Wikipedia talk:WikiProject national geography

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Contents 1 Suggestions 2 Template 3 Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive 4 Project directory 5 Wikipedia Day Awards

[edit] Suggestions

First off, I find the "land use" distinctions to be vague and obscure. I understand this is probably the distinction the CIA World Factbook uses, but we should at least link to an article with an explanation of these four categories, perhaps by Wikilinking the "Land use" title. Also, is "forests and woodlands" a land use? Unless you're logging the area for wood, it's more a non-use of the land.

I caution against using climate in infoboxes (just in case someone decides to put it in). Many countries are large enough to have several different climates.

Other possible items for inclusion (if we could get the data) are longest river, largest lake etc. How about something to do with seismology? Number of active volcanoes? USGS Earthquake risk rating? I think we should break out from the stock-standard CIA World Factbook data. It might be public domain, but it's overwhelmingly crap. - Mark 01:38, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template

that infobox begs for a template. I've just made {{geography of}}, but unfortunately, I can't get the coordinates to work correctly. Another possibility is modular templates, similar to the taxoboxes, but such an easily systematic taxobox should NOT, IMHO, be left as a table everywhere. Circeus 13:30, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Excellent idea. More info on infobox templates, to which I link for my own convenience as much as anything else. --Skoosh 19:01, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive

Architecture of Africa is currently nominated on Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive. Come to this page and support it with your vote. Help us improve this article to featured status.--Fenice 08:46, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 14:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)