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.
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. --Singkong2005 t - c 20:21, 30 June 2006 (PDT)
- Luckily there are not that many illnamed categories. I will work on this now. I am leaving some other comments on your talk page. --Lonny 21:16, 30 June 2006 (PDT)
Re: Rainwater Harvesting and Blogging
Wow, thanks for all that.
Blogging
You said:
- Please feel free to move your personal blog here. I think that appropedia should serve as a blog space and social networking site (more on that later) for those working towards change.
One of my concerns about the blog was having my comments secure from vandalism, but still welcoming comments from visitors. That doesn't rule out this site (I could link to an external page for comments) but I have to give it some thoughts. Another possible issue is that I would be expressing views on politics and occasionally on religion. (Related to development, gender issues and other issues). Balanced and informed as far as I'm able, but I don't know if that's an issue here.
In any case, if I don't put it here, I'll certainly link from here.
Rainwater harvesting
- I hope you don't mind but I googled you.
Not at all - that's why I use a single username that no one else is likely to have. And thanks so much for those links. They look great. I'll have a bit more of a look at the links, and then copy them to the NABUUR discussion.
Cheers --Singkong2005 t - c 00:14, 1 July 2006 (PDT)