Wikivoyage:Arrivals lounge

Welcome to the Arrivals Lounge Shortcuts: WV:Arrivals WV:AL The Arrivals Lounge is a place where learners on Wikivoyage can ask questions about the website; in particular, questions about formatting, templates, or any problems or concerns. Experienced users can answer their questions and help them learn more about how to use the website. For travel advice, please ask at the tourist office instead. To start a new topic, click the button below entitled "Click here to ask a new question", so that the new topic gets added at the bottom of the page, and sign your post by appending four tildes (~~~~). To see the archives, please visit the archive for the month you are looking for. For example, Wikivoyage:Arrivals lounge/Archives/2018/September gets you the archives for September 2018. Archiving is done automatically after one month per discussion. There is also a page with links to archives; see Wikivoyage:Arrivals lounge/Archives. Click here to ask a new question You can also try some other pages for getting information. Press the "expand" button to see more. Our Help, FAQ, and Policies pages. For general questions, the pub is a popular destination. If you have a question or suggestion about a particular article, you may use the article's talk page to keep the discussion associated with that article. If you'd like to draw attention to a comment to get feedback from other Wikivoyagers, you can try Requests for comment. If you are wanting travel advice on a specific matter, you can ask the question at the Tourist Office. If you there is vandalism you need to report, you can go to Ongoing vandalism. If you are having a problem that you think has to do with the MediaWiki software, please post that on Phabricator rather than here. If you want to celebrate a significant contribution to Wikivoyage by yourself or others, you can hold a party at Celebrate a contribution. Discuss issues related to more than one language version of Wikivoyage in the Wikivoyage Lounge on Meta.

I want to contribute on Wikivoyage

Hello I'm a contributor on wikipedia from Burundi then i want to know much on Wikivoyage, such as to use it contributing on it. Then after knowing it i wish i can teach others who we are together and some online meetings, i'm ready to attend them in order to know many things. Thanks Steve Uwimana (talk) 21:20, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

I put the standard greeting for new contributors on your talk page. If you have questions after reading that & some things it links to, ask here or in the pub. Pashley (talk) 21:25, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Of course you might contribute to the Burundi article, or articles on your town or region, or perhaps related topics like German East Africa, Lake Tanganyika or Great Rift Valley.

One thing I notice is that the Burundi article has red links for some cities and most of the national parks; if you could create articles for some of those, that would be quite useful. Pashley (talk) 22:17, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

yes i can contribute them so how can i contributee them because i tried even to insert their images or add some links on the parks but it didn't work. for sure if i can know to create them it may be better than, so can you please give me some instructions in order to know it faster. Steve Uwimana (talk) 22:40, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

See User talk:Steve Uwimana. Pashley (talk) 01:49, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Also, if you describe the steps you took and what exactly did or did not happen, it is much easier to help. Did you push the "Publish page" button? What happened? Or did you never get that far? (There is nothing in our logs.)

(Images can be a mess for copyright reasons, except photos you took yourself that aren't about modern architecture or art. I am happy to give more exact advice on what to do with possibly problematic images, or any other problems. If there are no copyright problems, then you can click the "Upload file" link and then the link to the upload wizard on Commons or click the direct link in this sentence.)

–LPfi (talk) 07:45, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Map coding

Hello, I'm having a look at Jeju#Regions, and there seems to be code (mapshapes) for each listed region. Is that meant to do something? Further, is there a system for picking the colours, or are they chosen at random? Since Marado is there, I thought it might be useful to add Gapado as well. Thanks, CMD (talk) 07:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes. The mapshapes should colour the regions in the dynamic map created by {{mapframe}} (in this case below in the Cities section). However, they depend on the Wikidata item being linked to the appropriate shape at OpenStreetMap, and in this case only some regions are (only Seogwipo-Si?), and to avoid confusion the shape opacities are set to 0, i.e. they are invisible. As the shapes get created and linked (or whatever is needed), one can adjust the opacity to some suitable other value (or remove the parameter, if the default is sensible).

The colours should be standardised, but I don't remember where they are listed.

–LPfi (talk) 12:05, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

The standardised colour scheme is listed at the (unfortunately named) {{StdColor}}. It might be somewhere in the Wikivoyage namespace as well, but that template is what I usually reference.
― Wauteurz (talk) 14:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you both. Fiddling with OSM is still slightly beyond my knowledge base. I'm not sure how you for example know it is only for Seogwipo-Si. Nonetheless, thanks for answering the questions. CMD (talk) 06:50, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

What is this page for

And how can i use it —The preceding comment was added by 102.89.43.56 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 6 December 2024

Welcome! This page is for asking questions about the site. Feel free to ask any questions about using or contributing to Wikivoyage. —Granger (talk · contribs) 15:30, 6 December 2024 (UTC)