Here we collaborate on future discover facts that are featured on the Main Page (and on the Discover page).

• 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.

The Nora-dokei (pictured) in Aki is a clock built for farmers to be visible while they worked the fields. The Monastery of Alcobaça contains the graves of King Pedro I and his dead mistress who he had exhumed and crowned Queen. About 1/4 of American peanuts are grown in Dothan, Alabama.

• 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.

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).

• Ventspils, the Flower City of Latvia, hosts its City Festival in the first week of August featuring flower art (pictured) from Baltic artists all along the Promenade of Ostas Iela.
• Sharjah offers a glimpse of Arabic and Islamic environment in an otherwise largely westernized country.
• If you are in Parma, your trip is not complete until you try a hunk of its eponymous cheese, Parmigiano-Reggiano.

• The castle (pictured) of Leiria was built as a line of defence against the Moors in the 12th century, after the first King of Portugal had re-captured the town in 1135.
• Australasia is home to more poisonous species than any other ecoregion.
• Passing through Lindsay, the Victoria Rail Trail is an 85-km hiking trail along a former CN rail line.

• The resort town of Belek is particularly famous for its many golf courses (pictured).
• At the House of Indigo in Tokushima, you can dye your own piece of fabric with real indigo, and learn how to create one of the traditional patterns.
• Annual snowfall in Kuusamo is among the highest in Finland, and ground is covered by snow up to 200 days a year.

• Ray Charles Plaza in Albany, Georgia memorializes Albany's most famous musician with a statue of him (pictured) that also plays his music.
• Some things that flying entails, such as cabin pressure changes, dry air or being seated for long periods, may cause health issues.
• Downtown Monrovia is the image of a tropical capital, melting in the hot sun.

• The Pacific Rim National Park Reserve receives over 3,000 mm (118 in) of precipitation per year, a key factor in producing temperate rainforests (landscape pictured).
• Cali is one of the most famous or popular places for salsa in the world.
• In Greenock, you can visit the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service Museum.

• Skopje's Old Bazaar (street view pictured) is the the largest in the Balkans.
• The Comoros constitute the smallest nation in the Arab World by population.
• Cruz de Plazas in Guadalajara is a set of four plazas laid out in the form of a cross, with the Cathedral at the center.

• One of many culinary specialties of Busan is dong-nae pajeon (pictured), a seafood and green onion pancake.
• Most science-related destinations are based on popular science, the presentation of science for a non-professional audience of all ages.
• About the only equipment you will need for a sightseeing walk around Kuala Lumpur is comfy shoes, sun screen and possibly insect repellent.

• Now a world heritage listed ruin site (ruins pictured), Persepolis was once the capital of the Persian Empire.
• In Wilmington you can take a tour of the First Free Black School in Ohio, established in 1831.
• The Sweden Solar System is the world's largest permanent scale model of the Solar System at a scale of 1:20 million.

• Superbly rebuilt after severe destruction in World War II, the medieval old town square (pictured) of Poznań is considered one of the finest in Europe.
• Raleigh is one of the few U.S. state capitals that was specifically established and planned to serve as a capital.
• Whilst Jan Mayen is a Norwegian tax-free zone, there is no economic activity on the island.

• Kanyakumari is at the southernmost tip of the mainland of India (sunrise view to the sea pictured).
• Taipei has great bookshops, and roads such as Chongqing South Road are packed with stores specializing in Chinese-language books.
• Hinomisaki Lighthouse in Izumo is said to be the tallest lighthouse in Asia.

• A stout chain once connected Tour de la Chaîne and Tour St Nicholas (pictured) to keep trouble out of La Rochelle's harbor.
• Dow Gardens in Midland, Michigan is said to have the longest canopy walk in North America.
• Samurai armor gifted by Japan to Malta in 1862 is on display at the Malta Pavilion at Osaka Expo 2025 for the first time since WWII.

• Although Langue de Barbarie National Park is most known for the over 160 different species of birds that visit (pelicans pictured), it was actually established to protect sea turtles.

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• I've self-reverted an item I'd added about an ice hotel as novelty architecture. I see nothing in Wikivoyage talk:Discover#Overlinking that should prohibit me from linking both novelty architecture and the article about the town. Comments? K7L (talk) 02:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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: