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Meursault2004 3 July 2005 16:49 (UTC)
If you're interested in Appropriate technology for developing countries, then please say hi here. Maybe a Wikiproject would be a good idea, but this spot here will do for now. -- Singkong2005 07:59, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Do we want a category for development organizations? These would be those with a focus on development, rather than just relief. (Relief organizations would also be a useful category to have). -- Singkong2005 07:59, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I have changed my username on all Wiki sites from Singkong to Singkong2005. This is to make it possible to distinguish between singkong (the Indonesian word for cassava), and my username, when searching in Wikipedia. Singkong2005 13:35, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Note: In Feb to June 2005, before registering, I also made minor contributions as 203.173.53.135 and 203.217.23.173. Singkong2005 23:26, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Wilayah doesn't have any official meaning in Indonesian. It just means "area" or "territory". A province is called provinsi (or sometimes propinsi) in Indonesian. Meursault2004 8 July 2005 14:43 (UTC)
Hi singkong, i am Tobias, we met on Wilayah article. Your language learning program looks ambitious or even crazy. If you meet someone in Germany the first words might be "Guten Tag" ([wish you a] Good day). It would be used to say hello , no good bye. I am very impressed, arabic, hindi, mandarin .... I only learned different european languages, but in opposite to your languages, they have very much in common. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 9 July 2005 10:22 (UTC)
I don't understand why the Singapore/Batam bit is is the article... you have placed it back. Help me understand it's importance to the understanding of sex tourism. If you want it in there, please include a few other countries without such laws.... otherwise, it just sorta sticks out.
thanks,
me
I'm adding the category to all the parasites I can think of. The only real judgment call was schistosomiasis/ schistosoma/ schistosomatidae, where people are infected from being in water rather than from drinking it. I don't know if that counts. I thought I'd let you know. Keep up the good work. Dave (talk) 08:03, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your "wet blanket" note. I didn't add the image of Alfred E. Neuman; it was part of another user's comment on my talk page. In general, my attitude toward my talk page is very laissez-faire. I don't remove comments just because they're ill-informed or uncivil or whatever. Copyvio, though, is a necessary exception. I've censored the other user to the extent of replacing the actual image with a link. I appreciate your calling this to my attention. JamesMLane 00:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I actually live in the ACT these days (formerly a Victorian), but I've been finding NSW's political history a little bit more interesting, which has inspired me to do a bit more work there. I see you're assumedly in NSW - I don't suppose you might be interested in the same? It'd be nice not to have to write all the articles myself. :) Ambi 02:11, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Singkong2005,
I personally am not an expert on page formatting. The person to talk to would be User:Cool Cat. He's the one who came up with the general format for my page in the first page. However, I also suggest looking at Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page as it contains a lot of general hints towards formatting. Sorry I can't be that much of a help, but if you have any more questions, I'll always try to answer them. Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 13:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Singkong2005.
When I'm messing around with Wikipedia, I found that you really costumizing your profile pages seriously! I just want to asking, can I get your code as a template to make my own profile? Mightymartin 18:39, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
You move the article on the Fairmount Water Works into Category:Water management authorities, the problem is, based upon the Water works themselve and the other articles in the category, it not management authority, the authority was the City of Philadelphia Water Department (PWD). The works were, as they are no longer used in the fuction, as a kinda distrubution system, but i could not find a category that would best to place it in. -- Boothy443 | trácht ar 07:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Cool Cat - commendations on your suavely formatted user page. Thanks for the code I stole.
Could you advise me on how to align a userbox with text, e.g. the Members section of WikiProject International development?
<center> doesn't seem to work, and I don't know how to stop the text from wrapping.
Any other formatting help on that page would be much appreciated. Thanks! -- Singkong2005 10:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Happy New Year. Dave (talk) 06:37, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
(moved from User:Singkong2005/Appropriate technology
If not a category perhaps a List of appropriate technologies or List of appropriate technologies for developing countries? Rorybowman 05:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Just thought you'd like to know that I found and joined the International Development Wikiproject when I saw your note on the Moringa discussion page. Waitak 07:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your comments on its talk-page. I replied there in order to not rip the discussion apart. Mstroeck 22:48, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Cool Cat - I'm looking to learn from for your table mastery again... I'm having trouble with userboxes on my userpage this time, making them all stick to the right. See here. I want the Wikiproject boxes and the text to fill in on the left - don't know why it isn't working. Suggestions or edits appreciated. (You can ignore the edit after the link I gave - I reverted the changes so it's not a complete mess). Cheers, Singkong2005 14:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know re: the size of the signature. I had just copied it from someone else and did not see a difference on my screen. In fact, I still do not see a difference so please let me know if it is normal size now. I used 'drdan' as a signature since I first signed up on Wiki. A couple of weeks ago I was mixed up with a vandal/troll and decided to change my signature to a homonym of my username rxnd / erikssond. I will be using that one from now on. To my understanding, this is not considered sock puppeteering and should be OK. Thanks for the Wikia-link. I will have a look at it, but I will not have much time at all over the next two months. Have a nice time in Indonesia! -- rxnd ( t | € | c ) 14:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the encouraging words! I am focusing my time on that project now, hence my low activity in the international development arena. The two project are however closely related in the areas of international disaster management. -- rxnd ( t | € | c ) 22:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
As the article is focused on the hazard of natural arsenic contamination I put it in Environmental threats/Pollution/Water pollution (even though it isn't directly man-made). If the article would focus on the situation in Bangladesh it would be categorised under Environmental disasters. Maybe it should be split into two articles, one on the geological phenomena and one on the Bangladesh event? It would definitely be interesting if the article included a section on the geophysical theory behind the contamination. -- rxnd ( t | € | c ) 16:35, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Chris,
I wanted to discuss a little more about DVDs as compared to the internet possibilities. It is best explained below.
