User:Chriswaterguy

About me:

Chris Watkins

What I do: Wiki & open knowledge consultant, and a director of the Appropedia Foundation, which runs Appropedia (Wikipedia article), wiki for sustainability, appropriate technology & international development. My Appropedia homepage says more about my passions - in particular, international development, water and sanitation, sustainability, global public health, appropriate technology & renewable energies.

Oh, Wikipedia...: I'm concerned that Wikipedia is losing its civility. I'm concerned that there's not enough encouragement, too much deletion rather than organized efforts to improve articles. I'd like to see deletion as a good faith process, transwikiing or moving pages to userspace rather than officiously deleting them.

Wikiholics unite: On Wikipedia, I've contributed more than 6000 edits, including 2800-ish in mainspace and 70-ish new articles. I do much more editing on Appropedia, though my main role there, as a director, is supporting the community and working on partnerships.

putting myself in boxes:

My blog: Pablo Garudaa
Joint blog: Appropedia Foundation blog

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

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Pengguna ini mampu bersumbangsih dengan bahasa Indonesia mendekati penutur ibu.

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Pengguna ini boleh menyumbang dengan taraf yang baik dalam Bahasa Melayu.

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This user's Singlish not very good lah.

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Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

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Dieser Benutzer hat keine Deutschkenntnisse.

MEng

This user has a Master of Engineering degree.

UNSW

This user is a student or graduate of the University of New South Wales.

This user lives in the Australian state of New South Wales.

More userboxes.

Very, very occasionally, I contribute to the Wikipedia in Indonesian (user page) and even more rarely, in Malay (user page).

The places:

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Visiting soonish:

Would love to visit... please someone invent carbon neutral travel!	...and every other country.

Ancestry:

	Idea pinched from Grutness who lifted from Moriori who half-inched from Calton who nicked it from Salsb who stole it from Guettarda who borrowed it from White Cat

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Wikimedia Foundation

Wikiholic alert.

"My username is Chriswaterguy and I am a wikiholic."

I cancelled my plans to live and work in China when I learnt they blocked Wikipedia.
~~I often read non-fiction books and mark things that I want to put into Wikipedia.~~ I now read blogs and ask the writer to consider using an open license so we can adapt it for Appropedia,
I'm a registered user of about ~~10 wikis~~ (I've stopped counting, but way more than 10).

Yes I'm an addict. No, it's not a problem. I'm going to take a break, just as soon as I finish editing this...

Maybe I need a 12 step program...

We admitted we were powerless over wiki-editing and our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him/Her/It/Them.
When that failed, we took responsibility for our own actions.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted the exact nature of our wrongs.
Made a list of all the new experiences we had passed up because we were in a wiki-editing vortex, and became willing to try them all.
Left the computer occasionally, in order to meet attractive people in real life, and flirt with them.
Continued to take inventory and when we were wrong promptly reverted it.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Her, praying only for knowledge of Her will for us and the power to carry that out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to wikiholics.
Realized the irony of creating this notice.