Wikipedia:WikiProject Climbing
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This article is part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Climbing, a project to systematically present information on climbing. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page (see Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ for more information) |
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The current Climbing Wikiproject Bi-monthly focus article is Yvon Chouinard! |
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Welcome to the Climbing WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of climbing.
(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).
- Goals
- To create, improve and maintain articles relating to the subject of climbing, with the specific goal of elevating as many as practicable to good or featured article status.
- Scope
- This project will concern itself to all areas relating to the sport of climbing. These specifically include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- General Climbing Articles
- Caving articles
- Rescue articles
- Mountaineering articles
- Mountains, Boulders, and Routes
- Grading Systems (goes along with above)
- Techniques
- Notable climbing companies
- Notable climbing personalities
- Major climbing events and first ascents.
- Future: to be determined
In general, all of these articles should be included within the Category:Climbing or any of its subcategories.
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[edit] Guidelines
In progress: will vary for each type of article.
[edit] Personalities and people
[edit] Mountains
Guidelines on Mountains will be in line with WikiProject Mountains, located at WikiProject Mountains.
[edit] Routes
[edit] Famous Ascents
[edit] Corporations
[edit] Open tasks
- Please add the project banner {{Climbing}} to the talk pages of all articles within the Category:Climbing and it's subcategories.
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[edit] Bimonthly focus
Major participation focuses will be determined bimonthly. For the first half of December 2006, (ending Dec. 15), we will be focusing on major climbing personalities.
- Specifically we'll be working on Yvon Chouinard. ⇒ SWATJester On Belay! 21:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Climbing}} to their userpages.
- ⇒ SWATJester Ready Aim Fire! 06:40, 9 December 2006 (UTC) I'm founding this wikiproject to improve the quality of climbing related articles. I got hooked on climbing this year, and I hope to make Wikipedia the ultimate source of knowledge for rock climbing! My areas of interest are primarily in bouldering and buildering, although I'm looking to get into some trad and sport climbing.
- User:Rwxrwxrwx I've written a few articles on major rock-climbing crags in Ireland (see for example Dalkey Quarry, Ailladie, Luggala), and have others in my sights. What do people think of the general style of those articles? I've been rock-climbing (at the middle grades) for over 20 years, but have no big-mountain experience. Rwxrwxrwx 11:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Articles
- Further information: Category:Climbing
[edit] Featured content
None yet.
[edit] Candidates
None yet.
[edit] New articles
Please feel free to list your new Climbing-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.
[edit] Collaboration and review
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The current Climbing Wikiproject Bi-monthly focus article is Yvon Chouinard! |
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(Note: Templates are {{Climb Collaboration}} for the article, and {{Climb Collaboration Current}} for this page. Please edit the Climb Collaboration Current template to reflect the article being worked on each fortnight. ~~~~)
[edit] Naming conventions
- Further information: Wikipedia:Naming conventions
[edit] Mountains
Articles should be named according to the most common name for a mountain. If alternate names exist, mention them in the article and create redirects for them to prevent duplicate articles. "Mount" will always be expanded in the article name. For example, Mount Logan and not [[Mt. Logan]]. A redirect for "Mt. <name>" should be created to prevent duplicate articles.
If a mountain name is not unique, the convention is to create a disambiguation page for the mountain. Then, all mountains by that name will be disambiguated by putting the political division name of the mountain in parenthesis after the mountain name. For example, Mount Columbia exists in both Alberta, Canada and Colorado, United States. The disambiguated pages are subsequently named: Mount Columbia (Alberta) and Mount Columbia (Colorado).
Some mountains/peaks have the same name in the same political division. For example, Granite Peak has been given to over 40 peaks in the United States alone with it existing multiple times within certain states. In this case, the naming convention is to add a distinguishing sub-classification of the political division. For example, in the United States, one would also add the county name: e.g. Brown Peak (Kern County, California). When this situation occurs as it does for Granite Peak and Brown Peak, the standard infobox template will not be used. Instead, a table listing the peak names and unique geographical information will be used. See Granite Peak and Brown Peak for examples of this table. In the case of US mountains, the USGS GNIS link should be maintained within the table and if an article is created for a peak, the USGS GNIS link should be replaced with the wiki link to the new article.
