User:Peterfitzgerald
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Peter Fitzgerald
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Contact me by leaving me a message on my talk page (preferred), or via email, if necessary.
Roles
- Janitor — a few extra tools for keeping things clean
- Docent — for Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Chicago's Hyde Park & Chinatown, and Georgia (not the state). Please feel free ask me any questions about these destinations and I'll probably have the answer
- WTP co-editor (with Marc) for Chicago [1] and editor for Washington, D.C. [2]
Projects
The biggest project by far that I've worked on (with Marc) was getting my adopted home Chicago districted, completely mapped, and then up to star status. A couple of the articles I created in the process turned out pretty well, I think, e.g., Hyde Park, Bronzeville, Loop Art Tour, Chicago skyline guide.
Using the Chicago guide as a template, I've done virtually the same with my hometown of Washington, D.C., although I've held off on that star nomination for fear of the intense critique that would follow! I'm particularly pleased with how the Georgetown, Shaw, and Anacostia articles turned out. I'm not quite done with huge city guides—another long term project will be to district and then raise another favorite home, Saint Petersburg, to star status (or at least star-quality) on both the English and Russian-language Wikitravels.
The first big task I took on when I started was to create a regions structure for Russia, and to make sure every one of its 105 region articles had meaningful content. In general, bolstering travel knowledge of Russia is a main goal for me, and is no small part of the reason why I started the Russian version of Wikitravel, in the hopes that we can tap the knowledge of Russian speakers about their own hometowns and regions, and create new travel content that has never before been available. So far we've only had one full article translation from Russian to English, but it's a good one, with content on a level that has not ever been available to English speakers. I'm planning on a large scale translation of the Saint Petersburg article in the future, after it gets to a more complete state.
One very much unfinished, task I'm interested in is to create region maps for every last region article on Wikitravel. Even collaboratively this task may be impossible. But it would be a big conquest to at least get every last country done. (And we've just finished all U.S. states!) A big piece of this puzzle isn't about making maps, but rather about content organization—dividing geographical units, which needs to be done before a map can be drawn up, and is always challenging.
Other than these grandiose projects, really my favorite activity here is to help and encourage newer users, since ultimately they are the ones who will help the project grow!
Bookmarks
Wikitravel:Regions Map Expedition | Wikitravel:Maryland Expedition | User:Peterfitzgerald/Touts | Special:Allpages/User:Peterfitzgerald | Special:Contributions/newbies
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