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pgh to asheville, n.c.

Any ideas on restaurants, diners etc along the way on I-77 US 19 I-81? —The preceding comment was added by 2601:543:8100:d360:b5ef:61be:d710:4847 (talk • contribs)

There are a few places. Blacksburg is a bit of a detour but may be worth a try. There are a few places north of Asheville that have a few restaurants: Bristol (Tennessee-Virginia), Kingsport, and Johnson City (Tennessee). --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 21:05, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Category:Articles with ref tags

This category is call by any template? Flyplanevn27 (talk) 10:38, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

I didn't find any such templates, and I don't know how that'd be done technically. Perhaps the category is supposed to be populated by an offline job, working on a database dump. –LPfi (talk) 11:04, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

I just experiments at Oeste by adding a <ref>, but the category did not appear. --Nelson Ricardo (talk) 17:42, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

See when a paragraph was added/changed last?

Reading through some articles I often wonder how out-of-date some of the information is. I there a way to show in which edit some particular sentence/paragraph changed, without having to go through the history?

I'm thinking of something similar to "git blame" that shows the datetime/history id in the source view of at the beginning of every line. Bugsinmyfood (talk) 09:22, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

I usually click history and then some old entry to see whether the paragraph was there already then. If I am trying to find out who made a specific change, it becomes a binary search, which can be arduous unless the change was recent. Good edit summaries help to exclude unlikely edits and speed it up. –LPfi (talk) 10:47, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikiblame is useful for finding when a specific piece of text was added. —Granger (talk · contribs) 20:13, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata integration

So I'm a bit confused as to why the below shows a link to Wikipedia for Mombasa only, despite both Mombasa and Nairobi being linked to Wikipedia correctly (on Wikidata). The same code does work as expected on de.wikivoyage.com.

• 1 Mombasa
• 2 Nairobi

Bugsinmyfood (talk) 07:24, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

The marker points to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q225641. The article points to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1112885. Markers show the Wikipedia link only when the Wikidata ID link does not match the Wikivoyage article. Otherwise we want readers to go to our article, rather than being directed to Wikipedia immediately. --Nelson Ricardo (talk) 20:53, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Interesting! I can see the reasoning behind that. Do you know where I can find documentation for this? Template:Marker/doc has nothing on the output logic, e.g. which fields are shown when. Bugsinmyfood (talk) 12:56, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Absent documentation, someone who understands the code at https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Marker&action=edit would need to explain it. --Nelson Ricardo (talk) 01:36, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

I can explain it: the marker template consits so: |type is the type of listing, |name is the name of the listing, and |wikidata can add the lat/long fields.If not, then use |lat for the lat, and |long for the long. Optional are |zoom, that changes the zoom level, |url for the url of the listing, and |image for a image linked to it. Now, these are examples:1 Museum 1 Theme Park The rest is explained at Template:Marker. DhrGabriel contribs 16:00, 12 October 2021 (UTC)