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. --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)
I saw some of your work - very good. To move a category page, I guess the only option is to cut from one and paste in the other?
Thanks for the note re adminship. I can see a few extra links on my pages now (rollback, delete). Let me know if there's any specific help you need. --Singkong2005 t - c 08:06, 1 July 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.

I think that we can deal with the issue of expressing views using a blog template that explains the much looser NPOV rules in the blog space.
I am interested in the comments vs vandalism issue... is there a policy on Wikipedia about editing signed content? --Lonny 02:16, 1 July 2006 (PDT)

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)

Videos

In addition, the great and short documentary A Quiet Revolution has a piece about a village in India digging rainwater harvesting swails for ground water recharging. I believe there is a viewable movie at that site, but if not I can put it on a server for you. I am emailing the producers to ask for what they think about hosting the video on google video or the such.

The video is on there, and is quite good. An introduction, rather than technical, but certainly good for people to learn about rainwater recharge and grassroots, bottom-up sustainable development. I was a bit concerned by the organisation which sponsored the video - - my friend here reminded me that they're quite controversial, accused of being a powerful cult... that might be a bit strong, but having seen a documentary about them I certainly would be careful not to endorse them. Yet there was nothing I could find fault with in the video. Anyhow, just for your information.

Re your own videos, perhaps you'd like to put them on Google video, where I can access them, and perhaps other people will come across them there as well. --Singkong2005 t - c 01:35, 1 July 2006 (PDT)

One of my many (read too many) side-projects is getting some video up. I have one colleague working on a very complete and powerful AT video site and I am also interested in utilizing social networking, virals and the such to create a community of AT video people and their videos (especially language-neutral videos). This video side-project is pretty much on standby until I return from my summer in Mexico for a few reasons:
  1. Very poor internet connection here.
  2. Blocked from many video sites.
  3. Admins have blocked the installation of macromedia flash (and a newer version of Java) on these computers.
  4. The videos I have are of poor content quality and need to be edited.
  5. I am lacking release forms for some of the video participants... I am working on this and getting quite a few taken care of.
All that said - I will try to get a ferrocement video online for you soon. --Lonny 01:57, 1 July 2006 (PDT)

Adminship

Are you interested in being an administrator on appropedia?

Sure. I hadn't felt a particular need for it, but being a smaller community here than at Wikipedia, it could come in handy to have another person with adminship.

It wouldn't make a lot of difference to what I do day-to-day, but we'll see how it goes.

I guess we follow the same procedures here as in Wikipedia? Not that I expect opposition, but it's best to have an open, transparent process.

Thanks. --Singkong2005 t - c 01:12, 1 July 2006 (PDT)

Great I am glad that you are interested. You now have adiminship. I do think that we need to keep an open, transparent process and I think that following Wikipedia guidelines are a good way to effect that, but I am not opposed to creating our own processes as well. We should follow Wikipedia guidelines in our creation of any new guidelines (not that I think we will have a need for new guidelines, except maybe those that promote quicker and more effective change in the light of our small size and focused topic). --Lonny 02:08, 1 July 2006 (PDT)
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