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This is an archive of the discussions from Talk:Main Page, from December 2003 through (and including) November 2004.

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New, new, new, new Main Page layout

So, I moved the stuff from Main page/test to the Main Page. I think it looks pretty swell, and now we have a place to feature lots of pages.

I think the test page had a lot of broken links, so I've tried to merge in some pages that we've actually worked on. It seems like we've had a lot of work on North America, Europe, and Australasia, some on Southeast Asia, but not a lot on the rest of Asia, Africa, South America... probably need to get cracking on these!

If you think some pages should be brought up to the front page, please check the Main Page policy, but I think we should be a little flexible at this time. We have a lot more slots for featuring stuff, after all.

Thanks to User:(WT-en) Dhum Dhum for great work on this layout. I think it's the best we've had so far. --(WT-en) Evan 13:53, 14 Dec 2003 (PST)

I think the Hebrew phrasebook should be featured. It doesn't have all the phrases in the template, but it will be (as soon as Baruch or someone writes "ahuz" in Hebrew) the first phrasebook with all the phrases in a non-Latin alphabet. -(WT-en) phma 23:23, 27 Dec 2003 (PST)

It lacks about 80% of the phrases in the phrasebook. We have a whole bunch of phrasebooks that are more-or-less complete. I don't think having a non-Latin alphabet is a good enough reason to feature this page. --(WT-en) Evan 16:54, 5 Jan 2004 (EST)

First and Business Discounters

I removed the First and Business Discounters link when it was a broken link, and I removed it again once the article was finished.

I'm not sure I buy that this follows our Main Page policy. --(WT-en) Evan 16:51, 5 Jan 2004 (EST)

I added the First and Business Discounters and apologise for any guidelines that it broke. What specifically is wrong with it and what could I do to fix it? I intend to add more links for the different businesses, but if it's in breach of something or other then there's not much point. I was surprised that there was no information about this stuff on the Wiki. Indeed it's hard to find on the web and I only got hold of it through an ad in the L.A.Times. --(WT-en) Sean

Number of articles

I "cleaned" the guide section a bit. According to Project:Main Page policy we should limit the number of articles to 3-4 (I'd say 4-5, but anyway...). So I took out the last one(s) in the rows that had more than 5. I also added Istanbul to New Delhi over land to the beginning of the "Other Destinations" row. This is growing steadily into an interesting article. I took out the link to the Romanian Wikivoyage under "Project". There are already two links for that: one at the top and one in the logbook. Three seems a bit over the top. Even when the logbook link will be gone, I don't think that it really belongs there: why have one at the top and one under project? (WT-en) DhDh 06:04, 22 Jan 2004 (EST)

I also changed the order of Tokyo, Argentina and Antarctica because the first really has not much information and the last two are but factbook imports. When new articles are going to be added they will disappear first. (WT-en) DhDh 06:20, 22 Jan 2004 (EST)

So, I changed the numbers in the policy to reflect the new layout -- they were for the old one. I added back in United States of America. Also, I removed Istanbul to New Delhi over land. I think it's shaping up to be a really good article, and I think it could be a showcase itinerary. But I don't think "Other destinations" is for itineraries; I believe they should either go under "Travel topics", or we should re-org the main page (*groan*). I also think that the whole itinerary idea is in such flux right now, I'd like to get a good template set up first, then make I2NDOL fit it... Anyways, I'm not sure it's in a "close to done" state. --(WT-en) Evan 10:40, 22 Jan 2004 (EST)

Evan, you have a point regarding I2NDOL, but the Main Page features a few others which I think are "worse" (eg. the "factbook articles"). Secondly, the policy clearly states that (1) Do try to keep Featured links in order from newest to oldest, with newest first. Here, "oldest" means "on the Featured list longest" and (2) Do remove the oldest entry from the end of the line, and add your new entry on the beginning of the line. Why then did you put the USA back in? It was at the end of the line (BTW, Flanders was moved while it was not at the end...) Or is this a secret American conspiracy to always have the USA featured on the Main Page ;-) You also put I2NDOL back in at the third place...? I hope you understand that I don't understand why there is a policy if it's not adhered to. And yes, maybe we should think of a little reorganization if the itinerary articles continue to grow (a separate itinerary section?) (WT-en) DhDh 11:00, 22 Jan 2004 (EST)

