Wikivoyage:Attraction listings

Formatting listings

When listing things to See or Do in a destination, use the following format.

• Name of Attraction (local or alternative name), Address (extra directions if necessary), ☎ +91-22-2222-1234, fax: +91-22-2222-1235, e-mail: fakeemail@example.com. 9am-5:30pm. One to five sentences about why this attraction is worth seeing, things to pay special attention to, warnings, notes, historical or other background information. Rs. 50 for entrance.

Here's the Wiki markup:

* {{see
| name=Name of Attraction | alt=local or alternative name | url=http://www.example.com | email=fakeemail@example.com
| address=Address | lat=latitude | long=longitude | directions=extra directions if necessary
| phone=+91-22-2222-1234 | tollfree= | fax=+91-22-2222-1235
| hours=9am-5:30pm | price=Rs. 50 for entrance
| content=One to five sentences about why this attraction is worth seeing, things to pay
  special attention to, warnings, notes, historical or other background information.
}}

Notes on the format:

• Addresses should just be the street and number, not a full postal address. If the city is different (for example, in a suburb), add that, too.
• Phone numbers should be in international format with the non-local calling part in italics (like "+1 514 555-1000").
• Days should be abbreviated (M Tu W Th F Sa Su), times should be AM and PM. If the attraction never closes, use "24 hours daily". If the times are the same for every day, use "Opening time-closing time daily".
• Entry prices should be in the local currency.
• URLs should point to the official Web site for the attraction and conform to Wikivoyage guidelines for external links. If there's no official Web site, just leave that part out.

Template:See attributes

name 

Name of the attraction.

alt 

If the place has a significantly different name in the local language, add it here. Non-Latin scripts like Japanese, Devanagari, Cyrillic etc can be used.

address 

Street and number of the place, plus district if applicable. No postcode, and don't repeat the city name.

directions 

Additional directions for how to find the place (if necessary).

phone 

Direct telephone number of the attraction office.

email 

E-mail address of the attraction office.

fax 

Fax number of the attraction office.

url 

Link to the attraction office official website. Include the http://.

hours

Opening hours of the attraction, when applicable.

price 

Price of admission. If there are large differences (eg. adults and children), note them both.

lat

Decimal latitude (GPS coordinates) for map link.

long

Decimal longitude (GPS coordinates) for map link.

tags

Comma-separated list of free-text tags. Not displayed.

content 

Text describing the attraction.

All fields above are optional. If you don't know some information, just leave in the empty field, so somebody else can fill it up later.

Example

This listing:

* {{see 
| name=Palace of Culture and Science | alt=Palac Kultury i Nauki | url=http://www.pkin.waw.pl | email= 
| address=plac Defilad | lat= | long= | directions= 
| phone=+48 (0/22) 65 67 676 | tollfree= | fax= 
| hours=9AM-6PM daily | price=Admission to the observation deck: zł 18/12
| tags=Landmark
| content=Built in the 1950s as a "gift" to the Polish people by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin
 the Palace of Culture and Science is Warsaw's most recognizable building.  The building
 elicits mixed feelings from Poles – on one hand, the building  has a controversially beautiful
 architectural style, however, the building was built by the man who helped Hitler rape the Polish
 countryside, then continued a campaign of senseless murders of the Poles when the Soviet-Nazi
 Germany relations soured.  Today, the building is home to a cinema, museum, restaurant, and
 college.  Visitors can take an elevator to an observation deck, which provides a great view of
 Warsaw.
}}

Shows up like this:

• Palace of Culture and Science (Palac Kultury i Nauki), plac Defilad, ☎ +48 (0/22) 65 67 676. 9AM-6PM daily. Built in the 1950s as a "gift" to the Polish people by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin the Palace of Culture and Science is Warsaw's most recognizable building. The building elicits mixed feelings from Poles – on one hand, the building has a controversially beautiful architectural style, however, the building was built by the man who helped Hitler rape the Polish countryside, then continued a campaign of senseless murders of the Poles when the Soviet-Nazi Germany relations soured. Today, the building is home to a cinema, museum, restaurant, and college. Visitors can take an elevator to an observation deck, which provides a great view of Warsaw. Admission to the observation deck: zł 18/12.

Listing subdivisions and order

For long lists, creating subdivisions by attraction type (landmarks, museums, etc.) or location can make listings more manageable for users. Within each subdivision, when no other standard of ordering listings is used, alphabetical order should be the norm. If another standard is used (see for example London South Bank Museums), it should be clearly stated so any new listing can be added to the appropriate place.

Complex attractions

Some attractions are just too complex to list in the brief format above. There may be interesting historical information, detailed information about different parts of the attraction, or whatever. Examples might be:

• Large museums
• Large parks
• Monuments with long histories

These kinds of attractions may need three or four paragraphs rather than sentences to treat them appropriately.

The difference here is by how much text is needed, not how important the attraction is. For example, the Manneken Pis is one of the most famous sights in Brussels, but there's only so much you can write about a small statue of a peeing boy. Importance of the attraction and how much text is needed are closely intertwined, but this format is keyed to the latter.

For complex attractions, we make a sub-section of the See or Do section with the following format:

===Name of attraction===
 
Address (''extra directions if necessary''), phone number (''email, fax, other
contact if possible''), [http://www.attraction.example.com/].  Days and times open.
$entryprice (''extra price info'').
 
One to five paragraphs about why this attraction is worth seeing, things
to pay special attention to, warnings, notes, historical or other background
information.

Complex attractions should go at the end of the See or Do section, after any attractions in the list format above. Otherwise, it will look like the list-format attractions are part of the preceding complex attraction subsection.

A good example of a complex attraction is the Golden Gate Bridge in the Golden Gate district of San Francisco.

The campus of a major university may also be a container for multiple points of interest such as museums, art galleries or historic landmarks which are notable as things to "see" or "do" in their own right. Handling these as complex attractions allows all of these points to be grouped as one large entity:

• Ivy University - University Avenue at Scholar Street, founded 1066. Organised campus tour daily.
  • Elisabeth Ivy Art Gallery (contact info) Paintings from the 18th and 19th century.
  • University Stadium (location, price) Watch live college sports matches every Saturday, seasonal.
  • Great Hall (location) - Historic clock tower and concert hall built by Queen Victoria herself.

See also

• Project:Listings