User:Chriswaterguy: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:52, 19 December 2023

Here is a very old photo of me (and this page is for anyone looking for Chris Watkins based on an old connection)

User data
Name	Chris Watkins
Interests	water, sustainable cities
Groups	Engineers Without Borders Australia
Registered	2024
Impact	4,468,538
Contributions	Welcome to Appropedia Conventional farming Appropriate technology Thermosiphon Vermicompost Solar energy Green beans Secondary wastewater treatment Animals for transport Hydraulic ram pumps more

Track changes: Water · Flood control · Water conservation · Water supply· Solar distillation · Rainwater

Track changes: Sanitation · Composting toilet

Track changes: Culture and development

On the web:

Anti-Procrastination Coaching.
Chris Waterguy blog
Twitter: @chriswaterguy.
Facebook business page: Chris Waterguy Anti-Procrastination Coaching
Facebook personal page: here - my posts are usually public, so you can follow me if you like.

I'm an engineer by training, and I'm passionate about

Understanding how our brains work and how to change behavior.
Making the most effective changes to resolve our environmental crises, and
Sharing knowledge to make a better world.

I'm based in Melbourne, Australia (as of 2012) and am keen to work with others locally to help build up Appropedia, including documenting local solutions. Check A:Melbourne Appropedia Working Group... it's not currently active (2019) as I focus on my business, but if you're inspired I'd love to meet you and see what we can do. Leave me a message if this interests you.

Contact me via my talk page.

Custom search engines[edit | edit source]

Sometimes I make custom search engines, such as Public Domain Search. They're somewhat out of date but can still be useful.

Thinking about[edit | edit source]

Knowledge-sharing projects with similar aims, such as:

Ideas[edit | edit source]

Feel free to look at or use anything from my subpages.

What I do here[edit | edit source]

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.
Appropedia social media
- I sometimes blog at the Appropedia Blog.
- I help manage Appropedia's Twitter account @appropedia (Twitter), and our FB page.

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).

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-<center>I'm interested in: [[Portal:Appropriate technology|Appropriate technology]] - [[Portal:Green living|Green living]] - [[Portal:Water|Water]] - [[Portal:Energy|Energy]]</center>
+[[File:Chriswaterguy cycle rickshaw.JPG|thumb|Here is a very old photo of me (and [[/Chris Watkins|this page is for anyone looking for Chris Watkins]] based on an old connection)]]
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+{{User data
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+| name = Chris Watkins
-|<small>Edits to Appropedia by me are as a regular member of the community, and sometimes as an [[admin]]. <br>Unless otherwise stated, they are ''not'' legal or official actions as a director of the Appropedia Foundation.</small><br>
+| interests = water, sustainable cities
-<small>''I know this box is ugly. If you want to [[Help:Notices|make it look better]], feel free :-).''</small>
+| groups = Engineers Without Borders Australia
-|}
+}}
+__NOTOC__
-{{break clear}}
+<small>Track changes: [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Water Water] &middot; [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Flood_control Flood control] &middot; [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Water_conservation Water conservation] &middot; [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Water_supply Water supply]&middot; [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Solar_distillation Solar distillation] &middot; [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Rainwater Rainwater]
-{{Userboxtop|About me:}}
-<big><big>Chris Watkins</big></big><br>
-a.k.a. Chriswaterguy<br><br>
-<center>[[Image:Chriswaterguy cycle rickshaw.JPG|need a better photo]]</center>
-<small>[[/Chris Watkins|'''My homepage''']] tells you more about my history.</small><br>
-{{userbox tasks}}
-{{User watsan}}
-{{User EWB Australia}}
-{{User topicadmin|Water}}
-{{User porting helper}}
-<small>Track changes: [http://appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Water Water] &middot; [http://appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Flood_control Flood control] &middot; [http://appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Water_conservation Water conservation] &middot; [http://appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Water_supply Water supply]&middot; [http://appropedia.orghttp://tinyurl.com/6bq8ja/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Solar_distillation Solar distillation] &middot; [http://appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Rainwater Rainwater]
 </small>
-{{User topicadmin|Sanitation}}
-<small>Track changes: [http://appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Sanitation Sanitation] &middot; [http://appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Composting_toilet Composting toilet]</small>
-{{User topicadmin|Culture and development}}
-<small>Track changes: [http://appropedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Culture_and_development Culture and development]</small>
-{{Userboxbreak|}}
-<small>''Registered on Appropedia on 26 June 2006.''</small>
-{{boxbottom}}
+<small>Track changes: [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Sanitation Sanitation] &middot; [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Composting_toilet Composting toilet]</small>
-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 spend most of my time in Asia, especially Indonesia.
+<small>Track changes: [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Culture_and_development Culture and development]</small>
-=== What I'm doing here ===
-I'm an admin on Appropedia, and I help to...
+On the web:
-* Work on the [[:Category:Appropedia|project pages]]
+* [http://www.procrastinationparamedic.com Anti-Procrastination Coaching].
-* Promote Appropedia
+* [http://www.chriswaterguy.com/ Chris Waterguy blog]
-* Support the community
+* Twitter: @[https://twitter.com/chriswaterguy chriswaterguy].
-* Perform "gnome" tasks (I run [[User:ChriswaterguyBot|ChriswaterguyBot]])
+* Facebook business page: [https://www.facebook.com/antiprocrastinate/ Chris Waterguy Anti-Procrastination Coaching]
+* Facebook personal page: [https://www.facebook.com/chriswaterguy here] - my posts are usually public, so you can follow me if you like.
-Specific tasks I'm focused on now:
+I'm an engineer by training, and I'm passionate about
-* Finding [[Appropedia:Funding|funding]]
+* Understanding how our brains work and how to change behavior.
-* [[Ekopedia]] merger
+* Making the most effective changes to resolve our environmental crises, and
-* [[Porting]] - esp finding help in converting appropriate PDF documents and web pages to MediaWiki markup.
+* Sharing knowledge to make a better world.
-=== More ===
+I'm based in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]] (as of 2012) and am keen to work with others locally to help build up Appropedia, including documenting local solutions. Check [[A:Melbourne Appropedia Working Group]]... it's not currently active (2019) as I focus on my business, but if you're inspired I'd love to meet you and see what we can do. [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Chriswaterguy&action=edit&section=new Leave me a message] if this interests you.
-My favorite videos (on [[appropriate technology]] etc) are on [http://www.youtube.com/user/Chriswaterguy my Youtube homepage].
-'''Contact me''' via [[User talk:Chriswaterguy|my talk page]], or try me on instant messenger:
+'''Contact me''' via [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Chriswaterguy&action=edit&section=new my talk page].
-:Google's mail chat: singkong
-:Skype: chriswaterguy
-Or call (In Indonesia): 0821-22-007-049
+----
+{{User:Chriswaterguy/wikiholism}}
-=== Microblogging: Identi.ca & Twitter ===
+== Custom search engines ==
-Follow me on Identi.ca, an [[open source]] microblogging service that gives you more freedom than Twitter (and also lets you link to Twitter). But I use the same usernames on Twitter:
+Sometimes I make [[:Category:Custom searches|custom search engines]], such as [[Public Domain Search]]. They're somewhat out of date but can still be useful.
-I manage Appropedia's [http://identi.ca/appropedia Identica account] and [http://twitter.com/appropedia Twitter account], and my
+== Thinking about ==
-[http://twitter.com/chriswaterguy personal Identica account] and [http://twitter.com/chriswaterguy Twitter account]. Below are the Twitter feeds:
-'''@appropedia'''
+Knowledge-sharing projects with similar aims, such as:
-{{#widget:Twitter
+* [http://the-knowledge.org The Knowledge]
-|user=Appropedia
+* [https://www.withouthotair.com Without Hot Air]
-|count=3
+* Instructables
-}}
-'''@chriswaterguy''' (personal)
+== Ideas ==
-{{#widget:Twitter
-|user=Chriswaterguy
-|count=3
-}}
-=== My blog  posts ===
+Feel free to look at or use anything from my [[User:Chriswaterguy/|subpages]].
-<rss number=10>http://chriswaterguy.livejournal.com/data/rss</rss>
+=== 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 [[A:discussion lists|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.
+* Appropedia social media
+** I sometimes blog at the [http://blogs.appropedia.org/ Appropedia Blog].
+** I help manage Appropedia's Twitter account @[http://twitter.com/appropedia appropedia] (Twitter), and [https://www.facebook.com/Appropedia our FB page].
-{{User:Chriswaterguy/wikiholism}}
-==[[/Content ideas/]]==
-Feel free to look at or use anything from my [[/Content ideas/]].
-''More extensive drafts, and draft postings for other sites, will be posted at my [[User:Chriswaterguy/Sandbox|Sandbox]].''
+'''DID''' - in the past, and can help as needed:
+* Our [[Special:AbuseFilter|spam filters]] & [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist|spam link blacklist]].
+* [[A:Pywikipediabot|Pywikipediabot]] for performing "gnome" tasks (I run [[User:ChriswaterguyBot|ChriswaterguyBot]])
+* Moving category pages to mainspace when needed (conserving history by using the export and import functions)
+* Work on the [[:Category:Appropedia|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!)
-== Subpages ==
-{{list subpages|Chriswaterguy|User}}
-In particular, note:
+'''WANT''' - but don't have time to do myself:
-* My task management: [[/Tasks/]] and [[/Board of Directors meeting prep/]].
+* [[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).
-* Personal stuff: [[/more/|More]] about me - an untidy page of trimmings from this page; and "[[/Chris Watkins/]]" - a page I made long ago to help anyone who might be looking for me :).