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Geography Portal [edit] Information for Users This category is the Geography category. This is a guide to aid in the designation of articles into categories and to aid in finding information For new users the article "List of basic geography topics" will help in an understanding of the layout of this category. [edit] Index Branches of geography: Contains the sub-categories of physical and human geography and the various sub-fields of geography Continents: Contains the categories relating to the present and past continents Exploration: Contains information on explorers, navigation and surveys Geocodes: Contains links to lists of phone area codes Geographers: Contains links to articles on geographers and a list of geographers Geographic images: Contains links to articles and galleries with images of interest to geography Geography journals: Contains links to articles to academic geography journals Geographic societies: Contains links to articles on Geographic organizations and societies Geographic technology: Contains links to geomatics, GIS, Geostatistics and other spatial analysis tools Geography terminology: Contains links to common geographical terms Geography by place: Contains several other categories of geography by country and continent as well as links to lists of place names and locations History of geography: Contains links to key events in the field Surveying: Contains links to articles on surveying methods and civil engineering Wikipedia geography: Contains articles relating to the links for templates and reference material on Wikipedia Geography stubs: Contains a list of small articles that are in need of expansion Articles and media on this topic in other Wikimedia projects can be found at: Commons Category talk Geography

[edit] New start page

As you can all see I added the portal. Do you think this is a good idea? I quite like it, with the warning at the top, makes the page more interesting. Otherwise it's just a bunch of topics with a definition of geography at the top. Obviously it still needs quite a bit of work and we can learn from all the other portals. I recommend that we scout around and find the best features of others and then try to copy them in improving the portal. --komencanto 08:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

This looks good, and is an excellent use of the Category pages and a way to be more informative for people linking from the front page. dml 11:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

this is the worst category page I've ever seen. why don't you use "Portal:" for this? On category i wanna qucikly find articles and subcats. Explaining what is "geography" belongs to Geography Tobias Conradi (Talk) 22:08, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Tobias, try hitting the <End> key on the number pad of the keyboard to quickly scroll to the bottom of the cat page. Then hit the up arrow on the keyboard to see more articles and cats. Ancheta Wis 09:24, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

There should be options for whether, and if yes, where, to include the portal. See bug 3494. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:29, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why is this page locked??

I was just about to add a link to the geography portal and the commons and also clean up the page a bit but I can't because this page is locked. It's the only category page that is locked! What's with that? Can you at least give me a pass to make some changes? Thanks. --komencanto 00:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Commons

Commons has images in this category. HenkvD 18:27, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question about Image

It is unclear why there is an image of Delhi at the bottom of this page. The global image at the top represents the category well but the Delhi image seems out of place. There are no links to Delhi on the page. In addition to being a narrow slice of the geography topic, its position at the bottom of the page is also odd.

Replace? Remove?

Any thoughts?

Tobycat 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cat in Wikiportal style

