Mehmet Karatay

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WikiProject Mountains.

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WikiProject Africa.

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WikiProject Birds.

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WikiProject Mammals.

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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 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.

Picture of the day

The coconut (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family, Arecaceae. Originally native to the Central Indo-Pacific, in the regions of Maritime Southeast Asia and Melanesia, coconuts are now found across the world due to human cultivation and dispersal. They are normally cultivated in hot and wet tropical climates. The term coconut also commonly refers to the seed and fruit of the coconut tree, which is botanically a drupe. The fruit has three layers including an edible white, fleshy endosperm and is filled with a liquid known as coconut water. The coconut thus played a critical role in the migration of Austronesian peoples across the Indian Ocean, as it provided a portable source of both food and water for long sea voyages. In modern times coconuts are used extensively in cooking and cuisine, using the raw flesh, the water or in alternative forms such as coconut milk and coconut butter. These coconuts, one whole and one halved, were grown in the Dominican Republic; this photograph was focus-stacked from 19 separate images.

Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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

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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 {{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
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.

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
User:Tony1/How_to_satisfy_Criterion_1a
Help:Sorting -- Creating sortable tables
Template:Convert
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
Check links from page

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.