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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]
Projects
The biggest project by far that I've worked on 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.
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.
The third, and 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're now awful close to finishing 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.
Bookmarks
Wikitravel:Regions Map Expedition | Wikitravel:Maryland Expedition | User:Peterfitzgerald/Touts | Special:Allpages/User:Peterfitzgerald | Special:Contributions/newbies
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