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.

A highlight of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is Sue (pictured), the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton in the world. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was known for religious tolerance, ethnic diversity, and parliamentary rule. In Barcelona you can try a "café con hielo" - espresso served with a glass of ice cubes on the side.

• 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).

• 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".
• Like in the French capital, in Paris, Arkansas there's also an Eiffel Tower, though definitely not as tall as the real thing.

• Helsingborg Castle- or what's left of it - overlooks the harbour, with archways over the steps leading down to the city center (pictured).
• The bay next to Pemba is a great destination for professional and novice marine photographers alike, with many species in warm and calm waters.
• In Birštonas, mineral water can be slurped for free at town drinking fountains or bought in commercial bottled drinks.

• Catania a history dating back 2,700 years, dominated by several different cultures - Greeks, Romans (ruins of Roman theater pictured), Arabs, Normans, Spanish, etc. - and was a rich commercial centre, mainly due to its port.
• On the Silk Road, Gansu marked the end or beginning of China proper depending upon if you were traveling east towards Xi'an or west towards Central Asia and Europe.
• Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida houses the world's most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

• Isla de Ometepe (pictured) is composed of twin volcanoes in the middle of Lago de Nicaragua.
• In the northern suburbs of Madrid, you can find the home stadia of Real and Atlético, two of Spain's most successful soccer teams.
• Hilton Village in Newport News is recognized as the United States' first Federal war-housing project, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

• Ukai or nighttime cormorant fishing (pictured) is a Gifu tradition that has continued uninterrupted for 1300 years.
• Kluane National Park features Mount Logan, at 5,959 metres or 19,551 feet above sea level, the highest mountain in Canada.
• Iznik was once known as Nicaea, and an important place in the history of Christianity as the First Ecumenical Council took place here in 325 AD.

• To drive the Kings Highway (view along the road pictured), you need a decent car, ability to handle windy roads and a car that handles windy roads.
• Magheraghanrush is a court tomb outside Sligo dating from about 3000 BC, and from above it's in the shape of a man.
• Kolkata's history is intimately related to the British East India Company, which arrived in 1690.

• Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (pictured) is the final resting place of 6,982 POWs who gave their lives for the construction of the Death Railway to Burma.
• In Port Lincoln you can swim with tuna in enclosures.
• Winter swimming or ice swimming is a daredevil activity during the cold season, seen as a test of virility, a part of survival or rescue training or – as weird it may seem – a way to relax.

• The Wine regions of Ontario (grapes at Niagara Peninsula pictured) are at the same latitude as Bordeaux, northern Italy and Oregon, and its grape-growing season is comparable to those.
• An old image of the town of Huacachina is featured on Peru's 50 soles bill.
• Corydon is known as the first state capital of Indiana.

• The Hundertwasserbahnhof (pictured) in Uelzen was renovated for Expo 2000 to an unusual and strikingly coloured design by Austrian artist and architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
• A remote coal mining town, the name Karaganda derives from Caragana bushes but became a wry pun in Russian for "where the hell?", ie. the middle of nowhere.
• St. Peter's Catholic Church in Jaffa used to also serve as a hostel, with Napoleon among the guests.

• Translating as the "mountains of the dragon", the Drakensberg mountain range was formed by a lava flow (landscape pictured).
• Chira Island contains the most intact biodiversity of tropical dry forest flora in Costa Rica.
• The Greek theatre in Poros offers the rare opportunity to watch Greek plays in the open-air just like in the past.

• The 12 defense towers (one pictured) that surround Debre Birhan Selassie Church in Gondar represent the 12 apostles of Jesus.
• Dalkey Island was used by Vikings as an Irish slave market. It is said that 40% of Iceland's population were Irish slaves with many likely being bought here.
• The only place in the world where Macedonian grayling butterflies exist is in Pletvar, just outside the city of Prilep.

• At 28 feet tall, Kal Bhairab Temple in Brahmanbaria is home to the world's largest statue of Shiva (pictured)
• About 1/4 of American peanuts are grown in Dothan, Alabama.
• Since Biblical plants grow in a different climate, the plants in the Rodef Shalom Biblical Botanical Garden in Pittsburgh must be removed in the cold months and returned in warm months to prevent them from dying.

• The Nora-dokei (pictured) in Aki is a clock built for farmers to be visible while they worked the fields.
• The Mexican state of Jalisco is widely known for the production of Tequila, but few outside Mexico know that it is also home to a similar spirit called Raicilla
• The city of Cahul gets its name from the Battle of Kagul fought between Russians and Turks in the 18th century.

• Near the Al Jassassiyeh Carvings in Al Shamal, are 250-year-old cup-shaped depressions (pictured), thought to have been used to hold stones for counting points in an ancient Arabian game.
• St. Paul's Metropolitan Cathedral in Vigan is a Catholic church built with feng-shui.
• According to legend, a caldera lake-dwelling mermaid drowns any attractive man who enters the Laguna de Alegría.

• The clothing of genocide victims are hung in the rafters (pictured) of the Ntarama Genocide Memorial in Nyamata as physical reminders of just how many died there.
• Madison Buffalo Jump State Park in Three Forks gets its name from the cliff that Native Americans used to drive buffalo off to use their bodies for food, clothing, and shelter.
• Kässpatzen, which literally translates as cheese sparrows, is a specialty dish of Augsburg consisting of pasta topped with cheese and carmelized onions (no birds).

• The front of the Etpison Museum (pictured) in Koror features a giant image of the spider god that is said to have taught Palauan women how to give birth.

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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: