User:Mehmet Karatay

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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.

Mount
Kenya
History
Geology
Mountaineering
Climate
Ecology
Geography
People
Names list

Picture of the day[edit]

John Rocque's maps of London

John Rocque's maps of London were published in 1746. A French-born British surveyor and cartographer, John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these, depicted here, is a 24-sheet map of the City of London and the surrounding area, surveyed by Rocque and engraved by John Pine and titled A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. Rocque combined two surveying techniques: he made a ground-level survey with a compass and a physical metal chain – the unit of length also being the chain. Compass bearings were taken of the lines measured. He also created a triangulation network over the entire area to be covered by taking readings from church towers and similar high places using a theodolite made by Jonathan Sisson (the inventor of the telescopic-sighted theodolite) to measure the observed angle between two other prominent locations. The process was repeated from point to point. This image depicts all 24 sheets of Rocque's map.

Map credit: John Rocque and John Pine

Wikipedia Projects[edit]

Sandboxes[edit]

Future plans[edit]

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...

Mt Kenya to do list[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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

Acknowledgements[edit]

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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