User:Hanyangprofessor2
See w:User:Hanyangprofessor2 but basically I am User:Piotrus on a public computer
Student assignments[edit]
Understanding talk page messages[edit]
Compare messages you and your friends got. What are they about? Are they useful / helpful? Are they polite? Are they easy or difficult to understand and why? Did you learn something from them? Did you reply to them?
Adding a listing[edit]
Add a listing to a Wikivoyage page. See https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Listings for what is a listing and how to do so
Starting a new page[edit]
Find a location that is missing from Wikivoyage. Start a new page about it using the templates at https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Article_skeleton_templates Then add at least two listings to it.
Next, add a map to it.
How to write good descriptions for listings?[edit]
Wikivoyage should not be used as a tool for advertising or promotion. Information added to listings should be one that a neutral editor would agree is not promotional, just informative. Review your edits or other listings: are they neutral? Can you find promotional language on Wikivoyage and make it more neutral? See https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Don't tout for details. Also consider whether you add enough – or too much – information. Review https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Tone and consider whether you can improve your listings. Add or fix a description (or many). Make sure it is informative and not promotional.
Banners[edit]
Suggest a good banner (top image) for a Wikivoyage article that is missing one. The image has to be on Wikimedia Commons. Suggest it at https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Banner_suggestions or edit the page directly if your image meets the requirements. Make sure that your image meets the requirements (the crop must have a width to height ratio of 7:1, and that the resulting cropped image must be at least 1800 pixels wide). If your image is not the right ratio, you can edit it in Photoshop and upload a new image to Commons, attributing (linking to) the old image.
If you want to change an existing banner, please start a discussion on the talk page of that article.
Understand[edit]
Today we will add the climate section to an article. Look at Wikivoyage entries for Ansan or Beijing. Try to write a similar section for a place that is missing them. Copy and adjust the ‘Climate’ template (graph). You will need to find the climate data using government meteorological databases (ex. Korea Meteorological Administration).
Next, make sure your article has right subsections under ‘Understand’. For example, do you have a short ‘History’ section? What other topics are covered under ‘Understand’? Look at Ansan, Beijing, Seoul, etc.
Do not make your sections too long. For example, Wikivoyage section on history should be shorter than that found on Wikipedia. One or two paragraphs summarizing key information will do.
Sections[edit]
Read the https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/WV:Sections guideline. Check whether your article(s) have all the required sections. Add the missing ones and try to have at least one listing for each section.
Then review the guides at https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/WV:Mos
Final touches[edit]
As we are finishing our Wikivoyage segment, take a look at the best articles on Wikivoyage (the “star” articles) at https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Star_articles Can you identify some cool elements they have that you could add to your article?
Take a look at Wikivoyage Manual of Style at https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Manual_of_style Is there something useful there that you can use to improve your article?
Common errors[edit]
I recommend reading in particular the following guides: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Foreign_words https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Avoid_long_lists https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:External_links https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:No_advice_from_Captain_Obvious https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Tone https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Goals_and_non-goals and https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Don%27t_tout
Can you apply some advice from those guides to improve your article?
Final review[edit]
For the final step, ask experienced Wikivoyage editors for feedback by starting a discussion on the discussion page of your article and link it from here with a comment: "please review my article" or similar.