User:Mehmet Karatay



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 than we would do otherwise. It is also an excellent place to practise 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.

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

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

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 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.
 * Improve the Hopetoun House page.
 * Improve the List of stratovolcanoes

Mt Kenya to do list

 * Find the author of vegzonation (Mount Kenya and Mountaineering on Mount Kenya)
 * MCK is definitive guide book to Mount Kenya--find 3rd party reference.
 * Find better way to cite PhD thesis for introduction, reference 5

Useful Links
So we can find them when we need to!

These will hopefully help improve the quality of our articles.


 * Summary style gives details on how to split up long articles.
 * 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
 * Moving images to the Commons
 * User:Tony1/How_to_satisfy_Criterion_1a
 * Help:Sorting -- Creating sortable tables
 * Template:Convert
 * Template_messages/Cleanup
 * Category:Citation templates
 * 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
 * Check links from page


 * 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

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.