Geography Wikiportal
Geography studies the location, extent, distribution, frequency and interaction of all significant elements of the human and physical environment on the Earth's surface, particularly its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity. The word geography derives from the Greek γη (ge) or γαια (gaia) ("Earth") and γραφειν (graphein) ("to inscribe"). Physical geography focuses on Earth science (and is sometimes called Earth System Science). This provides an understanding of the physical, meteorological and ecological patterns of the Earth. Human geography includes economic, political and cultural geography and focuses on the social science or the non-physical aspects of the world. It examines how human beings adapt themselves to the land and how they impact the physical world. Geographers not only study the human and natural features of the Earth but also its place in the Solar System and the Universe and how this affects the Earth features (e.g. climate, sea currents and tides). More about Geography...
Featured article Antarctica is the continent at the extreme southern latitudes of the Earth, containing the South Pole. It is surrounded by the Southern Ocean and divided in two by the Transantarctic Mountains. On average, it is the coldest, driest, windiest, and highest of all the continents. With 98% of it covered in ice, Antarctica, at 14 million km², is the third-smallest continent (after Europe and Australia). Because there is little precipitation, the entire continent is technically a desert and is thus the largest in the world. There are no permanent human residents and only cold-adapted plants and animals survive there, including penguins, fur seals, mosses, lichens, and many types of algae. The name "Antarctica" comes from the Greek ανταρκτικός (antarktikos), meaning "opposite the Arctic." Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis ("Southern Land") go back to antiquity, the first sighting of the continent is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1821 by the Russian expedition of Mikhail Lazarev and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. Antarctica is not under the political sovereignty of any nation, although seven countries maintain territorial claims, which are not recognized by other countries. Human activity on the continent is regulated by the Antarctic Treaty, which was signed in 1959 and prohibits any military activity, supports scientific research, and protects the continent's ecozone. (more...) Featured picture ==Current Selected picture== [edit] Selected geography picture Howard's Pass in Nahanni National Park Reserve in Yukon, Canada. Image credit: Jo Ohara [edit] Nominate a picture To nominate a selected picture for Portal:Geography, make the suggestion at Portal talk:Geography. [edit] Put on your user page You can put the selected geography picture on your user page, by using the template: {{Portal:Geography/Featured picture/{{CURRENTYEAR}}, week {{CURRENTWEEK}}}} Today is June 9, 2008, week number 24. [edit] Archive of pictures 2005 • 2006 • 2007 2008 [edit] Week 1 The Vinland map, a 15th century world map purportedly based on a 13th century original. If authentic, it is the first known depiction of the North American coastline. Image credit: creator unknown [edit] Week 2 Arctic Circle, Santa Claus' Village in Rovaniemi, Finland. Image credit: Birit Schenk [edit] Week 3 Flooding in Amphoe Sena, Ayutthaya Province, Thailand. Image credit: Alabamaboy [edit] Week 4 Water cycles between ocean, atmosphere, and glaciers. Image credit: NASA [edit] Week 5 Surface waves of water: expansion of a disturbance. Image credit: Roger McLassus [edit] Week 6 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 6 [edit] Week 7 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 7 [edit] Week 8 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 8 [edit] Week 9 Oceania's regions. Image credit: ASDFGH [edit] Week 10 The mouth of Cattaraugus Creek on Lake Erie near Sunset Bay, New York, USA. The Cattaraugus Indian Reservation occupies the land on the north side (upper in this photograph) of the creek. View is to the north. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the breakwaters and dredges the channel as necessary. Image credit: Ken Winters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [edit] Week 11 Rainbows can often be seen in the spray and mist coming from larger waterfalls, as here at Takakkaw Falls, Canada. Image credit: Michael Rogers [edit] Week 12 Aerial view of Levittown, Pennsylvania circa 1959, a new town constructed in a previously undeveloped area. Image credit: National Archives and Records Administration [edit] Week 13 Tornado climatology: Intense tornado activity in the United States. The darker-colored areas denote the area commonly referred to as Tornado Alley. Image credit: Federal Emergency Management Agency [edit] Week 14 San Francisco harbor, 1850 or 1851, with Alcatraz Island in the background. Image credit: unknown [edit] Week 15 Sunset in Bangkok, showing the skytrain and modern skyline, taken from the corner of Thanon Silom. Image credit: Diliff [edit] Week 16 Grand Prismatic Spring. Image credit: National Park Service [edit] Week 17 Iguassu Falls. Image credit: Anouchka Unel [edit] Week 18 Detroit, Michigan. Image credit: Shawn Wilson [edit] Week 19 A simulated-color satellite image of Detroit, with Windsor across the Detroit River, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite. Image credit: NASA [edit] Week 20 Point No Point Light at Point No Point on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State, USA Image credit: Moxfyre [edit] Week 21 Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong, China. Image credit: 39kschan [edit] Week 22 Nile river delta. Image credit: NASA [edit] Week 23 Approximate extent of the Mackenzie River watershed. It is the longest river in Canada. Image credit: Geo Swan [edit] Week 24 Howard's Pass in Nahanni National Park Reserve in Yukon, Canada. Image credit: Jo Ohara [edit] Week 25 Nevado San Francisco, or Cerro San Francisco, is a stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile, located just southeast of San Francisco Pass. It is considered extinct. Image credit: Éric Depagne [edit] Week 26 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 26 [edit] Week 27 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 27 [edit] Week 28 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 28 [edit] Week 29 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 29 [edit] Week 30 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 30 [edit] Week 31 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 31 [edit] Week 32 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 32 [edit] Week 33 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 33 [edit] Week 34 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 34 [edit] Week 35 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 35 [edit] Week 36 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 36 [edit] Week 37 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 37 [edit] Week 38 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 38 [edit] Week 39 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 39 [edit] Week 40 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 40 [edit] Week 41 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 41 [edit] Week 42 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 42 [edit] Week 43 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 43 [edit] Week 44 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 44 [edit] Week 45 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 45 [edit] Week 46 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 46 [edit] Week 47 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 47 [edit] Week 48 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 48 [edit] Week 49 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 49 [edit] Week 50 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 50 [edit] Week 51 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 51 [edit] Week 52 Portal:Geography/Featured picture/2008, week 52	Did you know ...that sandstone layers (pictured) now exposed in the Canyons of the Escalante in Utah were deposited during the Mesozoic period, when the area was covered with sand dunes about 180 to 225 million years ago? ...that the Firth of Clyde is Great Britain's first seabird reserve? ...that Amsterdam has a concentric belt of canals around it? ...that the Korotoa River, a small stream in Rajshahi Division of Bangladesh, was once a large and sacred river? ...that Belgium's sillon industriel (steelmaking) was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe? Showcase articles * Special topics - Geography * Featured articles * Things you can do This portal needs improvement so feel free to add anything you think relevant. The geography categories down below are also disorganized so you may want to improve their organization. A sampling of stubs you can improve: Bay of Pigs | Florida, Puerto Rico | Guantanamo | Strategic geography | Brent oilfield | Landscape ecology | Bottom crawler | Chemical oceanography | Marine reserve | Gulf of Mexico You might also find something here: Geography stubs | Geographical term stubs | Atmospheric science stubs | Oceanography stubs