Using Portable DVD Players to Educate People
Eldis OnDisc: Eldis is at the forefront of development information technology. People in the south do not have the internet access that the north does. We have decided to provide CDs which will enable the distribution to a wider audience than we currently reach. Eldis conducted a feasibility study to assess the potential impact of providing CDs. We discovered an over-whelming need for them and they will make our information available to a much wider audience.
Jan 06 Ken, this is something you have had in mind for some time, use portable DVD players and DVDs to teach the world. Seems these people have spent a lot of time and money perfecting it and it is working, even beyond their dreams. This is just beyond belief. They are training people at a rapid rate. It is like attending Harvard or Oxford in the middle of the Amazon. You simply bring Harvard or Oxford to the student on a DVD. They have solar powered DVDs for areas without electricity. Thank God for technology!! The whole school fits in a small briefcase. Ben
3 Feb 06. Ken, This morning I talked with Brick Cliff, the one with the DVD training. The exciting thing is that one man can, in theory, have 7 schools, one in a different town everyday. They have one, two, or more men, say in Mexico, that are running several training schools, some with 20 students each. The trainer goes from city to city so the students attend class once per week. The good part is there is little expense, no people to house, no books to buy, all the printed material is copied at the source. Ken, this is something that is working; it is not theory and they are training thousands of people all over the world. Brick travels to different countries to oversee the training. Ben
Mar 06: A letter arrived from Ghana stating that he found my address on the internet offering DVDs and would I please send him some. He enclosed a British pound coin [$2]. I mailed him 3 DVDs. Just think, here is a man out in the bush of Africa who got my address. This proves that there is no limit to the use of the internet and DVDs.
Portable DVD Players There is no country on earth where these cannot be used to teach people. In the USA, a player without a screen [plugs into a TV] cost $30. They are available with 7” to 10” screens for US$80 to $150. They play NSTC and PAL. They operate on 220, 120 & 12 v. They have cables to connect to a TV and a 12 v. battery.
24 Feb 06 Please tell me what advantage DVDs and portable players offer over computers with CD drives and CD players. Please be very specific about the advantages you see. Bob Towell, WEI
I have lived in two developing countries and I have taught in 16 more. Go to any one of those countries and it is only a very small percentage of the people who have a computer. There are Cybercafes in most towns but only a small percentage of the people have the money to use them. Nigeria: 75,000,000 Nigerians live in poverty & have no access to computers and the internet. India: 250,000,000 cannot afford them or the cybercafe. They can be taught with portable DVD players and DVDs. Many can not read but they can see and hear the study. Imagine what would happen if all organizations had players and DVDs. Not only could they teach others but they could learn more and teach people to read or garden/farm or whatever. They could teach thousands of people. Those millions could access knowledge on a DVD. To do that same thing with books, in just one country, would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of dollars to ship them. I borrowed a player and watched a DVD. I could have been in the jungles of Latin America or in the bush of Africa just as well as in my home.
¡People who cannot read and write can learn by watch-ing and listening! There are many free DVDs available. Ken Hargesheimer minifarms@gmail.com Workshops in organic, 0-tillage gardening/farming in permanent beds with bucket drip irrigation.
It just occurred to me that you probably saw this on nabuur.com. Anyway, I can go to any village in the world and teach the farmers, etc. anything they want to learn.
Ken Hargesheimer minifarms@gmail.com
Hi I've created the Wikiproject for Urban planning. You'll find it here - Wikipedia:WikiProject:Urban studies and planning. I'll see if I can get some UK planners to sign up for it. Perhaps we could have a go at filling in some of the blanks in the template?-- Mcginnly 23:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Very good. I'd like to cut out large chunks that seem irrelevant and archive them (at Wikipedia:WikiProject:Urban studies and planning/Archive1). Does that seem okay? My idea of how to lay out a WikiProject can be seen at Wikipedia:WikiProject International development - I was trying to do something a little different, to get people in and make it easy for them to find a way to contribute. Not sure how effective it is... but anyway, see what you think, and copy and/or modify anything as you see fit. --Singkong2005
My bot, Alphachimpbot, has just modified some of your cleanup templates. {{Cleanup|MONTH YEAR}} is not a valid template. Use {{Cleanup-date|MONTH YEAR}} instead. Just figured that I would tell you. -- Alphachimp talk 17:04, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
I've put in a request to create the Planning portal, here Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals if you'd like to comment/support.-- Mcginnly 08:51, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
I've also proposed a stub called {{ planning-stub}}.You can support it's creation here - Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals/2006/June#.7B.7Bplanning-stub.7D.7D_.2F_Category:Urban_studies_and_planning. -- Mcginnly 09:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your comment regarding the article Anuragam. I'll work on your suggestions.-- Pradeep 18:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the notification. That was one of the first articles I penned on wikipedia before I really knew the style guidelines. What in particular would you like me to get a source for? The 5 external links pretty much cover everything I said. David Bergan 14:45, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
With regard to the Sydney meetup discussion, please email me via the "Email this user" link on my user page... Cheers — Донама 01:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear Sing Song,
Thank you for your suggestions. Right now, I'm on a holiday and will return after a week or so. I think Punarnirmaan and Navnirmaan have been adequately cited and need not be moved. Anyway I'll explore the possibilities and keep options open. Thank you so much.-- Pradeep 14:35, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks already for your wonderful work on ORT! -- Steven Fruitsmaak 18:58, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for adding the http://www.appropedia.org site to Appropriate technology. This site does intend to differentiate in function from wikipedia in a few ways, encouraging, in addition to encyclopedic entries:
The layers of appropedia are categories and subcategories functioning as textbook style writeups, with articles, functioning as project/how-to submissions, underneath them. Users can, for instance:
or skip to any of these steps.
Other layers (hopefully namespaces) are personal/organizational pages, used for networking, and common working pages as described in the bulleted list above.
Please check out the new projects that have been added this week. And more importantly please consider contributing some of your amazing expertise and energy. I understand your opinion on duplicating wikipedia's function, and I hope that you find appropedia to be a value-added and different wiki. Finally I would love to hear about any of your opinions on the nascent appropedia site.
-- LRG 10:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments at a Talk page for Renewable Energy Design. I may be editing some articles at the Development and Sustainability Wikia. I also looked at the Energy category on the permaculture wikia, which it turns out was only recently created (it was a red link for a long time apparently).
Archimerged 19:47, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Singkong,
I posted a reply to our ongoing conversation at User_talk:LRG. Sorry my reply is so tardy. The intermittent (at best) internet connection here has slowed down many of my online activities. The school I am teaching at, just received a new router... hopefully it will work better.
Thank you for your continuing interest and contribution,-- LRG 04:46, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I used links (external and page history) from your comment at Talk:Solar chimney to edit that article. Still needs work, but it's a start. -- Singkong2005 ( t - c - WPID) 05:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Singkong,
Thank you for your contributions to appropedia. I posted a reply to your comments on my wikipedia userpage.
-- Appropedia:User:Lonny My user page on Appropedia.org
-- LRG 17:36, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for fixing my userpage. I'll check it out in IE later. Regards, Alphachimp talk 16:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Singkong,
Not sure how else to get a hold of you... just wanted to let you know that Appropedia is down for a few hours due to a combination of upgrading (yeah!) and server problems (boo).
Hasta pronto, -- LRG 02:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
A message has been left for you on your :ms account. &mdash Alistair 219.95.166.187 15:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I've made some comments on Talk:Solar updraft tower, and suggested that you post a link to the changes that you disagree with. Show the changes using history, and post the url. I'd suggest just posting one or two links showing significant changes (or series of changes) to start with. Cheers -- Singkong2005 ( t - c - WPID) 03:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure actually... it just happens to be in my backyard, and I'm no botanical expert! You might want to ask the guys at the Reference Desk. enochlau ( talk) 13:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Singkong2005! I am so very happy that you decided to join the WP:CBTF! I've been very lonely there and it's extremely encouraging that a man with your interests and background has decided to join the effort. I've been pouring over the things you've linked to on your user page and I see that we share a lot of common ground. I'm a strong advocate of community building at the worldwide level and intersted in things like world peace, green development, ecovillages, sustainability, technology transfer, appropriate technology, community studies and many many more topics, that I think we have in common. The whole focus of the Wikipedia community development strategy is to identify wikipedians that are keenly interested in the processes and procedures connected with concepts like consensus decision-making, conflict resolution and Wikipedia:User categorization. The idea is to define Wikipedia as both a community of interest and a community of practice as well as a learning community. I've needed "another head" in this thing with me for a long time. I've had extensive conversations with Sj, Cormaggio and a tiny handful of others who want to analyse m:The Wikipedia Community and identify structures and functions that are conducive to community building within this way of life.
Another role, in addition to the primary one of managing and improving wikipedia content about community, is to create an pervasive "project space" here in the article space, here in the Project namespace, at Meta, and the new "incubator" at incubator.wikimedia.org for collecting and refining "original" articles that examine the community aspects down here in the wikipedia space, meta, . I have launched a program:
The idea is to invoke the spirit of community all over the world during these trying times. You strike me as one who could get excited about such. Follow that series, if you have time and let me know what you think.
Couple of other questions:
I'm interested in your thoughts on how to procede as a TaskForce of now only 2, and how we can get it going and growing. Oh BTW, the {{ WP:CBTF}} task table is a long way from being workable. (only a draft at this time) We need need more discussion and participation at Proposed tasks. Thanks again, Chris. Later! • CQ 21:42, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Singkong, many thanks for the barnstar. I'm pleased my work on Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket & categorisation of Waste treatment technology hasn't gone unnoticed! -- Alex 07:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Any thoughts on adding this to the Malaria article? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Malaria
Thanks, CarpD (^_^)
Thank you for letting me know and fix it. I wasn't aware of that. Cheers -- Imo eng 08:46, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Allegations of sock puppetry have been made against some of the accounts that have edited the Center for Science in the Public Interest page. I have instigated the wiki process for handling such allegations. See Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/David Justin. As someone who has contributed to the CSPI page, please add your views to the Comments section. You have up to 10 days to make comments on the allegation. Nunquam Dormio 18:55, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Singkong, looks like a good topic which I'm surprised hasn't been created before. I think SS as an abbreviation may be misleading as settleable solids are also an important factor in waste water treatment. The settleable solids increase effluent discharge costs due to blocking up of sewerage pipes. -- Alex 15:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
I am a user of wiki. georgedappilly. I created a user page describing my 3 decade long experience on domestic mosquito control. wanted to share it with likeminded and interested people. when I saved the page got an error message: no target location marked. how to mark target location? how to take it to main page/area so that all can access it?
I have gone through your user page.I am sure you can help me. MY mail ids are xxxxx@xxx.co.in & xxxxx@xxx.com kindly guide and help me. Expects a reply. Wish you a HAPPY X'MAS AND NEW YEAR. E.M.George +91 98460 27688
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.17.42.202 ( talk) 09:24, 23 December 2006 (UTC).
Coursenotes for my water and sanitation for developing countries course... Hey Singkong, what is your email address? I will send you the notes from my course, they may be of use to you.
JHJPDJKDKHI! 19:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
I was going to add this to Talk:Solar Tower, but I want to get it straight in my own head first.
-- Singkong2005 ( t - c - WPID) 05:39, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Re Talk:Solar updraft tower#Neutrality
Hi - I haven't had time to look at this in detail. I'm not certain which editor your were concerned about... From what I saw of FlexMe's edits, he did seem to be making genuine contributions, but also removing things that shouldn't have been removed. I'd suggest replacing them, with an appropriate edit comment. If it's removed again without explanation or attempt at compromise, it's time for a polite note on the talk page, or their user talk page... Remember to assume good faith - always give an editor an extra chance to do the right thing. Quite often we get a pleasant surprise, in my experience.
Sorry I can't help more right now - I've bitten off more than I can chew in some of the things I'm doing. But please keep me updated, especially if it isn't quickly resolved. -- Singkong2005 ( t - c - WPID) 17:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
SingKong ... this issue of quoting sources giving reliablilty of information ... it seems sensible at first ... yet it is wildly out of control ... check out the comment on the updraft page where it is said to be an expensive way to produce windpower (it might be expensive , but this is NOT the way to show it) ... this is simply a website quoting the media who quote someone's offhand comment - possibly out of context ... this is not reliable! Or another ... the floating chimney, as jdh saw it was totally misguided (though it may start a similar but sensible design in sci fi novels) Similarly, if i was to "publish" my results of my analysis that is at present on my talk page and in the tower discussion page on ANY other website, even on my own yahoo freesite, then my results would suddenly become verifiable!!!!!! this is out of control. i read wikipedia a lot and find it a wonderful source of info, i had no idea about this shambles behind the scenes. when i first started editting i assumed that wikipedia itself was a nice central location to bring my ideas so they could be verified in some sense, but it seems that if you feel you know something then in fact you are best off going ANYWHERE other than wikipedia!? bizzarre!-- Flexme 10:53, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
The user Essene, ( talk), a.k.a. H. Alfred Goolsbee, [1] has posted un- civil messages in this section (archived here), making accusations of defamation (regarding something written by another user) and threatening legal action. In spite of my prompt responses on his talk page, and my offers of cooperation in spite of his rudeness, he has even posted these legal threats on my blog, which I consider harrassment. He has, however, failed to respond to requests to clarify what he regards as defamation.
While I do not believe the threats had any basis, I have made very slight changes to JdH's post to remove any doubt. I have simply made it clear that the comments about Proton44 (a sockpuppet of Essene, or vice-versa? [2]) are simply opinion, which is legally protected as free speech. Readers are welcome to draw their own conclusions.
If Essene had approached this in a more civil manner, in the Wikipedian spirit, he most likely would have achieved a much more favorable outcome.
-- Chriswaterguy talk 05:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Actually, there is a Wiki policy against Forbidden uses of sock puppets, and what Essene is doing here may qualify as such. JdH 17:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
A little surfing surfaced the following Talk:Hargrave Jennings and User talk:Catherineyronwode. That in turn leads to "ORMUS~What Is It? The Myth, Magic & Murder of ORMUS", ORMUS University Online and ORMUS™-Our Product. In my opinion Mr Goolsbee is doing better with ORMUS Marine Manna™ than with the Solar Tower™ JdH 14:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Well, you are right: my trigger level was/is set quite low. The reason for that is that "Solar updraft tower" has a very torturous history; you may want to check out previous discussions about that, see Question about this article and Self-promotion?. Basically, the first version of this article was written by Proton44, who identified himself as H. Alfred Goolsbee. Goolsbee is very much involved in promoting the Solar Tower®, and he actually owns that trademark. For his role in all of this you may want to check out this and this press release. My opinion of what Goolsbee was trying to do is that he was (ab)using Wikipedia for promoting his stuff; if that's what he was doing, it is considered spam and it against Wikipedia policy. So when Flexme started to remove material that was even remotely critical of the Solar Tower® I lost my temper. My apologies for that. JdH 18:30, 17 July 2006 (UTC) Slight changes made to wording, as mentioned above. -- Chriswaterguy talk 05:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Just to let you know that I added a comment to Proposal to make Solar tower a disambiguation page on the Talk:Solar tower page, because I thought that my comment was more relevant there. cheers JdH 14:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Dear Singkong, Since some time I've been wondering what to do with Anuragam's four sub-programmes (1,2,3 & 4) - whether to retain them or bring them up to the standard of Wikipedia. Infact, I was in a fix. Right now, work pressures are keeping me away from doing anything. By August second week, I may get a breather. I will take your suggestions with due respect. I see that you've also mentioned that my other articles are still not in conformity with the standards applicable here. They too will be brought in line. Thanks.-- Pradeep 17:24, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for the somewhat late answer. Hello I have been trying looking for information but any dictionary I read gives bayam as a or the translation of spinach. You can also ask user:Kembangraps. He is an expert in this era. Meursault2004 11:28, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
I was trying to replace Limited english proficiency with Limited English Proficiency. The former is incorrect: English must be capitalized and Proficiency must be capitalized as this conforms with the education and government established capitalization of the phrase. A wikipedia suggested I insert the phrase you saw posted. Could you please help with eliminating this typo of a redirect? Thank you. Dogru144 18:01, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Dear Chris
my name is Meutia Chaerani from Singapore. I volunteered helped out in the Urbepedia at Urbepedia. It is a newly set up wiki focusing on Urban issues, and currently needing more contributors. I'd like to invite your participation in the wiki. Also need to brainstorm more on how the Urbepedia can be different yet complementing to information already existing in Wikipedia.
At this stage, i'm thinking that Urbepedia would be more detailed and more technical, and also acts as repository of best urban practices from around the world, as well as repository of contact information of urban experts. Whereas wikipedia is aimed for a broader audience, the article should be easy to grasp to different kind of people, from kids to adults. In that sense, urbepedia is different from wikipedia, but of course, we can link both wikipedia and urbepedia together in the article page.
We hope that you'd be interested to get involved.
Regards, Chaerani 02:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes, and I just registered, got two welcome messages in return. One from you. Thank you.
I mail you to say that you're free to copy stuff from my demotech.org site. I really look forward to what you find of interest. Do not forget to look at the links I gathered over time.
No idea how you will work that out. You are pretty much experienced with Wiki's, so you'll find a way.
That's something I really have to find out myself. Wiki may be more interesting then waiting almost in vane for helpful comments. Will I get them through Appropedia? Does the Open Source principle work here?
Share your experieces with me.
Kind regards, Reinder
84.107.207.180
23:14, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
I think there should be a category for water quality measures such as Suspended solids, Total suspended solids, Biochemical oxygen demand and dissolved oxygen. Can you think of a better name than Category:Water quality measures? -- Singkong2005 talk
Initially spring to mind-- Alex 10:32, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
What do you think regarding nitrate, nitrite, phosphate concentrations etc? The wikilink to each of these will give you the chemical properties, not necessarily the effects of them on aquatic environments and ecosystems. -- Alex 11:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
There are certain indicators which are very standard (esp. fecal coliforms) but many more which potentially could be used. I haven't done a lot of study on this, so I'm not sure where we draw the line. I suppose we just include anything that is notable as an indicator. Arsenic would qualify in Bangladesh, but I'm not sure which article is most suitable - Arsenic contamination of groundwater seems more relevant than Arsenic or Arsenic poisoning, but isn't about arsenic as a water quality indicator. --Singkong2005 talk 15:05, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Note: I created Category:Water quality indicators on 3 October 2006.
In response to your question on the iPod Shuffle talk page you can use this amazing, small, fast and FREE(!) program:
http://agoraphobeus.free.fr/iShuffle/index.html
You put the program into your Shuffle's root directory. Next, you create a folder named 'Music'. Transfer your song(s) to the Music folder via windows explorer or other similiar means. Then, you run the .exe and thenyou're done! Doesn't read MP4 files though. From what I remember you do not need to initialize the Shuffle with iTunes. There is also a program called iPod Database Rebuilder and it reads MP4! Jaberwocky6669 03:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
You can't just delete sections. You mayt request additional cites [2], and include the 'citation needed' tag, but you can't just delete it. -- Corwin8 17:13, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Thank you for your interest in the tranylcypromine article. I have replied to your questions on the tranylcypromine talk tage. I would encourage removing the citation needed tag, as the tyramine levels required to precipitate a potentially fatal reaction are "common knowledge" for some definition of that term, as is the fact that a serving of Marmite or Bovril exceeds this by orders of magnitude. If a cite really is needed, google should turn up thousands. Again, thank you for your interest. Zuiram 09:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Chris, the article seems like a good one. I have addded a couple of pointers on the removal of heavy metals from water using iron and manganese oxyhydroxides. This has real potential in areas such as Bangladesh for reducing arsenic and other heavy metal contamination. -- Alex 17:11, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Since he's been banned for making legal threats, I'm not sure if you need to deal with him at all. -- Golbez 01:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Over the past couple of months I've been spending much more time than I should developing the
Energy portal, and intend asking for a
portal peer review within the next day or so.
The portal provides a showcase for energy-related articles on Wikipedia. One of the most prominent ways is via a the
selected article that is currently changed every 6 weeks or so. It would be good to increase this turnover, and with three Wikiprojects dedicated to energy-related topics and a good number of articles already written, I'd like to suggest that members of each Wikiproject might like to use the 'selected article' to feature some of their best work.
With this in mind, I'd like to suggest that your Wikiproject bypasses the normal
selected article nomination page and decides collectively which articles are worth featuring - or these may be self-evident from previous discussions (or from
here) - and add short 'introduction' to the selected article at the appropriate place on page
Portal:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, which includes further information. Your personal involvement would be welcome!
Please make any comments on your Wikiproject talk page,
my talk page, or on
Portal talk:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, as appropriate.
Gralo
15:54, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I have created a barnstar for Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment. Please visit the talk page to vote for the barnstar since there are no votes for 2 months. OhanaUnited 02:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
You may wish to read recent follow-up to your comment in meta:Help talk:Searching#Link to a specific Google search. -- Teratornis 15:55, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I would appreciate it if you went down to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ciudad Real Torre Solar and give your opinion about this AfD. Thanks, JdH 13:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to spam you if you aren't interested. See Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#April 25th for more info if you are interested. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:43, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Chris, the water recycling article on Appropedia is interesting. I don't have a great deal of knowledge on this subject that I could add. Sorry. I have set myself up an Appropedia account now however!-- Alex 12:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
You are listed as a participant in WikiProject Energy development, so I am asking you to please consider helping to improve the plug-in hybrid article. This is an ad hoc article improvement drive. BenB4 08:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Following up on your request at the recent meetup in Sydney, I've added a couple of links to the External Links section of the Category:Rainwater page on Appropedia. Hope they help. -- Mike 09:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
...nonetheless it is good to learn from mistakes.
Except that it wasn't a mistake, certainly not on my part. It was spam, pure and simple. If he wants to promote his pest-control methods, he can take out an ad somewhere. -- Calton | Talk 05:16, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
...but a note on the user's talk page would have been a good first step
You mean like this? Oh, right, I did that. -- Calton | Talk 05:19, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Failing to be WP:CIVIL and not observing WP:NEWBIES is a mistake
Uh huh, sure. I'd say "insulting someone's intelligence", "failing to use common sense", and "enabling spam" counts as pretty big mistakes, actually.
...the action of deleting without giving time for a response was inappropriate
Spam? It gets deleted immediately with {{ db-spam}}, hence the adjective "speedy" in "speedy deletion". Perhaps you need a review of guidelines yourself before gassing on with the smarmy "it is good to learn from mistakes" arrogance (speaking of the lack of civility), hmmm? -- Calton | Talk 06:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
..that is not an excuse for insults.
So you're apologizing for your tone? Thank you. -- Calton | Talk 23:13, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Note: This discussion ended with my acceptance that Alphachimp and Calton had acted properly in the tagging and deletion, thanks to Alphachimp's responses to my arguments.
I still have an issue with the insults by Calton made during this discussion. -- Chriswaterguy talk 00:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Chris,
Several editors have organized a new
task force to make sure the encyclopedia accurately represents the environmental impact of corporations and policymakers--I hope you will have a look at the project page and consider joining us. Your international perspective would be particularly valuable!
Thanks,
Cyrusc
20:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Chris!
Good to meet you. This is a busy time for me, too. I'm at the annual general meeting the World Council of Credit Unions (in Calgary this year). The weather is hotter than southeast Asia in June! It looks like your interests are very similar to my own, and I'll look forward to exchanging more when it is more convenient for both of us. Brett epic 13:12, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Chris. Maybe you can cherry pick some of the best content and add it in. I'll also take tips if you would rather do it that way. Also, if you're into the economic aspects of sustainable development, check out Kivapedia :-) RichardF 13:51, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Chris, I remember your original interest in the UASB article I wrote. I thought you might be interested in a variant system the Internal circulation reactor. The article is just a stub at present but if you are interested in this subject its worth a quick look at the link to the Paques website.-- Alex 10:02, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I have tried using the codes of Template:Discussion tracker to enhance User:Aditya Kabir/talkheader. But, it's not working. Can you take a look and tell me what's wrong? Aditya Kabir 05:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Chris!
I do most of my browsing in Mozilla Firefox. I thought you might like to know that the ads to which you provide links on the 2CV page display only your comments, and not the graphics, when viewed in Firefox. When I kick-started the dreaded IE7 and had a look, they were fine. I'm not techie enough (well, hardly at all!) to suggest what might be the problem. Cheers! -- King Hildebrand 16:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Does this make sense to you? I would prefer a "third party" remove the tag if they agree. RichardF 19:10, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Chris, if you have time I would appreciate you taking a look at the anaerobic digestion article. I have spent a lot of time today improving it and making it more technically accurate. I would appreciate your views on how to improve it further. Thanks -- Alex 15:54, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
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http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_press http://www.archive.org/download/HexayurtPresentation/Hexayurt_pentagon_presentation.pdf
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I have been in the process of working on the anaeorbic digestion article improving pictures, peer review and good article nomination. I would now like the article to be considered for featured article status. I have nominated the article for consideration as a featured article. Please take a minute to look at this here Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Anaerobic_digestion leaving feedback and suggestions for improvement where relevant. Many thanks -- Alex 12:42, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Would you consider making a contribution to an exchange of views at either of the following:
As you know, Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management came up with entirely reasonable guidelines for naming articles about earthquakes, fires, typhoons, etc. However, the <<year>><<place> <<event>> format leaves no opportunity for conventional nengō which have been used in Japan since the eighth century (701-1945) -- as in "the Great Fire of Meireki" (1657) or for "the Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji" (1707).
In a purely intellectual sense, I do look forward to discovering how this exchange of views will develop; but I also have an ulterior motive. I hope to learn something about how better to argue in favor of a non-standard exception to conventional, consensus-driven, and ordinarily helpful wiki-standards such as this one. In my view, there does need to be some modest variation in the conventional paradigms for historical terms which have evolved in non-Western cultures -- no less in Wikipedia than elsewhere. I'm persuaded that, at least in the context of Japanese history before the reign of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912), some non-standard variations seem essential; but I'm not sure how best to present my reasoning to those who don't already agree with me. I know these first steps are inevitably awkward; but there you have it.
The newly-created 1703 Genroku earthquake article pushed just the right buttons for me. Obviously, these are questions that I'd been pondering for some time; and this became a convenient opportunity to move forward in a process of building a new kind of evolving consensus. -- Ooperhoofd ( talk) 18:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi! As a contributor to WikiProject Climate change, I thought you might like to be aware of the opportunity to contribute to the new energy portal, now that there is one... No need to reply. Gralo 17:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
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Can you translate the Indonesian version to English? Bakaman Bakatalk 03:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Chris I am going through hell lota of depression I am quiting wikipedia for few days. You take care of yourself pal. HumayunMirzaJR 19:08, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello pal I am back :)
and Guess what Bhutto is back too shish .. shooting n bluh happenien infront of my place not good lack of sleep and stress kicking in. Hope you're well tho !
HumayunMirzaJR
14:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello old friend Hope you're well havnt seen you for ages.
HumayunMirzaJR
10:31, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey bud hope you're okay merry christmas and happy new + happy holidays hope you have great christmas and new year you're pal HumayunMirzaJR ( talk) 08:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi bud hope you are doing well, sorry i have been very busy with different issues hope the best for you drop me some line whenever you can regards
HumayunMirzaJR (
talk)
09:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Chris-
Greetings, and my apologies for taking months to respond. as you can see, i am a Wikineophyte - and amazingly, i did not see your message of May 1 until just now.
In any case, yes, i do intend to continue to update Appropriate Technology/Water Treatment, particularly to add more material on community-level treatment systems, health consequences of various interventions, etc.
Thanks for reaching out several months ago (and nice work with Appropedia!)
aloha jeff —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeffalbert ( talk • contribs) 22:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello Chris, thanks for the note, sorry for the length of time getting back to you. I have been very busy recently and I haven't contributed much in the last couple of months to wikipedia. Will be glad to help in the future.-- Alex Marshall ( talk) 14:54, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I am familiar with WP:AGF and used the term vandalism quite deliberately. To quote WP:Vandalism: "Continuing to add external links to non-notable or irrelevant sites (e.g. to advertise one's website) to pages after having been warned is vandalism." I have warned the user twice, although they have done added the link several times to various articles. Review User:Sreejiagriman contributions if this is unclear. Delicious carbuncle ( talk) 02:28, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
G'day esteemed person who has expressed interest in Sydney based meetups at this page (I hope that's the correct wording for the formal greeting!!). You may have heard that Australia is to have its very own 'chapter' of the Wikimedia Foundation - and further, there's a meeting coming up to discuss / enact the chapter's incorporation (details here). I'm afraid that I don't know too much about the details of what this entails, other than having a private hope that we might get a secret handshake, and maybe cheap coffee at wikimania (this is a poor attempt at humour - I'm sure that the Chapter's do great work, and it's a good thing that Australia is to have one).
If you're interested in meeting up this weekend (the set date is the 20th) - or later, then please do head over here and sign up, or make a comment at the talk page... the drive to create the chapter has largely come from another town in Australia that I'm afraid I haven't actually heard much about.. and anything they can do.... right? - cheers, Privatemusings ( talk) 11:11, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
"I'm concerned that Wikipedia is losing its civility," you write. At the Edema page, you write: "It's 'oedema', not 'edema'. Stop being bloody imperialists." Think about it. Samuel Webster ( talk) 09:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Straight and Crooked Thinking, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Straight and Crooked Thinking. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Gwernol 13:11, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
-- Pinaki ghosh 17:10, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Hi Singkong, I am Prabir's son, Pinaki. Some of the material has been borrowed from his srai.org site, which my father Prabir Ghosh owns. What kind of permission do u need in this case?
Hi Chris. Sorry it's taken so long to respond. I'd love to connect up sometime but this is probably not the best time (at a small bank training institute in Guwahati right now; connections are not good). I believe you have an interest in water user groups; I'm working on a research project that will look at the problem of developing robust water management institutions in oral communities. I'm in northern India for the next while if you happen to up here! Best. Brett epic ( talk) 14:25, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have resolved the Madagascar issue at Talk:Banana. Turns out that French and a dash of old-school Spanish was also needed... Dysmorodrepanis ( talk) 05:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Chris -
Thanks for the "welcome" earlier this month.
I've done some work on the Hippo Water Roller Page.
I'd like to your input in refining my restructuring / references to obtain a uniform stub.
Also any thoughts on the addition of African Water Supply content. By no means is it comprehensive, I wanted to get some information down to start.
Roccasecca ( talk) 01:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Chris - Taking a step back and looking at what the Wikipedia community at large wants from its contributors, how do you think the Hippo water roller stub can be expanded with the ultimate goal of "featured article" in mind? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roccasecca ( talk • contribs) 02:45, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi White Cat - good to meet you in Egypt, so long after you helped me out with my user page.
I was thinking how badly we (at Appropedia) need someone with formatting skills, for Appropedia:Main Page tests. I'd really appreciate any help if you're able:
You see, we're largely engineers, and aesthetics is not our strong point ;-). Many thanks! -- Chriswaterguy talk 02:46, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Can we merge this to the article that lists his books? 129.120.177.60 ( talk) 03:13, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Chris, more weight is good on your end too you know *wink* Serenity id ( talk) 00:49, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
I know, I'm working on it and wipe my rifle every day. It hasn't come off for sometime now. You should be proud of me. :-) Serenity id ( talk) 01:26, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
The conversation between you two is obviously your problem and probably should be off wiki by the look of it - I would genuinely assume agf every time when offering comment about articles - the over reaction was quite unnecessary - and as for the problem of English Wikipedia Indonesia project articles - there is no sign that the original issue had been addressed - there are many articles in the project that leave the average english reader in complete mystery as to what has been written Satu Suro 06:57, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
You seem to be increasingly misintepreting me. Check your misinterpretations (you are reading too much into things that are not there) and I will be prepared to explain the very serious issues that are facing the English Wikipedia Wikiproject Indonesia which have little or nothing to do with constructive, criticism, collaboration. They are far more comprehensively credibility issues of the whole project that require considerably tougher decisions that having to cope with being misinterpreted Satu Suro 04:21, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Phew - hopefully we can all move on now - cheers - and if you ever want to be or feel the need to be traumatised - just check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AlexNewArtBot/IndonesiaSearchResult on a regular basis :( Satu Suro 23:09, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
re your question to User_talk:LLucas about the biofilter pic - it's a small version of a practice more common now, fan forcing air to be filtered thru shredded wood waste - biofilter page has been updated Red58bill ( talk) 18:57, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey Chris, after the annoying removal of the Comparison of alternative ICE fuels, some other wikicitizen is trying to remove the other pages aswell. See
Can you provide your vote, and (if you know some other appropedia/sustainable development members), perhaps ask them to provide a vote aswell (we need 3-4 votes)~ KVDP ( talk) 09:06, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Note that reflecting on this problem, I also posted an idea at Appropedia_talk:Village_pump#AAI_projects (totally down).
KVDP ( talk) 10:47, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Please see my reply under User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Simple occasional access to wikEd. Good luck, Cacycle ( talk) 21:26, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Environment for a Signpost article to be published April 19. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 05:01, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Climate change skepticism. Since you had some involvement with the Climate change skepticism redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Nsaa ( talk) 10:56, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Chris, Sorry, for just tossing this on the end here. I saw that you had created a stub about safe bottle lamps. It looks like the page is no longer a stub, but I don't know much about the technology. The page could use a picture. -- Murphysbooks ( talk) 17:14, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
It seems that all bar two of the misattributions on http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell have some explanation of their having been mixed up versions of real quotes, just not the last two, including the one about times of universal deceit and all its variants.
