User:Singkong2005
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Name: Chris Watkins
Usernames on the internet: Chriswaterguy, Singkong2005 (old).
Presence on the internet: google:Chriswaterguy+OR+Singkong2005

More about me: appropedia:User:Chriswaterguy my Appropedia homepage says more about my passions - in particular, international development, sustainability, global public health and appropriate technology.

I'm concerned that Wikipedia is losing its civility. I'm concerned that there's not enough encouragement, too much lazy deletion rather than efforts to improve articles. I'd like to see deletion as a good faith process, transwikiing or moving pages to userspace rather than officiously deleting them.

putting myself in boxes: My blog: Pablo Garudaa Joint blog: Appropedia blog en This user is a native speaker of English. id-4 Pengguna mampu bersumbangsih dengan bahasa Indonesia mendekati penutur ibu. ms-3 Pengguna ini boleh menyumbang dengan taraf yang baik dalam Bahasa Melayu. en-sg-2 This user's Singlish not very good lah. MEng This user has a Master of Engineering degree.  UNSW  This user is a student or graduate of the The University of New South Wales. More userboxes. Very, very occasionally, I contribute to the Wikipedia in Indonesian (user page) and even more rarely, in Malay (user page). (j The places: Spent decades: Spent years: Spent weeks: Visiting soonish: Visiting someday: Ancestry: Idea pinched from Grutness who lifted from Moriori who half-inched from Calton who nicked it from Salsb who stole it from Guettarda who borrowed it from White Cat

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Collaborations

This user is a member of WikiProject International development.

This user is a member of the WikiProject Environment.

WikiProject Climate change · talk
WikiProject Energy development · talk
WikiProject Water purification · talk
WikiProject Urban studies and planning · talk
WikiProject Countering systemic bias · talk
WikiProject Community · talk

I sometimes post questions & point out problems in articles at:
WikiProject Business and Economics · talk.

To leave me a message, click the "talk" tab, or Use this link

Note sure what to do with this...More - interests and opinions.

Interesting...

pages

• Ronald Coase - an economist with interesting ideas about public goods. I must find some more good economics podcasts (like the excellent 2006 Boyer Lectures). (If you have recommendations, please tell me.)
• Hugh Thompson, Jr. - defended the innocent at My Lai.
• Right Livelihood Award
• MythBusters (season 1)... This is great! I don't have to watch the whole boring episode to find out what happens!
• Constructionist learning - one of the influences behind the One Laptop Per Child project.
• Kamal Kar - critic of standard approaches to development & aid.
• Julian Lincoln Simon - wrote about population & natural resources. An optimist.
• Cicisbeo - 18th Century Italian women had surprising freedoms.
• Shi Zhengrong founder and head of Suntech Power. Someone who's really doing something about solar power.
• User:Ihcoyc has a very amusing section of Favourite quotes from the Wikipedia.

A few users with similar interests

• User:Ericbritton, User:LRG, User:Curtbeckmann - sustainability.
• User:Vortexrealm - water.
• User:Georgedappilly - mosquito control.
• Some people who seem to be interested in developing country issues... User:Improv, User:Anthere, User:Ethanz...
• User:John Quiggin - Australian economist, somewhat lefty, who appears in the news occasionally.
• User:Guaka - a fellow CouchSurfer, it seems, with some overlap of interests.
• User:Earthmytemple

...and many, many more of course.

user pages that I will probably get around to browsing, some time...

• User:Jimbo - the creator.
• User:Larry Sanger... if Jimbo's the creator, then Larry might be the devil, in some kind of gnostic view of co-creation followed by conflict. That's if I understand Gnosticism, which I probably don't.
• User:Kierant - some interesting links.

bits from Wikipedia

During the May 1998 Revolution, when calls for political reform or reformasi in Indonesia led to the resignation of President Suharto, Malaysian satirists Instant Cafe lampooned a government broadcast in which 'Malaysians are reminded that reformasi is an Indonesian word, which has no equivalent in Bahasa Melayu.' ([1])

from elsewhere:

What I do on Wikipedia

• Work on development-related & sustainability-related articles
• Put ^{citation needed} on articles (using {{fact}}). I've even used it on things I wrote myself, and very happy when someone replaces one with an excellent link.
• Promote love, joy, peace, etc (or try to).
• Do any minor edits I see that need doing, ask questions that seem to need asking.
• Get distracted a lot.

I think about one day doing more on other topics I want to learn about... so I'd be learning, researching, adding well-verified information when the articles are too skinny, and making suggestions on the user page... but not taking a strong position on what should and shouldn't be in the article. These topics include:

• A few of the articles in Category:Alternative economy. Institutions such as Cooperatives, and practices such as Local currency & Local Exchange Trading Systems - I'm really not sure the latter are a good thing, though I suspect some variation of them would enable some people at some times to engage in the economy when a cash-based economy would not.

Something cool about Wikipedia

When English speakers see the words "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" we probably think: cool, it's free, I don't have to pay. I realised that there more to it when using the Indonesian Wikipedia. For "free" it didn't use the word gratis (no cost), but rather bebas (as in free from restrictions). Actually, both meanings are true of Wikipedia.

Translating

Sometime in 2006 I want to initiate some translations from English into Indonesian for the Indonesian Wikipedia, focusing on articles that I think are very relevant to Indonesian development, such as Appropriate technology-related articles and Hernando de Soto (economist). I'd like to see the same articles edited for the Simple English Wikipedia, and I'll make a start on these sometime in 2006, I expect.

Steal this code!

Feel free to use the code for your own page (I got most of it from User:Cool Cat's page - so check that out).

Useful bits of wiki code

Footnotes: Using the <ref> element

Boxes:

<center><div style="background-color: LightBlue; border: 1px solid; margin: 15px; padding: 15px; width:60%">     </div></center>

The text color attribute, e.g. color:red; doesn't work for some reason - only applies it to the decoration, if present.

OR:

{| style="text-align:center; border: 1px solid #ffc9c9; background-color:#d0ffff"

|- padding:1em;padding-top:0.5em;"

|style="font-size: 85%"|

<b>Header</b>

Content

|}

OR:

{{subst:Divbox|amber| title | content }}

To make quoted text look different:

<tt> </tt>

Tables:

Gallery and caption:

See User:Robchurch/Software/Captions in galleries

<gallery caption="Some pictures">

Image:name1|cap1

Image:name2|cap2

Image:name3|cap3

</gallery>

To put a line through a block of text (one paragraph or less):

<s> </s>

To put a line through a block of text (more than one paragraph):

<div style="text-decoration: line-through">    </div>

HTML attributes

The Wikipedia community presents...

Picture of the day

A 1917 recruitment poster for women to join the United States Navy. In March 1917, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels realized that the Naval Reserve Act of 1916 used the word "yeoman" instead of "man" or "male", and allowed for the induction of "all persons who may be capable of performing special useful service for coastal defense." He began enlisting females as Yeoman (F), and in less than a month the Navy officially swore in Loretta Perfectus Walsh, the first female sailor in U.S. history. At the time they were popularly referred to as "yeomanettes" or even "yeowomen". Artist: Howard Chandler Christy Archive – More featured pictures...

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