I'm a Geography & Environmental Science student attending UMBC in Maryland. I've been a Wikipedia reader and editor since late 2001.
This summer, I'm trying to migrate some skills in ArcMap/Illustrator over to QGIS/Inkscape, and the Map Workshops seem to be an efficient way to practice. All map work listed here for me to keep track of. A portfolio of non-trivial cartography will come later after I'm a bit more familiar with wikipedia-specific conventions, tools, correctly-licensed data, etc.
Several of the posts on Map Workshop have suggested WikiMapProjects, which I may end up doing when I have the time. With GIS usually once you've got a dataset and format together it's not time-consuming at all to do repetitive work on similar objects. Here's some things I'll be getting around to in spare time.
The lead for this came from a request for a legend on the Scottish page. Most of the current maps use a Census web tool that creates aesthetically lacking results and no legend. The exceptions use a copyrighted professionally-made map. I have data for these, I just need to find the time to put them all together.
There are 200 or so state highways in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. A map request for one, and a note that the person will be creating a database, begs for an authoritative map that one can subset. OSM fails hard here with only 14 numbered highways labelled as such. An award-winning 2006 small-scale map of major National Highways in India, which has spawned many subset maps that highlight a route, is no help here - not even for the national highways. In addition, since the National Highways had all of their numbers changed a few months ago, the world is in need of new maps for those as well. It shouldn't be that difficult to digitize these from directions, but so far I only have directions for one of them. I'm still looking for data on state highways, though there is a verbal guide to the NH changes.
From Smithsonian_Institution_Building's map request, and looking at the other museums, it looks like the tourist maps that are presented by the bus companies, the Smithsonian, and WMATA don't have a freely licensed counterpart to function as a basic illustrated location map.