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User:DenisYurkin

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en-2	This user is able to contribute with an intermediate level of English.

ru	Русский язык для данного участника является родным.

email/GTalk: yurkennis+wt@gmail.com

Jabber: yurkennis@jabber.org

ICQ: 24298337

[edit] Time online

Most of my contributions are made over weekends--so if you'd like to patrol them, checking the latest dozen in Recent Changes won't show my edits.

I normally contribute from GMT+3 (Moscow).

[edit] Docent

I'm a Docent for Russia and Moscow where I live now, and for Altai where I was born and lived until age of 17. I can also help a bit on St. Petersburg as have many friends there, and being there myself several times.

I am also Docent for Morocco, Marrakech, Santorini and Oia where I've been recently, and made tons of notes out of which only few published yet here on Wikitravel. Similarly for Hungary, Budapest, Szentendre and Eger, although I published almost all I know about these regions.

I never offer services as a guide helping you visit sights for a fee. I can only answer some questions on the destinations I am quite knowledgeable about.

Feel free to leave your questions on my Talk Page. If I don't seem to contribute for a long time, feel free to drop email (see contacts at the top of this page). IM is also possible on weekends, but I can't promise to have time on weekdays.

[edit] Need your help

Paper travel guides -- see talk page for details.
separating Airline Passenger Rights out of Tips for flying and Europe#By plane--need help in finishing a draft: User:DenisYurkin/Airline Passenger Rights

[edit] Articles I started

Renting a car (10 Nov 2006)
Phrasebook International (19 Nov 2006)
Wikitravel:How to describe yourself (29 Nov 2006)
New Year holidays in Hungary (3 Feb 2007)
Canyoning (9 Sep 2007)
Les Deux Alpes (21 Sep 2007)

[edit] Templates I created

[edit] Travel experience

2007:

Sept: Spain (Barcelona, Cap de Creus, Cadaques, Girona, Figueres; canyoning in Alquezar and Aragon; San Sebastian, Bilbao, Hondarribia)

[edit] Personal templates

My own versions--before they become a general practice (or even set in stone in templates):

If you are from Russia, you may find ... less ... than you're accustomed to. (e.g. to compare prices for Massimo Dutti)

Get out:

How to get out
Where to go

Get in:By plane

Terminals
Connections (airlines; destinations with direct flights)
Airport transfer
Duty Free Shopping at {Airport|Terminal X}
Airport cafes

Get around

By foot: на каблуках; детская коляска; булыжная мостовая
By tube:

Where To Alight

Foo Line westbound: the last door of the last carriage

Foo Line eastbound: the first door of the first carriage

Bar Line eastbound: the third door of the first carriage

Bar Line westbound: the second door of the last carriage

See
прогулочным шагом: It takes around an hour to walk up at a leisurely pace
Buy

Money (currencies + credit cards)
Money exchange
What to buy? Apart from classical tourist souvenirs like postcards and trinkets, here are some things from this region that are hard to find elsewhere, or even unique.
Design (see Helsinki#Design)
unconventional (designer goods; souvenirs etc)

Eat

Main courses generally around ... (price ranges)
daily ..., Mon-Thu ...
upscale and modern
atmospheric place

Chains
Traditional (Region) cuisine
Non-(Region) cuisines

(place) declares to be "(quote)"

India: infobox listing most frequent dishes

London: what you can get for what money

Drink

club full of good-looking people
ambient bars
chilled out lounge bar

Sleep

availability is tight and prices can be crazy
for Santorini: it's not uncommon to be quoted over US$300/night for what would elsewhere be a distinctly ordinary business hotel going for a third of the price

