Wikivoyage:Portugal Expedition

The Portugal Expedition is a Wikivoyage Expedition to promote and coordinate collaboration to improve Wikivoyage's articles pertaining to Portugal. If you'd like to join the effort, please add your signature to the bottom of the page!

Article statistics

Note that numbers in the tables are not dynamically calculated and must be manually updated. Last updated on 24 September 2024.

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Articles by status in Portugal
Type/Status Matrix	Outline	Usable	Guide	Star	Unranked	Total (line)
District	0	6	0	0		6
City	2	158	5	1		166
Airport	0	0	1	0		1
Park	0	2	0	0		2
Dive guide	0	0	0	0		0
Rural area	0	6	0	0		6
Region	20	2	0	0	1	23
Total	22	174	6	1	1	204

Articles needing a little work to get to usable.
Outline cities	sleep	eat	see	do	check
needs only	0	0	0	0	0
has no	0	0	0	0	0

Remember a reasonable Get in section, as well as listings, is needed to make usable.

Non-destination articles

The following articles do not fall under Portugal in the geographical hierarchy/breadcrumb trail, so they are not included in the #Article statistics above.

Portugal — Usable country
Driving in Portugal — Outline travel topic
Portuguese cuisine — Guide travel topic
Portuguese Empire — Usable travel topic
Portuguese phrasebook — Guide phrasebook
Portuguese Way — Outline itinerary

Aims

We should strive for both quality and quantity. Ideally, our coverage will be both wide and deep, covering everywhere of note in the country while giving enough listings and details on each place to provide travellers with an unsurpassed guide to Portugal.

Long term, all 308 municipalities in the country should have an article (except in the unlikely event that there are any that don't meet the requirements set forth in Wikivoyage:What is an article? or cannot possibly ever be promoted to Usable status). Any cities or towns that don't have their own articles should be redirected (or disambiguated) to the municipality articles, with a mention in bold in the lead or Understand section.

Outline to Usable

Nearly all region articles are at Outline status and should be improved to Usable (except for Madeira and Oeste, which are already Usable).

Usable to Guide

All district, city, park, and rural area articles are already at Usable status or better. We should work to improve these Usable articles to Guide status, prioritizing the articles below.

Country

We should work on getting Portugal itself to Guide status. This is a huge undertaking, since "All immediate subregions must be Usable status or better".

Top cities

Five of nine Portugal#Cities are currently at Usable status (the remainder are at Guide):

Guide to Star

It would be great to have our Guide-status articles promoted to Star status:

Coimbra
Évora
Lisbon — Destination of the Month for February 2022, but still no star
Lisbon Airport
Porto
Porto da Cruz — Off the Beaten Path for March 2021, but still no star
Portuguese cuisine
Portuguese phrasebook

Articles under discussion and work in progress

Articles that are currently being worked on or under discussion such as merge or delete. Or articles you wish to bring to others' attention.

Discussions should take place on the talk page of the article, this is just to highlight activity.

Regions

Done Should Estremadura, which currently has 25 cities, be subdivided? Please discuss at Talk:Estremadura#Regions (should we subdivide?).
Done The regions currently have gaps. Under discussion at Talk:Portugal#Regions 2021.

Huge cities (districification)

Done Lisbon has several discussions over the years about converting it into a "huge city" and districtifying. Nothing ever came of it.
Porto should be next on our list, if/when we ever successfully convert Lisbon.

Articles needed

If any tourist destinations (cities, regions, national parks^†, etc.) are missing, list them below.
^† Portugal has only one "national park". The term is used here broadly as shorthand for w:Protected areas of Portugal.

Cities

Many city articles have listings for hotels or other amenities outside their municipal borders. This is usually because an article doesn't yet exist for the city the business is actually located in. If this cannot be addressed right away, list the missing articles below as you encounter them.

