_publications

sources for research

more users to attract for Barcelona districts

Currently working on

Portugal

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Portugal&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Lisbon&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Cascais&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Alentejo&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Sintra&action=edit

(and more)

things to work on

Reference for personal use

incubator

User:DenisYurkin/Listings usage tips

sandboxes

Sri Lanka

Finished with most unique content I had

Austria

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Austria&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Vienna&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Mayrhofen&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Winter_sports_in_Austria&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Alpine_skiing&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Innsbruck&action=edit

http://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=User:DenisYurkin/Vienna_COTM&action=edit

Welcoming users

{{subst:User:DenisYurkin/QuestionOnYourEdit|article name|talk section name}} --~~~~:

Hi (username). I have a question about something you contributed to (article name) and I've started a discussion in Talk:(article name). If you can, please take a look at the Talk:(article name) page and leave your comments. Thanks!

User talk:Oriolbcn#Welcome! -- business owner, don't add listings to huge city article
User talk:Tsandell#splitting complex edits into several simple changes and User talk:Nammarci#splitting complex edits into several simple changes

Berlin

http://www.friedrichstrasse.de/ -- decide if there's anything helpful
http://www.lafayette.de -- use as a link for GL in listings
http://www.vbbonline.de/ -- how to use for route planning / as a timetable?

which of these Katya recommended?

http://www.berlin.de/english/visitors/index.html -- anything helpful?
http://www.berlin-tourist-information.de/ -- anything helpful?
http://www.berlin-mitte.com -- anything helpful?

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User:DenisYurkin/Renting a car
User:DenisYurkin/Barcelona -- a sandbox for merging my vacation-time edits into a meanwhile server changes
User:DenisYurkin/World's most unusual hotels

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User:DenisYurkin Voyage Tips and guide

Contact

Time online

Background and motivation

Docent

Need your help

Articles I started

Deprecated

Templates I created

Deprecated

Travel experience

Personal templates

Outstanding discussions

WF 2 weeks to plunge forward

Waiting for reply

Other actionable

Rome reverts

Rankings of what looked like a Yellow Pages copy-paste

Postponed

Edits/removals to challenge

Someday-maybe

Places to avoid

Personal Bookmarks

books for further reading

sources for research

more users to attract for Barcelona districts

Currently working on

Portugal

Montenegro

Spain

Done

things to work on

Reference for personal use

incubator

sandboxes

Sri Lanka

Finished with most unique content I had

Austria

Welcoming users

Berlin

Unread

Archived

Non-printable (web-only) experiment

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Discover

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