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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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  • Most visitors to Ambuluwawa Tower (pictured) in Kandy are unable to ascend to the top, due to the narrowing stairs that make it impossible for people to go up and down at the same time.
  • Avoid wearing red in Fada N'gourma to avoid offending the local Gulmance people.
  • The Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta contains the graves of the ancient Georgian kings, including Sidonia, who was said to have been buried holding Christ's robe.


  • 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).

  • Adventurous diners in Taxco can try jumiles, small edible insects that are harvested from November to February and sold in the markets.
  • The Dushanbe flagpole (pictured) flies an 1,800-square-metre (19,000 sq ft) flag of Tajikistan, weighing 700 kilograms (1,500 lb).
  • A well-known saying in Münster is "Either it rains or the church bells ring. And if both occur at the same time, it's Sunday."
  • In Pharping you can visit the Asura Cave where Guru Rinpoche, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, meditated in the 8th century.
  • The "This is the Place" mounument (pictured) is where Brigham Young is believed to have founded the Mormon settlement which has now developed into Salt Lake City.
  • When doing minimum budget travel, food and drink are perhaps not the part of your travel expenses you want to cut down too much on.
  • The Eldheimar exhibition in Vestmannaeyjar commemorates the 1973 volcanic eruption which destroyed much of the town.
  • The old town hall (pictured) of Toruń is one of the most beautiful Gothic town halls in Europe.
  • Houses, shops and other buildings have sprung up within the walls of Alanya's citadel, a 13th century fortification.
  • Ambon became the first city in Southeast Asia to be recognized as the UNESCO Creative Cities for music category
  • The historic Firefighting Tower (pictured) in Tabriz was once used by watchmen to spot and point firemen to the direction of a fire.
  • The Arbol de Tule in Oaxaca is considered the world's biggest tree with a trunk diameter of more than 50 meters, a height of 40 meters, and a weight of 500 tons.
  • One of Albania's most beautiful cities, Berat is known as the "city of a thousand windows".
  • Even though very little ancient architecture remains in Taipei, four of Taipei's five original city gates (North Gate pictured) still stand.
  • The Cabotville Historic Sycamore Trees, trees that were present when Chicopee became a town in 1848, matured when it became a city in 1890, and today they are designated Heritage Trees.
  • Hudson Bay is known as the "Forestry Capital of Canada" as well as "Moose Capital of the World".
  • The Railway Bridge (pictured) in Jablanica was strategically blown up by Yugoslav partisans in WWII in a successful attempt to divert invading Nazi forces.
  • Recovering from jet lag is a process that, well, takes time.
  • Framlingham has the two oldest functioning Post Office pillar boxes in the UK.
  • The new modern design central train station of Aveiro (right in the picture) is positioned in stark contrast next to the azulejo-decorated old station (left in the picture)
  • Sonamarg is a trekker's heaven and has adventurous routes with beautiful green water and frozen lakes around.
  • Beijing Daxing International Airport is the largest in the world by area.
  • Thanks to its Indian community Mombasa has several beautiful Hindu temples (mandirs) to visit (New Dwarikadham temple pictured).
  • Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo in Hamilton Parish is a remarkably extensive aquarium of Bermuda's local fish life.
  • Judaism began in the Middle East over 3,500 years ago and is one of the oldest continually-practised religions in the world.
  • Uludağ (village pictured) was Turkey's first winter sports resort, with guesthouses opening from the 1930s.
  • The Gippsland Plains Rail Trail is a bike and foot path along the former Maffra railway line, passing some former railway stations.
  • Chieti occupies the site of the Roman Teate Marrucinorum, of which ruins remain.
  • Troy, New York has one of the best preserved big-city 19th-century downtowns in the U.S. (pictured).
  • Shymkent has perhaps the best local beer in Kazakhstan.
  • Some of Nepal's most popular treks are in the Annapurna region including the Kali Gandaki River Valley trek which brings you up the world's deepest valley.
  • The statue Spirit of Navigation (pictured) pointing at the sea in Toulon is locally known as "cul vers ville" for its buttocks are turned toward the city.
  • The CIDAP in Cuenca contains the largest collection of crafts and folk art from the Americas.
  • Fierce competition, no sales tax and many wealthy consumers all add up to make Hong Kong an excellent destination for shopping.
  • Some of the most iconic landmarks of Ancient Egypt, the Pyramids of Giza (pictured), are 4,500 years old.
  • One of Constanța's main sights are the ruins of a Roman building with over 2,000 m² of mosaic, about a third of which remains.
  • The Tiantangzhai Scenic Area outside Huanggang is part of the watershed between the north and south water systems of China.
  • Schönbrunn Palace (Great Gallery pictured) is comparable in grandeur to Versailles and is definitely a must-see in Vienna.
  • As a clean, comfortable and ordered city, Kigali is very popular with long term expats having their first African "experience".
  • Legend Rock State Petroglyph Site in Thermopolis contains 92 prehistoric petroglyph panels and over 300 petroglyph figures.
  • From October to March, thousands of penguins (one family pictured) can be seen in Punta Tombo via tours from Puerto Madryn.
  • The Museum of Rescued Art Treasures in Brest is just a hodge-podge of cultural treasures confiscated by border control.
  • The Sitanagram in Guntur is home to the Someswara Swamy Temple where Rama was said to have wept for Sita after she was adbucted by Ravana.
  • It is said that lovers who hold hands on Angel Road (pictured) in Shodoshima will be blessed with happiness.
  • Where the Martha Brae River meets the Caribbean Sea in Falmouth, the churning of water induces bioluminescence micro-organisms to glow brightly at night.
  • A highlight of visiting Wadi Rum is the opportunity to eat zarb, a Bedouin dish cooked underneath the sand.
  • The Mmanwu Festival (pictured) in Enugu is a traditional Igbo masquerade festival that takes place in November.
  • The river valley Hasanboğuldu means "Hasan Drowned", but in spite of the name, it's a popular swimming spot in Edremit.
  • Established as the port of Los Llanitos, in 1970 the town was re-named Lázaro Cárdenas, in honor of one of Mexico's most popular presidents.
  • The Bodhi Tree (pictured) at Sri Maha Bodhi Temple in Anuradhapura is the oldest historically authenticated tree in the world with 2000 years of records as a transplant from the Buddha's Bodhi Tree.
  • The 20m high Virje Waterfall in Bovec is fed from a typical karst spring, so the water never exceeds 5ºC even in summer.


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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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