Done Alvito — to move a Sleep listing from Beja
Done Câmara de Lobos — to move listings out of region article Madeira
Done Condeixa-a-Nova — to move Conímbriga out of Coimbra
Done Entroncamento — important railway junction
Done Grândola — to move listings from incorrect location Alcácer do Sal
Done Oliveira do Bairro – to move a Drink listing from Aveiro
Done Portalegre – the only district capital without an article
Done Santa Cruz (Madeira) — to move listings out of region article Madeira
Done Valença (Portugal) — seems like an interesting city (create redirect from Valença do Minho)

Parks

Berlengas — w:Berlengas, w:pt:Arquipélago das Berlengas, Berlengas Nature Reserve

Airports

Done Lisbon Airport — depending on the outcome of Wikivoyage talk:Airport Expedition#Lisbon Airport

Travel topics

Article ideas and requests

New article checklist

When creating the article

Select the appropriate article type under "To start, please click on one of the following links to pre-fill this article with the standard sections:" to prefill the correct template.
Enter the destination's region in the placeholder in the lead section and in {{IsPartOf|}}.
Enter the destination's latitude and longitude coordinates in {{geo||}}. You can usually find these at Wikipedia or Wikidata.

After you have saved the article

At Wikidata, add an interwiki link to the article.
Add a wikilink to the new article from its containing region.
Add a dynamic map by adding {{mapframe}}{{mapshape}} at the beginning of the "Get around" section (for cities). For bottom-level regions, this goes in the "Cities" section. For regions that have subregions, this goes in the "Regions" section.
Add the {{Wikivoyage}} template to the Wikipedia article, usually in the "External links" section (if it doesn't exist, "See also" works, or at the bottom of the article). If the article names don't match, use {{Wikivoyage|<WV article name>}}.
Pronunciation (at the beginning of the "Understand" section; see existing articles for formatting):
- Add a sound clip of the destination's pronunciation. These already exist at Wikimedia Commons for all Portuguese municipalities. They're linked from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
- add a pseudo-phoneticization of the city's name. This should link to Portuguese_phrasebook#Pseudo-phoneticization to help our readers figure it out.
- Add the IPA pronunciation (can usually be found in the lead of the Wikipedia article or determined using this non-Wikimedia site).
At the end of the "Understand" section, add a new "Visitor information" subsection with a listing for the city's tourist information office (posto de turismo, loja interativa de turismo, or similar) and a link to the city's official tourism website or the equivalent section of its municipal website.
Add a page banner image. You will use Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to achieve this. (This makes the top of the article look nicer, but can wait until after more content and listings are added.)
If possible, try to get the new article up to Usable status soon after creation. City articles will need some details in the "Get in" section, one See or Do listing, one Eat listing, and one Sleep listing, at a minimum.

Merge proposals

Done Lisbon tram 28 into Lisbon#Tram. Discuss at Talk:Lisbon_tram_28#Proposed merge.
Done Salema into Vila do Bispo. Discuss at Talk:Salema#Proposed_merge.

Tasks

Standard tasks

These standard tasks are based on the {{RegionTasks}} template.

Done Recheck usablecity and usabledistrict without Sleep listing (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Recheck usablecity and usabledistrict without Eat listing (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Recheck usablecity and usabledistrict without See and Do listing (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without See listing (verified 5 August 2021)
Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without Do listing
Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without Event listing
Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without Drink listing
Expand usablecity and usabledistrict without Buy listing
Complete Routebox navigation for major transport routes.
Done Create custom page banner image (verified 6 July 2021)
Articles with no photographs This takes a few minutes to generate list and suggestions.
Done Address Articles needing attention (verified 26 July 2021)
Done Event date needs updating (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Geo zoom needed (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Fix Articles with dead external links (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Fix or remove Articles with formerly dead external links (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Wikipedia-Wikidata check needed if connection can be made (verified 26 July 2021)
Done Articles Geo different to Wikidata, change geo or wikidata coordinates to match (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Create redirect for Airport code without link - (Airports coded) (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Add coordinated to guidecity and guidedistrict See listing without coordinates (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Add coordinated to guidecity, starcity, guidedistrict and stardistrict Listings without coordinates (verified 3 July 2021)
Region with listing, do they need moving to city articles?
Done huge city with listing, do they need moving to district articles? (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Fix external links without text (verified 3 July 2021)
Done Move in to listing where phone icon used, Tel: used, phone: used and + used (verified 6 July 2021)
Done Indented listing not using double bullet format but :* (verified 6 July 2021)

Custom tasks

These are custom tasks that we come up with for the Portugal Expedition.

