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Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World

The Wikimedia Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons.
Discussion • Update the atlas • Index of the Atlas • Atlas in categories • Other atlases on line
The introductions of the country, dependency and region entries are in the native languages and in English. The other introductions are in English.
North AmericaSouth AmericaAntarcticaAfricaEuropeAsiaOceaniaOceaniaThe Oceans


WikiProject Atlas

WikiProject Atlas
This WikiProject aims primarily to organize maps included in commons as an atlas. It is not in the scope of this project to include in the entries maps of rivers and cities, location maps of provinces and other administrative divisions, maps of administrative divisions, fictional maps and habitat maps.

The Atlas

The atlas should include:

  • entries with maps on world level
  • entries for each continent and the oceans
  • entries for each country, de facto-country and dependency around the world. Each entry should have a
    • general section with geographical and political maps
      • maps of administrative divisions should be layouted in a gallery
    • history section with a summary of the history of the country illustrated with maps (when this section is very lagre, a separate entry can be created)
    • section with old maps (when available)
    • section with other maps (when available}
    • section with satellite maps (when available}
  • entries for major former nations
  • entries for historical themes
  • thematic entries

The atlas is in the English language. Maps in other languages are included when the same map in English is not available. Maps in the native language of the entity involved can be included. The general introduction in each entity is in English, but an introduction in the native language can be included. The text of the history section is in English.

Participants

  • User:Rarelibra (Talk) - USA USA
    EN, ES, PL - Administrative division maps, maintenance, possible translations
  • User:52 Pickup (Talk) - Australia , (living in Germany )
    EN, DE, NL - Historical maps, starting with location maps in Europe.
  • User:Sj (Talk) - USA USA
    EN, ES - Africa, South America, and NASA imagery.
  • User:Hexagon1 (en : t) - Australia /Czechia Czechia
    EN, CS - I'd be willing to help around with any map work.
  • User:Golbez (en : t) - USA USA
    EN, JP - Administrative division maps, historical maps, reference maps
  • User:aaker - Sweden
    SV, FR, EN - working mostly with translations

To do

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The Wikimedia atlas of the world entries are in development. --- Edit this to do list
You can add a map or Copy a map to commons. The following Wikipedia maps should be uploaded to commons first.
The entries are in the following stadia:


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Check general layout

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Country 2: Add history

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Use the following templates as much as possible: 

{{left-box
|short name= 
|period    = 
|text      = 
|link      = 
|flag      = 
|native    = ( )
}}

{{left-box-link
|short name= 
|period    = 
|text      = 
|link      = 
|flag      = 
|moremaps  = 
|tag       = #
}}

{{left-compare
|short name= 
|period    = 
|text      = 
|link      = 
|moremaps  = 
|tag       = #
}}

Country 2a: Check if history text has been added

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History 1: Complete historical entries

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Various steps

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Assisting templates in Wikipedia

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Assisting templates in commons

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  • atlas-country: {{atlas-country}} for the main layout
  • general-maps: {{general-maps|country=}} to add section
  • link: {{link|entry}} to make a link to an en.wikipedia entry
  • left: {{left|image|text}} to make the correct layout for an image
  • leftlegend: {{leftlegend|image}}text and finishing with |} on the next line for an image description with legend template
  • history: {{history|country}} to add history section
  • old-maps: {{old-maps}} to add section
  • other-maps: {{other-maps}} to add section or {{other-maps|Title}} to add section with title to be selected
  • atlas-end: {{atlas-end}} to add the blue box

Assisting file in Wikipedia: w:User:Electionworld/Atlas

Notes and references

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General remarks:

  • The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
  • Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
  • Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
  • The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
  • The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.

Entries available in the atlas

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General pages
World
Continents and oceans
Themes
Historical eras
States with wide recognition
States with limited recognition
Dependencies and other overseas territories
Country subdivisions
Belgium
China (mainland)
India
Pakistan
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
Russia
Other
Disputed subnational territories
Other regions
Cities
Former sovereign states
Former dependencies and overseas territories
Former disputed territories
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