Wikivoyage:10-year anniversary edit-a-thon Voyage Tips and guide

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In honor of Wikivoyage's 10-year anniversary, we invited you to help us improve articles or create new ones of use to travellers!

This contest ran from 15 January to 20 February 2023.

If you have any queries, or need any help, feel free to check the FAQ, read the tips for new contributors, ask questions at the newcomers' Arrivals lounge, or start a discussion on the travellers' pub.

What we really want is for you to be a successful contributor to Wikivoyage. Here's some information that might help you get started:

What article should I try to edit first?

There are lots of ways to help Wikivoyage. Here's one: Search for a city or other place you're already familiar with and read the article. (Your hometown? Your favorite vacation spot? Where you grew up?) Look through the article and ask yourself: What's missing? What's out of date? Did any listed place close during the pandemic, or change their prices or opening hours? Is there enough information that a traveller who had only this article could get to the destination, find a place to sleep, choose a restaurant to eat at, and find something to do? You can also look at some good articles to get an idea of what kind of information is usually included.

What kinds of edits should I make?

Wikivoyage is not like Wikipedia, so please don't copy content from Wikipedia or other websites. The traveller comes first, so everything in the article should be useful for a traveller. We want practical information about the places and attractions you could recommend. Enthusiastic endorsements are good ("three heated swimming pools and panoramic ocean views from every room"), but don't tout ("best food" or "near all major attractions"). If you want to add a less common type of information (afternoon tea? birdwatching? medical centre?), see where you can stick it.

How do I edit?

We use listing templates to organize the contact information and other details that would be useful to a traveller. New listings (e.g., a restaurant or hotel) can be added to a section by clicking the [add listing] button. This will open a simple fill-in-the-blank form for you. If you're not sure what belongs in a blank, check the listings cheatsheet. Existing listings can be edited by clicking the small, light gray "edit" button at the end of an existing listing. Articles can also be edited in the normal wikitext and visual editors, by clicking the "Edit" buttons.

I want to create a new article.

This is welcome, but may require a bit more work on your part. First, search to see whether the article is truly missing. If it is, then see Wikivoyage:What is an article? This is our equivalent of Wikipedia's notability rules. If it seems like a valid destination, feel free to create the article. Please add your new article to the geographical hierarchy as soon as possible.

I think I need some help.

The English Wikivoyage has a friendly community. You can ask for help at the newcomers' Arrivals lounge or at the central Travellers' pub.

Need some inspiration?

Have a look at Wikivoyage's many guide or star articles.

• 4 points for turning a bare outline into a solid usable article by adding good templated listings with good descriptions and all relevant fields filled in in every relevant section
• 8 points for turning a bare outline into a guide article
• 4 points for turning a usable article into a guide article
• 10 points for starting a new article and turning it into a guide article
• 2 points for creating an outline article that has enough information to be used, including several listings or their equivalents in plain text
• 3 points for creating a usable-rated article that has standard formatting but no more information than a barely usable outline article
• 5 points for creating a new article and turning it into a solid, informative usable article
• 1–4 points for high-quality copy editing of the text of any article, with greater credit for editing longer articles and making the same points clearer and more briefly

(See Wikivoyage:City article status, Wikivoyage:Park article status, Wikivoyage:Itinerary status and similar pages to see what is required of an article to reach some specific status. For guide, see also our previously featured articles.)

• 1 point for adding well-chosen thumbnails (but not too many) to an article that lacks them or should have more. No points if the photos are stolen from some website and uploaded to Commons by the editor.
• 3 points if the article is illustrated with original images taken by the participant, provided that Commons doesn't have any similar images.

• 4 points for updating a substantial number of out-of-date listings or information throughout an existing article, including deletions of defunct listings with edit summaries explaining the deletions
• 1–3 points for turning plain text information into templated listings (in lowest-level articles, not in region articles or the like), depending on how many listings needed to be changed
• 2 points for adding geocoordinates for the destination covered by the article and/or a substantial number of listings
• 1 point for adding a dynamic map with a specific map centre
• 3 points for every mapmask or geoline added using geojson.io.
• 3 points for every good static map made for a region article.
• 5 points for every exceptional static map (i.e. static maps that are very detailed, such as the one on Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
• 5 points for every park article with a geoline for each and every one of its trails (such is seen on Mungo National Park or Tombstone Territorial Park, per se)

• Wikivoyage:Welcome, newcomers
• Wikivoyage:Image policy
• Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage edit-a-thon 2018