Wikivoyage

Hanyangprofessor2

Joined 17 July 2013

See w:User:Hanyangprofessor2 but basically I am User:Piotrus on a public computer

Student assignments

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Compare Wikivoyage to other websites

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In order to learn how to write a very good Wikivoyage article, let’s review their best examples

Go to        https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Previous_Destinations_of_the_month which lists some of Wikivoyage best articles. Choose one (an entry about a particular location) and read it. Is it useful?


Now compare that entry to some other travel websites (Wikivoyage competitors) that you used in the past. What does Wikivoyage do better – and what does it do worse – compared to them?

Understanding talk page messages

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See if you have gotten any Wikipedia or Wikivoyage messages since the beginning of the course. Did you get any from a real person (not automated/AI)? Did you reply? Should you reply?

Do you know where to ask for help in the Wikivoyage system? Can you find the place to ask for help?

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?

Assignment 1: What feedback did you get from other wiki editors (not me)?

You have been editing wiki for a month. Check what feedback you got: did you get any talk page messages? Any notifications that are not automated (that came from real people)?

Next, review the history of articles you edited. Did anyone else edit them? What did they do? Did they leave edit summaries (explanations of their changes)?

After Assignment 1, you can do extra credit edits.

Adding a listing

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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

GPS coordinates are very important. You can get them from most online maps (see also Wikivoyage:How to use dynamic maps).

Common error to avoid: you should add an address (street, building number, etc.) to your listing BUT do not repeat the city name. For example, if your listing is in Ansan, the address does not need to contain the city name.

Starting a new page

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Find a location (preferably a city, town or village) that is missing from Wikivoyage. Start a new page about it using the templates at https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Article_skeleton_templates (use either one of the city templates for a city, or a region template for a county; DO not use other templates like districts, parks, airports, etc.). . Make sure it has an introductory paragraph (see WV:LEAD) and is using the Template:IsPartOf code. Then add at least three listings to it, with GPS coordinates.

Next, add a map to it.

How to write good descriptions for listings?

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Activity: Today we will practice writing good descriptions for listings. Listings should have more than a name and address (GPS), they should tell visitors why they are cool to see – but they should not be adverts.

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

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At the top of all good Wikivoyage article, there is a banner-like image, called a banner.

Activity 1: Suggest a good banner (top image) for a Wikivoyage article that is missing one (perhaps your main project?). 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 described on the linked page. Before adding a banner yourself, 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 or an online tool like https://croptool.toolforge.org/ and upload a new image to Commons, attributing (linking to) the old image. If you cannot find a good image, you can also upload a new image to Commons, but remember – only images you have taken yourself are allowed. You cannot copy (steal) an image from the Internet (unless it is on a free license already, which allows copying). 99.99% of content on the Internet is not freely licensed and it is illegal to copy it.

Tip: How to find a free picture on the Internet: tinyurl.com/HANWIK6

Reminder: If you want to change an existing banner, please start a discussion on the talk page of that article – do not change it yourself without a discussion first.

Understand

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Today we will add the climate subsection 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’ subsection? What about the description of the districts (neighbourhoods) - it should be under 'Orientation' subsection. 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

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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

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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

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Today we will consider how to use (and when to be careful) with AI tools.


Assignment 1: Ask AI to write a Wikivoyage article about your group topic. Compare it to your current articles. What did the AI do a) better b) similar c) worse than your project? Can any parts of the AI output be used in your project? Did the AI fabricate any information (inserted false information = hallucinations)?


Suggestions: if the AI input is missing content, tell AI do add it. For example, can AI find GPS coordinates? Addresses?

Also, if the AI answer is plain text, tell it to give you code and see if it works to generate listings, or climate table, or maps.

Can I find good images?

Also – compare different AI tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity…)

Final review

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For the final step, ask experienced Wikivoyage editors for feedback by 1) starting a discussion on the discussion page of your article (make sure to have an appropriate heading and a comment below it) and 2) linking it from here with a comment: "please review my article" or similar.

Please check for replies every few days (and before the final grading), address any issues raised (if you don't understand them, ask me for help) and after fixing them, reply to the people who reviewed your article telling them you fixed the issues raised. (Ping them by mentioning their name using the + button, see Wikivoyage:Echo).

Extra credit

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Today extra credit activity:  Wikivoyage, in addition to pages about places, has pages about customs such as https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Christmas_and_New_Year_travel , https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year . Can you improve them? Maybe create an entry for Chuseok, if you feel ambitious and want extra credit?  Check Wikidata pages for those concepts (ex. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1090024 ). Can you add some relevant statements?  Or how about uploading photos you took to Wikimedia Commons related to holidays? Make sure they are photos you took yourself, and categorize them properly. For example, Chuseok photos should be in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chuseok and Christmas, in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Christmas Double points for XMAS 

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