Wikivoyage:Scotland Expedition

Scotland (8 C, 9 P)

Central Belt (3 C, 4 P)

Hebrides (2 C, 2 P)

North East Scotland (5 C, 5 P)

Orkney Islands (14 P)

Scottish Borders (9 P)

Scottish Highlands (4 C, 5 P)

Shetland Islands (13 P)

South West (Scotland) (3 C, 3 P)

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

Article statistics for Scotland

Note that numbers in the tables are not dynamically calculated and must be manually updated. Last updated on 15 February 2023.

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 Scotland
Type/Status Matrix	Outline	Usable	Guide	Star	Unranked	Total (line)
District	0	5	2	0		7
City	3	203	2	1		209
Airport	0	0	0	0		0
Park	1	6	0	0		7
Dive guide	0	0	0	0		0
Rural area	3	23	0	0		26
Region	12	18	0	0	1	31
Total	19	255	4	1	1	280

Articles needing a little work to get to usable.
Outline cities	sleep	eat	see	do	check
needs only	0	0	0	0	0
has no	3	3	3	3	0

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 an "Eat" listing and content in the "Get in" of every article.

Usable to Guide

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

Aberdeen

Other candidates that could with just a little effort be guide status:

Edinburgh

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.

Articles needed

Major towns: -
To complete regions: Alloa, Auchterarder, Cumnock, Dalry (North Ayrshire), Golspie, Nairn (currently a redirect to Culloden), Wigtown
Notable destinations: Wester Ross, Applecross peninsula

Article ideas and requests

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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

Tourist attractions in Scotland category
List of museums in Scotland
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).
Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, includes visitor numbers for about 250 popular UK sights.

Milestones

17 December 2016 - all city articles have at least one listing.
21 December 2016 - all city articles have at least on sleep listing.
30 December 2016 - all city articles have at least on see listing.
? 2017 - more "usable" than "outline" city articles