[edit] Outstanding discussions

rework into a page or section in Wikitravel: namespace: Wikitravel:Travellers' pub#listings: examples of de-touting and summarizing
shopping and what things cost:
- Talk:Travel_topics#Shopping_articles: encourage to expand Saint Thomas#Buy into worldwide-applicable
- User:DenisYurkin/Shopping
- User:DenisYurkin/Shopping around the world
- User:DenisYurkin/What things cost

decide what outcome I want: Wikitravel talk:What is an article?#Airlines
Wikitravel talk:Don't tout#should superlatives be sourceable?
WF: Talk:Discount airlines in Europe#group airlines by their base country?
WF objections/more support/2weeks: Wikitravel talk:Using talk pages#avatars/userpics for easier scanning?
WF interest: Wikitravel talk:Romanization#Russian
WF: any previous discussions?: User talk:Bill-on-the-Hill#vfd's
propose site-wide standards per cuisine / restaurant type, as there're too few contributors to discuss this with, for many megapolises (even countries): Wikitravel talk:Restaurant listings#price ranges
propose checklist/what we do/n't want on info on restaurants: (was: my turn "as long as neither is reality yet, hence my proposal"): Wikitravel talk:Restaurant listings#encourage evolution of reviews
WF comments; Jani for 2 weeks: Wikitravel talk:Accommodation listings#nearest attractions
- stops: [1]
WF ideas on making progress: Wikitravel talk:Restaurant listings#How to write multiple branches of restaurants?

[edit] Personal Bookmarks

for districtifying Barcelona, excellent pattern to ask for the "all together now" help: Mexico COTM
Wikitravel:What is a dive guide? -- an example of a very detailed instruction for researcher and contributor (first of its kind here?)

[edit] books for further reading

Wikitravel_talk:Where_you_can_stick_it#Recommended_.2F_further_reading_.2F_destination_travel_books_and_publications

[edit] sources for research

[edit] more users to attract for Barcelona districts

[edit] Currently working on

[edit] Portugal

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Moscow&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Portugal&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Lisbon&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Cascais&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Alentejo&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Sintra&action=edit

(and more)

[edit] Montenegro

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Budva&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Montenegro&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Herceg_Novi&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Kotor&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Petrovac&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Podgorica&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Virpazar&action=edit

[edit] Spain

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Spain&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Barcelona&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Barcelona/Ciutat_Vella&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Barcelona/Eixample&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Barcelona/Gr%C3%A0cia&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Barcelona/Barceloneta&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=San_Sebastian&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Canyoning&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Renting_a_car&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Wikitravel_talk:Restaurant_listings&action=edit&section=1

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Wikitravel_talk:Restaurant_listings&action=edit&section=10

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Kiev&action=edit

[edit] Done

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Calella_de_Palafrugell&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Figueres&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Girona&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Pamplona&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Bilbao&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Hondarribia&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Vizcaya&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Zaragoza&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Basque_Country&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Cap_de_Creus&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Cadaques&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Aragon&action=edit

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Alquezar&action=edit

[edit] things to work on

[edit] Reference for personal use

[edit] incubator

[edit] sandboxes

[edit] Sri Lanka

[edit] Welcoming users

{{subst:User:DenisYurkin/QuestionOnYourEdit|article name|talk section name}} --~~~~:

Hi (username). I have a question about something you contributed to (article name) and I've started a discussion in Talk:(article name). If you can, please take a look at the Talk:(article name) page and leave your comments. Thanks!

User talk:Oriolbcn#Welcome! -- business owner, don't add listings to huge city article
User talk:Tsandell#splitting complex edits into several simple changes and User talk:Nammarci#splitting complex edits into several simple changes

[edit] Berlin

http://www.friedrichstrasse.de/ -- decide if there's anything helpful
http://www.lafayette.de -- use as a link for GL in listings
http://www.vbbonline.de/ -- how to use for route planning / as a timetable?

which of these Katya recommended?

http://www.berlin.de/english/visitors/index.html -- anything helpful?
http://www.berlin-tourist-information.de/ -- anything helpful?
http://www.berlin-mitte.com -- anything helpful?

[edit] Unread

[edit] Archived

User:DenisYurkin/Renting a car
User:DenisYurkin/Barcelona -- a sandbox for merging my vacation-time edits into a meanwhile server changes
User:DenisYurkin/World's most unusual hotels

[edit] Non-printable (web-only) experiment

non-printable text

[edit] Non-printable heading

and text in it.

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