Wikipedia:WikiProject Brazil/Geography of Brazil task force

This is a task force of WikiProject Brazil.

Goals

• Identify articles to improve that are related to the human and physical geography of Brazil
• Increase broader participation in WikiProject Brazil, by creating a more organized space for collaboration

Participants

1. BaduFerreira (talk · contribs)
2. DanielGSouza (talk · contribs)
3. Giso6150 (talk · contribs)
4. Victor Lopes (talk · contribs)
5. Prburley (talk · contribs)
6. MrMeAndMrMe (talk · contribs)

Collaboration of the month

In an effort to increase the coverage of Wikipedia Brazil-related geography articles, these articles are proposed for collaboration/editing.

• October, 2015: New article: Botanical Garden of São Paulo.

Looking forward:

• November, 2015: Rondônia. Proposed for collaborative editing. Top-importance article but needs significant expansion, update, and references.

Assessment

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Brazil/Assessment

Geography of Brazil articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FL				2			2
FM					3		3
B	15	10	16	17		4	62
C	33	13	84	30		18	178
Start	15	31	144	888		16	1,094
Stub		5	104	3,698		22	3,829
List		12	22	86			120
Category					762		762
Disambig					18		18
Project					2		2
Redirect		4	4	79	37		124
Template					74		74
Assessed	63	75	374	4,800	896	60	6,268
Unassessed				1		15	16
Total	63	75	374	4,801	896	75	6,284

As you assess articles for this task force, please follow these basic guidelines:

• Do not leave class or importance blank, if possible
• If in doubt, use importance=low and class=stub
• Nearly every article will overlap with some other WikiProject(s), add a template for those as well (see list below)

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Agriculture
• WikiProject Caves
• WikiProject Cities
• WikiProject Ecology
• WikiProject Geography
• WikiProject Geology
• WikiProject Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• WikiProject Islands
• WikiProject Lakes
• WikiProject Mining
• WikiProject Mountains
• WikiProject Protected areas
• WikiProject Rivers
• WikiProject Urban studies and planning
• WikiProject Waterfalls
• WikiProject World Heritage Sites

Categories

Further information: Special:CategoryTree

Geography of Brazil task force articles (3 C, 6,284 P)

Geography of Brazil articles needing attention (3 C, 61 P)

Geography of Brazil articles by importance (6 C)

Geography of Brazil articles by quality (20 C, 1 P)

Geography of Brazil (24 C, 5 P)

Geography of Brazil by city (7 C)

Geography of Brazil by state (34 C)

Brazil geography-related lists (4 C, 4 P)

Borders of Brazil (13 C, 15 P)

Climbing areas of Brazil (2 P)

Ecoregions of Brazil (7 C, 70 P)

Environment of Brazil (17 C, 2 P)

Forests of Brazil (2 C, 24 P)

Geology of Brazil (20 C, 38 P)

Grasslands of Brazil (2 C, 7 P)

Historical geography of Brazil (4 C, 4 P)

Landforms of Brazil (26 C, 2 P)

Landmarks in Brazil (3 C, 1 P)

Names of places in Brazil (1 C)

Natural disasters in Brazil (5 C, 5 P)

Populated places in Brazil (9 C, 2 P)

Ports and harbours of Brazil (1 C, 26 P)

Protected areas of Brazil (28 C, 6 P)

Seismic faults of Brazil (3 P)

Squares in Brazil (2 C, 19 P)

Subdivisions of Brazil (11 C, 10 P)

Territorial evolution of Brazil (2 C, 1 P)

Time in Brazil (4 P)

Brazil geography stubs (29 C, 32 P)

Articles needing attention

• Alphabetical cleanup listing
• By category cleanup listing
• Cleanup history for this task force
• Category:Geography of Brazil articles needing attention

Requested articles

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Brazil/Requests

Request additional article(s)

• Abismo Ponto de Flecha - site where Toxodon fossils have been found
• Água Funda - district in São Paulo where the Botanical Garden of São Paulo is located
• Anhumas Abyss - apparently a popular scuba diving site near the city Anhumas. I saw this.

• Avenida 9 de Julho - see Vale do Anhangabaú
• Cachoeira do Campo - district of Ouro Preto

• Lakes in Brazil with an article on ptwiki - see Category talk:Lakes of Brazil (updated 2009)
• Largo de São Bento
• Largo de São Francisco (pt:Largo de São Francisco)

• Parque da Aclimação (pt:Parque da Aclimação) — linked to template
• Parque Anhanguera (São Paulo) (pt:Parque Anhanguera (São Paulo)) — linked to template
• Parque Burle Marx (pt:Parque Burle Marx) — linked to template
• Parque Ecológico do Tietê (pt:Parque Ecológico do Tietê) — linked to template

• Praça da Bandeira (São Paulo)
• Praça Ramos de Azevedo

• Recôncavo Basin of north-eastern Brazil.

• Touro Passo Formation - site where Macrauchenia fossils have been found

• Viaduto Santa Ifigênia
• Vila dos Remédios (biggest city of Fernando de Noronha, a Brazilian archipelago) Google Maps for reference: [1]. Some other links to gather info: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]. Page mentioned on these articles: List of extreme points of Brazil; Fernando de Noronha Airport; List of capitals of subdivisions of Brazil

Municipality watchlist

Main article: List of municipalities of Brazil

The scrolling window below shows the most recent changes to any of the 5,570 Municipalities of Brazil articles.

List of abbreviations (help):

D

Edit made at Wikidata

r

Edit flagged by ORES

N

New page

m

Minor edit

b

Bot edit

(±123)

Page byte size change

20 November 2024

• diffhist Wikipedia:Protection policy 05:55 −8 Daniel Quinlan talk contribs (Undid revision 1258519822 by Interstatefive (talk) - undoing good faith edit, a shortcut only used 4 times in almost 8 years doesn't need to be linked) Tag: Undo
• diffhist Wikipedia:Protection policy 04:59 +8 Interstatefive talk contribs (→Semi-protection: if WP:30/500 is listed as a shortcut for ecp then this should be listed too) Tag: Reverted

19 November 2024

• diffhist Wikipedia:Protection policy 23:26 −12 Cryptic talk contribs (→"History only" review: practice has been to always replace with a template, not just blank, for a very long time now)
• diffhist Wikipedia:Protection policy 17:30 +2 TheWikipede talk contribs (→Pending changes protection: rewording)

18 November 2024

• diffhist Wikipedia:Protection policy 22:44 0 Daniel Quinlan talk contribs (moved Retired protections section below more actively used sections)
• diffhist Wikipedia:Protection policy 22:11 +50 Daniel Quinlan talk contribs (there are a small number of cases not covered by other criteria in this section or WP:CASCADE)
• diffhist Wikipedia:Protection policy 21:58 −52 Daniel Quinlan talk contribs (removed unnecessary emphasis and clarified that the Main Page is the only page that is indefinitely fully protected for only this specific reason)
• diffhist m Wikipedia:Protection policy 20:12 +8 Oshwah talk contribs (→High-risk pages and templates: Formatting, grammar.)
• diffhist Wikipedia:Protection policy 20:10 +14 Oshwah talk contribs (→High-risk pages and templates: "areas" --> "pages and templates".)
• diffhist Wikipedia:Protection policy 20:09 −27 Oshwah talk contribs (Moved paragraph regarding full protection to a sub-section under the full protection section.)
• diffhist Wikipedia:Redirect 06:53 0 Æ's old account wasn't working talk contribs
• diffhist Wikipedia:Redirect 06:53 0 Æ's old account wasn't working talk contribs

Resources

• Estados@ IBGE (in Portuguese) (in English) (in Spanish)
• Cidades@ IBGE (in Portuguese) (in English) (in Spanish)
• World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA)
• Diegues, Antônio Carlos Sant’Ana, ed. (1994). An Inventory of Brazilian Wetlands (PDF). IUCN. ISBN 2-8317-0217-8. Retrieved 5 March 2016.