Did Charles Walker just make it up when he quoted it in "My Few Wise Words of Wisdom" (2000) or did he pick up a modified version of a real one somewhere?
Any thoughts/guidance would be most welcome, particularly given a) the quote's quoteableness and b) how ubiquitous the damn thing is. Scotontour ( talk) 15:19, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I want to change all links to the WASH radio station to point to WASH-FM. I don't use WP:AWB - is there there somewhere I could place a request for this to be done, by someone with a bot or other tool? Thanks. -- Chriswaterguy talk 10:20, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
While I was here, I notice this user talk page is a bit long; it is possible to set it to automatically put things older than 'x' days into an archive file, if you want. And have a link to 'archives' at the top. The page is not that busy, so maybe just 90 days (ie 3 months), or 30 days (1 month) might be good.
If you want me to set that up, just let me know (here), and how many days, and I will add the code for it. (If you don't, that' absolutely fine!) Chzz ► 11:15, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
For writing an article on ass wiping. 71.185.2.163 ( talk) 08:26, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Chris,
I have been looking for an adopter to initially guide me on the correct way to publish research articles on an algorithmic technology and your profile seems to fit very well. I would appreciate it if you would adopt me.
Thank you in advance. Best wishes, Antony ( Antonyaddy ( talk) 11:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC))
Dear Chris,
My name is Mike, and I am the new International Marketing Manager for Unichal, a small technology company based in Seoul, South Korea.
I am the only foreigner/English native speaker working for them now, and they are struggling getting the word out about their company and products.
Unichal is the creator of the 1-Click Dictionary DIXAU. It is a device that you can place over a word in a book, magazine, etc, then have the word defintion given, or have it translated. The device was referred to in only one Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_translation
Could you please write an article about Unichal, just giving some basic facts of the company and the products we offer? I am emailing you specifically because I have a great respect for the Wiki Community, in that I have a definite conflict of interest as outlined but the website, and understand third-party sources other than myself should write the article.
If you do not have the time to write the article, you are welcome to pass it on to others or create a WikiProject related to it. I know that is company and its products will be making waves in the near future, and it doesn't make sense that it doesn't exist in Wikipedia.
Please advise,
Mike Username: Unichal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unichal ( talk • contribs) 08:11, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
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From a site search, I notice that there are 51 occurrences of "earthern", which is (presumably in all cases) a misspelling of earthen. I know there are bots that make such corrections - is there somewhere I should suggest this correction? Or can someone do it with WP:AWB? -- Chriswaterguy talk 09:42, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
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Where's the Wikipedia project page that explains how to display Japanese and other fonts in my browser? -- Chriswaterguy talk 09:31, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
I was gratified by the way fellow Milwaukeean Protonk and others picked up on that cue. My wife, of course, brought up Alpha Centauri before I even got to the straight line; but then, we were married at an SF convention. -- Orange Mike | Talk 15:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Well, I'm safely back in Yogyakarta and hopping on the report for Siska. Not sure if you knew my user name, so here it is, eh? Crisco 1492 ( talk) 12:15, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I am very new to Wikipedia. I am with Global Humanitarian Technology Conference and created a page for it a week ago. I tried to see if it comes in search putting GHTC and then the name of the conference but it did not come out. Would appretiate any help in making our page better and searchable. Thx.
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Hi Chris,
Could it be you filled in the wrong domain extention when providing your email address to received emails from the Wilderness.org.au list? I own the domainname " http://rootsofchange.net/" and you filled in as your email address <chris@rootsofchange.net>. Hence I received your email. Maybe it should have been <chris@rootsofchange.org> or <chris@rootsofchange.au> or <chris@rootsofchange.com> ? I've made this kind of mistake in the past as well.
I didn't alter your details on the Wilderness.org.au website, which I could access via a link in the email sent to me/you.
Hope this message reaches you now.
All the best and keep up the good work.
Ibrahim London, UK
Hi Chris,
Amazing indeed how it went with the domain name rootsofchange.net. Can't remember when I registered it but actually only recently started to use it as I am fading out another site.
Before rootsofchange.net used to forward to nomadtribe.net but now it will gradually take over. Maybe later I swap the contents between the sites. Quite a game. Takes a lot of time.
Actually abandoning some domain names up for expiry now but a couple, though for now only used as forwarders, I like to keep as long as costs permit. Their names are good finds IMO.
Web building (and Internet presence in general) takes a lot of time. Still, some information on one of my ancient and sort of abandoned website still finds readers while what I wrote on my (now willingly disabled) Facebook page has sunk in a pool only accessible by marketing and government surveillance agencies.
Got another story: came on a sailing site across the domainname radicalsailors.org . The site didn't exist so... I bought it :-) Next a guy ends via the sailing site up on my site and next on my boat. We're still in contact. Then I find out the creation of "a website to promote activism afloat" had been discussed years before on some meeting or radicals. I found the guy in Belgium who launched the idea but who didn't have an idea someone had actually done something with the idea. Haven't figured out why the sailing school had put the (then dead) link on their website, claiming they were part of the Radical Sailors Network. Well, in the end it already got us somewhere.
I did log into your Wilderness.org.au account using the link the site sent me and disabled the newsletter subscription. Didn't alter the (unknown to me) password so if you want you can update your email address there.
All the best and take good care. Ibrahim — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarpal ( talk • contribs) 02:36, 14 December 2014 (UTC)