Welcome to the United Kingdom Geography WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the Geography of the United Kingdom.
WikiProject UK Geography is the mother WikiProject of many British local Wikiprojects, and thus is here to co-ordinate and centralise the sharing of ideas and guidelines, developing writing standards, infoboxes, and other data presentation formats, and for setting up collaborations with the goal of reaching featured status for important UK places and geographical articles. Don't be put off by the word "geography", it just means writing about your local area!
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Project watchlist
List of recently-edited UK geography articles
Aims
Many of WikiProject UK Geography's daughter projects have identified their own objectives and key articles to develop towards the featured article standard, which this project wholly supports and encourages. However, this project also aims to facilitate the development of a number of key articles related to the overall geography of the United Kingdom:
Short term
Our aims in the short term, are to achieve the following:
Develop a series of professional, inclusive and wide-ranging guidelines related to the writing and presentation of articles related to Britain's geography.
Long term
Our long term aims for the project are:
Improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with the geography of the United Kingdom, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings, etc. etc.
All relevant articles should be included in the Category:United Kingdom or one of its subcategories.
Articles on all UK subdivisions, settlements, and other notable geographical features.
To-do list
To add this to-do list to your userpage use: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_geography/todo}}
Geology of the English counties red links (compare eg Geology of Dorset) : Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, North / South / West / East Riding of Yorkshire (could be done together?)
A lot of smaller rivers are missing, which may be best created as redirects to main streams
Guidelines at WikiProject UK Geography are a key element of how the project operates; they ensure that the UK's articles have a consistent House Style and provide a lasting consistency for our readers to benefit from. Working in partnership with "international" WikiProjects, UK Geography has developed the following Project guidelines which indicate standardised, consensual recommended approaches when writing about certain aspects of Britain's geography. They each include tips on obtaining the highest of awards for articles:
A new sub-project has been set up to complement the work done within WP:UKGEO. Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/Embedded Audio Pronunciations seeks to provide a comprehensive, high-quality range of audio files consisting of native British English pronunciations of relevant words and names: counties, settlements, rivers, mountains and so on. Ideally, both "Received Pronunciation" and local accent variations would be provided, and a repository of public-domain or GFDL-licensed files built up for the benefit of anybody interested in the UK and the English language. In particular, every file provided would ideally be linked to the relevant Wikipedia article. More information and guidelines are provided at this page.
On the right of this page is a bot-generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject UK geography supported articles. The stats are generated automatically daily, but they can be updated manually by entering UK geography (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here.
The project has categorised articles according to the WP 1.0 criteria:
Wikimedia Commons has media related to United Kingdom.
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Statistics: Office for National Statistics, Census related resources, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Neighbourhood statistics (Parish data etc.)
Population data (see below for England): Ayrshire, East (PDF), Falkirk, Moray, Lanarkshire, North
1997-2011 economic data, which includes gross value added (GVA) down to NUTS3 level as well as their industry sectors.
Church of England Resources, publications, and data including parish-level census and deprivation information.
Maps:
Multimap (can't copy)
Ordnance Survey: OS Get a map (can't copy) | Ordnance Survey OpenData | OS Maps of Scotland (and England) | Ordnance Survey for Northern Ireland (can't copy) | OS (Out of copyright) (open licensed!)
OpenStreetMap (open licensed!) Community built maps which are incomplete, but good coverage of some areas/cities. See wikiproject
out of copyright ordnance survey scans. Commercial restriction for direct image copying.
Ordnance Survey® Election Maps–boundaries of civil parishes, wards, boroughs etc., up to street map scale. The draconian terms and conditions don't seem to prevent GFDL licensing of research by Wikipedia editors, as long as the editors themselves don't use the information for financial gain, and no-one copies actual extracts, mapping data or layers from the maps (so... can't copy)
Books: There is a list of UK geography books and the Wikipedians who own them at Wikipedia:Library/Places#UK. You can request info from the owners of the relevant books. archive.org texts is a good source for copyright expired material.
Websites: 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica [1], Historical Directories A Vision of Britain through Time OpenGeoscience (Geological data) NERC Soil Portal National Heritage Listed Buildings
Parish population data (import should be complete)
· Bournemouth
· Poole
County Durham
Durham County Council 2001 Census data
· Darlington
· Hartlepool
· Stockton-on-Tees
East Riding of Yorkshire
· Kingston-upon-Hull
East Sussex
· Brighton and Hove
Essex
Epping Forest census data (includes 1961-2001)
· Southend-on-Sea
· Thurrock
Gloucestershire
· South Gloucestershire
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Hampshire
2001 census
· Southampton
· Portsmouth
Herefordshire
2001 census Population and demographics Excel sheet of Parish population histories
Hertfordshire
Population and census data
Isle of Wight
Kent
2001 Census Area Profiles
· Medway
Lancashire
· Blackburn with Darwen
· Blackpool
Leicestershire
Census 2001
· Leicester
Lincolnshire
Parish population profiles
· North Lincolnshire
· North East Lincolnshire
Merseyside
Norfolk
Census population (Excel speadsheet) South Norfolk: parish data and ward data Links to parish websites in Breckland Breckland further data
North Yorkshire
· York
· Middlesbrough
· Redcar and Cleveland
· Stockton-on-Tees
· Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Tynedale population data (PDF)
Nottinghamshire
· Nottingham
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Shropshire
· Telford and Wrekin
Somerset
Parish population data
· Bath and North East Somerset
Census Data
· North Somerset
Census Information
South Yorkshire
Staffordshire
Local government history
· Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk
Surrey
Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire
West Midlands
West Sussex
Ward profiles
West Yorkshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council giving brief historical information and references for settlements including old maps and Population by community 1801–2001 census data
· Swindon
Population by community 1801–2001 census data at Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council
Worcestershire
Participants
Following a period of low-activity, WikiProject UK Geography is re-recruiting members. If you feel you can contribute to the project, please add your name.
You don't need to be British to help with this WikiProject. We welcome all registered editors good with layout and prose, and non-British editors who can point out when we've wrongly assumed we don't need to explain or define something for the reader, or failed to properly establish the context of an article.
To add a UK geography userbox to your user page, please add {{User WP UK geo}} to your talk page to generate...
This user participates in WikiProject UK geography
East Sussex, the Barcombe and Lewes area and the countryside surrounding it. Public transport in this area. General knowledge of places around the UK as well.
The beautiful city of Plymouth and places around the county of Devon, as well as high-importantance national topics. I am also participating in the 2009 England taskforce
Sheffield, Derbyshire, Yorkshire and generally place around the country, Companies, Construction & Buildings, Engineering, Photographs of buildings and machines
Improving and developing locality articles as I come across them to conform to guidelines such as WP:UKCITIES, adding proper references, removing trivia and advertising. Historical development of local government units.
Cambridgeshire, in particular Peterborough. I try to improve articles about my local area as best I can, as well as writing my own. I also provide some photographs.
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