Wikivoyage:England Expedition
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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 edit
Note that numbers in the tables are not dynamically calculated and must be manually updated. Last updated on 17 May 2021.
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| 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 |
| 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 edit
Outline to Usable edit
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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
- Towns that are important enough to have an article before the region can be considered for usable status: Frome, Heysham, Chester-le-Street, Southwell, Wivenhoe.
Article ideas and requests edit
- Intercity buses in Britain
- Create articles for missing Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- Heptarchy
- Wars of the Roses
Other tasks edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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.