Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mountains/Archive 1

message: Hi all - Every WikiProject should have at least one article featured, IMO. I'm not sure if any WikiProject Mountains articles are featured yet but I would like to encourage project members to look at and improve Mount St. Helens so that it can go through the FA selection process. I've already greatly expanded the article but I've burned out on putting the last bit of shine on it. Specifically there is needless overlap between the ==Human history== and ===Goat Rocks Eruptive Period=== sections that should be resolved (the second section should just be a description of the what happened while the human accounts and human effects should go to the human history section). There are similar issues with the section titled ===The 1980 eruption=== (which was not written by me and contains some info that contradicts 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption). More images and better image placement should also be done. Cheers! --mav 04:44, 23 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Mount St. Helens is a good candidate, because it is both exciting (Mountain Blows Up!) and reasonably well-written and long. I looked around at some of the other articles in the project --- another possiblity is Mount Everest. --- hike395 17:51, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

text: I would agree that the Mt. St. Helens article is a good choice, given its recent geological activity and contains substantial content. I would like to see more of the red links go away too. Mt. Everest is good too, although I think it currently is slanted more towards mountaineers/climbers (not that I personally have a problem with that!) than general interest. Granted, most stories on Everest even by tv media concentrate on mountaineering than anything else it seems when it would be nice to see some Sherpa culture and lifestyle. When I wrote up the article on Anatoli Boukreev, I summarized what happened in the 1996 tragedy after I read his book (The Climb). It might be good to add a section on that event to Mt. Everest, as it was something reported on by various media as well as in books. RedWolf 06:44, May 26, 2004 (UTC)
Somebody went ahead and nominated Mount St. Helens on the FAC page, so I cleaned the article up and it is now a featured article. I would like to put 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption through the FAC process but would like to have some feedback first at talk:1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. --mav 08:45, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured article

message: :I'm working on a parameterized template on test wiki at the moment. Hopefully, will have something to show in a few hours. RedWolf 03:12, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)
::Cool! Hope it fixes the tracking problem. -- hike395 03:34, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry it didn't work. Correct me if I'm wrong: we're going to use categories to track the pages, the mav br clear=all hack to avoid the MonoBook bug, but this will all be hidden and all we have to do is use  instead of {| . Is that all correct, or am I missing something? --- hike395 08:01, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parameterized Template 

message: Does this template apply to other language wikipedia's? I'd like to use it in Dutch and in German. Is this possible? If so, how? Gerritholl 11:59, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course you can use it in other Wikipedias. It's text and thus licensed under the GFDL. All you'd have to do is translate the English words of course! David Newton 02:04, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other wikipedias 

message: Though it seems you have moved beyond this, I have created Template:Basic mountain and Template:Mountain picture and altered the original Infoboxes to use coordinates.  The new ones are the same style as the initial infobox, but shorter, using only hike395's essentials as stated above.
As noted, I am not an expert in these tables, so I do not know how to change the width of the columns as has been done with those below.
Digression: You don't need quotes for border=1 and others.  Putting the actual thing on the page makes this page very long and cluttery, would it not be easier to just link them?
As always, be sure to change, add, and remove anything that you decide should be different. Moogle 01:21, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worth Discussing II 

message: Installing NASA World Wind (sorry, Windows only so far), then following the geographic coordinates link in the Mount Baker infobox, selecting the World Wind link at the bottom of the Map Sources page, then selecting Landsat-7 gives full 3D visualization, producing images like this:
The yellow rings are Wikipedia click-through links, the upper one is for Seattle Space Needle.
 -- Egil 23:05, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example of what can be done with NASA World Wind 

message: * "Experimenting with this, the dms template is too sometimes wide and doesn't fit within the 305 pixel wide box."
** Anything smaller than ?  Otherwise, put coordinate on bottom so it can be put on a separate line and use entire width of table. (SEWilco 06:43, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: So we can try to debug it, do you have an example of a template that doesn't fit within the 305 pixel wide box? I think I made a mistake on the current Mount Baker template example --- I should have forced the second column to be 215px wide. I wonder if that would fix the problem. -- hike395 16:58, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate width