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'''Contact''' me by [[Project:Using talk pages|leaving me a message]] on my [[User talk:Peterfitzgerald|talk page]] (preferred), or via [[special:emailuser/Peterfitzgerald|email]]. Please email only when necessity dictates that a talk page message is inappropriate (I may not respond otherwise).

==Location==

;Now : [[New Orleans]]

;Next : ??

==Roles==

*[[Project:Administrators|Janitor]] — a few extra tools for keeping things clean.

*[[Wikivoyage:Bureaucrats|Soulless functionary]] — let me know if you want to change your account name.

*[[Project:What is a docent?|Docent]] — for [[Baltimore]], [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Chicago]]'s South Side, and [[Georgia (country)|Georgia (not the state)]]. Please feel free ask me any questions about these destinations and I'll probably have the answer.

==Projects==

[[Image:PF state and county map.png|thumb|401px|Travels throughout the U.S. (42 states so far)]]

The biggest single article project by far that I've worked on (with [[User:Gorilla Jones|Marc]]) was getting one of my favorite cities, '''[[Chicago]]''', [[Project:Geographical_hierarchy#Districts_in_cities|districted]], completely mapped, and then up to [[Project:Article status|star status]], which wound up becoming the template for how we do huge city guides. I followed suit with my hometown of '''[[Washington, D.C.]]''', and you'll find that the majority of the content there is <s>marred by my writing</s> my handiwork. I'm not quite done with huge city guides, and have been hard at work lately on bringing another couple of favorite cities, '''[[New Orleans]]''' and '''[[Baltimore]]''', up to star status as well. 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 projects. That will be a bit harder than work on closer-by American cities, but the online research tools (largely for determining what businesses have closed) are becoming more widely available for Russia. If you'd like to sample my work a bit, some of my more readable work includes most all of what you'll find at [[Loop Art Tour]], [[Chicago/Bronzeville]], [[Baltimore/Fells Point]], [[Washington, D.C./Georgetown]], among many others. For TV fans, check out '''[[The Wire Tour]]''', a full-day driving 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 for '''[[Russia]]''', and to make sure every one of its ''[[Talk:Russia/Geographic_Hierarchy|105]]'' region 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 the [[:ru:Заглавная страница|Russian language version]], 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 a [[Yakutsk|good one]], with content on a level that has not ever been available to English speakers. I'm planning on a large scale translation of the [[:ru:Санкт-Петербург|Saint Petersburg]] article in the future, after it gets to a more complete state.

One very much unfinished, task I'm interested in is to create '''[[Project:Regions map Expedition|region maps]]''' for every last region article on this site, and I founded the [[Project:Regions Map Expedition]] for this purpose. Even collaboratively this task may be impossible. But, having now conquered all the world's countries and all U.S. states, we're certainly moving in the right direction! A big piece of this puzzle isn't about making maps, but rather about content organization—[[Project:Geographical hierarchy|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!

==Bookmarks==

[[Project:Regions map Expedition]] | [[Project:Country surgeon Expedition]] | [[Special:PrefixIndex/User:Peterfitzgerald]] | [http://torty3.github.io/geobatcher.html Geobatcher] | [http://maps.wikivoyage-ev.org/w/geomap.php Geomap] | [http://gnuher.de/cycleroute Route editor] | [http://maps.wikivoyage-ev.org/w/artmap.php?lang=en Artmap]

==Plans==

Lest I forget what my plans are:

*[[Kazan]] translations

*Work on [[Bogotá#Districts|Bogotá districts]] & fill out [[Bogotá/La Candelaria]]

*+map for [[Northern Lights]]

*[[Talk:Baltimore#Districts_status|Get Baltimore to star status]]

*Update [[Chicago]]

*Update [[D.C.]]

*Overhaul [[Memphis]] & [[Clarksdale]]

*[[Talk:New_Orleans#Districts_status|Get New Orleans to star status]]

*[[Talk:Miami#Districts|Fix Miami's districts]]

*Overhaul [[Sierra Leone|Freetown Peninsula]]

*Get [[Churchill]] to star status and OtBP

*Create an [[User:Peterfitzgerald/Embassy Row|Embassy Row]] walking itinerary

*Finally get the [[Adirondacks]] regions taken care of

*Finish incomplete maps:

**[[Vladimir]]

**[[Memphis]]

**Various [[New Orleans]]

**[[St. Thomas]]

**[[Maluku]]

**[[Kabul]]

*Planned maps Central [[Shanghai]], [[Tristan da Cunha]], [[Northern Lights]]

*Beef up [[Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage and Wikitravel]]

*Create Bugzilla coordination page

==Travels==

I have now found myself in 26 countries across the world's five most populous continents. The last big adventures have included lazing on [[West Africa]]n beaches, road-tripping across [[Colombia]], and photographing polar bears under the [[Northern Lights]] in [[Churchill]]. What's next is as unclear right now as it's ever been, but I'd love to do a month-ish long trip around [[Yucatán Peninsula|Southern Mexico]], or a few weeks exploring [[Texas]]. I should remember to eat my way across [[Lafayette (Louisiana)|Lafayette]] too.

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*[[Adirondacks]]

*[[Baltimore]]

*[[Canyon Country|Utah]]

*[[Chicago]]

*[[Churchill]]

*[[Costa Rica]]

*[[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]

*[[Kyoto]]

*[[Memphis]]

*[[New Orleans]]

*[[Rome]]

*[[Saint Petersburg]]

*[[Sheki]]

*[[St Davids|A good country pub]]

*[[Taipei#Landmarks|Grand Hotel Taipei]]

*[[Virgin Gorda]]

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*[[Bogotá]]

*[[Chicago/Bridgeport-Chinatown|Chicago Chinatown]]

*[[Chicago/Hyde Park|Hyde Park]]

*[[New Haven]]

*[[Tbilisi]]

*[[London/Kensington|South Kensington]]

*[[Saint Petersburg]]

*[[Middlebury (Vermont)|Middlebury]]

*[[Washington, D.C./Georgetown|Georgetown]]

*[[Saratoga Springs]]

*[[Kensington]]

*[[Brooklyn]]

*[[Seoul]]

*[[Manhattan/Greenwich Village|Greenwich Village]]

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*[[Bangkok]]

*[[Bolivia]]

*[[Cabo Polonio]]

*[[Dagestan]]

*[[Dogon Country]]

*[[Edinburgh]]

*[[Garamba National Park]]

*[[Interoceanic Highway]]

*[[Issyk Kul]]

*[[Kamchatka]]

*[[Kazan]]

*[[La Guajira]]

*[[Lalibela]]

*[[M'zab|M'zab Valley]]

*[[San Francisco]]

*[[Svaneti]]

*[[Volcanoes National Park]]

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