Wikivoyage/Manual of style

Template:SHB Our Manual of style contains a collection of guidlines for giving our articles a good look and feel. Good articles should follow wthis guidelines. The manual of style is broken up into several articles. You can link to anarticle, when you want to quote a special rule in discussions.

Introduction

Our manual of style hasn't got a beginning and an end. You can start reading everyvwhere. This article gives you review over all articles. The following section provides a list of some recommended starting points.

Specifications of articles

All articles on AltWT should have a consistent layout. That's why we recommend our Specifications of articles warmly to you.

Geographical hierarchy

It's good to know how we divide the world up. The article about the Geographical hierarchy provides this information. Articles that don't fit to our geographical hierarchy are described in Other ways of seeing travel.

What information gets an own article?

Not every information gets's an own article. What is an article? is a guidlene about creating new articles. Especially Wikipedians should read it.

Printable articles

Altuough AltWT is an inteernet-project, we want to have our articles printed in the future. You should think about the Neutrality of medium when you write an article.

Content

AltWT is a travel guide not an encyclopedia. We limit our content to information about travelling. According to our experience Wikipedians forget this restriction occasionally.

Images

AltWT isn't a photo gallery. We use Images in articles sparingly.

Style

Einzelheiten zum idealen Schreibstil findest du im Abschnitt Schreibstil unten.

General structure

This section describes the structure of AltWT as a whole.

Structure of the articles

Where can I place my information?

Formatting style

This section describes the layout of the articles. It descreibes the style we take raw information and put it in a format that's easily usable by travelers.