Wikivoyage:Discover Voyage Tips and guide

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• At a minimum, [[link]] the article that contains the fact in question. The fact must be taken from a Wikivoyage article.
• '''Boldface''' the fact of interest.
• Linked articles don't need to be perfect, but preference should be given to those with a status of "usable" or higher.
• Relevant images are required for one in every three facts. They should be placed above the fact in question, with the following formatting:

[[Image:imagename|right|200px|description]]
The interesting fact linked to this image goes here.

• When looking for fun facts to add, Special:Random (also accessible in the left sidebar) which displays a random Wikivoyage article can be a useful tool. As many articles unfortunately are short on content, you may want to hit the link multiple times while opening up new articles in new tabs.

Oegstgeest is one of the first ever settled parts of the Dutch coast that we know of today. Persian was once the official, court, or literary language of many places ranging from Turkey through India. The Madeira Casino (pictured) in Funchal was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, and indeed looks a bit like Brasilia Cathedral with a haircut.

• The content in Template:Discover is automatically updated on a daily basis and each Discover entry is displayed for three days.
• If the box above is empty, it means that the template ran out of entries. If this happens you can add new entries from the nominations below. Remove entries from the nominations list as you add them to the template.
• If you are unsure about how it works, feel free to try out things in the Discover sandbox first.
• When an entry isn't shown on the Main Page any longer, it should be added to the Discover archive, not just deleted from the template.

Add your entries to the end of this list. Do not leave any space or other commentary between entries. However, feel free to rearrange the list, because geographic variety in what's displayed is good (e.g. if the next three items are all from Europe, it's good to intersperse something from somewhere else).

• Eritrea's currency is named after the town of Nakfa.
• The script of choice for written Kurdish differs according to the country.

• Guests at the historical Walper Hotel (pictured) in Kitchener include Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bob Hope, and Louis Armstrong.
• Goondiwindi derives from the Aboriginal word "resting place of the birds".
• Hiking to the summit of Mount Takao in Hachioji gives a little taste of nature in Tokyo.

• The Czech rail network is one of the densest (network map pictured) in the world.
• There are only two options to stay inside the Iguaçu Falls park within walking distance of the falls, one on the Argentinian and one on the Brazilian side.
• The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Natural History Museum in Xining is said to be one of the largest natural history museums in China.

• In 2016, 17 buildings around the world (Unite d'Habitation pictured) by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier were listed as a world heritage site.
• The Norse settlements on Greenland had at its peak around 5,000 citizens, and their own bishop.
• In Hoboken you can visit the site of Frank Sinatra's birthplace, though it's nowadays just a marker in the sidewalk.

• Old Bank (pictured) is the only settlement on Bastimentos, the island with surroundings make up a protected natural area.
• The Sou Raja in Palu is not just the city's oldest traditional house but also a former royal residence.
• The municipal borders of Vaduz are a delight of European feudalism run amok.

• Dedicated to Inari, the Japanese fox goddess, countless stone foxes (pictured) can be seen at the Fushimi Inari Taisha site in South Kyoto.
• Once the world's highest capacity football venue, Estádio do Maracanã in northern Rio de Janeiro was able to hold nearly 200,000 people.
• The ubiquitous Jalapeño pepper was first cultivated in Xalapa, which lends its name to the spicy Chile.

• Two of the three houses made of coal (pictured) in West Virginia are located in White Sulphur Springs.
• In order to protect the flora and fauna, the town outside Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park purposefully lacks infrastructure like asphault and outdoor lighting.
• The lintel on Prasat Si Khoraphum in Surin depicting the Dancing of Shiva is said to be the most beautiful in all of Thailand and Cambodia.

• Thanks to a volcanic eruption in 17 BC, Akrotiri has well-preserved Bronze Age ruins (pictured), including paintings and pottery.
• The water in Lake Bacalar is odorless, but when you wade in it, a sulfuric stench seeps out of the sand.
• The 12th century Kaman Monastery in Sukhumi was revived over 800 years later in 2001 as an active monastery.

• The unique burnt orange-colored buildings (pictured) in Takahashi's Fukiya Historic District get their color from the iron-oxide bengara pigment.
• Morgan Lewis Windmill in Barbados and Betty's Hope Mill in Antigua are the only functioning sugar windmills in the world.
• Part of Villach's historic Landskron Castle contains a falconry. At certain times a day, the birds are brought out for flying demonstrations around the castle.

• Pudu deer (pictured) are the smallest deer in the world. They thrive in Argentina's Lago Puelo National Park.
• The trolleybus in Murmansk is the northernmost trolleybus system in the world.
• Reykjavík has a very eclectic building style, which is mainly the result of bad (or no) planning.

• The Japanese hot spring town of Nyuto (pictured), literally Nipple, has milky white waters but is actually named after a nearby perky mountain peak.
• Kansas City is reputed to have more boulevards than Paris and more fountains than any other city in the world except for Rome.
• Montevideo's coastal promenade La Rambla is a popular place among locals for a range of activities.

• In Papenburg you can visit Meyer Werft (assembly hall pictured), one of the largest shipyards in the world.
• Around the state of Victoria there are many sites related to the 19th century outlaw Ned Kelly.
• The tallest building in Mali, the BCEAO Tower in Bamako, has features reminiscent of the Sudan-Sahelian architecture of mosques in Djenne and Timbuktu.