w/r/t policy, yes, I screwed up. The reason we have policies is to follow them. I tried to fix things again; let me know how I did.
All the factbook articles are filler. We didn't have enough complete articles for South America, Africa, etc. So I threw some in. They should probably get taken out first, as we get get other guides in those regions 70-80% complete.
I2NDOL is back in travel topics (= "things which aren't destination guides or phrasebooks", for now, at least).
I put USA back in because it was the last item that you deleted to keep things down to 4. If we can have 5, then it goes back in. I also added it in because we want to have variety. It'd be nice to have city, country, and region guides under every continent -- although that's not a big issue. We used to have an itinerary section -- it got removed in the last reorg. --(WT-en) Evan 11:22, 22 Jan 2004 (EST)

Not bad, I'd say. Actually, North America has 6 items now, USA is no. 6, but no worries, we'll take out 2 next time. And either I should work a bit on Flanders or move it to the last position, it doesn't come close to the content of the rest under Europe. I think I really should do the former... (WT-en) DhDh 11:32, 22 Jan 2004 (EST)

I know we're supposted to take off the oldest to add something new, but what about something like Kenya which is just a CIA article? I really want to highlight Namibia-- it's really well done. Should I take off the oldest (Cario I think) or replace the CIA Kenya page? (WT-en) Majnoona 19:00, 1 Feb 2004 (EST)

I'd say take out CIA imports first. --(WT-en) Evan 19:50, 1 Feb 2004 (EST)

Talk about Talk:Main Page

This page may be almost as important as the Main Page itself - (it may even need its own Talk page). I have changed order of notes about Editing the Main Page and Editing Talk:Main Page - I couldn't see the main page policy link immediately that I visited the page because the "IMPORTANT NOTE" that is less important than the policy appeared first. The sentence about the main page policy appeared to be part of that note and I missed it - and overstepped the Main Page policy link to Project:Main Page policy

Also added headings to achived talk to make finding things easier -- (WT-en) Huttite
-- (WT-en) Huttite 17:52, 20 Feb 2004 (EST)

Rollback

So I rolled this back to before the Books link was added for a few reasons. First, it didn't follow our Main Page policy for when and how to add a new link (add one remove one, only point to complete articles). Second, I'm pretty sure the Books page doesn't fit our Project:Goals and non-goals per big long general lists. In fact, lists of books, music, etc are specifically mentioned (in Project:Slippery slopes I think). In anycase, just wanted to explain... (WT-en) Majnoona 18:18, 20 Feb 2004 (EST)

Continents

So, one thing that was brought up on Wikivoyage francophone (fr:Discuter:Accueil) was that the continents weren't in any particular order on this page. Or, rather, that the order used on the page was to support anglophonism in general and North American hegemony in particular.

I think that the English Wikivoyage should work well for all English-speaking travellers, wherever they live -- Africa, America, the British Isles or Australasia. I don't think we particularly want to promote or favor Americans or Canadians.

So, I reordered the continents on the page to be in alphabetical order. If there's a better order, let's discuss it. Otherwise, I don't think it really messes anything up. --(WT-en) Evan 12:43, 23 Feb 2004 (EST)

Just for the record: the continents here were in a particular order. If you look at a classic world map you would see that North America is roughly placed in the upper left area, Europe in the upper central area and Asia in the upper right area. The lower half contains South America, Africa and Australasia from left to right. I placed the continents at those positions on the main page. So I didn't want to favour North Americans (being a European myself ;-)
That said, I think there was a slight subjective element in it: some world maps do not place North America in the upper left but in the upper middle. And on some maps in Australia the world is turned upside down (or should I say "downside up") and Australia is put firmly in the upper central area.
Also, from your comments I can see that the reason for the previous layout was not immediately clear, and that people would search for other reasons, which wasn't my intention.
I think having the continents in alphabetical order is better. (I hope we all have the same alphabet... ;-) (WT-en) DhDh 03:32, 6 Mar 2004 (EST)

Big comment

I also added a big comment at the beginning of the Main Page, pointing people to the Main Page policy, for those who don't read this talk page first. --(WT-en) Evan 12:50, 23 Feb 2004 (EST)

Genius!

Hey, so, when you have a second, you should check out the new WikiPedia:Main Page. Probably the main thing I like -- the aha! moment for me -- is that they've split up the main page into two. One is for the encyclopedia itself, and one is for the Wikipedia project (WikiPedia:Wikipedia:Main Page). It's a really good idea -- kind of like the separation we have on our Main Page right now! I want to copy this. --(WT-en) Evan 21:10, 23 Feb 2004 (EST)

So, I went ahead and did this. We now have a main page for the guides, and a main page for the project. Comments, criticisms, and changes welcome. --(WT-en) Evan 00:31, 16 Mar 2004 (EST)
The layout looks pretty weird now. I'm not too happy with it, It's too empty, too stretched, and your attention doesn't move to the essentials - the links to the information itself - it is captured by the menues, and the big headings. With the news, at least the "link box" in the middle was the biggest object on the page. -(WT-en) Nils 03:30, 16 Mar 2004 (EST)


Okay it's a bit better in the "standard" layout. :) - (WT-en) Nils 04:12, 16 Mar 2004 (EST)

Change in the Main Page

Hi,

I don't understand why to remove everything about the project in the Main Page ??? It is quite difficult now to find information needed by editors. (WT-en) Yann 14:46, 17 Mar 2004 (EST)

Sorry Evan, I can't say that I like it. I think the project info should really be part of the "real" main page and not be tucked away on a separate "pseudo" main page which is hidden behind an inconspicuous link in the text. I fear newcomers will find it more difficult to find their way around then with what we had. On a main page it should be obvious on what to click to find the necessary information about the site and it should capture a visitor's attention very quickly. Otherwise chances are high that potentially valuable contributors move on to other sites. And that is not what we want, is it? (WT-en) Dhum Dhum Akubra 15:41, 17 Mar 2004 (EST)

The project box should be on the main page. Especially the welcome links should be on the main page. -(WT-en) phma 19:13, 17 Mar 2004 (EST)

OK, so, I've put the project info back on the main page. I have to say that I don't think it's the right thing to do: I really like separating the guide information from the information about the project. I think we tend to optimize the site for people who do heavy editing, and not for folks who are looking for travel information. --(WT-en) Evan 19:59, 17 Mar 2004 (EST)
Isn't the "wikivoyage project" - "Project" part redundant? The entries will easily fit other categories. Right now it's a nice 3x2 matrix so no need to break it up; but I am asking because I am playing around with some layouts and would like to know if it's acceptable to eleminate it :) (WT-en) Nils 06:10, 22 Mar 2004 (EST)

Locator port to English pages

I used the locator on the Madras page by copying it from the Bucharest page

Sunteţi aici: Europa Centrală > România > Bucureşti

would become Central Europe > Romania > Bucharest in English. I am not sure what 'Sunteţi aici' means. What does it become in English ?. Will recheck for an answer before implemnting it.

-(WT-en) Sridhar Pandurangiah 18:10, 23 March 2004 (IST)


I've made the headings of the remaining three parts of the "Wikivoyage Guide" section into links as well. I really appreciate consistency in a user interface. I've also taken the liberty to create a page "Other Destinations" (in the tradition of Travel topics). I've moved the World Heritage List and Outer Space there, because that's where they really belong. I'm envisioning also links to "bodies of water" there (for example, say, an article about the Atlantic Ocean or whatever) and stuff like List of all Articles about theme parks. -- (WT-en) Nils 17:15, 8 Apr 2004 (EDT)

PS: I didn't do it for the Project part of the main page because only one of the sections has a "More", so such a change would be too early. -- (WT-en) Nils 17:17, 8 Apr 2004 (EDT)

Please check out bodies of water first. I also think Other destinations should be specifically for destination guides for places that don't fall on one of the continents. Theme parks might be a good travel topic. --(WT-en) Evan 18:46, 8 Apr 2004 (EDT)
Ehm, no, theme parks in themselves fit right under a specific location (Disneyland Europe under France and so on). A general article about theme parks would fit in Travel topics, say "what to bring", "what to do there", etc; but a list of world wide theme parks, even sorted by regions, would have to go into Other Destinations. The precedent is the List of all countries. Also consider Caribbean islands - if that's Other Destinations, then so would be the Mediterranean, for example (only there are no island nations in it, except cyprus which sort of is an exception). And it makes sense to put such lists there. I am not going to write an Article about the Atlantic Ocean, but if someone did, I don't see any reason to stick it anyplace except Other Destinations.
Basically I think that if it's about an itinary, an activity, the act of travelling themselves, or about travellers, it goes into travel topics (The europe to asia overland article for example; another example that would make an excellent article are cruises). If it's about a location that cannot be plainly stuck into any continent page, then it goes into Other destinations (even if you would link to it from other, regional, articles). I find the titles of the two pages pretty self-explanatory really. -- (WT-en) Nils 02:14, 9 Apr 2004 (EDT)

Frankfurt

I put Frankfurt on the front page (displacing Oxford). I'm pretty sure it hasn't been there before, and I think it's a great article. --(WT-en) Evan 13:46, 11 Apr 2004 (EDT)

Well, thanks. Everybody, if you know Frankfurt... add more detail. :) -- (WT-en) Nils 03:12, 13 Apr 2004 (EDT)

Help wanted

So, I moved the Help wanted link out of the "Help" section and up to the "Project" section. It's where we list all the things needing attention, requests for new pages, that kind of stuff.

It's not about help in the normal sense of "I need help using this wiki". --(WT-en) Evan 09:34, 12 Apr 2004 (EDT)



Phrasebooks

I renamed the "Expeditions" link to "more...". I am a big consistency freak. I also noted that we have two links "Phrasebooks" on the page, which link to different destinations (List of Phrasebooks and Phrasebooks Expeditions). While it is clear from the context what is meant, it would still be cleaner to have differing text for the links. This becomes important when you wish to make the website easier for disabled people. It's not the biggest matter in the world, but then again, changing it costs us nothing. Can we rename the link of Phrasebooks Expeditions to either, well, "Phrasebooks Expedition" (which is a bit redundant) or "Creating Phrasebooks" (or any other applicable text really).. -- (WT-en) Nils 03:12, 13 Apr 2004 (EDT)


Help

Hi I'm new to Wikivoyage and have edited a few pages, but I can't find any really explicit help on how to insert links, either internal or external. What do you have to type? User:Sue

Have a look at Project:Wiki markup. Essentially, type [[...]] around internal page names and [URL Description] for external web pages (or just the full URL with http:// in front. -- (WT-en) Huttite 05:03, 13 Apr 2004 (EDT)

300 Articles

Is that really a milestone? It's a totally uneven number. 100, 500, 1000, okay, but 300? Are you going to anounce reaching 457 articles too? ;) -- (WT-en) Nils 04:00, 19 Apr 2004 (EDT)

300 articles is not an official milestone, but it is a rounded number, and for Wikivoyage, which has a low number of articles, it is important. Therefore, until 1000 articles, the reaching of every 100 articles will be reported in the logbook. Also, as the go-between, I have a responsibility to keep the English Wikipedia informed of progress at Romanian Wikivoyage. The now-stagnant French Wikivoyage used to announce things like how many Wikivoyage: namespace articles have been created. Regarding 457 articles, I assure you I will announce when we do reach 457 articles in the logbook, if you asked. We hope that can come as soon as possible ;-) (WT-en) Ronline 08:25, 19 Apr 2004 (EDT)
Hahaha. Well is that official policy? I'd have suggested 100, 250, 500, 1000 as the steps. Maybe 750 if we really must. No big deal I guess. -- As for 457... don't let me stop you! :-D -- (WT-en) Nils 08:54, 19 Apr 2004 (EDT)
It's a monthly thing. The liaisons for the language versions report each month on developments on those wikis. Hitting 300 articles is a worthwhile thing to report.
It's nice to see that the Romanian Wikivoyage is doing so well, Ronline! --(WT-en) Evan 10:09, 19 Apr 2004 (EDT)

Please have a look!

Please have a look on the romanian Portal (Main Page). Bravo, Ronline!

Looks nice! (WT-en) Majnoona 22:22, 30 Apr 2004 (EDT)
Thanks for all the appreciation (and to Danutz for mentioning the new design on this page). Should we use this type of layout on the English and French Wikivoyages? (WT-en) Ronline 03:53, 1 May 2004 (EDT)

Change to use new Romanian layout?

So, I really like the new Romanian portal layout (ro:Portal). How do people feel about adapting it for en:?

I'd like to get in the habit of having a featured city or area on the site, just because it looks nice. Also, when a place has some kind of timeliness to it, we can both show that we have info about the place, and get more input.

For example: Portland (Oregon) is having its Festival of Roses in the next couple of weeks. Featuring Portland would be a great way to attract contributors and get the page really in shape.

Another good example would be Athens for the Olympic Games.

Any input? --(WT-en) Evan 16:14, 29 May 2004 (EDT)

Excellent idea! (WT-en) Guaka 09:44, 1 Jun 2004 (EDT)
Yeah! That 'is' a really good idea. -- (WT-en) Mark 10:11, 1 Jun 2004 (EDT)
I've been hoping we'd do this... (WT-en) Majnoona 11:54, 1 Jun 2004 (EDT)
I made a sample at User:(WT-en) Matthewmayer/Portal, please amend as you see fit (WT-en) Matthewmayer 13:32, 18 Jun 2004 (EDT)

(from User talk:(WT-en) Matthewmayer/Portal)

This looks great! I say, copy it to the Main Page ASAP. --Evan 13:50, 18 Jun 2004 (EDT)
This looks excellent! The only comments/suggestions I have are to limit the bottom left cell by length, not number of log entries so you can have 2 long ones or three short ones. That might get rid of the extra whitespace at the bottom right. Also, you might want to add a bit of cellpadding or something to give the text some space off the table borders. But this is all real nit-pickey. I'd say go ahead and copy it over! Majnoona 20:12, 18 Jun 2004 (EDT)
The layout looks great, I think too. It's great to see that the Romanian layout has been used! Just a note - why don't we the CSS scrollbar effect for the news, so that they can be packed in a smaller space. Other than that, it would be great. Ronline 04:35, 19 Jun 2004 (EDT)
Right, have copied to the Main Page! (WT-en) Matthewmayer 14:09, 19 Jun 2004 (EDT)

It would be nice if pictures on the main page linked to the article they belong to, and not to the picture page. Newcomers don't care about this page, they care about Geneva. (WT-en) Guaka 13:06, 22 Jun 2004 (EDT)

I agree. -- (WT-en) Mark 04:51, 23 Jun 2004 (EDT)

Middle East

So, I'm not terribly opposed to having the Middle East on the Main page. However, it is already listed in Asia. --(WT-en) Evan 18:23, 6 Jul 2004 (EDT)

My motivation in placing the Middle East on the Main Page as a separate destination category was two-fold (at least): 1. the Middle East is not adequately represented only in Asia, as several countries considered to be in the "Middle East" are located in North Africa (e.g. Egypt, Libya, Sudan, etc); 2. the Middle East is sufficiently culturally distinct from the rest of Asia to warrant its own category (compare Jordan with China, for example.....). (WT-en) Pjamescowie 16:52, 16 Jul 2004 (EDT)

I changed all headlines into links, with the exceptions of Tools and Other Languages which do not have appropriate index pages. Looking at this comment page, that seems to have been the case in the past too. Anyway, my reasons: 1) I kept wanting to click on the headlines, 2) It's easier for blind people to find a link for, say, "Europe", if it's named Europe and not "more". -- (WT-en) Nils 07:26, 15 Jul 2004 (EDT)

New Orleans

Anyone else think New Orleans is in good enough condition now to be listed in the North America section on the main page? (And if not, perhaps give reccomendations for improvement on that page's talk.) -- (WT-en) Infrogmation 01:18, 23 Jul 2004 (EDT)

Barring objections, I'm going to "forge ahead" and add a link to New Orleans to the Main page. -- (WT-en) Infrogmation 17:05, 8 Sep 2004 (EDT)
It's one of the best articles here. Make sense to have it on the main page. -- (WT-en) Colin 02:07, 9 Sep 2004 (EDT)

Rollback Athens, Cairo, Jordan

I rolled back changes to the Main Page that added Athens, Cairo, and Jordan. I really don't think any of those three articles meets the standards for the Project:Main Page guidelines. Neither Athens nor Cairo had anything near complete Sleep, Eat, or other info, and Jordan is more or less mostly a template. --(WT-en) Evan 10:15, 6 Aug 2004 (EDT)

lol. OK, point taken - just me getting carried away I guess..... It'd be nice to have a special Main Page focus for Athens, however, even if only for this week running up to the Opening Ceremony.... That might attract some extra attention, some good contributions and more expressly meet the needs of those Wikivoyage users in Greece right now...... Whatya reckon?(WT-en) Pjamescowie 11:27, 6 Aug 2004 (EDT)
Well, it came up on Project:Destination of the Month candidates, and I think the feeling was that it was really timely but too incomplete to make our most featured article.
I wonder if we could add a parallel article of the month to the "project" section of the page. French-language Wikipedia has an article de la semaine, and I think some of the other Wikimedia projects have a similar thing. That is, it's not an article that we consider a showcase, but rather an article that we want to draw attention to to get more work on. --(WT-en) Evan 11:37, 6 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Guatemala in North America?

