Welcome to the homepage of Chris Watkins
My collaborations |
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Development stuff |
Appropedia - Appropriate technology, development, sustainability. User page |
Nabuur.com - "The global neighbour network." Assisting mainly with water and sanitation. User page |
Development-related topics on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia user page.
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Wikipedia - The concept inspires me. User page. I'm involved in several WikiProjects (collaborations to improve content) including: |
Climate change Energy development |
Learning & teaching at Wikibooks. Wikipedia user page. |
Mainly Indonesian and English.
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Wiki-based communities: Wikia.com has a number of community sites. My user page has miscellaneous net-related stuff, and links to the Wikia communities I'm watching. |
Political: Wikia Campaigns, and also the Australian Greens' wiki... still experimental. |
I'm looking and waiting for a community recipes site - for now see my recipes and recipe links.
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Other exciting free sites |
CouchSurfing - share your couch or spare bed. It can be a great experience. My username: Singkong |
HelpX - work for accomodation. For work in Asia & developing nations, free. Most advanced nations, free reg, 10 euros/2 years to make contact with hosts. |
OkCupid The most interesting dating site, with the most accurate matching, completely free. My username: Bayangan |
more...
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My other writing - see the blue box on the right. |
Chris Watkins |
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scanned sketch? |
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Languages:
English (native) Indonesian (fluent) Malaysian (conversational) Japanese & German (very basic - thanks, excuse me, delicious, mein linke Blinker ist kaput...). |
My writing |
Blog: Still deciding on a place... I'd like to figure out transclusion and RSS, and maybe even automatically list links to my most recent topics in a table on this page... Here's my out of date blog. |
My recipes: Pleasure & health. |
a.k.a. "Singkong2005" |
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I love the way the internet facilitates collaboration, and I'm quite involved in several collaborations, as you can see in the box on the left. |
Plans |
Sometime in the second half of 2006 I'm heading to Asia on a one-way ticket. I'll visit and learn from development projects, gain experience and use it (perhaps) for a career, and (definitely) to share via Appropedia and Wikipedia. Partly, though, it's a lifestyle thing - I don't enjoy living in Australia, and long to get back to Indonesia, and explore other countries as well, broadening my horizons. |
To help pay my way, I have 3 options:
If and when I do English language teaching, I plan to collaborate on lesson planning, using Wikibooks, Dave's ESL Cafe, and perhaps The Teachers' Lounge and TeachForward (not running yet). |
My collaborations!Contact |
I don't put my email on here, as I want to avoid spam... likewise I don't put my chat usernames here as a whole word - you'll have to do some simple decoding...
You can contact me:
I also like IRC chat... but you'll need to contact me first to arrange a channel. I plan to spend a bit of time on the wiki-related IRC channels occasionally (e.g. #wikipedia & #wikimedia on irc.freenode.net). |