Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/outreach solicitation sandbox
This is a sample solicitation for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/outreach process. Please feel free to improve it.
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Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles, I've found some Ethiopia-related articles that I believe are about places, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.
The articles in question are listed in Category:Ethiopia articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
- Achefer
- Adda Berga
- Becho
- Begemder
- Didessa River
- Gondar Zuria
- Gore Airport
- Tahtay Koraro
- Tahtay Maychew
...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 376 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.
Why add coordinates?[edit]
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.
How can I do it?[edit]
The articles are all marked with {{coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful, or if you have any questions! -- ~~~~