User talk:Philralph/2016-2022

If you have access to a copy of the Permaculture Designers' Manual, you may want to read pgs. 511-513. Mollison & co. drew up an outline for a regional directory for all kinds of resources. It's a similar concept to CAS ("the system is best suited to computer retrieval" -- indeed!). --Ethan (talk) 03:36, 2 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Philralph, could you help me with my wiki called Segapedia? It is at Segapedia. My user name is "Tiger Mum". Saftzie (Message me!) 00:47, 23 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

The above page is not displaying very well, just below the "Food Activism" subheading. I've tried to fix it, but can't see how to do this, as far as I can see some wiki markup is being transcluded when it shouldn't be ... possibly related to the widget you are using?

Also, request that you add the following link to the page,[1] if you feel it is appropriate. I'm thinking of writing a short article about the forest garden they have there.

Kind regards, Moribund (talk) 14:30, 10 June 2019 (CDT)

Fixed now! Sorry for jumping in here uninvited... I was checking Recent Changes for bugs caused by the server move and came across this thread. This was caused by an older, unrelated bug (my fault, I left out a noinclude tag when I was upgrading Extension:Widgets a few months ago). It should be fixed now. -Roger (talk) 22:19, 10 June 2019 (CDT)

Hi, Moribund, thanks for the Ecoworks link, now included. Please feel free to add in any further internal links to your short article if appropriate.

Thanks Roger for the other fix(es). Very much appreciated! Philralph (talk) 04:06, 11 June 2019 (CDT)

Great, thanks. I've starting drafting an article, but still gathering info. Regards, M. Moribund (talk) 12:32, 12 June 2019 (CDT)

I'm always reading all your content, and I'd like to learn more about your interests and plans. I'd love to include them into some of the plans that we're making for Appropedia. Do you have some time to talk? I also left you a tweet, so you can recognize my contact.

Hello, Philralph. I have found way too many grammar mistakes on this article. Not just the grammar, but also spelling mistakes and non-captial letters. But now, the article is now sorted, thanks to my part of the job! And remember... Express yourself, be heard! --Auri (talk) 01:52, 18 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi, hope you're well! I noticed that most of the unused templates are "news" templates, such as Template:Vietnamnews, Template:Zambianews‏, etc. I was about to delete them but I found you're the main author and that you're still very much active, so I'd like to ask if those templates were an experiment, or will soon be used, or what. Maybe I can help! Kind regards, Sophivorus (talk) 03:34, 12 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi, yes! I added an image-size parameter to the infoboxes and used it in your infobox. Let me know of any other issue or request! Sophivorus (talk) 19:58, 10 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi,

We're starting to use infoboxes more and more as we develop the site. I was wondering, would you be interested in testing Template:Infobox organization for some of the initiatives you think are interesting? I'm even curious about the possibility of using that information later to collaborate with [2], as we've had some conversations with them. I'm sure that this would be super useful to get people interested in exploring sustainable initiatives in their regions. We'll start thinking about finding interns to help out with this in the future. —Emilio (talk) 04:28, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Emilio, yes ok, I'll give it some thought Philralph (talk) 12:39, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks a lot! Here are a couple of examples of how we're using them: Footsteps Ecolodge, Architecture for Humanity, Village Earth. Emilio (talk) 15:47, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Emilio, just had a go at using on Transition Network, which raised a couple of questions, which I've put on the template talk page Philralph (talk) 11:29, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Philralph, Sophivorus Hi! User:Sophivorus and I have been talking about chatting with you if you have the time. We have a few ideas to improve the impact of CASwiki on Appropedia. Would you like to chat soon? —Emilio (talk) 16:10, 6 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi @Emilio, @Sophivorus, thanks. @Emilio, I'll email you about this. Philralph (talk) 15:53, 7 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi Phil! We thought you may want know that your top performing pages so far are:

1. Community action for sustainability (14 664 page views) Update!
2. Ethical consumerism (5 572 page views) Update!
3. Indonesia community action (4 825 page views) Update!
4. Health and wellbeing (4 605 page views) Update!
5. Circular economy (4 561 page views) Update!

Overall, your impact has been of 409,487 page views, woozaa!

Also, your user page has received 2225 visits! People are interested in knowing more about you, edit your user page to tell the world what you've been up to.

Thanks for your contributions and for making Appropedia great, have a merry green Christmas!!

The Appropedia Team

hi there Philralph. so nice to meet you and to be in touch. thanks for your note to me at my page, and at Village Pump. just wanted to let you know, I added a little bit more data to my user page. it's not a huge amount, but it enables people to find my user page on wikipedia, where i have much more content. by the way, just curious, do you have an account at Wikipedia?? I imagine that you do. obviously, the resources there can be beneficial to us periodically in a few ways. I am also thinking of gradually encouraging a few experienced editors at Wikipedia to get active occasionally at Appropedia, depending on where their interests are.

Wikipedia is obviously the big fish in the ocean of wikis. However, in my opinion, Appropedia is firmly in the number 2 slot, for important wikis worldwide. the work that we do here that is fully outside the scope of Wikipedia, is one major part of our usefulness. Wikipedia is purely as an encyclopedia that relies mainly on existing data published elsewhere. however, the need to promote sustainable technology on a worldwide basis, using a wiki to do so, is a major reason that Appropedia fulfils a great function. Considering the amazing usefulness of wikis, it would be a huge waste of potential if we didn't have a wiki where activists, designers, and thinkers could not exchange original ideas and information on how to get things done. so that is why I really see the usefulness of Appropedia.

I guess that's my little miniature essay for today. :-) By the way, I was thinking that since Wikipedia does have dozens of user essays on wikipedia itself, detailing various ways to improve Wikipedia continuously, and also some of the ways that wikipedia can play more of a useful role, perhaps we might occasionally provide essays of that type here, on an infrequent basis if we want. Just a thought on that. anyway, it's great to hear your ideas. thanks so much for all your work. see you! --Sm-neutron (talk) 18:24, 21 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi User:Sm-neutron, thanks for this. Yes, I did have an account at Wikipedia but probably not used for 15 yrs or so, and probably nothing much of note anyway! Sounds good encouraging some experienced editors from there. Thanks for your essay, and good to meet someone who shares my feeling on the "the amazing usefulness of wikis". I also like the idea in your last para. Philralph (talk) 17:29, 24 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Philralph Hi! I had a nice chat with User:Sm-neutron and he mentioned that his main interest is accomodating Appropedia for community organizers and grassroots organizations, especially in the NYC area. Super exciting! I'm sure he can learn a lot from you. — Emilio (talk) 00:24, 25 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi Phil, hope you're doing good! I wanted to let you know that I just enabled a new tool for you. If you edit any page (with the source editor) you'll notice a little magic wand among the icons. If you click it, the wikitext of the page will be automatically standardized. This is useful for easily scanning pages and noticing errors. Also, since you've found Template:Wikipedia excerpt useful, I wanted to let you know that Template:Wikipedia definition also exists. It may be more appropriate in some cases, since our goal here is more towards action than encyclopedic information. Cheers! Sophivorus (talk) 14:23, 6 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi @Sophivorus, fantastic! thanks! hope all goes well with you! Cheers Philralph (talk) 16:18, 6 September 2022 (UTC)Reply