Content on Geograph

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This page details the various areas we have that users can contribute content, this includes textual articles and collections of photos. If you are looking to submit a photo see the submission page.

Articles

Good for a lengthy textual piece, created by a single user. Also used for some guideline documents.

• Highly visible and indexed by search engines
• Divided into categories
• Author chooses specific licence for the work
• Rich formatting options (wiki style)
• Can embed map extracts
• Can include pictures (by request)
• Displays a table of contents
• Printer Friendly
• Saves full edit history
• Indexed and fully Searchable in the Content Section

| View Articles | Submit an Article | Help on Formating of Articles |

Discussion Based

We also have a number of content areas based on the forum, so these are good for ongoing content and may accept contributions from multiple users
share the following common features:

• Content is copyright of the poster
• Tracks additions, but not edits. (GSD posts are locked after 24 hours)
• Threads viewable by last addition, or creation date order
• Split into pages, so good for long and ongoing content
• View count available (when viewed on its own page)
• Collaborative - any user can add content - but the Gallery author can apply a lock to prevent replies.
• Searchable using the Forum Search.

Galleries

Good for image collections, allow images on a similar theme to be quickly collated.

• Publicly viewable and indexed by search engines
• Public view and Forum style view available
• Indexed and fully Searchable in the Content Section

| View Galleries | Submit a Gallery |

Themed Topics

(recently renamed from Submitted Articles)
Good for collaborative topics on specific themes - usually includes some discussion.

• Only available to Registered Users are part of the Forum

| View Topics | Start a new Topic |

Grid Square Discussions

Ideal for short discussions about specific locations, and/or adding local information.

• Linked to from the Grid Square Browse page and relevant Photo pages
• Searchable Geographically and viewable on a map

| View Discussions | (Start a discussion from the browse page at the required location)



All of the above are trackable with RSS feeds, look for the RSS icons on the relevant pages.

Help Pages

Geograph Project also host and maintain a number of documents that make up offical documents, these are only editable by site developers - contact us if would like to see an update in this area.

| Linked from the FAQ page | View a combined list |