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Peter Fitzgerald
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The biggest project by far that I've worked on (withMarc) was getting my adopted homeChicagodistricted, completely mapped, and then up tostar 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 ofWashington, D.C., although I've held off on thatstar nominationfor fear of the intense critique that would follow! I'm particularly pleased with how theGeorgetown,Shaw, andAnacostiaarticles 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. I'm also tempted to work a bit onBaltimore, a favorite American city of mine that deserves more love than it gets. My first big piece of work on the city isThe Wire Tour, a3.5 hourdriving tour of 54 prominent filming locations from the HBO TV series,The Wire.
The first big task I took on when I started was to create a regions structure forRussia, and to make sure every one of its105region 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 theRussian versionof 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 agood one, with content on a level that has not ever been available to English speakers. I'm planning on a large scale translation of theSaint Petersburgarticle in the future, after it gets to a more complete state.
One very much unfinished, task I'm interested in is to createregion mapsfor 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!
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Wikitravel:Regions Map Expedition|Wikitravel:Maryland Expedition|User:Peterfitzgerald/Touts|Special:Allpages/User:Peterfitzgerald|Special:Contributions/newbies
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