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Here we collaborate on future discover facts that are featured on the Main Page (and on the Discover page).

Criteria

  • At a minimum, [[link]] the article that contains the fact in question. The fact must be taken from a Wikivoyage article.
  • '''Boldface''' the fact of interest.
  • Linked articles don't need to be perfect, but preference should be given to those with a status of "usable" or higher.
  • Relevant images are required for one in every three facts. They should be placed above the fact in question, with the following formatting:
[[Image:imagename|right|200px|description]]
The interesting fact linked to this image goes here.
  • When looking for fun facts to add, Special:Random (also accessible in the left sidebar) which displays a random Wikivoyage article can be a useful tool. As many articles unfortunately are short on content, you may want to hit the link multiple times while opening up new articles in new tabs.

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  • Batavia Peace Garden opened on the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, commemorating Batavia's role in defending against British troops after the city of Buffalo was burned.
  • Kars (pictured) is one of the highest cities in Turkey, at an altitude of about 2000 metres (6600 ft) above sea level.
  • At the Paimio Electricity Museum you can learn about the history of electricity in Finland.


  • The content in Template:Discover is automatically updated on a daily basis and each Discover entry is displayed for three days.
  • If the box above is empty, it means that the template ran out of entries. If this happens you can add new entries from the nominations below. Remove entries from the nominations list as you add them to the template.
  • If you are unsure about how it works, feel free to try out things in the Discover sandbox first.
  • When an entry isn't shown on the Main Page any longer, it should be added to the Discover archive, not just deleted from the template.

Nominations

Add your entries to the end of this list. Do not leave any space or other commentary between entries. However, feel free to rearrange the list, because geographic variety in what's displayed is good (e.g. if the next three items are all from Europe, it's good to intersperse something from somewhere else).

  • The Grand Mosque of Bur Dubai is quite close to a Hindu temple and one can see followers of both Islam and Hinduism gathering at the same place for prayers.
  • There are many sights related to the Second Indochina War around Phonsavan - both memorials and actual remains (border marker for a de-mined area pictured).
  • Whiskey-making has spread around the world with the Scottish and Irish diasporas.
  • Wild three-toed sloths can be seen anywhere in the Bocas del Toro archipelago if you're lucky.
  • The National Palace of Mafra (pictured) is probably the most striking Baroque monument to be found in Portugal.
  • At the Thunderbird Crafts Trading Post near Ipperwash Beach you can buy Native American craft and books where you can learn to make crafts yourself.
  • What sets Europe apart in footballing terms from the rest of the world is the sheer quality of the domestic leagues.
  • The Victoria Memorial (pictured) in Prayagraj is not a memorial but a canopy, which once housed the imposing marble statue of Queen Victoria.
  • Travelling slowly can reduce costs.
  • The Rusty Nail Winery in Sulphur, Oklahoma is named so because it's housed in a former hardware store.
  • Gilf Kebir National Park (landscape pictured) is one of the largest and most remote national parks in Egypt.
  • With a population of a little over 3,000, nearly half of those along the southern coastline of Greenland live in Qaqortoq.
  • Taking place each April, the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race is one of the oldest and most arduous of the pro-cycling spring classics.
  • Visitors are usually astounded to find that Japanese trains (Shinkansen train pictured) follow the published schedule to the second.
  • Aurangabad is famous for its historic gates, with 15 of the original 52 still standing.
  • The National Museum of Slavery in Luanda is housed in Capa de Casa Grande, which is where they baptized slaves prior to sending them off to the Americas.
  • The main attraction in Mount Vernon, Virginia is George Washington's estate (pictured) and gardens including his grave.
  • Närpes is known as the tomato capital of Finland.
  • Getting to Ao Manao beach outside Prachuap Khiri Khan, entails travel through a military area.
  • The Madeira Casino (pictured) in Funchal was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, and indeed looks a bit like Brasilia Cathedral with a haircut.
  • Persian was once the official, court, or literary language of many places ranging from Turkey through India.
  • Oegstgeest is one of the first ever settled parts of the Dutch coast that we know of today.
  • The bridge across the Ural river (pictured) in Orenburg is also a bridge between Europe and Asia.
  • The Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park is one of the last areas where the yellow-footed rock kangaroo can still be commonly found.
  • Agrotourism is one of the biggest draws of the region around Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, boasting orchards and cider-houses, vineyards and wineries, and maple sugar shacks (sucreries).
  • The original Standard Oil station (pictured) in Lafayette, Indiana one of a few left, is a walk-by museum.
  • The Art Museum of Craiova is located in the sumptuous palace of the former magnate Jean Mihail.
  • Landgraaf is famous for hosting Pinkpop each June, said to be the longest running pop festival in the world.
  • Antananarivo (pictured) translates to "city of the thousand".
  • At the Quanzhou Maritime Museum you can explore the city's heyday as one of China's greatest trading cities and a major base for her powerful fleets.


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Yes. As you said, use as many relevant links as there are. Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It seems I have misinterpreted what the consensus was (or rather wasn't; the discussion doesn't seem to have come to any conclusion). This being the case, I apologise for interfering with your edits and citing a consensus that doesn't exist.
However, I do agree with Ypsi's original concerns that the entry should generally only link to the page where the fact is mentioned; in nearly all cases that is the destination / travel topic that is the entry's subject. Novelty architecture (as an article covering an entire field of study) is only tenuously related to this one specific ice hotel in Sweden. It's a bit like linking to Historical travel (very broad and general topic) in an entry about Herculaneum (a specific Roman archaeological site).
But we should really try to conclude that discussion one way or the other. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 10:55, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
What if the fact is mentioned in more than one place? For instance, Chicken AK being named for ptarmigan is mentioned in both the town's article and places with unusual names. Likewise, it would make sense for the "ice hotel" concept to be mentioned both in their host cities and in the novelty architecture article. K7L (talk) 11:17, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Well, ice hotels in general, and the specific hotel in question are both mentioned on novelty architecture, like you say. There are lots of cases like this where the same or similar information appears on more than one page. But the discover fact is about this hotel in particular (it being the very first of its kind), so that's the article we should link to, in my opinion. There could be a future discover entry specifically for the novelty architecture article, though, no problem. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 11:48, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The novelty architecture is the whole point of the item; the bit about "being first" was merely an arbitrary line drawn to avoid having to list all of the other hotels of the same genre - which are too numerous to fit in a twenty-word blurb. K7L (talk) 12:44, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I still think we should link to just one article, the article where the fact appears. If we are to link to several articles, like the factoids in Wikipedia's Did you know (upon which our Discover section is based), I'd say we should also write the name of the article where the fact appears in bold letters, just like they do. --ϒpsilon (talk) 14:25, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The facts do appear in places with unusual names (for Chicken) and novelty architecture (for the ice hotel). K7L (talk) 02:47, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
In these cases I still see the destination is the "main article" which should be highlighted somehow. It's Jukkasjärvi that has become famous because of the ice hotel representing Novelty architecture, not the other way around (ie. novelty architecture would still be around if they had built it in Gällivare instead, or not at all). In the same way, Chicken is famous because it has a funny name. --ϒpsilon (talk) 10:50, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If the rest of you think it's best to have only one link per entry, I'll accede to that. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:57, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
That's for the best. We can still have a fact relating to novelty architecture in the future, whereas linking two or more articles in one fact is basically using those articles up for the foreseeable future, in that we don't like repeat coverage of the same articles within a period of time. --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 11:26, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I believe the concerns about duplication are that we don't want the same fact twice, not that we are trying to prevent two facts about the same destination from appearing at different times. This was raised at Wikivoyage talk:Discover#Repeating Discoveries and Same-type Discoveries before the WT split, and I think there was one we'd removed the better part of a year ago here as the same fact was mistakenly submitted twice, one month apart. K7L (talk) 13:34, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
We can certainly feature a single destination as many times as we like but I think there should be a couple of months between them at least. Intentionally featuring the same fact again is something we should avoid, though if this occasionally happens by accident (maybe because there have been so long time since it was featured that nobody remembers) I don't think it's a huge problem. For instance, the fact we had a few weeks back of Michigan's map resembling two hands was featured in October 2015 with a different wording. ϒpsilon (talk) 08:34, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'd prefer not to feature the same fact twice, or have three facts from the same country appear in the same three-day interval (like The [[Aleutian Islands]] of Alaska are the easternmost U.S. point", "[[Texas]] is the second-largest state, behind Alaska", "[[Wyoming]] is the second least-populous, behind Alaska")... unless this were April 1 or some occasion where the pattern is the joke. Conversely, I can't see a fact on big things in Australia being precluded because a fact on ice hotels had already run previously; both are technically novelty architecture. K7L (talk)
  • The 2½-mile boardwalk is the central focus of Ocean City's attractions.
This is a disambig page – which Ocean City is it?
New Jersey, it's in the lead. I opened the three articles and searched the for the sentence, that took a fifth of the time writing this reply. Ypsilon (talk) 10:23, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • St. Johns Maroon Church (pictured) in Freetown was built by Maroons, former slaves from Jamaica returning to Africa.
The image is too low quality that is too dark and focused on the overcast sky and streetposts not the church. The church is technically there, but it's far away in the background and hard to see. This appears to be the only picture on Commons with the church. I'm putting this here in case it was chosen as a photo feature for a special reason. If that's the case, it should stay here until a quality photo of the church is uploaded. If not, it can quickly be re-added as one of the facts without a photo. ChubbyWimbus (talk) 15:25, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following calendar-related items are "ready-to-go" criteria-wise and should be moved to the main queue at a date appropriate to the trivia featured:

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