User:Wrh2 Voyage Tips and guide

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I'm Ryan, and I travel to cold places when I can afford to do so - I've been fortunate enough to make three visits to Alaska and three trips to the Antarctic. Occasionally I'm found on roadtrips in the United States living in the back of a Subaru, and in moments of temporary insanity I have also led groups of friends to the Galapagos Islands to swim with sharks and whales.

When not traveling my home is in Culver City (near Los Angeles). Other places where I've slept in the same room for extended periods of time have included the Bay Area, Cleveland, Nashua (NH), and to a lesser extent Phoenix, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur.

Photos, travel logs, contact information and other nonsense can be found at mountaininterval.org.

I was very active in the launch of the new Wikivoyage project, and my efforts in that process were rewarded with a lawsuit filed against me; the amazingly great people at WMF helped defend me, and I wrote about the ordeal on my website.

• User reviews - could be easily subst from subpages, UI integration would be tricky (cannot load 1000 reviews for a listing, etc)
• Dead link bot:
  • Fix dead link update count: Special:Diff/2984753/2985999
  • https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:K7L&curid=79916&oldid=2994734#www.barstowrailmuseum.org
• w:User:ClueBot NG/FAQ#How do I run ClueBot NG on my own MediaWiki installation?
• Validation bot: broken URLs, mainspace pages containing categories, missing commons links, missing geo links, missing wikipedia links, etc.
• Extend the ErrorHighlighter gadget to track other common problems.
• Special:UnconnectedPages
• Breadcrumb updates to handle extraregions (Russia (Asia))
• Listing editor:
  • Wikivoyage talk:Listing editor#URL prefix handling
  • Wikivoyage:Listing editor#Bugs and feedback
  • https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Guildford&diff=next&oldid=2971765 (trim excess whitespace)
• {{#property:P856}} holds the official website link in wikidata (see also w:Template:Official website)
• Automated/Semi-automated way to add neighboring destinations to "Go next". See also: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/page/Concord_(California)
• Template talk:Pagebanner#Underlining the separator bullet
• Template talk:Climate#Unit display - any objections to displaying both Imperial and Metric?
• Maintenance category for Special:WantedTemplates since these are usually due to incorrect syntax?
• c:Template:Sisterwikivoyage
• All local file uploads need to be tagged.
• mw:Help:Page status indicators
• Possibilities for User:Wrh2Bot:
  • Remove references (<ref>, <references />)
  • Make sure headers are standard for each template type
  • Remove signatures in mainspace articles
  • Look for possible touting ("our restaurant", "we invite you", etc)
  • URLs pointing to "example.com"
  • Is there a way to ensure that all article text that matches an article name has at least one wikilink in the article?

• Interstate 5
• region summary tables
• Clickable maps. See w:Template:Canada image map.
• Yellowstone National Park
• "Lede expedition": Wikivoyage talk:Tone#Lively writing vs. purple prose

• Wikivoyage talk:External links#Revisited
• User:Wrh2/Article status
• Wikivoyage:Using MediaWiki templates#New MediaWiki template proposals - experimental period should really be a set time limit in which to raise objections to a template, rather than an "innocent until proven guilty" process.
• Wikivoyage talk:Vandalism in progress#Scope of this page vis-à-vis Wikivoyage:User ban nominations (admin noticeboard)
• User:Wrh2/Why Wikivoyage was not my primary travel planning tool‎‎
• Some portions of w:Wikipedia:Conflict of interest may make sense as a replacement/enhancement to Wikivoyage:Don't tout, particularly the section regarding paid editing.
• Wikivoyage:Business listings reliability Expedition
• Wikivoyage talk:Image policy#Proposal to change default thumbnail size
• Wikivoyage talk:Using MediaWiki templates#Userpage boxes
• MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice#Sitenotice change process
• Wikivoyage:Consensus‎/Draft‎
• w:WP:DOX
• w:WP:REVDEL

• Deletion policy should be changed from "consensus to keep" to "consensus to delete" - it doesn't hurt to keep edge cases around and encourages project growth (Wikivoyage talk:Deletion policy#Proposed new policy on deletions)
• Multiple images of the same thing, boring images, etc are problematic, but image galleries are not (Wikivoyage talk:Image policy#Galleries)
• References are not evil, and while they should not be required, they don't need to be deleted (Wikivoyage:FAQ#There aren't any references cited in articles! How do I know the info is accurate?).
• Templates shouldn't require pre-approval unless someone raises a specific concern (Wikivoyage talk:Using Mediawiki templates#Changing how we handle new templates).

My first contributions to Wikivoyage. Looking at edits made prior to reading every single guideline and policy makes for a humbling reminder of why it is important to be patient with new contributors who don't fully "get" how Wikivoyage works :)

• 7,165 (Current)
• 6,952 (23-Jan-2017)
• 7,280 (18-Aug-2016)
• 7,686 (15-May-2016)
• 7,837 (11-May-2016)

• User:Wrh2 subpages
• User:Wrh2/Sandbox
• Wikivoyage job queue

• Wikivoyage SEO Tool - Useful for finding plain text that should be converted to wiki links.
• Wikivoyage Climate Template Generator - Useful for generating {{climate}} tables (USA only).