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    Former Wikitravel editor, now fully committed to Wikivoyage. I also edit Wikipedia, Wikibooks and upload files to WikiCommons.

    I primarily like to work on pages related to the UK, but I am equally at home editing pages abroad. I also have an obsession with the US state of Nevada. I really need to plan an itinerary there, one of these days.

    Currently, my largest project is the Assassin's Creed Tour page. My goal is to at least get it to a usable state within Wikivoyage's guidelines. Then maybe a Robert Langdon tourism (Dan Brown tourism), Fallout (3, New Vegas, 4, 76, etc.), Twilight, Days Gone or a general Witchcraft itinerary? I managed to help bump up the Harry Potter tourism and Monopoly itinerary guides.

    Travels

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    Visited (somewhat in order, non-complete)
    Year Country Region Cities
    2000/2001 Antigua 1 St John's, 2 English Harbour
    2001? United Kingdom Bermuda 3 Hamilton
    prior to 2004 Denmark Hovedstaden 4 Copenhagen, 5 Elsinore
    2003 United Kingdom Dorset 6 Weymouth
    2003 United Kingdom Cornwall 7 Fowey, 8 St Austell
    2003-4? Portugal Madeira 9 Funchal
    2003-4? Cyprus 10 Paphos
    2003-4? United States of America Florida 11 Orlando, 12 Cape Canaveral Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wikipedia
    2005? France Normandy 13 Caen
    2006? France Blason Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 14 Chamonix
    2006? Tunisia 15 Tunis, 16 Carthage Ancient Carthage on Wikipedia
    2007 France Nouvelle-Aquitaine 17 La Rochelle
    2007 France Île-de-France 18 Paris
    2008 Greece Crete 19 Heraklion, 20 Agios Nikolaos, 21 Elounda, 22 Spinalonga Spinalonga on Wikipedia
    2008-2009 United Kingdom Yorkshire Bradford, Leeds
    2008-2009 United Kingdom Manchester
    2009 Spain Catalonia 23 Girona, 24 Figueres
    2010-11? Italy Sicily 25 Taormina, 26 Mount Etna, 27 Syracuse
    2010-11? United Kingdom Devon 28 Torquay, 29 Paignton
    2011 United Kingdom Wales 30 Aberystwyth
    2012 Italy Tuscany Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Monteriggioni, Montepulciano
    2013 United States of America California 31 San Francisco, 32 Berkeley, 33 Los Angeles
    2013 United States of America Nevada 34 Las Vegas
    2013 United States of America Arizona 35 Kingman, 36 Grand Canyon Grand Canyon on Wikipedia
    2013 United States of America New York City 37 New York City
    2013 United Kingdom Derbyshire Derby
    2014 France Occitanie Carcassonne
    2017 United Arab Emirates Emirate of Dubai Dubai
    2017 Republic of Ireland Leinster Dublin, Dún Laoghaire
    2017 United Kingdom Devon Exeter
    2018 United Kingdom Worcestershire Worcester
    2018 United Kingdom Cornwall Bodmin, Boscastle, Tintagel, St Austell, Charlestown
    2018 United Kingdom Hampshire Burley
    2018 United Kingdom Dorset Christchurch
    2019 United Kingdom Birmingham Birmingham
    2019 United Kingdom Wiltshire Salisbury
    2020 United Kingdom Isle of Wight Yarmouth, Newport, Sandown and Shanklin, Cowes
    2020 United Kingdom Sussex 38 Brighton
    2021 United Kingdom Kent Sevenoaks, Dover, Canterbury, Whitstable
    2022 United Kingdom Worcestershire 39 Worcester
    2022 United Kingdom Nottinghamshire 40 Nottingham, 41 Mansfield
    2022 United Kingdom Staffordshire 42 Stafford, 43 Stoke-on-Trent, 44 Barlaston Barlaston on Wikipedia Esperanto
    2022 United Kingdom Shropshire 45 Shrewsbury, 46 Much Wenlock
    2022 United Kingdom Cheshire 47 Chester
    2022/2023 Malta 48 Valletta, 49 Mdina/50 Rabat
    2023 United Kingdom Warwickshire 51 Warwick
    2023 United Kingdom Cornwall 52 Tintagel, 53 Boscastle
    2023 United Kingdom Berkshire Goring and Streatley
    2023 United Kingdom Warwickshire 54 Kenilworth
    2023 United Kingdom Scotland 55 Edinburgh, 56 Roslin
    2023 Netherlands North Holland 57 Amsterdam
    2023 Netherlands South Holland 58 Rotterdam, 59 Kinderdijk
    2023/2024 Spain Canary Islands 60 Lanzarote61 Arrecife, 62 Costa Teguise, 63 Timanfaya National Park Timanfaya National Park on Wikipedia (CAST)
    2024 United Kingdom Derbyshire 64 Chesterfield, 65 Worksop
    2024 United Kingdom Birmingham 66 Birmingham
    2024 United Kingdom Nottinghamshire 67 Mansfield
    2024 United Kingdom Devon Plymouth
    2024 United Kingdom Cornwall Boscastle, Bodmin Moor, Bodmin, Tintagel
    Map
    Map of Inferno986return's travels

    Modus operandi

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    • I like dynamic maps and I try to add a Mapframe to articles that may only have a simple drawing or no map at all.
    • I like weatherboxes using Climate. I use Wikipedia's own data and then the Met Office for UK destinations, The Weather Channel for US destinations and AccuWeather for everywhere else.
    • I like to add go markers to train stations throughout the world. If the train station is in Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland I add a link to that station's page too.
    • I like routeboxes and have taken an interest in adding more to UK pages. Particularly in my native Gloucestershire and surrounding cities.
    • I like to add colour-coded region maps to articles such as Sardinia, San Luis Potosi (state) and Lower Austria.