Does it bother anyone else that the first listing in North America is Guatamala City? I realize there isn't a seperate section for Central America, but maybe there should be, or South Am, should be changed to Central and South America, since culturally there's not as much of a division there. (Aside from Mexico, which is geographically part of N.A. but is closer culturally to C.A.)

Anyway, I don't want to make any big changes to the main page unless other people agree with me. Any thoughts.-(WT-en) Neil C 22:22, 11 Aug 2004 (EDT)

I like the idea of adding a Central America section and page. --(WT-en) Evan 14:26, 12 Aug 2004 (EDT)
That was easy...there was already a Central America page, but it was linked as a subsection of North America. I also took out the C.A. countries from the North American list, but left the Carribean in there, since it's location is more ambiguous, both culturally and geographically. Anyway, I'll poke around and see if there's more good articles in C.A. to put up on the front page.
--(WT-en) Neil C 23:33, 12 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Well, geographically, Guatemala is part of North America. If we prefer cultural rather than continental divisisions, perhaps "South America" could be changed to "Latin America" to add Mexico & Central America? -- (WT-en) Infrogmation 17:05, 8 Sep 2004 (EDT)

Winchester

I added Winchester (United Kingdom), since it seems to be a real nice article. --(WT-en) Evan 18:14, 19 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Listings under continents

Reverting change by User:(WT-en) Professorbiscuit

I have reverted these changes for several reasons:

  • They do not follow the Project:Main Page guidelines in that they do not make any attempt to "try to keep Guide links in order from newest to oldest, with newest first". Following this guideline would have resulted in the list for European articles becoming "London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Winchester, Frankfurt" and dropping "Helsinki, Flanders, Darmstadt, Geneva".
  • They do not follow the Project:Main Page guidelines in that some of the nominated articles are insufficiently complete (eg. the list of districts for Berlin points almost exclusively to non-existent articles).
  • Perhaps more controversially, I do not think it serves Wikivoyage's purpose well to have all 6 featured European articles being fairly well known capital cities. We should strive to have a more balanced mix of article subjects, including countries/regions/other destinations/smaller cities/etc.

Having said that, I don't necessarily disagree with Professorbiscuit's nominated articles. I propose to reinstate those I think merit, in line with the guidelines above.

More in two tics. -- (WT-en) Chris j wood 14:41, 11 Sep 2004 (EDT)

Having looked at the articles that were added (London, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris), I have re-added Amsterdam following the Project:Main Page guidelines as it seems a reasonably complete article. I'm concerned by the other three, as they are all constructed to the huge city template and have many districts which are either empty or sparse stubs.

  • Paris has made a great surge recently, and at least has a rational district structure based on arrondissement. I think at that rate it will merit inclusion soon but not quite yet.
  • London has lots of district information, but an anarchic structure that seems much too deep. I believe it needs a good edit before it gets there.
  • Berlin simply has too many empty districts.

I think all this really reflects the immense difficulty of using the huge city template well, and I'd welcome debate on whether I'm being reasonable here. -- (WT-en) Chris j wood 14:57, 11 Sep 2004 (EDT)

Continent listings suggestions

My bad on the "try to keep Guide links in order from newest to oldest, with newest first" thing. I was trying to start more of a rotation of articles on the main page, but I should have probably have said something on the talk page first.

That said, I believe that the main page should highlight articles of famous places, as well as examples of excellent articles. Flanders is a page which demonstrates neither quality, and Darmstadt, added today, is stylistically poor and shouldn't be there either, especially if Frankfurt is on.

How about every continent on the main page having a similar range of topics listed underneath? For example; two countries (one famous and one obscure), two cities (again one famous and one obscure), one other destination (such as a park) and one travel topic. So Europe might be; Amsterdam, Winchester, Germany, Slovakia, Disneyland Paris and Discount airlines in Europe. It would add some consistency, at least. (WT-en) Professorbiscuit 15:45, 11 Sep 2004 (EDT)

Actually Darmstadt was put in there today by an unregistered user coming from an IP address. Not that there's anything wrong with not logging in, but the user put it right at the bottom of the list. And as the Professor points out the article is no where close to MOS. That said it looks cool, and with a little work should maybe come back here, but at the top of the list, not the bottom. -- (WT-en) Mark 17:03, 11 Sep 2004 (EDT)
I confess I didn't actually look at Darmstadt and Flanders as they were already on the main page. Thanks to Mark, Darmstadt has now gone. And I quite agree with Professorbiscuit on Flanders. I rather like his suggestion on the range of topics; although whether Discount airlines in Europe belongs under 'Europe' or 'Travel topics' I'm not sure. So how about we drop Flanders (not a great article) and Geneva (good article but it has had its turn in the barrel as Destination of the Month anyway) and add in Germany and Disneyland Paris (which both look good articles)?. -- (WT-en) Chris j wood 17:31, 11 Sep 2004 (EDT)
Feel free to proceed with that plan, as far as I am concerned. I guess I would tend to prefer Frankfurt over Germany though, as I like the destination guides more than geographical area pages. -- (WT-en) Mark 17:46, 11 Sep 2004 (EDT)

Armenia

I am going to abbreviate "Angkor Archaeological Park" to "Angkor Wat", it's more common name, and make space for another listing under Asia. I will add Armenia for now, since that is my interest, and I think it is a decent article now, and a good "obscure" destination. I hope you all agree! RaffiKojian

Hi RaffiJojian, the article is much improved, and I hope you'll continue to work on it. I'm uncertain whether or not you have read Project:Main Page guidelines before adding Armenia, which is pretty important. To me it doesn't look quite done yet. But I'm open to the comments of others. Anyone else care to comment on whether they think Armenia is ready? -- (WT-en) Colin 02:22, 25 Sep 2004 (EDT)
I had read the guidelines, but there is no clear line of what is ready for the big time. I'll look at it again, but feedback on what would make the difference could be helpful. A second photo? Just more info in general? RaffiKojian
It's not ready. Too many first-person pronouns, not enough details in any of the sub-sections, and there's still tons of CIA Factbook import stuff. I'm taking it off the Main Page. --(WT-en) Evan 13:13, 25 Sep 2004 (EDT)

Display wikipedia Images on wikivoyage

How can I display Image from wikipedia on wikivoyage with out making another copy at wikivoyage?
eg: Image:Mattancherry palace bhagvathy kshetram.JPG at WikiPedia ~Bijee

You cannot, Wikipedia and Wikivoyage are different sites. Also note that most Wikipedia pictures are licensed under GFDL and cannot be used on Wikivoyage at all. (WT-en) Jpatokal 11:50, 20 Oct 2004 (EDT)

Good Australasian pages?

Anyone got any suggestions? I wanted to highlight something new from my part of the world... unfortunately almost every good article is currently somewhere in Australia (c'mon kiwis...). These might be good, assuming they haven't been on the main page before:

(WT-en) Hypatia 08:48, 2 Nov 2004 (EST)

OK, I think Melbourne is pretty ready, unfortunately it's yet another Australian capital city so I won't put it there. I put Gunbarrel Highway there, I might try and get Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park going and poke the DoM discussion about it. -- (WT-en) Hypatia 05:41, 10 Nov 2004 (EST)

Prague

So a listing for Prague has been reverted a couple of times, added by 194.212.72.131 in place of Winchester (United Kingdom).

Aside from Prague not deserving a place just because it's famous (policy) and needing to go at the top if it is added (policy), I've been working on Prague and I think it's not ready for the following reasons:

  • It only has about three 'Eat' listings across all the districts.
  • It only has about three 'Sleep' listings across all the districts.

194.212.72.131, you'd be best off helping add more Eat, Sleep and Drink entries to the Prague districts, if you know it at all, so that it will start to be Main Page ready. -- (WT-en) Hypatia 05:49, 10 Nov 2004 (EST)

I agree with Hypatia on all counts. Prague is a great destination, and really deserves to have a good article, but what we have there now is way to spare to be featured. I would especially like to see more specific listings in the Sleep section. -- (WT-en) Mark 08:32, 10 Nov 2004 (EST)
Note that the districts do have a few specific listings... (not enough) -- (WT-en) Hypatia 06:17, 11 Nov 2004 (EST)
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