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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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  • Saint Nicholas Collegiate Church in Galway is the largest medieval church still in everyday use in Ireland.
  • The Royan Saskatchewan Museum in Regina features a half-size robotic T-Rex called "Megamunch".
  • "Tubing" down the Nam Song River (pictured) is the activity that dominates Vang Vieng.


  • 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).

 
  • At 4,200 m (13,800 ft) above sea level, El Tatio (pictured) is one of the highest geyser sites in the world.
  • The Deutschland-Ticket allows for unlimited travel on all regional and local public transport in Germany.
  • The Musée National du Costume in Grand-Bassam has an excellent collection of traditional Ivorian costumes, masks, ornaments and ethnographic photographs.
 
  • Shitthaung Pagoda (interior pictured) in Mrauk U translates to 80,000 Buddhas, but actually contains more than 84,000 displays of Buddha.
  • The world-class Calgary Zoo is home to over 1,000 animals from all over the world, as well as to the Botanical Garden and a Prehistoric Park for dinosaur lovers.
  • Kentucky is home to famous food (Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hot Brown, and Burgoo), drink (bourbon whiskey) and music (bluegrass) traditions.
 
  • Porta Reale (pictured) is an entrance to Noto and its main street, the Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
  • About 300 km (190 mi) east of Svalbard and 400 km (250 mi) north of Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land is one of the remotest parts of the world.
  • The striated caracara (johnny rook) is a rare bird of preyfound only on the Falkland Islands and some islands off Cape Horn.
 
  • Gorilla tracking (mountain gorilla pictured) is the main activity in the world heritage-listed Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
  • Home to several bonsai nurseries, Saitama is considered to be the bonsai capital of the world.
  • Benin is the birthplace of voodoo and voodoo temples, roadside fetishes, and fetish markets are found throughout the country.
 
  • You can take the Pikes Peak Cog Railroad (train pictured) to the summit at just over 14,000 feet (4302 m).
  • The Yalu River Broken Bridge in Dandong reaches only halfway across the river, bordering North Korea.
  • There are two official variations of written Norwegian: Bokmål and Nynorsk.
 
  • Saint-Barthélemy has long been considered a playground of the rich and famous and is known for its beautiful pristine beaches (St Jean beach pictured), gourmet dining in chic restaurants and high-end designer shopping.
  • Rüdesheimer Kaffee is a coffee drink with Asbach Uralt brandy, served flambéed.
  • During the War of 1812, Leesburg was used as a temporary capital of the United States when the British occupied Washington.
 
  • The many casas colgadas - "hanging houses" (pictured) - built right up to the cliff edge, make Cuenca one of the most striking towns in Spain.
  • Travel has always been integral to golf.
  • With many colonial houses and embassies, Avenue Charles de Gaulle in N'Djamena is a reminder of the French colonial days.
 
  • São Sebastião is famous for the Maresias beach (pictured), part of the international surf circuit and regarded as "the Ipanema of São Paulo".
  • Unlike most US states, Oregon has no sales tax.
  • Esztergom Basilica in Esztergom holds the relics of Saint Marko Krizin who was beheaded for refusing to denounce his Catholic faith.
 
  • The MAAM Museum in Salta has exhibits dedicated to the discovery of the three Inca "Llullaillaco Children" found frozen like mummies (pictured) at the peak of Mount Llullaillaco.
  • After merely looking at a mirror image of the beautiful Padmini in her palace, Alauddin decided to attack her city of Chittorgarh in an attempt to make her his own.
  • The largest Quran in the world can be found at Bayt Al-Qur'an Al-Akbar in Palembang.
 
  • A British pyramid (pictured) near Robertsbridge dating to 1811 entombs a local named John 'Mad Jack' Fuller
  • Every night at the City Pillar Shrine in Khon Kaen, movies are shown for free on large projectors outside.
  • The Fälschermuseum in Vienna is not a replica museum, but a museum of famous forgeries
 
  • Adam's Brige (pictured) in Mannar is the single remaining evidence that Sri Lanka was once connected to India
  • The Festival of Lanterns in Ahuachapan held every year on September 7 is a celebration of the birth of the Virgin Mary
  • "In Bavaria the clocks run differently" is inscripted on clocks from Oberammergau, because Bavarian clocks run counterclockwise.
 
  • The oldest known record of Japan's Top 3 Gardens comes from a 1891 postcard from Okayama's Korakuen Garden (pictured) reading "Korakuen Garden, Number 1 of the Top 3 Gardens".
  • The town of Omu-Aran was founded by a prince at the behest of an oracle.
  • Mammoth tusks are popular souvenirs in Magadan, a city where many mammoth fossils have been excavated.
 
  • Saint John's Episcople Church in Franklin has one of only 3 full sets of Tiffany windows (one window pictured) in the world.
  • The same Gull Force Memorial can be found in both Dongfang and Darwin to memorialize Australian POWs killed in Hainan during WWII.


On hold

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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]

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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