User:Chriswaterguy

Template:Userboxtop Chris Watkins
a.k.a. Chriswaterguy

My homepage tells you more about my history.
Template:Userbox tasks Template:User watsan Template:User Sustainable cities Template:User EWB Australia Template:User topicadmin Template:User porting helper Track changes: Water · Flood control · Water conservation · Water supply· Solar distillation · Rainwater Template:User topicadmin Track changes: Sanitation · Composting toilet Template:User topicadmin Track changes: Culture and development Template:Userboxbreak Registered on Appropedia on 26 June 2006. Template:Boxbottom

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I'm an Australian engineer with a passion for sharing knowledge to make a better world, and I've been involved in Appropedia since the very early days. I'm based in Melbourne.

What I do here

DOING:

• A:Service learning and related pages.
• Brochures, firstly for service learning (with the skills of people who understand these graphic design and such).
• Recruiting for our A:Internships and A:Volunteer positions.
• A:Funding (hoping to have a crowdfunding campaign started for September)
• Partnership with EWB-Australia, esp putting EWB Challenge finalist entries onto Appropedia.
• Communications - getting more interaction happening between us in the Appropedia community, through A:IRC meetings or Google Hangouts, and by moderating the discussion lists.
• Community interviews for the Appropedia blog. Planning to start in September 2012.
• Blog posts about announcements, our vision, and why all this matters.

DID - in the past, and can help as needed:

• Our spam filters & spam link blacklist.
• Pywikipediabot for performing "gnome" tasks (I run ChriswaterguyBot)
• Moving category pages to mainspace when needed (conserving history by using the export and import functions)
• Work on the meta pages about Appropedia.
• Promoting Appropedia (want to find interns and volunteers to work with on this, instead)
• Welcoming new people. (You're still welcome - I just don't patrol new users!)

WANT - but don't have time to do myself:

• Porting - esp finding help in converting appropriate PDF documents and web pages to MediaWiki markup. This can be a great intern job (esp if the intern has access to Adobe Reader Professional).

Custom search engines

Sometimes I make custom search engines, like Public Domain Search, or this Linux search (for the occasions when I want to strictly search only Linux-related sites):

More

My favorite videos (on appropriate technology etc) are on my Youtube homepage.

Contact me via my talk page, or try me on instant messenger:

Google's mail chat: singkong

Skype: chriswaterguy

Or call (In Indonesia): 0821-22-007-049

Microblogging: Identi.ca & Twitter

Follow me on Identi.ca, an open source microblogging service with cool features (and more control over your own content: @chriswaterguy. (I'm also on Twitter at the same username: @chriswaterguy).

I manage Appropedia's accounts also: @@appropedia (Identica) and @appropedia (Twitter), and my personal Identica account and Twitter account. Below are the Twitter feeds:

@appropedia

@chriswaterguy (personal)

My blog posts

Here's my old blog. New blog coming soon...

I also blog on the Appropedia Blog.

Wikiholism alert"My username is Chriswaterguy and I am a wikiholic.^W"

• 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 15 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^W...

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

Read more...

Content ideas

Feel free to look at or use anything from my Content/Ideas page.

Subpages

Priority:

• Tasks: User:Chriswaterguy/Tasks (Shortlist, what I plan to be working on right now.)
• Category:Chriswaterguy's working pages - especially Strategy 2012 (which includes prep for Board of Directors meetings).

Appropedia content:

• Notes for mainpace: User:Chriswaterguy/Content
• Drafts for mainspace: User:Chriswaterguy/Incubator
• Carbon capture and storage (mix of content for mainspace and for openCCS): User:Chriswaterguy/CCS

Wiki management:

• Site tech: User:Chriswaterguy/Tech
• Wikignome work (repetitive site tasks: User:Chriswaterguy/Wikignome

Meta & strategy:

• Appropedia Foundation and strategy: User:Chriswaterguy/AF
• Appropedia Blog, ideas for posts: User:Chriswaterguy/Blog
• Communications: User:Chriswaterguy/Comms
• Appropedia partnerships: User:Chriswaterguy/Partnerships

Non-Appropedia:

• Misc personal notes: User:Chriswaterguy/Non-Appropedia
• Custom search engines: User:Chriswaterguy/Search

Complete list