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A proposed layout, in Portal style, for the Category page header, above the Category listings. Comments and improvements are invited. Ancheta Wis 5 July 2005 11:12 (UTC)

That's not a bad style although I've played around with it a bit on the original page because there were no 'edit' links. I made it more like most of the other portals in style. Do we have permission to incorporate portals and categories? Is that now wikipedia policy so to speak? Do we think it's a good idea? --komencanto 00:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unprotected

The category page is now unprotected. You may go ahead with any edits to the category page. Bratsche^{talk 5 pillars} 02:33, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

Why are there about 30 templates on this page? It looks exactly the same as the portal page - why can't we just incorporate that (I suppose it's {{:Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Geography}})? Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 09:39, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Map of Earth

My browser says that the picture "Map of Earth" is unavailable. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Mine says 'forbidden'?! HenryLi 13:01, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

It seems to work now. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 01:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Categorisation

Why did you make this category part of the Top 10 category but with an inicial space:

[[Category:Top 10| Geography]]

It doesn't look so good to me, mainly because it isn't sorted in the G block but instead, in a no initial block. jοτομικρόν | Talk 13:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Topography

Why is this category needed? What does it contain that is not present under other categories (especially). Should we make a subcategory under Physical Geography for terrain?

Note recent chanegs to the article topography,a nd the addition of new articles Cartographic Relief Depiction and terrain. There is a good discussion in Talk:Topography for background. --Natcase 13:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geography is not a Social Science - please look at Social Science template - no geography there

It is not a Social Science but someone is repeatedly adding the Category:Social Sciences to Geography. --Mattisse 02:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

As mentioned on your talk page read the article social science and list of academic disciplines and you'll find that geography is listed as a social science further many universities and geographical organizations list geography as a social science and place it in the social science faculties.AlexD 11:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Earth

Hello i have recently proposed the Wikiproject Earth. This Wikiproject`s scope includes this article. This wikiproject will overview the continents, oceans, atsmophere and global warming Please Voice your opinion by clicking anywhere on this comment except for my name. --Iwilleditu^{Talk :)Contributions} —Preceding comment was added at 15:43, 30 March 2008 (UTC)