[edit] Routes
Route articles should be named according to the name given at first ascent of the route. In the case of duplicate route names, the grade of the route shall be included, using the most popular grading system of that region. In the case of European routes, this will be the French system. For North American routes, this will be the Yosemite Decimal System. For bouldering routes, North American entries will use the Hueco "V" system, European entries will use the Fontainebleau system. In case of two routes with duplicate names and grades, a disambiguation page will be created with further information about the routes.
[edit] Article structure
[edit] People
A template will provide a common set of features on a climbing topic organized into a consistent format. The template will include an infobox, that contains the following attributes:
- Name
- Birth-Death
- Birthplace
- Type of climber (trad, boulder, free solo etc.)
- First Ascents (notable)
- Named Routes (notable)
- Major Ascents
- Sponsors/Companies
- picture(s) and caption. The caption should include month and year if known.
- Highest grade climbed
The body of the article should try to provide the following information:
- history of the climber, including birth and death
- Major ascents, including first ascents
- Any sponsorships or major corporations worked for
- Personal information
- Information on equipment and protection
- Any notable media appearances
After creating an article, categorize it into the appropriate category. Do not forget to add it to List of climbing topics and List of first ascents where applicable.
[edit] Categorization
The parent category is Category:Climbing
[edit] People
Climbers are categorized in Category:Mountain climbers by nationality, or if unknown, in Category:Mountain climbers. Other appropriate categories include Category:Summiters of Mount Everest, Category:Climbers, Category:Mountaineering.
[edit] Mountains
If an article is added to the project, please also add it to one of the mountain categories: e.g. Category:Mountains of Canada, Category:Mountains of France, Category:Mountains of the United States. Also consider adding a link to the article to the appropriate list article, such as List of mountains of the United States, Canada, etc.
If a country specific mountains category does not exist, then add it to one of the continent specific categories such as Category:Mountains of Europe or Category:Mountains of Asia. If those are not applicable, then add it to Category:Mountains. For a country that does not have a specific category yet, the general rule is to create a category for the country only when the number of existing mountain articles is five or more.
For a fully expanded list or if JavaScript is not enabled, see /Categories.
[edit] Templates
[edit] Template:Climbing
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This article is part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Climbing, a project to systematically present information on climbing. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page (see Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ for more information) |
To add this template, type {{Climbing}} to the article's talk page. ⇒ SWATJester On Belay! 07:31, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
| Mount Baker | |
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 Mount Baker from the northeast |
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| Elevation | 10,778 ft (3,285 m) |
| Location | Washington, USA |
| Range | Cascade Range |
| Prominence | 8,881 ft (2707 m) |
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| Topo map | USGS Mount Baker |
| Type | Stratovolcano |
| Age of rock | <30 Kyr |
| Last eruption | 1880 |
| First ascent | 1868 by Edmund T. Coleman and party |
| Easiest route | rock/ice climb |
There is one infobox that makes any mountain infobox: {{Infobox Mountain}}. See an example, right, of the use of the template. This template has three required parameters:
- Name
- Elevation (metric units first, but Imperial units first for peaks in the USA
- Location (State/Province, then country).
It has many optional parameters:
- Photo (filename, no need for "Image:")
- Caption (only if there is a photo)
- Range (if applicable)
- Prominence (if known)
- Coordinates (for use with {{coor dms}} or {{coor dm}})
- Topographic map (map authority, map name)
- Type (see List of mountain types)
- Age (of rock)
- Last eruption (if volcano, last major eruption, not steam)
- First ascent (if not a hike-up mountain, year and members of expedition)
- Easiest route
- Grid_ref_uk
- Grid_ref_ireland
- Listing (if peak belongs to well-known list of hills, e.g., Munros)
- Translation (if peak name is not English, it is good to provide a translation)
- Language (if peak name is not English)
- Pronunciation (if non-obvious)
Copy and paste a sample infobox from any of the following links to get started:
- Infobox for mountains in the Alps
- Infobox for mountains in Canada
- Infobox for mountains in the Himalaya
- Infobox for mountains in the United Kingdom
- Infobox for mountains in the United States
The previous multi-template is now deprecated.
[edit] Mountain template
Talk pages of articles about mountains are encouraged to use {{Mountain}}. The talk pages that do use this template are at Pages linking to Mountain. A sorted list of these pages is at List of mountains.
