Wikivoyage:Arrivals lounge/Archives/2021/May

How do I request a translation of an article to English?
I'm looking to request a translation of the Spanish, German, or Italian versions of Cueva de las Manos (https://es.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cueva_de_las_Manos) into English. How do I do that? Thanks, Tyrone Madera (talk) 17:20, 30 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, welcome to Wikivoyage. Technically, you could add a request to Requested articles, though the vast majority of such requests just sit there for years unnoticed. The most high-profile page on Wikivoyage is the Travellers' Pub, so putting your request there is the most likely avenue for getting a response. Though frankly, I can't remember anyone ever asking for a translation of an article that hasn't already been created, so couldn't tell you how likely someone is to agree to translate Cueva de la Manos for you.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 17:46, 30 April 2021 (UTC)


 * By the way, if you just need to understand what es:Cueva de las Manos says, modern translation software is good enough for that job. On my brower (Chrome), all I have to do is right click and 'translate' is one of the options, and as someone who speaks a decent amount of Spanish the machine translation seems pretty accurate to me, if a little stilted.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 17:50, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help! I'll ask someone on the Travellers' Pub. I'm sprucing up the related page on Wikipedia and am hoping to have something more or less independent on Wikitravel to link to, given the quality of the other language versions. Is creating a page with a robot translation considered permissible? Thanks again, Tyrone Madera (talk) 18:09, 30 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes, that would be fine. Most of our articles aren't "finished", so having a slightly wonky translation is much better than having nothing.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 19:02, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * How do I create a new English page while still linking to the same Wikidata? Tyrone Madera (talk) 20:26, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, @Tyrone Madera! After the article is created, open the Wikidata page (d:Q223385), scroll down to Wikivoyage, click "edit", type "en" (for English) in the wiki field, type in the article name in the next field, and click "publish". Nelson Ricardo (talk) 22:25, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * By the way, the page already exists, but is a redirect. You can edit the page and change the redirect to the desired article text. https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Cueva_de_las_Manos&redirect=no Nelson Ricardo (talk) 22:28, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
 * @Tyrone Madera, please note @LtPowers's remark at Travellers'_pub, ICYMI. Nelson Ricardo (talk) 01:57, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

linking a new entry or existing one to the dynamic maps
Hi,

I am new to wikivoyage. If I create a new listing say for eating etc, how does that get pinned on the map. E.g I do an entry for a cafe in western edinburgh how does this get pinned to the w edinburgh map, thanks, kevin —The preceding comment was added by ‎Crann20 (talk • contribs)


 * Hi Kevin. When you add a new listing, you'll see spaces for adding the latitude and longitude co-ordinates in either the template or the listing editor. All you need to do is fill those in with the correct co-ordinates in the format 1.2345 - four decimal places is plenty - and a number tag will appear next to the listing and on the dynamic map. Example from that same article (look at it in edit mode to see lat and long):




 * There are numerous easy ways to find the lat and long of a particular location online; both Google Maps desktop version and our own GeoMap will do this for you, or you can just search for a lat and long finder online.
 * Make sense? --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 13:29, 6 May 2021 (UTC)


 * One confusing thing is that you don't get the listing on the map in the previews (at least not the ways I use to do it). You'll get the marker in the listing, but to check how it looks on the map, save when you are otherwise ready, and correct coordinates if you made a mistake (different number of digits for lat and long, wrong sign, forgot a minus sign, whatever). –LPfi (talk) 15:26, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

page introduction text - no edit button
Hi, https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Enniskillen

the intro text has no way to edit. Just there is some text thats not correct.

Enniskillen (Inis Ceithleann, "Ceithlenn's island") is the former county town of County Fermanagh at the western edge of Northern Ireland. That county has been abolished and merged into Fermanagh and Omagh District. The town grew up on an island in the River Erne, which connects Upper and Lower Lough Erne and is navigable; boating and angling are major pastimes here. In 2011 Enniskillen had a population of 13,823.

I can't seem to edit this

thanks —The preceding comment was added by Crann20 (talk • contribs)


 * Not a problem for me. Can't you click the Edit button at the very top of the page?
 * When you write on a talk page, please sign and date the end of your post by typing four tildes in a row ( ~ ).--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 14:28, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * hi thanks TT for replying. I see now —The preceding comment was added by Crann20 (talk • contribs)


 * You can avoid bringing up the entire page in Edit mode by enabling the gadget that adds a edit link to the lead section. Go to Special:Preferences, check "Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page" under General, and click Save. I don't know why this isn't the default without user action. --Nelson Ricardo (talk) 15:02, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I wonder why it isn't enabled as default. And it took ages for me to find it after the page banners were introduced: the link is just after the main title, and often on a background that makes it hard to see. Also, when looking at the diff, the title is above the diff, and thus also the edit link for the lead. –LPfi (talk) 09:52, 13 May 2021 (UTC)