Wikitravel’s purpose is to “create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide.” I think it was important to actually keep the pages up to date and correct. Many of the stores and restaurants listed were no longer open for business, and some of the most popular restaurants in town that have opened recently haven’t been added to either page. For my Wikitravel page, I chose to edit the Sleep Hollow and Tarrytown pages. I grew up in Tarrytown, and Sleepy Hollow is the neighboring town, so I felt that these were the two pages I could contribute to most. Over the past few years, many old stores have shut down and new ones have replaced them. For both Wiki pages, particularly Tarrytown, the most editing involved deleting closed down restaurants and stores, and adding new ones that replaced them.
For the Tarrytown page, several restaurants listed were closed, including; Tony’s Pizzeria, Lollipop, Baskin Robbins, and the Chocolate Shop. There were also some establishments that needed to be added included; Subway, Yogurt Le’Crepe, Tarry Tavern, Lubins and Links. Tarrytown was relatively up to date with it’s things to do and see, but I added the annual lighting of the Christmas tree in a local park.
Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown share a zip code and school system, and most of the stores and restaurants are located in Tarrytown’s downtown rather than Sleepy Hollow’s. Visiting either town would usually include sight seeing and “things to do” in Sleepy Hollow, and shopping/eating out in Tarrytown. Although most of the restaurants and stores were up to date in Sleepy Hollow, I did add the recently opened Huddle to the list of restaurants.
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