User talk:Lonny

Hi, I recently did a course in 'Water and sanitation for developing countries' at the university of southampton and wondered whether my lecture notes may be of any use to you Defined 13:01, 16 May 2006 (PDT)

lecture notes

Hi Defined,

I would appreciate your lecture notes. We are doing some work this summer in Parras de la Fuente and Oaxaca, Mexico on wastewater treatment using constructed wetlands, and I am sure that your lecture notes would be useful. In addition, please consider posting a wiki version of them to Water and sanitation for developing countries. Although we are still discussing it, I believe that appropedia will be utilizing lecture notes and other pedagogical tools much more so than encylopedic entries (in an effort to not duplicate wikipedia's function). Thank you for the kind offer, --Lonny 00:00, 17 May 2006 (PDT)

No entiendo..

Hey,

  I got that feedback from a friend, wasn't sure if you'd appreciate or not, so that's funny/cool.

I tried to sign off in the exact same manner as was there in the comment you left there, so sorry if I missed wiki etiquette.. might be a good link from the main page to wikiquette. I also don't understand the talk pages, how to leave comments next to my edits, and probably a few other things. I always meant to read the howto/intro pages on wikipedia, but never have, so I think I'm going to try to be a normal non-techie person who wouldn't bother to read those pages, and hope it'll just start to make sense. I think I was going to say something else on that, but nothing makes sense to say right now. And I thought it was interesting that you require logins to edit, very non-wikipedia. Not that I wholly object, and maybe you've already thought about some of the ramifications of this, but I just wanted to put out that it's a minor barrier to entry. and..

WHAT time is it!?! (esp where you are!) Go to bed!! :)

 ~~--Ajay

(Who's trying to imagine how you read so quick.. must have something enabled to email you or something, mebets.. no wonder you have no time to chat with me, hmph! :)

Greetings, comments

So we meet on Appropedia. Would appreciate your feedback on my comments at Talk:About appropedia (wasn't sure where I should put those questions).

btw, the link to "About Appropedia" actually leads to "About appropedia", with a small a - I just noticed when I tried to link to the talk page. Any objection to my moving it? (A redirect will be created automatically). --[[User:Singkong2005|Singkong2005 ^{(t - c}]] 20:18, 26 June 2006 (PDT)

naming conventions.

At Talk:About appropedia#Low cost computers, you wrote:

As for the naming, let´s switch to the wikipedia approach especially for non-project pages.

Cool. However, it seems that the MediaWiki software doesn't allow someone like me to move a category page. (I just tried to move Category:Appropriate Technology to Category:Appropriate technology - I was planning to just move a few at a time.)

Another problem is that the category tag in every page in a category will have to be edited as well. If we do it soon it won't be so much of a problem.

btw, see Wikipedia:Category:Sewage treatment for a tag (Wikipedia:Template:Categoryredirect) to put on the page with the old spelling. I guess someone should also keep an occasional eye on such pages as well, in case pages are added to the wrong category. (The alternative is just to delete the old category page - then the category link will show up as a redlink in the project article that uses the wrong spelling.)

Anyhow, the sooner we fix this (while there are few pages) the easier. If there's a lot of tedious work to do, AutoWikiBrowser is an option, but that shouldn't be necessary, I would imagine.