User:Ruhrfisch/Resources

Some things I find useful and have put here...

Peer Review Reminders

 * 1st and 16th of each month on break
 * 13th of each month

Partial transclusion trick for Peer Reviews
It is still open and located at Peer review/.

Peer review is still open, just not transcluded to save space at WP:PR

CBM's tool for largest PR requests.

D M S conversion tool

Editcountitis
Edit summary usage

Kate's Tool edit counter

Soxred93's edit counter (also links to an articles created tool, among others)

Interiot's "Wannabe Kate's edit counter

Tool to look at contributions to any page by editor

Another tool to look at contributions to any page by editor

My email user link

My contributions

External link checker from FAC

Dab checker

Readability / word counter tool

Check many times an article has been viewed

Cheat sheet
Stolen from Ben MacDui

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Strike out or write it  in small caps.

Superscripts and subscripts: X2, H2O

Invisible comments to editors (&lt;!-- --&gt;) only appear while editing the page.

State Parks and NRHP
WikiProject:Pennsylvania State Parks headquarters

State Park ECW listing on the NRHP

Fermata PA wilds survey

Elkman's NRHP Infobox generator

Pennsylvania state legislature - search for bills

Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State By Federal Writers' Project

Lots of Penns Forest History

National Park Service CCC camps

Act 18 establishing the DCNR

PennDot maps
All PennDot maps in PDF

Note: shows Allegheny Islands State Park


 * All PennDOT PA County maps (clickable state map)
 * All PennDOT PA County maps (files)


 * PennDOT Historic PA County Maps


 * Pennsylvania Railroad Map

PennPilot
Historic aerial photo library, Pennsylvania Geological Survey

Native American names
Susquehanna River Basin Commission's Native American Place names table

Lenape Dictionary

Counties and townships

 * Chronicles of Central Pennsylvania by Frederic A. Godcharles
 * Chronicles of Central Pennsylvania by Frederic A. Godcharles
 * Chronicles of Central Pennsylvania by Frederic A. Godcharles

Birds and Wildlife

 * Audubon's Susquehanna River Birds and Wildlife trail
 * Audubon's Important Bird Areas of Pennsylvania
 * Audubon Pennsylvania IBA boundaries

Geology

 * Pennsylvania Geology Online
 * Pennsylvania Trail of Geology Guides to State Parks

Educational Series (ES)
 * ES 1 Rocks and Minerals of Pennsylvania
 * ES 4 The Geological Story of Pennsylvania
 * ES 6 Pennsylvania and the Ice Age
 * ES 7 Coal in Pennsylvania
 * ES 8 Oil and Gas in Pennsylvania

Maps
 * Map 7 Geologic Map of Pennsylvania
 * Map 10 Oil and Gas Fields of Pennsylvania
 * Map 11 Distribution of Pennsylvania Coals
 * Map 13 Physiographic Provinces of Pennsylvania
 * Web page on Map 13
 * Map 15 Limestone and Dolomite Distrubution in Pennsylvania
 * Map 59 Glacial Deposits of Pennsylvania
 * Map 61 Web Page

Creeks

 * Pennsylvania TMDLs from the EPA
 * Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams (2001)

Making Maps
Here's how I make the maps - basically they are all from the Census factfinder web site here. I always use the 2000 census data and if I enter "Ohio", I get |b=50|l=en|t=420|zf=0.0|ms=ref_stat_00dec|dw=1.9557697048764706E7|dh=1.4455689123E7|dt=gov.census.aff.domain.map.LSRMapExtent|if=gif|cx=-1159354.4733499996|cy=7122022.5|zl=10|pz=10|bo=313:314:316:317:318:319:323|bl=354:355:356:357:358:393:362|ft=350:349:335:389:388:332:331|fl=381:403:204:380:369:379:368|g=01000US&-redoLog=false&-_lang=en&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=04000US39 this. Next I go to the upper left corner under "Change", click there on "Boundaries and Features" and turn off all labels and all features except the state and county borders (boundaries). Then I get |b=50|l=en|t=420|zf=0.0|ms=ref_stat_00dec|dw=10.50392852716582|dh=6.058983803831548|dt=gov.census.aff.domain.map.EnglishMapExtent|if=gif|cx=-82.66958249999999|cy=40.190285|zl=8|pz=8|bo=313:314|bl=|ft=|fl=|g=04000US39&-redoLog=false&-geo_id=04000US39&-_lang=en this. I copy the map (right click, or control and Print Screen) then paste that into MS Paint or Paint Dot Net and change the colors so they are consistent with the WikiProject Maps guidleines - I started with the Image:US Locator Blank.svg for its colors. I put a one pixel wide black line around the maps and save them in PNG format in Wikimedia Commons (I have an account there too).

What I like about the maps is that they are US Government work and so public domain (and I release my modifications under the GFDL). You can zoom in a lot, add streets and water and township and city borders in. Some other examples I have made starting with these are here: Image:Larrys Creek Watershed Map.PNG (started from county and township borders and creeks in the census map), Image:Fort Wayne Indiana Metro Map.PNG (several counties, left the urban areas pink), and my most ambitious county map Image:Lancaster County, PA.PNG. Hope this helps, ask if you have questions.

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/painting.html