Short-term

Make sure all articles have a "Visitor information" subsection in the "Understand" section. A listing should be provided to the local posto de turismo (or equivalent) with an external link to the municipality's tourism website.
All articles should have a photo besides the page banner. Longer articles should have more, but don't go overboard, per Wikivoyage:Image policy#Minimal use of images.
Review mapshapes to find listings outside municipal borders. Move listings to correct municipality. Create articles if needed.

Long term

Review articles for plain text that should be listings.
Make sure that all items from w:List of national monuments of Portugal have See listings.
Add routeboxes for all autoestradas (motorways) and railway lines to articles for municipalities they serve.

Completed

Done Make sure all UNESCO World Heritage Sites are listed in the destination articles, and that the articles have the unesco=yes parameter in the {{pagebanner}} template. (w:List of World Heritage Sites in Portugal)
Done Add municipal {{mapshape}}s to region articles, once the regions discussion is concluded.
Done Make sure all corresponding Wikipedia articles have the {{Wikivoyage}} template. (alphabetical list)
Done Add all Michelin-starred restaurants to the appropriate city articles.
Done Pronunciations: Change Wikivoyage:Pronunciation guide links to Portuguese phrasebook#Pseudo-phoneticization. (PetScan check, randomly ordered); Rearrange pronunciations so that pseudo-phoneticization comes before IPA; Verify that pseudo-phoneticization transcriptions are clear and useful. Particularly, "ng" might not be the best way to represent nasal vowels in many cases; an "n" or "m" alone might work better. ("ng" might work for sounds like ão, unless we come up with something better.); Verify that IPA transcriptions are clear and useful. This external site may produce better transcriptions than those found in Wikipedia articles, but be vigilant and feel free to override, as it often uses /e/ when it should be /ɛ/ or it uses /o/ for /ɔ/ sounds.

On hold

~~Add all Pousadas to the appropriate city articles.~~ (on hold pending discussion)
~~Improve description of pousada at Portugal#Sleep and wikilink all pousadas to here.~~ (on hold pending discussion)

Resources

Wikimedia projects

Lists of tourist attractions in Portugal (Wikipedia category)
List of museums in Portugal (Wikipedia list article)
Protected areas of Portugal (Wikipedia article)
Tourism in Lisbon (Wikipedia article)
Lisbon landmarks (Wikipedia template)

Government sites

Censos 2021 - preliminary census figures from Instituto Nacional de Estatística (a/k/a Statistics Portugal); we may want to wait until the final tally is released before we update numbers in articles
Natural.pt – official information about protected areas, operated by Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas (Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests, a government ministerial agency)
Produtos Tradicionais Portugueses (Traditional Portuguese Products) by Direção-Geral de Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural (General Directorate of Agriculture and Rural Development), part of the Ministry of Agriculture
SIGTUR- Sistema de Informação Geográfica do Turismo

Commercial & personal sites

For cities needing restaurant listings, Michelin's Bib Gourmand and Plate Michelin listings provide a reliable, professionally-rated source. (Starred restaurants are covered under #Custom_tasks.)
12 Best Restaurants In Lisbon, Portugal (Hand Baggage Only, a blog)
The Best Golf Courses In Portugal from Golf Monthly
Portuguese hotel brands:
- Dorisol Hotels
- Flagworld Hotels
- Luna Hotels & Resorts
- Ocram Hotel Management
- Pestana Hotel Group
- PortoBay Hotels & Resorts
- Pousadas de Juventude (Youth Hostels, associated with Hostelling International)
- Solverde Hotels & Casinos
- Tivoli Hotels & Resorts
- Vila Galé Hotéis

Milestones

October 2016 - Caldas da Rainha: Off the Beaten Path
28 January 2021 - Caldas da Rainha: promoted to Star article
March 2021 - Porto da Cruz: Off the Beaten Path
3 July 2021 - Portugal Expedition launched
February 2022 - Lisbon: Destination of the Month
13 May 2022 - 200 destination articles

Members

Nelson Ricardo 2500

Portugal Expedition

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