• The Hukou Waterfall (pictured) in Huanghe Hukou Pubu National Park is called "the only yellow waterfall in the world."
• A 100-m cliff runs along the entire bayshore of Salvador, dividing the city into Cidade Alta, up on the cliff, and the Cidade Baixa down by the bay.
• Although Bikol is pronounced as it is spelled, stress is very unpredictable and stressing thewrong syllable can lead to misinterpretation.

• In almost any place in the U.S., there will be a baseball game (gameplay pictured) going on during the spring and summer months.
• A popular myth explaining the name Bengaluru is that it originated from Benda Kaalu Uru - "Town of Boiled Beans".

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• I've self-reverted an item I'd added about an ice hotel as novelty architecture. I see nothing in Wikivoyage talk:Discover#Overlinking that should prohibit me from linking both novelty architecture and the article about the town. Comments? K7L (talk) 02:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. As you said, use as many relevant links as there are. Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It seems I have misinterpreted what the consensus was (or rather wasn't; the discussion doesn't seem to have come to any conclusion). This being the case, I apologise for interfering with your edits and citing a consensus that doesn't exist.

However, I do agree with Ypsi's original concerns that the entry should generally only link to the page where the fact is mentioned; in nearly all cases that is the destination / travel topic that is the entry's subject. Novelty architecture (as an article covering an entire field of study) is only tenuously related to this one specific ice hotel in Sweden. It's a bit like linking to Historical travel (very broad and general topic) in an entry about Herculaneum (a specific Roman archaeological site).

But we should really try to conclude that discussion one way or the other. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 10:55, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What if the fact is mentioned in more than one place? For instance, Chicken AK being named for ptarmigan is mentioned in both the town's article and places with unusual names. Likewise, it would make sense for the "ice hotel" concept to be mentioned both in their host cities and in the novelty architecture article. K7L (talk) 11:17, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, ice hotels in general, and the specific hotel in question are both mentioned on novelty architecture, like you say. There are lots of cases like this where the same or similar information appears on more than one page. But the discover fact is about this hotel in particular (it being the very first of its kind), so that's the article we should link to, in my opinion. There could be a future discover entry specifically for the novelty architecture article, though, no problem. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 11:48, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The novelty architecture is the whole point of the item; the bit about "being first" was merely an arbitrary line drawn to avoid having to list all of the other hotels of the same genre - which are too numerous to fit in a twenty-word blurb. K7L (talk) 12:44, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I still think we should link to just one article, the article where the fact appears. If we are to link to several articles, like the factoids in Wikipedia's Did you know (upon which our Discover section is based), I'd say we should also write the name of the article where the fact appears in bold letters, just like they do. --ϒpsilon (talk) 14:25, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The facts do appear in places with unusual names (for Chicken) and novelty architecture (for the ice hotel). K7L (talk) 02:47, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In these cases I still see the destination is the "main article" which should be highlighted somehow. It's Jukkasjärvi that has become famous because of the ice hotel representing Novelty architecture, not the other way around (ie. novelty architecture would still be around if they had built it in Gällivare instead, or not at all). In the same way, Chicken is famous because it has a funny name. --ϒpsilon (talk) 10:50, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If the rest of you think it's best to have only one link per entry, I'll accede to that. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:57, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's for the best. We can still have a fact relating to novelty architecture in the future, whereas linking two or more articles in one fact is basically using those articles up for the foreseeable future, in that we don't like repeat coverage of the same articles within a period of time. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 11:26, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the concerns about duplication are that we don't want the same fact twice, not that we are trying to prevent two facts about the same destination from appearing at different times. This was raised at Wikivoyage talk:Discover#Repeating Discoveries and Same-type Discoveries before the WT split, and I think there was one we'd removed the better part of a year ago here as the same fact was mistakenly submitted twice, one month apart. K7L (talk) 13:34, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We can certainly feature a single destination as many times as we like but I think there should be a couple of months between them at least. Intentionally featuring the same fact again is something we should avoid, though if this occasionally happens by accident (maybe because there have been so long time since it was featured that nobody remembers) I don't think it's a huge problem. For instance, the fact we had a few weeks back of Michigan's map resembling two hands was featured in October 2015 with a different wording. ϒpsilon (talk) 08:34, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'd prefer not to feature the same fact twice, or have three facts from the same country appear in the same three-day interval (like The [[Aleutian Islands]] of Alaska are the easternmost U.S. point", "[[Texas]] is the second-largest state, behind Alaska", "[[Wyoming]] is the second least-populous, behind Alaska")... unless this were April 1 or some occasion where the pattern is the joke. Conversely, I can't see a fact on big things in Australia being precluded because a fact on ice hotels had already run previously; both are technically novelty architecture. K7L (talk)

• The 2½-mile boardwalk is the central focus of Ocean City's attractions.

This is a disambig page – which Ocean City is it?

New Jersey, it's in the lead. I opened the three articles and searched the for the sentence, that took a fifth of the time writing this reply. Ypsilon (talk) 10:23, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• St. Johns Maroon Church (pictured) in Freetown was built by Maroons, former slaves from Jamaica returning to Africa.

The image is too low quality that is too dark and focused on the overcast sky and streetposts not the church. The church is technically there, but it's far away in the background and hard to see. This appears to be the only picture on Commons with the church. I'm putting this here in case it was chosen as a photo feature for a special reason. If that's the case, it should stay here until a quality photo of the church is uploaded. If not, it can quickly be re-added as one of the facts without a photo. ChubbyWimbus (talk) 15:25, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following calendar-related items are "ready-to-go" criteria-wise and should be moved to the main queue at a date appropriate to the trivia featured: