User:Chriswaterguy

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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.

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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).

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The places:

Spent decades:
Spent years:
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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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Warning: Wikiholism alert.
"My username is Chriswaterguy 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...

  1. We admitted we were powerless over wiki-editing and our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him/Her/It/Them.
  4. When that failed, we took responsibility for our own actions.
  5. Admitted the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. Left the computer occasionally, in order to meet attractive people and flirt with them.
  7. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Her, praying only for knowledge of Her will for us and the power to carry that out.
  8. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to wikiholics.
  9. Realised the irony of creating this notice.
  10. Learnt to count.

[edit] Collaborations

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

[edit] A few users with similar interests

...and many, many more of course.

[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:Kierant - some interesting links.

[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

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:

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
Robber fly

A Common Brown Robber fly (Zosteria sp.), one of the 7,100 described species of robber flies, shown here feeding on a hoverfly. Adult robber flies attack other flies, beetles, butterflies and moths, various bees, dragon and damselflies, ichneumon wasps, grasshoppers, and some spiders.

Photo credit: Fir0002
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