User:Chriswaterguy

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Welcome to my user page.

If you're new to Wikipedia, note that most of the links here are to article or project pages, which were not written by me personally (though I may have contributed to the editing.)

My name is Chris Watkins but on the internet I'm usually Singkong2005. For more about me, especially the online collaborations I'm involved with related to international development, language and others, and links to my (very sporadic) blog, see my homepage.

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putting myself in boxes: 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 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). 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 Coolcat

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Warning: Wikiholism alert.
"My username is Singkong2005 and I am a wikiholic." I cancelled my plans to live and work in China when I learnt they blocked Wikipedia. I often read (non-fiction) books and mark things that I want to put into Wikipedia. I'm a registered user of about 10 wikis. Yes I'm an addict. No, it's not a problem. I'm going to take a break, just as soon as I finish editing this... Maybe I need a 12 step program... We admitted we were powerless over wiki-editing and our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him/Her/It/Them. When that failed, we took responsibility for our own actions. Admitted the exact nature of our wrongs. Left the computer occasionally, in order to meet attractive people and flirt with them. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to wikiholics. Realised the irony of creating this notice. Learnt to count.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Interesting...

[edit] pages

• 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.

[edit] 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:John Quiggin - Australian economist - a lot of overlap of interest with myself.
• User:Guaka - a fellow CouchSurfer, it seems, with some overlap of interests.
• User:Kierant - some interesting links.
• Some people who seem to be interested in developing country issues... User:Improv, User:Anthere, User:Ethanz...

[edit] 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])

[edit] from elsewhere:

Javanese poetry [2][3]

hana caraka data sawala padha jayanya maga bathanga

knights differed in opinion equally powerful both corpse[1]

[edit] 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:

• Happiness[4][5],
• 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.

Read why I'm enthusiastic about Wikipedia.

My pending tasks · My sandbox · My scratchpad · My areas of interest · My notes on Appropriate technology

My key links: Appropriate technology · experimental Wikicity

General editing: Guide to layout · How to write a great article · How to edit a page · Some articles on editing · Citing sources · Forum for Encyclopedic Standards

Specific: Cleanup resources · Stub types · Prettytable · Help:Table · Divbox · Web colors · userboxes · Format templates · AutoWikiBrowser.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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:

{| class="wikitable"	|} starts the table. Using class="wikitable"puts a grey border around all the cells, and gives heading cells a grey tint. This ensures that all tables across Wikipedia look similar.
|-	makes a new line in table
Cell 1 || Cell 2 ||Cell 3	| starts the line, and || makes a new cell
|}	finishes the table.

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

[edit] The Wikipedia community presents...

Picture of the day

A close-up of the face of a Culpeo, clearly showing its vibrissae, or whiskers. Vibrissae are specialized hairs that grow around the nostrils or other parts of the face in most mammals. They offer an advantage to animals that do not always have sight to rely on to navigate, or to find food, or when the usefulness of non-tactile senses is limited. Photo credit: Whaldener Endo Archive - More featured pictures...

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