    Neat tricks and projects

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    Here are some neat tricks I have pinched from other pages that hopefully streamline Wikivoyage for both editors and readers. The '' '' demonstrates placeholder content that needs to be filled by the editor.

    • Link to a listing (requires the Wikidata field is declared within the listing): [[''Placename''#''WikidataID''|''Destination'']]
    • Add a dynamic map to page: {{mapframe|''longitude''|''latitude''|zoom=10}}
    • Add a mapshape to page: {{mapshape}}
    • Add a marker to an airport/train station/bus station on a page: {{marker|type=go|name=train station|url=|lat=|long=}} Alternatively, a {{listing}} can be used, but for simple one-line entries I prefer the in-line option.
    • For London tube stops/stations I have started using the station templates to show which lines connect to it. For example: Baker Street  MET  BAK  CIR  JUB  H&C . To achieve this use {{station|''station name''|''line1''|''line2''|''line3''}}. Use the Rint template to check the syntax for lines.
    • I have also assisted with adding routeboxes to UK articles. If you know the area and particularly if a major road such as a motorway or A road passes through/near the article. I'd recommend adding it in.
    • If an airport is notable enough, but doesn't have an IATA, the ICAO can be added instead with ('''ABCD''' <sup>[[w:ICAO|<small>ICAO</small>]]</sup>), substitute the ABCD with the code. Maybe an ICAO template, should be made alongside the IATA template?
    • The London Overground lines finally have distinguishing names (though they are far too political for my liking).

    Travel topics wikilinking

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    Despite using and editing Wikivoyage for almost a decade (wow, that long?) I am unfamiliar with the Travel topics. So I started using more internal wikilinks to give better exposure to these articles such as:

    Activites and sports

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    Culinary

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    Geography

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    Useful pages

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    Here I am trying to make a useful reference for pages both on and off Wikivoyage that help streamline page editing. Please share this around if it is useful for you. :-D

    Wikivoyage

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    Wikipedia

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    External sites and programs

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    Really useful text editors with regular expression (regex) capabilities that make finding and replacing quick and simple. Recommended for region pages with a lot of map markers, as well as adding the listing templates to the See, Do, Eat, Drink, Sleep sections.

    For example using this regex I can automate creating listings with the correct listing template throughout an article. I do this by section in Wikivoyage articles that still use the old list format:

    Put this regular expression in find: '''(.+?)''' - (.+?)$

    This regex checks for any series of characters and saves them to a register for later using (.+?). This is done twice for each string that I want to find and save. Specifically the parentheses () mean to save the text and the .+? mean any text string.

    The $ means to cover all text to the end of the line. Otherwise only the first character of the description will get highlighted.

    Put this regex into replace: {{listing | type=do | name=$1 | alt= | url= | email= | address= | lat= | long= | directions= | phone= | tollfree= | hours= | price= | wikidata= | content=$2 }}

    The saved text from earlier is stored in order so I put the name as $1 and the description as $2. In wiki markup the URL goes before the name so you may need to put the url=$1 instead. Note that regex syntax doesn't seem to be standardised, for example Notepad++ uses \1 instead.

    Before:

    • Listing name - Listing description here

    After:

    • Listing name. Listing description here

    I also find Atom helpful for going through a .SVG's source code to find the right colours for a province section as with Sardinia.

    If you don't like Atom, there are alternative editors such as Notepad++.

    A neat open-source Chrome/Chromium extension that shows the colour of an entity. Also useful for region maps as I like to use the exact colour on the map as I think it's better for usability.

    A really useful site that allows images to be cropped in-browser regardless of operating system. I use Croppola to crop Wikivoyage banners to the 7:1 aspect ratio (see these examples: Tewkesbury, Paignton, Brixham, Chinon, Tintagel, Douglas, Laxey).

    Transliterates from Cyrillic to Latin and vice-versa.

    Note: I no longer use GPS-Coordinates because I find it cumbersome to use. Instead I zoom in and use the URL from Google Maps to provide co-ordinates.

    A really useful site that displays co-ordinates for any location using Google Maps. As someone who loves dynamic maps, this site is really helpful for generating the markers that are placed on them.

    Sandbox

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    I use this sandbox area to test new ideas.

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    As the Network Rail logo isn't public domain or CC licensed, one needs to figure out how to call the logo's SVG from Wikipedia directly instead of the Commons.

    Routes through Inferno986return
    PenzanceBristol  W  E  ReadingLondon Paddington


    Routebox for the UK – A40

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    For Cheltenham and other destinations along the A40.

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    FishguardMonmouth  W  E  OxfordLondon


    Routebox for the UK – M5

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    For Taunton and other destinations along the M5.

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    merges with A4041  N  S  BristolExeter


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    BirminghamKidderminster  N  S  BristolExeter


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    BirminghamWorcester  N  S  CheltenhamExeter


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    BirminghamTewkesbury  N  S  GloucesterExeter


    Routes through Inferno986return
    BirminghamCheltenham  N  S  BristolExeter


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    BirminghamGloucester  N  S  → Cullompton → Exeter


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    BirminghamGloucester  N  S  merges with A380



    THIS HAS BEEN DONE ALREADY!

    Routebox for the UK – London Underground

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    Needs a white background on the roundel to be seen clearly. Although the flat line works well too.

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