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.

If you wake up early enough, you can ride the mining truck with the miners to reach and explore Chambillaya Mine from Quime. The Museum of Clean in Pocatello is all about the history of cleanliness; it includes a dog treadmill-powered washing machine from the late 1800s. Sur has one of the last dhow shipyards (pictured) where you can still see dhows being built in the traditional way.

• 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).

• Dow Gardens in Midland, Michigan is said to have the longest canopy walk in North America.
• Samurai armor gifted by Japan to Malta in 1862 is on display at the Malta Pavilion at Osaka Expo 2025 for the first time since WWII.

• Although Langue de Barbarie National Park is most known for the over 160 different species of birds that visit (pelicans pictured), it was actually established to protect sea turtles.
• The last home of Charlie Chaplin outside Vevey has been turned into a museum showcasing his life and career including a reconstruction of a Hollywood studio.
• At The Aquarium of Western Australia in Perth can get up-close with sharks, stingrays and a huge variety of marine life without the slightest chance of getting wet or eaten.

• The landscape around Ürgüp is famous for volcanic rock formations known as fairy chimneys (pictured).
• Saputara means "Abode of Serpents" in Gujarati, apparently deriving its name from the Sarpanganga ("Serpent Ganga") river that is in the shape of a serpent.
• There are no less than three systems for telling time in Thailand.

• The Little Mermaid (pictured) in Copenhagen has lost her head several times, and is often subject to vandalism connected with political statements.
• Ujiji outside Kigoma was the famous meeting place of Stanley and Livingstone.
• The original Panama City was sacked and burned in 1671, then rebuilt as a fortified town a bit further west, which is the present-day old town.

• In Port Dickson you can go up the 16th-century Cape Rachado lighthouse (pictured) for a panoramic view of the coastline of Sumatra.
• Much of the region surrounding Kebnekaise is some kind of protected wilderness, with popular hiking and cross-country skiing destinations and several hiking trails.
• Denver International Airport is notable for its unusual aesthetics and architecture.

• Chobe National Park is home to vast herds of elephants (pictured) - estimated to be around 50,000 in the region.
• India has seven classes of train travel to choose from.
• Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit.

• The Aegadian Islands (pictured) off Sicily are part of the Mediterranean's largest marine reserve, nearly 54,000 hectares of sea sheltering seagrass meadows that produce as much oxygen as a forest.
• The Art Nouveau Iron Palace in Orizaba was designed by Gustave Eiffel and shipped in pieces from Belgium.
• You can learn about Emperor Franz Joseph I's battalion of guards, Kaiserjägern, at the Kaiserjägermuseum in Innsbruck.

• Mount Semeru erupts reliably (pictured upper right): every 20 min or so, the volcano belches out a huge cloud of steam and smoke, sometimes interspersed with ash and stones.
• There are several differences in pronunciation between Standard andTunisian Arabic.
• Most of the Yasawa Islands have some kind of budget resort, where you sleep in a dorm or bure (thatched hut).

• In Everett, Washington you can tour Boeing's huge assembly plant where many of their airplanes are built (pictured).
• Spain boasts the largest high-speed rail network in the world outside China.
• The Longping Rice Museum in Changsha was founded by Yian Longping, the 'Father of Hybrid Rice'.

• There are a number of locations associated with Robin Hood (statue pictured) in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
• One of the southernmost settlements in the world, Puerto Williams is called by many globetrotters the "real end of the world".
• Now a visitor attraction, the Dunedin Prison was constructed with superb detail and the contrasting red and pale exterior colours are an example of Edwardian neo-Baroque.

• The dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol (pictured) in Madison is one of the largest in the world in terms of volume.
• Most characters have two or more pronunciations in Minnan, which means that many characters would be pronounced differently depending on context.
• From Pinkullyuna Hill there are spectacular views of the Ollantaytambo ruins and town and the Urubamba Valley.

• Guruvayoor (East Nada gate pictured) is one of the most sacred and important pilgrim towns in India.
• Famous for watchmaking, Biel is home to Rolex, Omega and Swatch among other famous makers.
• Dmitrov features a frog museum.

• The Rusty Relics Museum (pictured) in Carlyle, Saskatchewan is housed in a former railway station.
• Said to have been built by a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, Arba-Rucun Mosque is one of very few buildings in Mogadishu's historic center which is not a ruin.
• The monument Chikyū 33 Banchi in Kochi is constructed at 133°33'33" East Longitude, 33°33'33" North Latitude, marking the unique spot where 33 appears consecutively in all six markers.

• Teatro Tomás Terry in Cienfuegos is most impressive on the inside (pictured) where little has been changed since its inception in 1889.
• A typical geocache will usually be a waterproof plastic container which contains a small log and sometimes also a pen or pencil.
• A highlight at Museo Archeologico in Olbia are recovered remains of ancient shipwrecks.

• Built around 1691, a thatched cottage in Castlerock named Hezlett House (pictured) is one of the oldest buildings in Ulster.
• The sole terminal of Beijing Daxing International Airport with six arms radiating from a central nexus, is nicknamed "starfish" due to its shape and color.
• The currency of Gabon is the Central African CFA franc, also used by five other countries. It is interchangeable at par with the West African CFA franc, which is used by six countries.

• Due to its dark nighttime skies and the relative clarity of its air, Joshua Tree National Park is a popular spot for amateur astronomy, stargazing, and astrophotography (view of the night sky with a Joshua Tree pictured).
• Bratislava has one of the smallest historical centers of any European capital but the charm is more concentrated.

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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: