Talk:Map of the Earth

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The page "Map of the Earth" was created on 9 March 2009 by long-term user Wikid77 as a form of disambiguation page, for either the world, planet Earth, or multi-page map atlas. The term "Map of the Earth" had been requested over 27 times per day during 2008 (average pagehits per day), but there was no way to know exactly what people expected to see. The similar terms "Earth map" and "Map of Earth" led to total interest of about 55 hits per day. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:19, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Redirections here

The following titles redirect to "Map of the Earth" as alternative names for the same concept:

• Earth map (11 hits/day)     Map of Earth (20 hits/day)

Combining the reader interest, in all titles, the page receives over 55 pageviews per day (averaging 23-98 on any day in March 2009). There might be other titles that should redirect here, as well. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:19, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

As crosslink page

18-April-2009: The page "Map of the Earth" is an example of a crosslink page that connects multiple articles, images, and categories to provide information about the concept (or idea) of an Earth map. The page provides a variation of some more specific types of Wikipedia pages, acting as:

• a multi-way redirection page: must REDIRECT to multiple articles
• a semantic disambiguation: not just same word, but similar concepts of "world" & "atlas map" etc.
• a multi-data list page: not a single list of titles, but also links to multiple images.

Although the page could be considered the "poster child" of crosslink pages, for what a crosslink page involves, it is not the first such page on Wikipedia. Many disambiguation pages have tried to broaden the links to pages closely related to some central concept, rather than strictly linked to precisely the same words. They are addressing the problems of "green peas" versus "Greenpeace" versus "unripe peas" or "raw lentils" (etc.) which occurs numerous times, due to similar concepts, similar pronunciations, or words spelled by common variations, such as "Olde Tyme" (for "old time"). The driving force is that readers request such nebulous concepts by typing phrases, on a daily basis, so that the same such titles are repeated all during the year. A rare Wikipedia article (with active interest) might get only 1 or 2 hits per day; in the case of "Map of the Earth" (or Earth map), the hits have averaged 45 per day (all during 2009). -Wikid77 (talk) 03:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)