 now done at User:Peterfitzgerald/Sandbox. I'm not sure if I should move this to here? --Peter Talk 23:40, 23 August 2011 (EDT)
- I say that would be a good move. --Burmesedays 03:19, 24 August 2011 (EDT)
Great to see this moving, anyone knowing of a country articles with well developed see and do sections to be used as inspiration?, --ClausHansen 04:35, 24 August 2011 (EDT)
- I can join the collaboration by writing Thailand. As inspiration, I believe the United States of America is pretty good. I have written the Western Netherlands See and Do sections, which I think also turned out decent. Although its officially a region, the area spans pretty much everything the average tourist to the Netherlands would visit, so is complete in a sense. --globe-trotter 11:33, 24 August 2011 (EDT)
- USA is probably the most evolved we have, but like most of that article, it verges on being too long I think. Australia is also a good example.--Burmesedays 11:51, 24 August 2011 (EDT)
- I wrote Iraq#See with the intention of it being something of a model for country articles that we are not realistically going to fill up like we have USA. It has links to all the most major attractions, without getting into details on each one (e.g., individual sights in Baghdad), and has a coherent narrative with an intro.
- Is this still on? --globe-trotter 12:51, 4 September 2011 (EDT)
- Yes! (Sorry, I was without internet for a week). See the new Wikitravel:Country surgeon Expedition, and lets get started! --Peter Talk 14:46, 6 September 2011 (EDT)
[edit] Nominate ~~~~
[edit] Select.
[edit] Scheduling.
[edit] Archiving.
[edit] Upcoming
[edit] Unscheduled nominations
[edit] Accra:
- Not enough information in the "Understand" and "History" categories (anyone can look up general information like this)
- Lacking descriptions of the attractions. (Once again, with attractions listed, descriptions should be easy to add, even for those who don't know the city)
- Listingify - phone numbers and such need to be added for current listings.
- Formatting. The listings that are already there need to be properly formatted.
- Pictures. Even with good information, it's awfully boring with no pictures...
So, what do you think about Accra? ChubbyWimbus 11:03, 21 February 2009 (EST)
- Don't support. All these tasks are good, but I think the article is too short to support a successful cotm. Now a cotm for the whole country of Ghana, on the other hand, is intriguing. We could revamp the confusing regions hierarchy, and we have enough active members of the Wikitravel:Regions map Expedition to produce a region map. Proofing and mosing the rest of the country's articles might be an ideal use of a cotm. --Peter Talk 01:09, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
- A country feature might be interesting. I suppose it could lead people to update Accra, and other cities, as well. I wonder what others think about featuring the nation instead of the city? ChubbyWimbus 11:31, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Yangshuo
China's biggest natural tourist draw, fantastic karst landscape. Also a major stop on the backpacker trail through Asia and a place where quite a few travellers settle down,open bars, etc.
The article needs a fair bit of work:
- settle the discussion at Talk:Yangshuo#Tour_guides and either format listings right or delete them
- general MoS work
- My major concern with this nomination is that there is not enough work to be done for a collaboration of the month. I think it would turn into a "collaboration of the day," which would not be good for the cotm project. Perhaps work on this article could be combined with something else? --Peter Talk 00:39, 13 March 2009 (EDT)
[edit] Zhuhai
Another Chinese city with a lot of tourism. Good article in many ways, but needs work.
- Add a city/districts map.
- Currently has many photos. Some excellent, some should be deleted.
- Remove repeated text; e.g. same description of BBQ street in "districts" and "eat".
- General MoS overhaul.
[edit] Barcelona
We can start with official districts set (as defined in Talk:Barcelona#districts_proposal), and if consensus changes at some point later, we can fix that (and re-organize listings respectfully).
Before this article can be nominated, we need either:
- to complete a MyMaps mashup for Google Maps where every district is supposed to be shown--as it helps much in finding a right district for each individual district. Currently, it doesn't fully reflect the current consensus (which is following official borders, except not splitting yet Ciutat Vella into sub-districts.
- or prepare a static map compliant to our license--which can become an official map at Wikitravel for the whole city and each of its districts
Another thing to do beforehand is to split "MoS proofreading" into smaller and do-able subtasks.
The tasks for this CoTM are:
- write up district borders: a street-by-street description of borders for each district, based on the current consensus.
- Manual of Style proofreading (identifying subtasks here may be a CoTM task in itself)
- answer questions in Talk: help in reaching consensus on at least part of topics in Talk:Barcelona
- MoS Stay Safe: it was recently compressed, but not sure the current format is fully MoS-compliant.
- Contact: even trivial advice on mobile services would be helpful--especially for those coming to Bcn outside of Europe (traveller SIM cards; choosing a right operator and tarif plan etc)
create an article-local blacklist of apartment agencies--those who repeatedly add themselves. It can be created as a subpage of Talk:Barcelona. and easily derived from history of reverts in Barcelona. It will make easier to prune frequently re-added agencies that violates our policy.
- → Wikitravel:Barcelona/Apartments blacklist (first cut) --DenisYurkin 12:30, 25 August 2009 (EDT)
- populate blacklist of apartment agencies from the history of previous reverts.
- fill in missing details on listings: prices, open hours
- add listings of most famous and best-value-for-money restaurants and hotels, referring to TripAdvisor [3], 11870 [4], boo.com [5], qype [6]; Michelin red guide; find more sources.
--DenisYurkin 16:14, 28 May 2009 (EDT)
- Support. edmontonenthusiast [ee].T.A.L.K. 18:30, 28 May 2009 (EDT).
- Support I've proposed Barcelona for next month (August). Is it ready? ChubbyWimbus 23:02, 18 July 2009 (EDT)
- No, it's not ready yet. We still don't have a districts map; MoS proofreading is not splitted (help anyone?). As for the map of the districts, pitifully I'm not sure I'll find enough time in the nearest 10 days to complete it in GoogleMaps -- but I can give out full control over it if someone is willing to help. Alternatively, fully-compliant static map would be of huge help, as CotM won't make sense without any map at all. --DenisYurkin 16:26, 20 July 2009 (EDT)
- I have removed Barcelona from the upcoming collaborations list above however, when things are sorted out and you feel it is ready for the collaboration, put it anywhere you like! There is little support for the other collaborations, so Barcelona should take precedence unless new contributors or nominations arrive with great support. ChubbyWimbus 21:21, 28 July 2009 (EDT)
- I have to admit that I am giving up creating a precise MyMaps which will show district borders on Google Maps exactly as they are schemed under the links from Talk:Barcelona#districts proposal.
- I don't want to remain a stopper for this CotM any more, therefore I'm ready to hand the respective MyMaps to any number of contributors who are willing to complete this step (which still looks most logical thing to start with on CotM). If someone find it helpful, we'd better also complete Talk:Barcelona#street-by-street description of borders--but I don't feel like I'm able to finish it (so feel free to plunge forward).
- If someone is interested in completing the maps before proceeding with the rest:
- a) please drop me your emails to yurkennis@gmail.com, stating your email (ideally @gmail) and provide a link to your userpage at Wikitravel so I can associate the former with the latter. I will send an invitation to edit the map in Google MyMaps that I created (but never completed).
- b) I can update the CotM tasks as I understand them from the current perspective.
- Overall,