Forum:A new Uncyclo-project has been created
UnVoyage beta - the content-free travel guide anyone can edit
I'm sure you've heard about this already, but I've just launched UnVoyage. It's a parody of Wikimedia's new Wikivoyage. It's content-free, so it is meant to be satirical and hilarious. if you'd like to contribute, go to UnVoyage and click the "how to make a page" link. Happy article making, FOOLS! — 
(talk) (contributions) Jan 23 2013 16:23.
- Also, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reply to this forum or ask on my talk page. —
(talk) (contributions) Jan 23 2013 16:24.
- I recall a book "Don't Go" by Chris Harris which was a parody of the "Let's Go!" travel guide series (offering tips like "Be bold! Be stupid! Be American!" and "five words: Is the wine fresh here?"). It seems to be based on insulting every destination country, one by one, as "snail-eating, beret-wearing surrender monkeys" and the like. I still have the "traveLOLcity" domain in .org, which has never been used.
- I presume a Wikivoyage parody is viable, although the format of a travel guide listing is rather fixed and inflexible compared to Wikipedia (each WV page is structured "understand", "get in". "get around", "see", "do", "buy", "eat", "drink", "sleep", "contact", "go next" to provide sections to list attractions, restaurants, accommodations and transport). Perhaps the parody sections should be "come", "see" and "conquer" with instructions to invaders on what to pillage and burn? WV itself has a few April Fools' destinations in project space (tonight we dine in Hell, anyone?) although "space", "moon" and "Titanic" are real articles.
- Perhaps the pattern in which hotels and CVB's (convention/visitor bureaux) attempt to edit pages to add meaningless fluff like "beautiful sunsets, cool river breezes, friendly staff, a true vacation getaway" or blatant self-promotion to Wikivoyage needs to be parodied. "Come to visit Blecchistan, glorious workers' paradise!"
- Certainly, there are many parallels between the Wikitravel/Wikivoyage situation and our own; WT was started as an independent website in 2003, its founders sold out in 2006 to some for-profit mercenary group (Internet Brands) and the users have been trying to regain project autonomy ever since (de and it: being the first to fork as Wikivoyage, followed by the others in 2012). The for-profit corporation is keeping the old version open as a fork and censoring discussion, which should sound familiar to some. There is advertising for hotels and transport on every page. Perhaps we could claim to be a fork left behind when this moved to Wikivoyage, claim to be owned by "Internet Bagmen, Inc" and put ads for third-class RMS Titanic tickets on the pages in an attempt to squeeze that last bit of profit out of a dead site? Carlb (talk) 18:32, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
- WikiFugitive? A travel/voyage site for international fugitive criminals to tell them which countries to which to flee next to keep ahead of the law. Published by Carmen Sandiego, who just left in a boat with a green and vomit colored flag... 2001:5C0:1000:A:0:0:0:187 21:54, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Wikivoyage format
I'd looked at one of the existing pages that had been moved to UnVoyage/New Jersey and attempted to fix it to match Wikivoyage's format. It's not a perfect match as WV is a mess of non-standard MediaWiki extensions (mw:extension:GeoCrumbs, mw:extension:Listings, mw:extension:MapSources, mw:extension:RelatedSites, mw:extension:RelatedArticles, mw:extension:Insider, among others).
Certainly, any existing pages moved into a wp:voy: parody need to have the section headers (see, do, eat, sleep and the like) from wp:voy:template:region or wp:voy:template:smallcity with a token amount of "content" in each. The pages need to use Wikivoyage imperative style (go here, see this, do that... and get tourista there, presumably) instead of neutral, descriptive encyclopaedic style à la Wikipedia. We also need to fake the 'geocrumb' trail somehow - I just copied them from wp:voy:Thousand Islands as that page is a type (destination on a region boundary) that the WV extension never did handle properly and therefore it already has usable 'fake' crumbs.
This looks viable, just so long as WV parody pages are made to look like WV and not like every other page here. There is a fixed, inflexible format to these because a fixed portion of every destination page in a travel guide is formatted as listings - something a free-form encyclopaedia article would never do. Carlb (talk) 19:11, 26 January 2013 (UTC)