Wikitravel talk:Related articles
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This turned out to be easier than I thought, so it's now in production on Wikitravel. I think it's useful for defining relationships between a destination guide and itineraries; for destination guides and phrasebooks; and for guides and travel topics.
It may be valuable to do different templates, like Template:hasItinerary, Template:hasTopic, and Template:hasPhrasebook, which use the same (or similar) RDF as Template:Related for right now, but later might have a more specific relationship. --Evan 15:39, 14 Feb 2006 (EST)
- Yeah, it'd be nice to have the itinerary one since marking the cities on each itinerary looks like a pretty obvious step right now.
- We also need some usage guidelines too. For example, for a small city, marking the neighboring cities seems like a thing to do -- I often consult neighboring cities for hotels when planning a trip. But how far should that go? I don't think "Get out" locations should ever be listed as related since generally you should have more than just the name of a city listed. -- Colin 16:06, 14 Feb 2006 (EST)
- How about moving the regions to something like Template:hasRegions? Talk about some busy work. -- Tom Holland (xltel) 16:54, 14 Feb 2006 (EST)
- Personally, I'd like to see this used specificially for non "hasRegion" and "Get out" type relationships, since we already have ways of indicating these (ie breadcrumb and Get out section). What I think it is great for is the sort of stuff Evan's done in examples: linking topics with places (Los Angeles and Driving in Los Angeles County) and destinations that may be linked conceptually but not geographicly (Hawaii and the Caribbean). Majnoona 18:21, 14 Feb 2006 (EST)
- Or Las Vegas and Atlantic City. --Evan 20:39, 14 Feb 2006 (EST)
[edit] Nowiki Undereffectual
There are some example related items in this article. They are surrounded by nowiki markers, but they show up in the Related box anyway. Any workaround for this? -- Colin 16:10, 14 Feb 2006 (EST)
- No, actually not. It's a bug in the RDF code, and it needs to be fixed. I'll take a look and see if I can make it work better. --Evan 16:17, 14 Feb 2006 (EST)
- OK, I think it's fixed now. Comments and nowikis should hide RDF code. --Evan 16:34, 14 Feb 2006 (EST)
[edit] Bi-directional?
If X is related to Y, then presumably Y is related to X. Currently, it takes related tags in both articles to express this. Could the parser or a bot deduce the second tag whenever a user enters one? Are there places where this would be wrong? Pashley 19:33, 28 June 2007 (EDT)
- One instance I can think of not wanting that would be something like Discount airlines in Asia... where we might want to link to that article from quite a few country articles, but probably wouldn't want each of those countries in a long list in the "related" box on the discount airlines page – cacahuate talk 03:03, 29 June 2007 (EDT)
[edit] Not in "What links here"
Why are related pages are not in the "What links here"-overview? -- Eiland 07:20, 29 October 2009 (EDT)

