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Mehmet Karatay

Joined 24 March 2007
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Our major aim is to improve the Mount Kenya article. This involves working on the articles that link from Mount Kenya as well. When we first found the Mount Kenya article it was still a stub.


Two people actually work under this account name, Mehmet Karatay and Gemma Richards. This happened by accident, but now we work together most of the time so it doesn't seem worth having separate accounts. To avoid confusion on discussion pages we'll write in the first person singular as the user name doesn't imply otherwise. We live in Edinburgh.

Wikipedia is a great excuse to research things that interest us to a greater depth than we would do otherwise. It is also an excellent place to practise and improving our writing.

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Geology
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Climate
Ecology
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People
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Picture of the day

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The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across the vast Islamic territories, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations (notably the Arabic constellation system of the Anwā'). The original manuscript no longer survives as an autograph, however, the Book of Stars has survived in later-made copies. This image from the book shows the constellation of Orion, in mirror image as if on a celestial globe, and is from a copy in the Bodleian Library dated to the 12th century AD.

Ilustration credit: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

Wikipedia Projects

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Sandboxes

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Future plans

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A to-do list of our future plans so we can keep track of our ideas.
Other people can see our plans as well just in case anybody is interested...

Mt Kenya to do list

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  • Find the author of vegzonation (Mount Kenya and Mountaineering on Mount Kenya)
  • MCK is definitive guide book to Mount Kenya--find 3rd party reference.
  • Find better way to cite PhD thesis for introduction, reference 5
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So we can find them when we need to!
These will hopefully help improve the quality of our articles.

Acknowledgements

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This is our section to thank everybody who's written the free software that we use almost everyday. We were hoping not to fill this page with too many boxes. Saying that, it's an ideal place to give a decent thank you to all those who put in the time. That is after all the same ideology behind Wikipedia.

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