Mehmet Karatay

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Mount Kenya

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		Mount Kenya is an incredible article. I regrettably ran across it when I was cleaning up vandalism. I stayed long enough to read it and realized what a truly amazing piece of work it is. Congratulations. Trusilver 02:16, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very very much! If it interested you then check back every now and then as we still have loads of plans to expand it as we mention on the talkpage. Most of the work is being done in our sandboxes. Here is a template we will eventually include in all articles. At the moment each section links to our sandbox articles.

Mehmet Karatay 09:45, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I will do that, and I wanted to discuss this with you before I did anything; especially since I don't know if there is much more that you intend to do with this article. This article is the first time that I have ever considered nominating a piece of work for featured article status (see WP:FA), If you are satisfied that this body of work is ready, I would like to nominate this excellent article on your behalf. Trusilver 02:27, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

It's nice to hear your encouragement. I admit a FA is our goal, but I do not feel the article is ready. It has too many lists, which we will turn into prose. We are working on this. Also one of the criteria is that the article must not be evolving too much, which is definitely not the case. Our plan is to turn the article into the summary style once we have sub articles written. Finally to make it comprehensive we have to include a few other topics such as the geology, climate and more about the local people's views on the mountain etc. We've done a lot of reading on these topics but still have to write it up and find or create good images for illustrations.

When we are closer to being ready I can let you know; you can nominate Mount Kenya then if you still want to. I feel this will be at the end of the summer at the very earliest. Thank you again suggesting the nomination, and keep checking back! Also if you have any suggestions on what we can improve please say. :-) Mehmet Karatay 09:51, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely, when you feel that you are ready, I will be more than happy to write the nomination. Trusilver 16:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I read the entire article again last night to see how you are progressing. Although I was concerned about its length, the two of you seem to already have that thought out and under control. Overall, it is one of the most, if not the most enrapturing article I have ever read. You are doing a great job, I'm just wondering how you are going to outdo this article when you start on your next project ;) Trusilver 20:12, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words and encouragement. We have recently been distracted from working on this article as we have been putting some of the quotes we have found onto Wikiquotes. Hope you enjoy them. Mehmet Karatay 20:27, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

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Mehmet: I think this is getting overdue :-) —GRM 15:38, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Suddenly two awards came along at once... :-) On another note, I added myself to the Steenbok contributors box as you suggested. Mehmet Karatay 20:22, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

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Congratulations

I know others have done this, but I just wanted to stop by to congratulate you on your work on Mount Kenya. It is obvious from the history that your work on this article is significant, and the article itself is very comprehensive. aliasd·U·T 03:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! It's nice to get to get encouragement. We seem to have lost our momentum on it a bit recently so the encouragement is all the more welcome. There are lots of things we have researched which we haven't written up yet. The most significant being the geological history. Our current goal is to change the article to summary style, but we want each sub-article to be well structured with interesting information before we put everything across to the main article space. Mehmet Karatay (talk) 11:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

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Library visits

Dear Mehmet: Are you still visiting your local scholarly library? If so, any chance you could source a complete article for me? :-) Thanks, GRM (talk) 16:41, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello, nice to hear from you again. Gemma and I got out of the habit of contributing for a while, but we're back now. I'm doing a phd so I tend to use the library often. Just e-mail me what you'd like me to look up. Don't worry about limiting it to a few items, I'll work through any list as I get the time. Mehmet Karatay (talk) 17:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Mehmet. Will do.—GRM (talk) 17:56, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Monopoly

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Thanks for your comment - I had already posted it to wiki, dunno who removed it. Image:Monopoly board on white bg.jpg. Regards, --Fir0002 12:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

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Mount Kenya

Hi,
I'm a wikipedian from France and I translated the article on Mount Kenya from english to french (you can see fr:Mont Kenya), completed by a large part of your work in your personal user space. I'm working in a team for a playful competition and I'm wondering if you own a map about the vegetation levels, maybe from the book Facing Kirinyaga, that you could scan and send to me by mail. Obviously, if we were able to draw by ourself such a map, we would share it with you so you can improve your work.
I'm waiting for your reply. Anyway, I wanted to congratulate you for your work; very impressive.
Best regards. Gemini1980 (talk) 22:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

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Emotional regurgitation

"Emotional regurgitation" is a phrase that I learned a while back, I am uncertain now from where; I could guess but I am not going to. It is exactly what it says, spewing of emotional build up. I did this twice today (edited as much as possible) and I am sorry. The being sorry about this is the reason I am leaving this note here. The 'real life' that goes on while I have been trying to sort through the very interesting stuff about those plants that are on that mountain has had a logic which seems cruel and useless -- an example, I did not get the mail from a mailbox everyday as I agreed to last month. When speaking via phone to a relative who should be in no position to pass judgement against or make decisions for me or my brother (my biological brother) seemed to have decided that his mail be returned to the sender. And, that phone connection was reported to be filled with static (and it was) perhaps a reflection of an image that I uploaded recently commons:Commons:Quality_images_candidates/Archives_April_2008#Noise.gif as an editorial for a review system I had been watching for about three quarters of a year.

