Wikivoyage:Discover Voyage Tips and guide

Here we collaborate on future discover facts that are featured on the Main Page (and on the Discover page).

• 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.

At noon, a trumpeter plays the Hejnał - a traditional bugle call closely bound to the history of Kraków - from the balcony of the Kraków Gate in Lublin. The Hill of the O'Neill (pictured) in Dungannon was the seat of power of that dynasty, lords of all they surveyed until Elizabethan England encroached. Fiji is relatively free of disease compared to most of the tropics.

• 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).

• Trains across Australia are not high-speed, but slow, laid back and luxurious services that know how to take their time and let you enjoy the scenery.

• Kuldīga features both the widest waterfall (pictured) and longest brick road bridge in Europe.
• The former Swiss-German border fence in Konstanz is now replaced with a series of 22 sculptures representing the trumps of the tarot, the "Great Arkana".
• Kazan features a Soviet Lifestyle Museum.

• The Thousand Islands (aerial view pictured) outside Jakarta is made up of just 110 islands.
• In Santana do Livramento you can stand on Praça Internacional with one foot in Brazil and the other in Uruguay.
• The Brotherhood and Unity Highway passes next to the airports of all four national capitals along it.

• In the 1960s plans were laid up to transform, Leavenworth, Washington into a mock Bavarian village (town view pictured).
• Connecting Dar es Salaam to Kapiri Mposhi, the TAZARA Railway is an experience in itself rather than just a way of transport.
• Not all paleontology involves fossils.

• Dubai International Airport (interior pictured) is one of the few that has non-stop flights to all inhabited continents.
• Dengue fever is a major public health problem throughout Southeast and South Asia, but prevalent throughout most of the tropics.
• Liberty State Park in Jersey City offers unsurpassed views of Manhattan, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.

• Scala dei Turchi (pictured) in Porto Empedocle is an offshoot of white marl rock protruding prominently into the sea, forming a strong contrast with the blue sea and sky.
• The Yazd Water Museum presents the Canat water distribution system.
• Studying Gaelic may increase your enjoyment of a visit to the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides.

• The magnetic termite mounds (pictured) of Litchfield National Park are aligned north to south to warm the nest as much as possible, as the larger faces are to the east and west.
• In the Kingdom of Debao Pony outside Jingxi you can get close up with the small local Debao ponies.
• Fort James in Accra is notable for being the prison where Kwame Nkrumah was kept for a year before his presidency.

• The former Paraguayan congress building in Asunción is now named Centro Cultural El Cabildo (pictured) - a museum with exhibitions related to the country's history and culture.
• There are two main versions or rugby football: rugby union with 15 players a side, and rugby league with 13 players a side.
• The Basilica of Santo Niño in Cebu City contains a statue of the Santo Niño (Holy Child), regarded as the oldest religious relic in the Philippines.

• A local speciality of Zakopane is oscypek (pictured), smoked sheep's milk cheese.
• Sicamous is known as the Houseboat Capital of Canada.
• Anarkali bazaar in Lahore was named after a courtesan who was buried alive for loving a prince.

• One of the oldest surviving half-timbered houses in Thuringia is the Lutherhaus (pictured) in Eisenach, where Martin Luther lived as a child.
• San Felipe is known as the birthplace of the fish taco.
• Fort Lauderdale was known as the college spring break destination in the 1960s-1980s, now it's more of a family destination.

• Hunyad Castle (pictured) in Hunedoara is believed to be where Vlad III of Wallachia (commonly known as Vlad the Impaler) was held prisoner after he was deposed in 1462.
• Perhaps surprisingly for a city that's not on an ocean coast, Hudson gained its wealth in the 19th century from whaling.
• For visitors, driving in India is generally to be avoided, especially in cities, where public transport fare better.

• Point Moore Lighthouse (pictured) in Geraldton, Western Australia, was built in Birmingham, England and shipped out in sections for local assembly.
• The Malay Technology Museum in Bandar Seri Begawan has many exhibits featuring the different styles of houses and the lifestyle of those who live in water villages.
• Whoosh train of Indonesia is the first high speed train in the Southern Hemisphere.
• The waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the northern Yucatan coast are so shallow that docks must be built longer...like the 6.5-km pier in Progreso, the longest pier in the world.

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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: