Wikivoyage:Country surgeon Expedition

The Country surgeon Expedition is a collaborative project designed to "perform See-sections" on our country guides. That is, to craft a high quality "See" section with an overview of sightseeing opportunities for every country on the globe.

Rationale
Oddly enough, Wikivoyage for its first several years omitted "See" sections from its country template. Accordingly the section, after being introduced, is in most country articles very underdeveloped compared to the rest of the sections. As this truly is one of the most important sections—this is where travelers can actually find the main sightseeing attractions for the whole country and thus start planning their trip—it is essential that we work to craft high quality See sections throughout all country articles.

Goals

 * Create usable See sections for all countries.
 * Develop standards for high quality See sections.
 * Maintain a list of all countries lacking quality See sections, so we can monitor progress and provide a "sign up sheet" to avoid duplication of work.

Future goals may include ensuring that all country articles also have useful "Do" sections, and perhaps extending our "See" aims to cover country top-level regions (e.g., U.S. states, Japanese prefectures, etc.).

An unrelated goal, but one that will be easy to combine with our work, is to move each country "Understand" section below the "Other destinations" section, and to replace Template:Quickbar with Template:Quickbar/working. Lead images will need to be extracted from the original Quickbar template and added as standalone thumbnails.

Expedition members

 * Peter Talk
 * AHeneen Talk
 * globe-trotter 22:55, 6 September 2011 (EDT)
 * (WT-en) Burmesedays --(WT-en) burmesedays 23:36, 6 September 2011 (EDT)
 * (WT-en) texugo 03:14, 10 September 2011 (EDT)
 * JuliasTravels ( previously (WT-en) Justme ) 10:13, 13 September 2011 (EDT)
 * (WT-en) maximilianklein 05:08, 5 November 2011 (EDT) I'll work on Israel
 * (WT-en) simulacra 05:08, 25 January 2012 (EDT) I'll work on Belize
 * (WT-en) Kodzos 07:58, 11 May 2012 (EDT) I will look at the UK, Malaysia and Ghana to start with
 * JamesA  >talk

Standards
Travelers should quickly be able to scan See sections for information regarding what types of sightseeing possibilities are available, and where to find the most important sights.

Sections should be filled with quality prose, not with lazy bulleted lists.

Longer See sections should be subdivided in a relevant way, for example by type of attractions (e.g., historical, natural, modern, etc.).

High quality examples

 * Iraq (for shorter, undivided sections)
 * Netherlands (for longer, subdivided sections)

Full list of countries missing useful See sections
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Africa
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Sahel

 * Chad --AHeneen (talk) 04:42, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Mali --AHeneen (talk) 04:42, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Niger --AHeneen (talk) 04:42, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Sudan

West Africa

 * Burkina Faso
 * Cameroon
 * Cape Verde
 * Côte d'Ivoire
 * Ghana --Peter Talk 03:39, 11 September 2011 (EDT)
 * Guinea
 * Guinea-Bissau
 * Nigeria
 * Senegal

Central Africa

 * Central African Republic --AHeneen (talk) 04:42, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Republic of the Congo --AHeneen (talk) 04:42, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Democratic Republic of the Congo --AHeneen (talk) 04:42, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Equatorial Guinea --AHeneen (talk) 04:42, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Gabon
 * South Sudan

East Africa

 * Comoros
 * Djibouti
 * Eritrea
 * Ethiopia
 * Seychelles
 * Somalia

Southern Africa

 * Mozambique
 * Namibia -(WT-en) Shaund 01:06, 13 September 2011 (EDT)
 * Swaziland
 * Zimbabwe


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Asia
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Central Asia

 * Afghanistan
 * Kazakhstan
 * Kyrgyzstan
 * Tajikistan
 * Turkmenistan

Middle East

 * Iran
 * Jordan
 * Saudi Arabia
 * Syria
 * United Arab Emirates

Russia and the Caucasus

 * Azerbaijan
 * Georgia --Peter Talk 17:41, 7 September 2011 (EDT)

South Asia

 * Bangladesh -- (WT-en)  J ames A    >talk 03:15, 19 May 2012 (EDT)
 * Nepal

Southeast Asia

 * Brunei
 * Cambodia


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Americas
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North America

 * Canada - (WT-en) Shaund 01:24, 15 September 2011 (EDT)
 * Greenland
 * Mexico --Peter Talk 17:20, 22 September 2011 (EDT)

Caribbean

 * Antigua and Barbuda
 * Bahamas
 * Barbados
 * Cuba --Peter Talk 17:53, 6 September 2011 (EDT)
 * Dominican Republic- (WT-en) simulacra 20:35, 25 January 2012 (CDT)
 * Grenada
 * Haiti
 * Jamaica
 * Saint Lucia
 * Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Central America

 * Belize
 * Honduras
 * Nicaragua
 * Panama

South America

 * Bolivia
 * Chile
 * Colombia
 * Ecuador
 * Guyana
 * Paraguay
 * Uruguay
 * Venezuela


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