Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains

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WikiProject Mountains

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Welcome to WikiProject Mountains, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Mountains. (For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

First, an important note for everyone to remember: A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about mountains. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you do not know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Contents

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide a common layout for articles on named mountains. That is, a mountain that has been given a name (e.g. Mount Robson), not for articles just related to mountains (e.g. mountaineering).

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Geography.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

[edit] Agenda

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains: edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
  • Improve the seven summits articles (e.g. Mount Everest) to Featured Article status.
  • Find free images for existing mountains that do not have photos in the infobox.
  • Move license compatible images to WikiMedia Commons so photos are easily shared with all language wikis.

[edit] Participants

User Areas of interest Comments
RedWolf (talk • contribs) Canadian Rockies, Mountains in Nepal
Stewartadcock (talk • contribs)
Maveric149 (talk • contribs) I've already created/expanded a bunch of the Cascade Range articles
Hike395 (talk • contribs) The Sierra Nevada, and to some extent the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast Ranges
Patton1138 (talk • contribs) Working on Colorado; just finished up initial work on Front Range
William M. Connolley (talk • contribs) Im just starting on the Ecrins; see User:William M. Connolley/Ecrins if interested.
Alojmm (talk • contribs) Just beginning on the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
ColoradoZ (talk • contribs) Currently working on mountains in the Sawatch and Elk Ranges.
Will Beback (talk • contribs)
MONGO (talk • contribs)
Jfg284 (talk • contribs) Working on selected White Mountains.
mypyrex (talk • contribs) Original author of Vignemale.
Nomadtales (talk • contribs) Australian and Papua New Guinean Mountains Currently fixing up Tasmania articles
Gwimpey (talk • contribs)
RobertoAlva (talk • contribs)
Throughthelens (talk • contribs) Correcting and doing Colorado
dabean (talk • contribs)
Phenz (talk • contribs)
Blinutne (talk • contribs)
Everettt (talk • contribs)
Nationalparks (talk • contribs) I've been adding the template whenever I can (example Fajada Butte), and starting new stub articles (example Twilight Peak).
Dabonnett (talk • contribs) Creating new and editing existing articles on Appalachian Mountains.
Shogun (talk • contribs) Mainly stuff in Victoria.
GrandTeton (talk • contribs)
Jarfingle (talk • contribs) Primarily discrete mountains throughout Southeast Alaska :)
pmc (talk • contribs) features of Western Canada, particularly things associated with the Alpine Club of Canada (i.e. huts)
spireguy (talk • contribs) Various world peaks, US peaks; interested in peaks with great local relief; lately did a bunch on the fourteeners
Qyd (talk • contribs) Western Canada, particulatily Alberta
Daniel.Bryant (talk • contribs) Australasia, Seven Summits Userbox changeover, image scouter
Johntex (talk • contribs) Just created Mount Anderson (Antarctica) as a stub and will try to expand to submit to DYK.
Daniel Case (talk • contribs) Mountains of New York State and New Jersey, primarily Catskills Hoping to get Slide Mountain up to FA status one day
Dentren (talk • contribs) South Andean mountains Created Mocho-Choshuenco, will soon climb it
Skookum1 (talk • contribs) BC-Yukon-PacNW Have been building directories/pages for all BC Mtn ranges, coordinating content and peak entries; see also Wikipedia:WikiProject BC and Category:Mountain ranges of British Columbia
Darwinek (talk • contribs) Mostly volcanoes and areas with less attention (Africa etc.).
jrbouldin (talk • contribs) Western USA, esp Pacific States, esp CA
JMiall (talk • contribs) Europe I will be in various mountainous areas around Europe this year (2007): Andorra, Balkans etc. Let me know if you want any photos taking.
Michael Campbell (talk • contribs)
Tsylos (talk • contribs) Mountains in BC Updating current mountains in BC with the Mountain Template
Seattle Skier (talk • contribs) Volcanoes, worldwide and especially the Pacific Ring of Fire and Cascades; mountains of Alaska, BC, Antarctica Created Volcanic Seven Summits, Thirteener, numerous articles about Cascade volcanoes, plus other volcanoes and mountains
Justin.Johnsen (talk • contribs) Mountains of California
Ericoides (talk • contribs) Alps
GeoWriter (talk • contribs) geology, particularly volcanoes

[edit] Structure

A template will provide a common set of features on a mountain organized into a consistent format. The template will include an infobox, that contains the following attributes:

  • name of the mountain/peak
  • elevation, in both metres and feet. Metres should be listed first except for mountains in the United States, where feet is given first. The international spelling of metres should be used for non-USA mountains (versus the American spelling "meter").
  • latitude and longitude
  • mountain range in which the peak is located within
  • date of first ascent
  • difficulty of easiest ascent (e.g. snow/ice climb, scramble, hike)
  • topography map reference (e.g. 83E/03)
  • picture(s) and caption. The caption should include month and year if known.

The body of the article should try to provide the following information:

  • history of the mountain, including how it received its name
  • geology
  • trail head and approach routes
  • timeline of ascents if it is a major mountain of the world; for example, any of the eight-thousanders.
  • detailed information on the first ascent including party members and nationality
  • common climbing routes (and grade)

After creating an article, add it to the relevant section on List of mountains by elevation. If there is an article containing a list of mountains for that country to which the mountain belongs, also add the new entry to that list (e.g. List of mountains in Canada, List of mountains of the United States).

[edit] Categorization

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.

Category:Mountains

[–] Mountains by continent
[+] Mountains of Africa
[+] Mountains of Antarctica
[+] Mountains of Asia
[+] Mountains of Europe
[+] Mountains of North America
[+] Mountains of Oceania
[+] Mountains of South America


For a fully expanded list or if JavaScript is not enabled, see /Categories.

[edit] Hierarchy Definition

No classification of Mountains has been defined. Possible future possibilities could be by continent or major mountain chains.

[edit] General Strategy and Discussion forums

[edit] Templates

Mount Baker

Mount Baker from the northeast
Elevation 10,778 ft (3,285 m)
Location Washington, USA
Range Cascade Range
Prominence 8,881 ft (2,707 m)
Coordinates 48°46′40.8″N, 121°48′43.2″W
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:

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.

[edit] Geolinks-US-mountain template

It is optional to add {{Geolinks-US-mountain}} to articles about US mountains. The template belongs at the end of the External Links section of an article. It takes two arguments: decimal degrees latitude of the peak, and decimal degrees longitude of the peak (remember W longitude is negative). The template generates 4 links to external web sites, to show maps and aerial photos centered on the specific mountain.

[edit] Related, specialised infobox

British hills often come in pairs. For this situation, we have constructed a specialized template:

[edit] Mountain Pass infobox

Usage is nearly identical to that of {{Infobox Mountain}}, though there are less fields (see the template page for more details).

Please add {{Mountain Pass}} to the talk page.

[edit] Mountain Range infobox

See the template page for list of fields.

[edit] Measurement units

For describing quantities such as elevation, for peaks in the United States, please use imperial units (e.g., "feet") first, and then metric units second in parentheses. For any other peaks, please reverse the order: metric first, then imperial in parentheses.

Consider using either the {{Unit ft}} or {{Unit m}} templates to automatically convert heights and avoid conversion errors. For example, for Mount Elbert use {{Unit ft | 14440 | 0}} to create 14,440 ft (4,401 m). See Category:Unit display for detailed instructions and other conversion templates.

[edit] Naming conventions

see also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (landforms)

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] Picture Gallery

Gallery of mountains contains a gallery of photos used by the project's articles. After adding a new picture, also consider adding it to this page.

[edit] Resources

Some useful resources for information on mountains:

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