Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Geography

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Geography focus?

This is mainly food for thought; it won't bother me if the idea is shot down.

But I think it's worth considering focusing on continent and country articles first. That would be about 150 and I think most are in pretty good shape now.

Once that set is ready (with possibly a limited number of related entries), it could maybe be enough to stand on its own. It would be of broad interest, but substantive and specific, and of a very doable, manageable size.

And a release version of an "Encyclopedia of Nations" (or somesuch) might draw more people to the general 1.0 project. Maurreen

Hey, that's a GREAT idea Maurreen, I love it! I think I'd want to include major cities too like London, most of those are in great shape too (many have their own WikiProjects). We'd need some sort of atlas, I dare say someone on Wikipedia could do that. Yes, let's do this, it would be a great way to "test the waters". Cheers, Walkerma 04:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Excellent idea. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 23:35, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I think someone had mentioned including some space stuff. I notice here that Worldtraveller is considering putting together a Wikireader for the Solar System, and most of the planet articles are FAs (seeing Sun on the front page reminded me). Should we consider including at least Sun, Moon and the nine planets in this release? Also, on my proposed new main page I called this the Gazetteer project, is that OK for a name? Walkerma 17:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't feel strongly, but:

I'd generally prefer to postpone deciding such things as whether to include the planets. For instance, if the planets are ready to go when the countries are, great. If they are way behind the countries, I would see little reason to wait.

And thanks for reminding me about Gazetteer. I lean toward just calling it the the geography subproject for now. Maurreen 20:49, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

End of copied text. Maurreen 02:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I think this is a good idea which is why we choose places as core topics --BozMo talk 13:02, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Featured articles

Here's the relevant list, as copied from WP:FA at the time of my timestamp:

Geography and places

• 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
• South Africa
• Suburbs of Johannesburg
• Surtsey
• Waterfall Gully, South Australia
• Yellowstone National Park
• Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory
• Yosemite National Park
• Zambezi
• Zion National Park

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but there's the list... Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 03:47, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it is helpful. Thank you. :) Maurreen 16:00, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikitravel

This group may be interested in the Wikitravel project. On their home page I notice a link that says Welcome, Wikipedians. They use the Creative Commons license that allows free use with attribution. Maybe some collaboration is possible?

• They may have a good way for organizing places, and a list of all of them.
• Maybe we could include travel info along with the encyclopedia info? If not in the initial Geo release, maybe later?

I think right now their focus (quite rightly) is on smaller locations (cities and national parks) rather than continents and countries. But it looks like a nice project and it's worth us keeping an eye on it at least. Walkerma 14:35, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Good idea.

And thanks for reminding me about something else!

I found this printable version that's clean and pretty. The technology for that could help the overall 1.0 project when we get further along. Maurreen 17:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Shortcut

I tried to make a shortcut, but it doesn't seem to work. Maurreen 17:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

It's "WP:1.0-GEO". Maurreen 17:41, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Martin, thanks for fixing that. Maurreen 02:59, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Status

I'm going to shift my focus to Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Version 1.0 Qualifying. Is anyone interested in coordinating this geography project? Maurreen 19:01, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll gladly assist ... and I'll see if I can recruit s'more editors to help. :) E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 17:07, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Maurreen 17:53, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Very Important Question :P

I've just created Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia and apparently, I'm using the WP:1.0 program to count the articles "automatically". My question is, is the data updated automatically or manually? Because I've put Indonesia article a rating but it hasn't showed up on the statistics. Any help would be highly appreciated, cheers -- Imoeng 13:52, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I can't help with that. It would be better to ask at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects. Maurreen 14:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)