User:Mehmet Karatay

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Userboxes UK This user uses British English. This user is a member of WikiProject Mountains. This user is a member of WikiProject Africa. This user is a member of WikiProject Birds This user is a member of WikiProject Mammals. This user is a member of WikiProject Scotland This user is currently working on Mount Kenya .

Our major aim is to improve the Mount Kenya article. This involves working on the articles that link from Mount Kenya as well. When we first found the Mount Kenya article it was still a stub.

Two people actually work under this account name, Mehmet Karatay and Gemma Richards. This happened by accident, but now we work together most of the time so it doesn't seem worth having separate accounts. To avoid confusion on discussion pages we'll write in the first person singular as the user name doesn't imply otherwise. We live in Edinburgh.

Wikipedia is a great excuse to research things that interest us to a greater depth then we would do otherwise. It is also an excellent place to practice and improving our writing.

• Some of our photos can be found at WikiCommons.
• Please request us to load high-res images to commons, from the samples at Picasa web.
• Mehmet is also an active member at UKClimbing.com forums.

Mount Kenya
History
Geology
Mountaineering
Climate
Ecology
Geography
People
Names list

Contents 1 Article Contributions 2 Wikipedia Projects 3 Our Sandboxes 4 Future plans 5 Useful Links 6 Acknowledgements

[edit] Article Contributions

This section shows articles with contributions by us.

• Abyssinian ground-thrush^[1]
• African fish eagle^[2]
• African ground thrush^[1]
• Alpine chat^[1][2]
• Black-cheeked Lovebird
• Competition aerobatics^[3][4]
• Dorylus (Safari ants)^[2]
• Dubh Artach^[3]
• Dung midden^[1]
• East African Mountains
• Ewaso Ng'iro^[1]
• Freedom of the press in Italy^[4]
• Frost heaving^[2]
• Giraffe^[2]
• Gladiolus crassifolius^[1]
• Goliath heron^[1][2]
• Graphiurus^[1]
• Greenland
• Guizotia^[1]
• Holography‎ ^[4]
• Johann Ludwig Krapf^[4]
• John Walter Gregory
• Kasanka National Park^[1]
• Kenya Wildlife Service^[1]
• List of birds of Zambia
• List of fauna of the Scottish Highlands
• Lobelia deckenii^[1][2]
• Lobelia telekii^[1][2]
• Mount Kenya^[2][5]
• Mount Kenya National Park
• Mountain buzzard^[1]
• No Picnic on Mount Kenya
• Naro Moru river^[1]
• Otomys^[1]
• Patterned ground^[2]
• Periglacial^[2]
• Pied kingfisher^[2]
• Red-billed hornbill^[2]
• Sandgrouse (journal)
• Sawfish
• Senecio
• Senecio battiscombei^[1][2]
• Senecio keniensis^[1][2]
• Senecio keniodendron^[1][2]
• Senecio keniophytum^[1][2]
• St Gregory's Catholic College^[1]
• Steenbok^[3][4]
• Yellow-billed stork^[2]

[edit] Wikipedia Projects

• WikiProject Mountains
  Improving the Mount Kenya article and the articles on Scottish Mountains
• WikiProject Birds
  Providing photographs
• WikiProject Mammals
  Expanding stub articles
• WikiProject Africa
  Indirectly through work on mountains, birds and mammals
• WikiProject Scotland
  Providing photographs

[edit] Our Sandboxes

• Mehmet Karatay/Sandbox
• User:Mehmet Karatay/Cite newspaper The Times
• Mehmet Karatay/Mount Kenya summary test
• Mehmet Karatay/History of Mount Kenya
• Mehmet Karatay/Geology of Mount Kenya
• Mehmet Karatay/Mountaineering on Mount Kenya
• Mehmet Karatay/Climate of Mount Kenya
• Mehmet Karatay/Ecology of Mount Kenya
• Mehmet Karatay/List of plants in the Afro-alpine Zone of Mount Kenya
• Mehmet Karatay/Geography of Mount Kenya
• Mehmet Karatay/People of Mount Kenya
• Mehmet Karatay/List of names on Mount Kenya
• Mehmet Karatay/Mt Kenya side box
• Mehmet Karatay/Mt Kenya bottom bar

[edit] Future plans

A to-do list of our future plans so we can keep track of our ideas.
Other people can see our plans as well just in case anybody is interested...

• Add an African section with photos to the bush fire article
• Get photos for George IV Bridge, Bunch grass
• Modify lovebird articles to reflect that they live in the wild! Include: distribution, habitat etc.
• Add the "Scottish Outdoor Access Code" to the Freedom to roam article.
• Add geology, climate, anthropolgy to Mt Kenya article
• Split Mt Kenya article to multiple articles
• Add {{MaTalk}} to as many relavent pages as possible
• Possibly take photos for these articles
• Add periglacial landform photos to various sections:
  • pingo photos of land and ice pingos from Svalbard
  • See if we have anything else which is relevant
• Take photos for Blackford Hill, Morningside and The Meadows articles
• Make better location map for Dubh Artach
  • Create a mainland Scotland location map
• Create a Dwarf Antelope page
• Find reference for captive Mountain Bongo breeding programme on Mt Kenya as mentioned in Cape May County Park & Zoo
  • the lodge doing it
  • the funding group
  • Rare species conservatory foundation
    • First field season report, second season, third season, forth season
• Start Agassiz Rock, Edinburgh page using image from SCWiki. Move Agassiz Rock to Agassiz Rock, Massachusetts and make disambiguation page.
• Create a new map for White-browed Sparrow-weaver which shows its complete distribution.

[edit] Useful Links

So we can find them when we need to!
These will hopefully help improve the quality of our articles.

• Wikipedia:Summary style gives details on how to split up long articles.
• Wikipedia:The perfect article
• Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA
• Suggestions for FA
• Non-free content criteria and fair use guidelines to allow some non-free images.
• Special:Whatlinkshere/ put page name after it to see what pages link to a certain article
• Scottish Wikipedians' notice board
• Montatheris are endemic to Mount Kenya and the Aberdare mountain ranges
• Vegetation journal article which gives access to public.
• List of botanists by author abbreviation
• Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Species base
• IPNI
• Encyclopaedia of life
• ITIS catalogue of life
• Free sounds including bird calls
• The Internet Archive (giving wikipedia a good run)
• Vegetation of Kenya
• UNEP-WCMC Protected Area Mount Kenya
• UNESCO 1997 report
• Fauna of Scotland
• Template_messages/Cleanup
• Category:Citation templates
• Wikipedia:Non-free content/templates
• Language code list
• To get RSS feed for page including diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mount%20Kenya&feed=rss&action=history

[edit] Acknowledgements

This is our section to thank everybody who's written the free software that we use almost everyday. We were hoping not to fill this page with too many boxes. Saying that, it's an ideal place to give a decent thank you to all those who put in the time. That is after all the same ideology behind Wikipedia.

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