This is an apology and also you probably did not deserve this.

In the meanwhile, the question that I have for you is this. I do not understand the two users with the same wiki user page here; I also did not understand the fact that so many of the images uploaded by you did not have very expansive articles about them for the fact that there are two users here. Can you enlighten me about this situation? -- carol (talk) 20:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

The two user thing is that most of the time we work together. This doesn't mean we do twice as much work. It mean the work we do has input from both of us. This is usually because we talk about what we are doing as we do it and make loads of changes to each other's work in a very dynamic way. The way we affect each other's work is too dynamic to have separate accounts; we'd simply have two accounts that we both contributed to. I hope this makes some sense...

Well the simple explanation to your question about photos without articles is time: there isn't enough of it. We have quite full lives outside of Wikipedia. The reason we've uploaded a lot of the photos we have is 1. because we have them and others may as well make use of them 2. we both enjoy taking photos, and again usually work together giving advice about composition, processing etc as we go along so it really is both of our work 3. to help make the Mount Kenya article better.

When there have been topics that we want to link to from the Mount Kenya article that haven't existed we've created stubs and supplied photos if we have them. We simply don't have the time to research a new topic in detail so our hope is that once we've created the stub that other's will carry on expanding them. That's the great thing about wikis. In fact there is loads of research that we've done for Mount Kenya that we haven't had the time to write yet, for example the geology. When we have time to work on Wikipedia we'll probably spend that doing that writing instead of expanding the stubs. I hope this answers your question.

If I'm honest I can't see what you're apologising for. On another note, I do like your Dendrosenecio article. Well done. I also like your non-aggressive stance, I wish more people around here had that although I know that a lot do. That's life for you.

Mehmet Karatay (talk) 22:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, and there were a lot of words here that take time to read. I heard a funny thing on television recently, it was a fake author of science fiction books, he said something like "I have written more books than I have read." If you count stubs, this may or may not be the case for me and wikipedia articles and that is a rude situation in my own opinion about myself. The "sorry" was appropriate.

It did have the feel of a take-over though. As if there had been a user from Kenya who either lost the internet access or the enthusiasm. People here with ops do not seem to always have ethics that are equal to the requirements they impose. Another 'feeling' it gave me was that a girl had taken an expensive vacation and was using a falsified wikipedia account to 'justify' it and perhaps pay for it. I have had too many years of trying to guess what is wrong with everything....

In the 45 years that I have been alive, I have had several if not all of my good working partnerships interrupted (sometimes with interference from other individuals in my life who should not have done this and sometimes weird life conditions like hiring and firing); it has become a goal to not interrupt other working relationships. I will say that I understand this one of yours as much as I need to. Is there a way to know when one or the other is doing the typing here? A life without enough time to do things is better than existing still after your life was been stolen; I am a little jealous and glad for the interesting stubs and the photographs. -- carol (talk) 23:05, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

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File:Red deer stag.jpg

Hi, I have proposed your amazing photo as a featured picture on Commons. Maybe you could add where you have taken it, to give a more detailled description.
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Red-billed Teal is a White-cheeked Teal

Dear Mehmed,

your description to that duck claims that it is an red-billed Teal. I am pretty sure, that this is not correct. Red-billed Ducks have an almost entirely red bill, whereas this one has one which is red only at the basis. Furthermore, it is more buff coloured than red-billed ones usually are and the tail is longer. I am pretty sure that this is a Anas bahamensis. I didn't dare to change the description in the commons and hope to convince you to do it.

With best regards from the german wikipedia, de:BS Thurner Hof, --79.221.89.93 (talk) 21:19, 11 February 2009 (UTC) (Love your bird pictures, by the way)

You're right, we uploaded it under the wrong name. The captions and category should be correct now and it's uploaded under the correct name. The old version is tagged for deletion. Thanks for pointing this out. Mehmet Karatay (talk) 13:48, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

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Your SVG image of an aerobatic box

Mehmet, I've made some additions and corrections to the Competition aerobatics article. Of relevance here is that the prose is now out of sync with your box diagram. As I'm not an SVG guy, would you either give me some pointer to learn how to fix this (without redrawing it entirely, preferably), or would you be willing to make those corrections? If the latter, you can find them in the prose or I'll post them here. Thanks either way. Jim Ward (talk) 03:39, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• Well, I jumped the gun. I downloaded Inkscape and made the edits required. Sorry for the bother. Jim Ward (talk) 05:41, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
• Mehmet, maybe I can ask your help after all. When I view or download the SVG image, the green and blue screened portions, visible in the thumbnail at the lower portion of the image, disappear. I see similar behavior when opening the SVG image in Inkscape. Please forgive my naiveté, but what am I doing incorrectly here? (For what it's worth, I use a Mac, though I wouldn't think that would have much bearing on this problem.) Thanks again. Jim Ward (talk) 02:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi James, it's no bother. The gradients weren't working properly when I tried to open the file as well. Something in Inkscape must have changed since I created the file. I've uploaded a new version and hopefully it should work now. I tried to change the text to be more inline with the article. If you want something else, then please tell me what to change here, or feel free to change it yourself. You should be able to do things in Inkscape easily. It's a very intuitive programme.

