User:Inferno986return
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Former Wikitravel editor, now fully committed to Wikivoyage. I also edit Wikipedia, Wikibooks and upload to WikiCommons.
I primarily like to work on pages related to the UK, but I am equally at home editing pages abroad. I also have an obsession with the US state of Nevada. I really need to plan an itinerary there, one of these days.
- Hometown: Cheltenham
- Residences: Tewkesbury, Oxford, Derby, Much Wenlock, London
- Pages I have started: Bewdley?, Bridgwater, Brixham, Charlestown, Haslemere, Marlborough, Searchlight, Winchcombe, Wellesbourne
Currently my largest project is the Assassin's Creed Tour page. My goal is to at least get it to a usable state within Wikivoyage's guidelines. Then maybe a Dan Brown, Fallout: New Vegas Tour or Twilight: New Moon Tour itinerary?
Travels[edit]
| Year | Country | Region | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 |  |
St John's, English Harbour | |
| 2001? |  |
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Hamilton |
| prior to 2004 |  |
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Copenhagen, Elsinore |
| 2003 | |
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Weymouth |
| 2003 | |
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Fowey, St Austell |
| 2003-4? |  |
Tunis, Carthage | |
| 2003-4? |  |
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Funchal |
| 2003-4? |  |
Paphos | |
| 2003-4? |  |
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Orlando, Cape Canaveral |
| 2005? |  |
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Caen |
| 2006? | |
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Chamonix |
| 2007 | |
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La Rochelle |
| 2007 | |
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Paris |
| 2008 |  |
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Heraklion, Agios Nikolaos, Elounda, Spinalonga |
| 2009 |  |
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Girona, Figueres |
| 2010-11? |  |
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Taormina, Mount Etna, Syracuse |
| 2010-11? | |
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Torquay, Paignton |
| 2011 | |
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Aberystwyth |
| 2012 | |
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Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Monteriggioni, Montepulciano |
| 2013 | |
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San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles |
| 2013 | |
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Las Vegas |
| 2013 | |
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Kingman, Grand Canyon |
| 2013 | |
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New York City |
| 2014 | |
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Carcassonne |
| 2017 |  |
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Dubai |
| 2017 |  |
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Dublin, Dun Laoghaire |
| 2018 | |
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Bodmin, Tintagel, St Austell, Charlestown |
| 2018 | |
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Burley |
| 2018 | |
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Christchurch |
| 2019 | |
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Salisbury |
| 2020 | |
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Yarmouth, Newport, Sandown and Shanklin, Cowes |
| 2020 | |
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Brighton |
Modus operandi[edit]
- I like dynamic maps and I try to add a Mapframe to articles that may only have a simple drawing or no map at all.
- I like weatherboxes using Climate. I use Wikipedia's own data and then the Met Office for UK destinations, The Weather Channel for US destinations and AccuWeather for everywhere else.
- I like to add go markers to train stations throughout the world. If the train station is in Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland I add a link to that station's page too.
- I like routeboxes and have taken an interest into adding more to UK pages. Particularly in my native Gloucestershire and surrounding cities.
- I like to add colour-coded region maps to articles such as Sardinia, San Luis Potosi (state) and Lower Austria.
Neat tricks[edit]
Here are some neat tricks I have pinched from other pages that hopefully streamline Wikivoyage for both editors and readers. The '' '' demonstrate placeholder content that needs to be filled by the editor.
- Link to a listing (requires the Wikidata field is declared within the listing):
[[''Placename''#''WikidataID''|''Destination'']]- e.g. To link Excalibur Hotel and Casino use the following:
[[Las_Vegas/The_Strip#Q1064873|Excalibur Hotel and Casino]]
- e.g. To link Excalibur Hotel and Casino use the following:
- Add a dynamic map to page:
{{mapframe|''longitude''|''latitude''|zoom=10}}
- Add a mapshape to page:
{{mapshape}}
- Add a marker to an airport/train station/bus station on a page:
{{marker|type=go|name=train station|url=|lat=|long=}}Alternatively, a{{listing}}can be used, but for simple one-line entries I prefer the in-line option.
- If the destination can be gotten to via a train from London, specify which station and add a link to it. If there is a missed station add a redirect to the appropriate London district it resides in. London is a big city with over 330 train stations (not including all tube stops) and I think it's a good idea to break it down for travellers even at a regional level.
- Clapham Junction
- London Paddington
- London Victoria
- London Waterloo
- London Liverpool St
- London King's Cross (with the apostrophe, though I have created a redirect without)
- London Euston
- London St Pancras or London St Pancras International
- London Bridge (As London Bridge is already a disambiguation page, link to London/South_Bank with
[[London/South_Bank|London Bridge]]instead.) - London Fenchurch St
- London Charing Cross
- London Cannon St
- London Marylebone
- For London tube stops/stations I have started using the station templates to show which lines connect to it. For example: Baker Street MET BAK CIR JUB H&C . To achieve this use
{{station|''station name''|''line1''|''line2''|''line3''}}. Use the Rint template to check the syntax for lines.
- I have also assisted with adding routeboxes to UK articles. If you know the area and particularly if a major road such as motorway or A road passes through/near the article. I'd recommend adding it in.
- If an airport is notable enough, but doesn't have an IATA, the ICAO can be added instead with
('''ABCD''' <sup>[[w:ICAO|<small>ICAO</small>]]</sup>), substitute the ABCD with the code. Maybe an ICAO template, should be made alongside the IATA template?
Useful pages[edit]
Here I am trying to make a useful reference for pages both on and off Wikivoyage that help streamline page editing. Please share this around if it is useful for you. :-D
Wikivoyage[edit]
Wikipedia[edit]
External sites and programs[edit]
Visual Studio Code or Atom[edit]
Really useful text editors with regular expression (regex) capabilities that make finding and replacing quick and simple. Recommended for region pages with a lot of map markers, as well as adding the listing templates to the See, Do, Eat, Drink, Sleep sections.
For example using this regex I can automate creating listings with the correct listing template throughout an article. I do this by section in Wikivoyage articles that still use the old list format:
Put this regular expression in find: '''(.+?)''' - (.+?)$
This regex checks for any series of characters and saves them to a register for later using (.+?). This is done twice for each string that I want to find and save. Specifically the parentheses () mean to save the text and the .+? mean any text string.
The $ means to cover all text to the end of the line. Otherwise only the first character of the description will get highlighted.
Put this regex into replace:
{{listing | type=do
| name=$1 | alt= | url= | email=
| address= | lat= | long= | directions=
| phone= | tollfree=
| hours= | price=
| wikidata=
| content=$2
}}
The saved text from earlier is stored in order so I put the name as $1 and the description as $2. In wiki markup the URL goes before the name so you may need to put the url=$1 instead. Note that regex syntax doesn't seem to be standardised, for example Notepad++ uses \1 instead.
Before:
- Listing name - Listing description here
After:
- Listing name. Listing description here
I also find Atom helpful for going through a .SVG's source code to find the right colours for a province section as with Sardinia.
If you don't like Atom, there are alternative editors such as Notepad++.
Eye Dropper[edit]
A neat open-source Chrome/Chromium extension that shows the colour of an entity. Also useful for region maps as I like to use the exact colour on the map as I think it's better for usability.
Croppola.com[edit]
A really useful site that allows images to be cropped in-browser regardless of operating system. I use Croppola to crop Wikivoyage banners to the 7:1 aspect ratio (see these examples: Tewkesbury, Paignton, Brixham, Chinon, Tintagel, Douglas, Laxey).
Translit.cc[edit]
Transliterates from Cyrillic to Latin and vice-versa.
GPS-Coordinates.net[edit]
Note: I no longer use GPS-Coordinates because I find it cumbersome to use. Instead I zoom in and use the URL from Google Maps to provide co-ordinates.
A really useful site that displays co-ordinates for any location using Google Maps. As someone who loves dynamic maps, this site is really helpful for generating the markers that are placed on them.
Sandbox[edit]
I use this sandbox area to test new ideas.
Routebox for the UK – Rail links[edit]
As the Network Rail logo isn't public domain or CC licensed, one needs to figure out how to call the logo's SVG from Wikipedia directly instead of the Commons.
Cheltenham[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
| Penzance ← Bristol ← | W  E
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→ Reading → London Paddington |
Routebox for the UK – A40[edit]
For Cheltenham and other destinations along the A40.
Cheltenham[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
| Fishguard ← Monmouth ← | W  E
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→ Oxford → London |
Routebox for the UK – M5[edit]
For Taunton and other destinations along the M5.
Birmingham[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
merges with  ←
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N  S
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→ Bristol → Exeter |
Worcester[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
| Birmingham ← Kidderminster ← | N S
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→ Bristol → Exeter |
Tewkesbury[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
| Birmingham ← Worcester ← | N S
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→ Cheltenham → Exeter |
Cheltenham[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
| Birmingham ← Tewkesbury ← | N S
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→ Gloucester → Exeter |
Gloucester[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
| Birmingham ← Cheltenham ← | N S
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→ Bristol → Exeter |
Taunton[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
| Birmingham ← Gloucester ← | N S
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→ Cullompton → Exeter |
Exeter[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
| Birmingham ← Gloucester ← | N S
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→ merges with 
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THIS HAS BEEN DONE ALREADY!
Routebox for the UK – London Underground[edit]
Needs a white background on the roundel to be seen clearly. Although the flat line works well too.
London/Paddington-Maida Vale[edit]
| Routes through Inferno986return |
| 1 ← 2 ← | W  E
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→ 3 → 4 |