Welcome to the Wikiproject Geography a project to better organize information in articles related to Geography. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please make suggestions and proposals on the talk page, and see the to-do list below:
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[edit] Scope and Goals
Improve geography & related articles (including those related to Geographic information systems), and develop/maintain the navigation aids dedicated to geography: Overview of geography, List of basic geography topics, List of geography topics, Glossary of geography terms, geography-related portals, and geography-related categories.
- develop and implement a common structure to geography and its sub-fields
- clarify and improve topic structure
- ensure accessibility to the lay reader - with a simplified version and/or appropriate main article/daughter article structuring of scientific detail
- add more scientific detail (and sources) in appropriate articles
- develop some neglected aspects of the topic
- ensure NPOV
- get all geography articles up to A Class standard
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[edit] Participants
If you are a participant, you can keep in touch with project developments by adding Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography to your watchlist.
User can also add the following userbox to their userspace {{User wikigeogproject}}
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| George Potter (talk · contribs) |
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| Geographer (talk · contribs) |
Geographical Thought, Biogeography, Cultural Landscape, Humanistic Geography, World Geography and Geographic Distribution of Almost Everything! |
Full time H1B, Part time MS in Environmental Studies |
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| Arkbar (talk · contribs) |
Urban Geography, Philosophy of Geography, Transport planning, Historical Geography, Socio-Economic Modelling |
Second year Geography BA student |
| Bohunk (talk · contribs) |
Planning, GIS, Logistics, Statistics, Transportation, Urban-Rural issues, Geopolitics, Economics, Water Resource planning. |
3rd/4th year Geography BSc student |
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| Superbfc (talk · contribs) |
Transport, Geology, Demographics, Anthropology, Urbanism, Planning, Historical Geography, Cartography |
Civil Engineer & Travel addict |
| GeoW (talk · contribs) |
Economic Geography, Location theory and spatial analysis, GIS, History and philosophy of geography and others |
Master's degree in Human Geography |
| Jordz (talk · contribs) |
Urban Geography, Geomorphology, Climatology, Language Geography, Political Geography |
BS Geography graduate |
| SuzanneKn (talk · contribs) |
places, human geog, rivers |
BSC Hons Geog + geog teacher to A level |
| Buaidh (talk · contribs) |
history of cartography, geodesy, GIS, energy, transportation, mountain ranges and peaks |
Professional Engineer and aspiring idiot savant. I can recite all of the hemispheres. |
| Patar knight (talk · contribs) |
capitals, rivers, historical geography |
High school champion of geography (determined by contest) |
| Cosmopolitancats (talk · contribs) |
Urban Geography; Perceptual Geography |
Geography Degree |
| Seraphim84 (talk · contribs) |
General Geography, Geography in Secondary Education, Map and Aerial Photography Interpretation, Business Geography, Cultural Geography, and Historical Geography. |
Fourth year BS in Geography with a minor in Social Sciences and Secondary Education. |
| Highfields (talk · contribs) |
Hobbies include Cartography and Vexillology, Political Geography |
Expert on Capital Cities, can recite and remember all the capital cities of the world |
| Quizimodo (talk · contribs) |
all aspects of geography: physiography, oceanography, political geography, urban geography |
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| JCPH (talk · contribs) |
All areas of geography. |
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| Londium (talk · contribs) |
I can work within many fields of Geography. A list of the specifics might take awhile to type and will take alot of space up. |
Not a Professional but I consider my knowledge to be above par. |
| Iheartgeography (talk · contribs) |
Cultural geography, political geography, geography of population and migration, place and scale, globalization, transnationalism |
BA, MA and PhD in Human Geography |
| Acs4b (talk · contribs) |
I'm interested in Cultural geography, Human geography, Urban geography, Demography and Political geography. |
I don't consider my knowledge in Geography to be fantastic, since I am only in secondary school, but I think I'm still above average in this field (for someone my age, that is). To put it in another perspective, I know that Portuguese is the official language of Brazil and I also have a knowledge of several capital cities of the world such as Berne (which is the capital of Switzerland), Antananarivo (Madagascar), Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), Baku (Azerbaijan) and Andorra la Vella (Andorra). Wikipedia has obviously improved my geography skills. |
| Avocadoman333 (talk · contribs) |
California Geography, I guess, would be my specialty, but I am good with general geography as well. |
Although I don't have any official qualifications for geography, I still am pretty good at it. |
| Bart133 (talk · contribs) |
Geography in general - no specific area of expertise |
I don't have any official qualifications, but I tied for 11th in the 2007 National Geographic Bee. |
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| Ruennsheng (talk · contribs) |
Urban geography |
I don't have any official qualifications as I'm just a junior in high school. |
| Cooper-42 (talk · contribs) |
Human geography, in particular: Feminist geography, Cultural geography, Urban geography |
BA in Human Geog.; Leeds, UK.
Currently MA student- Human Geog. Durham, UK.
Have been fiddling with various H.geog pages for some time now, mostly feminism and cultural geography.
