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Pages needing Attention

Developing and maintaining the List of basic geography topics

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. Thank you. Sincerely, The Transhumanist   

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.

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.

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.

Articles needing Attention

Discussions and Structure

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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 inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Notice Board

Current Geography Collaboration of the Fortnight
Geography
Currently on Peer review Currently on Featured article candidates

History of Earth
Palm Island, Queensland

Quneitra

Scope and Goals

Scope

Improve geography & related articles and those related to Geographic information systems, as well as to maintain Portal:Geography.

Goals

  1. develop and implement a common structure to geography and its sub-fields
  2. clarify and improve topic structure
  3. ensure accessibility to the lay reader - with a simplified version and/or appropriate main article/daughter article structuring of scientific detail
  4. add more scientific detail (and sources) in appropriate articles
  5. develop some neglected aspects of the topic
  6. ensure NPOV
  7. get all geography articles up to A Class standard

Parentage

No parent of this WikiProject has been defined.

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}}


User Areas of interest Comments
Aude (talk · contribs)
George Potter (talk · contribs)
Qmwne235 (talk · contribs)
AlexD (talk · contribs) History and philosophy of geography; Climatology; Fluvial Systems; The Quaternary; Environmental Change; Antarctica; Environmental Modelling; Pollen and Foram Analysis; Oceanography and Hazards and Risks Third year geography BSc. Student
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
Mappychris (talk · contribs)
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
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
Sunray (talk · contribs) Human Geography, Urban Geography, Planning MA in Sociology; geography buff
SuzanneKn (talk · contribs) places, human geog, rivers BSC Hons Geog + geog teacher to A level
Buaidh (talk · contribs) History of Cartography, GIS, Energy, Transportation Professional Engineer
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
JCPH (talk · contribs) All areas of geography.
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 fantastically magnificent, 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). Plus, I have also seen the programme The Weakest Link several times and although some of the geography-related question are simple, there were also some tough ones and this has also helped to improve my Geography skills (Wikipedia has also helped of course).
auccl799 (talk · contribs) Human Geography: Social Geography, Political Geography, Environmentalism Third year (of four) BA(Hons) University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
What to type What it makes What it's for
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WikiProject iconThis page is within the scope of WikiProject Geography, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of geography on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GeographyWikipedia:WikiProject GeographyTemplate:WikiProject Geographygeography
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WikiProject Geography To-do list:
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Infoboxes

Categories

Wikipedia articles on Geography

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Geography

Descendant WikiProjects

Human Geography
Historical Human Geography
Physical Geography
other
  1. Portal:Geography
  2. Portal:Atlas

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.

Did you know?

Article improvement drive

North Sea

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Featured content

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Featured article candidates

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 · 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

Scientific Peer Review

Peer review at this project is no longer active and scientific articles should be directed to the general Wikipedia peer review. Reviews of articles that were completed are archived here.

Comments

As noted at Talk:Environmental chemistry please do any work in consensus with other editors. Removing large sections leaving bare headings is not the right way to proceed.  Velella  Velella Talk   08:50, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A refereed journal on Wikiversity

I think I posted this on an archived discussion and will look for a better place to post--Guy vandegrift (talk) 09:49, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

According to this survey, the prime disincentive against making scholarly contributions to Wikipedia is that it will not advance careers. Wikiversity:First Journal of Science will be a peer-reviewed journal that should alleviate this problem for recent college graduates who are not expected to have published in the established scholarly journals.

The word "First" in the title is intended to suggest that we need more journals like this. The Wikiversity:First Journal of Science was patterned after the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, but will have a somewhat more informal flavor, consistent with this new journal's intent to focus on teaching at the undergraduate college level. Wikiversity:First Journal of Science will attribute with bylines that list usernames only, in contrast with the use of real names by the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine

Another unique feature of Wikiversity:First Journal of Science is that edited versions of Wikipedia articles are welcome, and are presented as Wikipedia articles on the Wikiversity journal via permalinks to the history of Wikipedia articles. This is currently accomplished in a rather awkward fashion, by moving the Wikipedia article into the editor's user space, and after proper attribution, deleting all that extraneous prose that Wikipedia articles tend to acquire. An example of this shown in one of the three "pseudo-articles" that were used to create a mockup issue. Of the three "pseudo-articles" in this mockup, I consider only one to be suitable for publication. It is Wikipedia's Introduction to quantum mechanics. Note how the logo was inserted into the "pseudo-accepted" version without permission of the article's current editors. In other words, all of Wikipedia's 5 million articles are candidates for publication in this journal, and in a manner of speaking, have already effectively submitted their manuscripts to Wikiversity:First Journal of Science for review--Guy vandegrift (talk) 05:24, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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