Here are some tips:

• To edit any text select the text tool "A". When you move the mouse over any text you should see a response (I get a blue square outlining the text). Click then and you should be able to edit what is written there.
• The gradient edit tool is just before the eyedropper tool and looks like a line with two squares either end. When you choose it and click on of the gradients a line appears. By adjusting the position, angle and length of the line you can adjust the gradient.
• If you want to change the colour of the gradient: select the object with the gradient, open the "fill and stroke" panel (First item in the "object" menu), select the fill tab. It should say "linear gradient" and you should see a button that says "Edit". Select that and you can pick whatever colour you want the gradient to be. At the moment I have the gradient blending into a 100% transparency. I recommend you only change the solid colour for the result to look good.

Good luck. If you want any more help or advice with Inkscape, let me know. Mehmet Karatay (talk) 17:37, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Excellent, Mehmet, thank you for the fix. I've made some small changes to the image, the substance of which are textual so that it aligns better with the article it supports. Jim Ward (talk) 21:02, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Nominating Mount Kenya

I'm nominating Mount Kenya for a GA, it seem VERY well-written, and referenced as well. ResMar 00:11, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Gemma and I don't have time to make the improvements we want to but I'm sure we'll get there one day. If you think it's good enough for GA now then that's excellent. It will only get better with time, but who knows when? Mehmet Karatay (talk) 08:43, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

If you say so. Be prepared for an epic backlog though, GAN is packed at the moment. ResMar 23:26, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

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File:Mount Kenya Vegetation map-fr.svg

Hello Mehmet and Gemma,

I have seen that you've uploaded new versions of File:Mount Kenya Vegetation map-fr.svg to change orthography of "Chogoria", and then reverted it. Why ? If you see a mistake in one of my work, please correct it, or tell it to me.

I see you are working on Mount Kenya article. We have worked on it last year, during the "Wikiconcours" (a french wikicontest) march/april 2008. My team improved also articles of Mauna Loa, Krakatoa, Surtsey and Erebus, and for the wikiconcours march/april 2009, we worked on mount Kilimanjaro, not far from mount Kenya (and also on Puncak Jaya, Everest, Massif Vinson and Olympus Mons). If you have any question about the french Mont Kenya article, please ask.

For your translations of the SVG maps, I recommend you to not use Times New Roman or Arial fonts, because they not render properly now. The best for the moment is DejaVu Sans Condensed (to replace Arial) and DejaVu Serif Condensed (to replace Times New Roman).

Sémhur 08:50, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Sémhur,

Sorry for not replying sooner. The reason for the reverts was due to confusion about not seeing the updated work because of the browser cache. The wrong spelling of Chogoria is still there because of the font issue.

We didn't change the fonts on purpose. All we did was open the various files in Inkscape and use use the text tool to change what you wrote. The font has changed but I can't explain why. We use linux and have the fonts you mention available so I don't know what Inkscape is doing.

Thank you for your offer of help. We may take you up on that at some point. We know about the competition and one of your team mates got in touch with us during it and we shared sources, information and text. We even get mentioned at the bottom of the French article's talk page; thank you for that. Well done on improving the Mont Kenya and Kilimandjaro articles so much. I'm glad Mont Kenya is featured.

We did noticed on mistake on Mount Kenya Climbing Routes and Huts photomap-fr.svg. Unfortunately, we only noticed it after we uploaded the English translation. The camp marked as Shipton's Camp is actually Old Moses Camp. Shipton's is located on the junction between circit des pics and Chogoria route. We'll fix it once we have a bit of time and sort the font issue out, but if you have time it may get fixed sooner?

Mehmet Karatay (talk) 13:11, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't known that Gemini1980 was in touch with you at this moment (I work only on pictures and maps).

I have updated the Mount Kenya Climbing Routes and Huts photomap-XX.svg.

Last year, I worked with Arial and Times New Roman, so it's the reason why these fonts are used in my old maps. But, in october 2008, Wikimedia Foundation has changed the OS of his servers: it's now Linux, and it doesn't render properly Microsoft non-free fonts. After a long search, we found that DejaVu (Sans or Serif) Condensed have the same look in Inkscape than in Wikipedia, so we use it now.

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Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. For those of you who signed up to the North African contest, that will hopefully be held in the new year. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Mehmet Karatay. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest

Hi. This month The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There is over £3000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. Wikimedia UK is putting up £250 specifically for editors who produce the most quality new women bios for British women, with special consideration given to missing notable biographies from the Oxford Dictionary of Biography and Welsh Dictionary of Biography. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate independently this is also fine, but please add any articles created to the bottom of the main contest page even if not competing. Your participation in the contest and contributing articles on British women from your area or wherever would we much appreciated. Thanks.

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Category:Wikipedians from Edinburgh has been nominated for merging

Category:Wikipedians from Edinburgh has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Gonnym (talk) 09:49, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Category:WikiProject X members

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Category:WikiProject X members on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkltalk 09:36, 2 October 2023 (UTC)