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| Rosiestep (talk · contribs) |
Physical and cultural geography |
I've created and/or edited several island, lake, river, strait, Arctic, etc. articles. |
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[edit] Pages needing Attention
[edit] Traveling around the World on Wikipedia: the lists of basic country topics
Along with the main article on each country, the lists of basic country topics should be considered top priority for development and maintenance, because they are the corresponding general reference resource on Wikipedia for each country. Based on a standard design each list presents its information in the same logical order, so that when completed, these lists will be the easiest way on Wikipedia to study countries or find general information about them.
Each list doubles as a general outline of knowledge about a country and as a table of contents (or fundamental site map) of the material about that country on Wikipedia. These lists are intended to be the next stage of evolution of navigation aid for browsing country-related information on Wikipedia, improving upon (and complementing) the presentation of country-related subjects in Wikipedia's category system.
One of these pages has been created for every country of the world and development is already well underway, but so far only a few have been transferred to the encyclopedia itself...
- The countries completed enough that they have been transfered to article space can be found listed at Portal:Contents/Lists of basic topics#Geography and places. These still need finishing touches, articles or redirects need to be created for each of their redlinks, and the lists need to be embellished with maps and images.
Are your favorite countries covered in the encyclopedia yet, or are they still in the draft section?
The list of basic geography topics is a general overview of geography. It is part of Lists of basic topics (the members of which share a common format), and is thus part of Wikipedia's table of contents system. It is incomplete and needs to be finished. The list also needs dedicated editors to watchlist it, to counter vandalism and to monitor its development. Finally, it needs to be maintained, to reflect changes on the presentation of the subject on Wikipedia (adding links to new relevant topics, updating links, etc.). Most importantly, since it outlines geography and is a key navigation aid for browsing geography topics on Wikipedia, the WikiProject Geography is the perfect caretaker for this page. Please adopt it, improve it, and treat it with tender loving care.
[edit] Requests for comments on pages
This section is for short notifications of pages with problems, or where some attention is needed. If you list a page here, put a longer description on the pages talk page.
[edit] Request for review of article
This section is for notifications of pages which wish to be graded as a Good Article or would like support to be a Featured Article. If you list a page here, put a longer description on the pages talk page. Additionally, leave a copy of the longer description under the article name on the /General page.
- Geography of Saskatchewan is up for good article nomination. If anyone has any suggestions that could improve it to achieve GA that would be awesome.SriMesh | talk 03:27, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
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The geography stub has been designed to be placed at the bottom of small articles relating to geography in general or geography as a scientific discipline, that need to be expanded. |
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[edit] Infoboxes
[edit] Related Wiki Pages
[edit] Categories
[edit] Wikipedia articles on Geography
[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Geography
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
- Human Geography
- Historical Human Geography
- Physical Geography
- other
- Portal:Geography
- Portal:Atlas
[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Geography
Please feel free to list your new Geography-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 on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
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[edit] Featured content
Ann Arbor, Michigan · Antarctica ·  Australia · Bangalore · Bangladesh · Bath, Somerset · Belgium · Bhutan · Boston, Massachusetts · Buckingham Palace · Bryce Canyon National Park · Cambodia · Canberra · Cape Horn · Carlsbad Caverns National Park · The Catlins · Cathedral of Magdeburg · Chennai · Chetwynd, British Columbia · Chew Valley Lake · City status in the United Kingdom · Cleveland, Ohio · Colditz Castle · Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve · Dawson Creek, British Columbia · Death Valley National Park · Dogpatch USA · Dorset · Eldfell · Gangtok · Geography of India · Geography of Ireland · Goa · Great Mosque of Djenné · Gyeongju · Hong Kong · India · Isan · Johannesburg · Kalimpong · Kerala · Lake Burley Griffin · Louisville, Kentucky · Malwa · Marshall, Texas · Moorgate · Mount Pinatubo · Mount Rushmore · Mount St. Helens · Mumbai · National parks of England and Wales · Nepal · Niagara Falls · Oakland Cemetery · Pakistan · Palace of Westminster · Palazzo Pitti · People's Republic of China · Piccadilly Circus · Rondane National Park · San Jose, California · Sarajevo · Sealand · Seattle, Washington · Sheffield · Shoshone National Forest · Shrine of Remembrance · Sikkim · St Kilda · South Africa · Suburbs of Johannesburg · Surtsey · Waterfall Gully, South Australia · Yellowstone National Park · Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory · Yosemite National Park · Zambezi · Zion National Park
Canadian provinces and territories by area · Canadian provinces and territories by population · Counties of Lithuania · Indian districts · Indian state and union territory capitals · Islands of Scotland · Municipalities of Lithuania · Orkney islands · Provinces of the Philippines · Shetland islands · Provinces of Thailand · U.S. states by date of statehood · U.S. states by elevation · Municipalities of Portugal · Ohio county name etymologies · List of areas in the National Park System of the United States
[edit] Scientific Peer Review
This project is no longer active and scientific articles should be directed to the general peer review. Reviews of articles that were completed are archived here.
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