Wikivoyage:England Expedition

England (9 C, 9 P)

East Midlands (6 C, 7 P)

East of England (6 C, 6 P)

London (32 P)

North East England (3 C, 5 P)

North West England (5 C, 7 P)

South East England (9 C, 11 P)

West Country (6 C, 10 P)

West Midlands (region) (6 C, 6 P)

Yorkshire (4 C, 4 P)

The England Expedition is a Wikivoyage Expedition to promote and coordinate collaboration to improve Wikivoyage's articles pertaining to England. If you'd like to join the effort, please add your signature to the bottom of the page!

Article statistics for England

Note that numbers in the tables are not dynamically calculated and must be manually updated. Last updated on 17 May 2021.

Click on number to get an updated list of pages by status. (Note sometime the link just sits there, usually due to the database updating, come back in 10 minutes.)

Articles by status in England
Type/Status Matrix	Outline	Usable	Guide	Star	Unranked	Total (line)
District	0	36	6	1		43
City	402	299	24	2		727
Airport	0	3	1	0		4
Park	13	11	0	0		24
Dive guide	0	0	0	0		0
Rural area	1	3	0	0		4
Region	42	11	0	0	6	59
Total	458	363	31	3	6	866

Articles needing a little work to get to usable.
Outline cities	sleep	eat	see	do	check
needs only	8	191	2	76	188
has no	20	204	8	181	1

Remember a reasonable Get in section, as well as listings, is needed to make usable.

Aims

Outline to Usable

I would like to propose the aim of getting all articles to usable status. Yes this is a lot of work but it is doable. In the table above low hanging fruit are in the "needs only" row, these are cities that either just need a listing in one section or need an improved Get in section. Once a good number of these have been enhance the sub-regions can them be improved and promoted to usable. Would be good to get a "Eat" listing and content in the "Get in" of every article. It would also appear that many listings are just names of places with no address, contact information or web links; quite some work to do here.

Usable to Guide

Key destinations that should be guides but still needs some more content and work done on them.

Current articles under discussion and work in progress

Articles that are currently being worked on or under discussion such as merge or delete. Or articles you wish to bring to other attention.

Discussions should take place on the talk page of the article, this is just to highlight activity.

Move listings to districts of Leeds, better district map
East Sussex too much listing information in region article
Can Isle of Wight listings be moved to city articles
Warminster too many listing, particularly in Buy section
See listings in Hampshire link to city article
City-ify few listings in Surrey

Articles needed

Towns that are important enough to have an article before the region can be considered for usable status: Frome, Heysham, Southwell.

Article ideas and requests

Intercity buses in Britain
Create articles for missing Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Heptarchy
Wars of the Roses

Other tasks

Recheck usablecity and usabledistrict without Sleep listing
Recheck usablecity and usabledistrict without Eat listing
Recheck usablecity and usabledistrict without See and Do listing
Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without See listing
Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without Do listing
Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without Event listing
Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without Drink listing
Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without Buy listing
Complete Routebox navigation for major transport routes.
Create custom page banner image
Articles with no photographs This takes a few minutes to generate list and suggestions.
Address Articles needing attention
Event date needs updating
Geo zoom needed
Fix Articles with dead external links
Fix or remove Articles with formerly dead external links
Wikipedia-Wikidata check needed if connection can be made
Articles Geo different to Wikidata, change geo or wikidata coordinates to match
Create redirect for Airport code without link - (Airports coded)
Add coordinated to guidecity and guidedistrict See listing without coordinates
Add coordinated to guidecity, starcity, guidedistrict and stardistrict Listings without coordinates
region with listing, do they need moving to city articles?
huge city with listing, do they need moving to district articles?
Fix external links without text
Move in to listing where phone icon used, Tel: used, phone: used and + used
Indented listing not using double bullet format but :*

Useful Resources

Lists of tourist attractions in England
List of museums in England
Scores on the Doors database of almost everywhere in the UK that sells or prepares food (includes many places not open to the public - even prisons).
Post Office Branch Finder
Carlberry Bus Services for towns - very detailed and complete listings (including many not relevant like School Buses)

Milestones

16 April 2016 - all city articles have at least one listing. (Although many are just names and need more detail).
14 August 2016 - all city articles have at least one sleep listing.
6 January 2017 - all city articles have at least one see listing.