user:Chriswaterguy

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Note sure what to do with this...More - interests and opinions.

• {{cl|Wikipedia quick introductions}}
• Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention

• Ronald Coase - an economist with interesting ideas about public goods. I must find some more good economics podcasts (like the excellent [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/boyerlectures/stories/2006/1769905.htm 2006 Boyer Lectures]). (If you have recommendations, please [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Chriswaterguy&action=edit§ion=new tell me].)
• Hugh Thompson, Jr. - defended the innocent at My Lai.
• Right Livelihood Award
• MythBusters (season 1)... This is great! I don't have to watch the whole boring episode to find out what happens!
• Constructionist learning - one of the influences behind the One Laptop Per Child project.
• Kamal Kar - critic of standard approaches to development & aid.
• Julian Lincoln Simon - wrote about population & natural resources. An optimist.
• Cicisbeo - 18th Century Italian women had surprising freedoms.
• Shi Zhengrong founder and head of Suntech Power. Someone who's really doing something about solar power.
• User:Ihcoyc has a very amusing section of Favourite quotes from the Wikipedia.

• User:Ericbritton, User:LRG, User:Curtbeckmann - sustainability.
• User:Vortexrealm - water.
• User:Georgedappilly - mosquito control.
• Some people who seem to be interested in developing country issues... User:Improv, User:Anthere, User:Ethanz...
• User:John Quiggin - Australian economist, somewhat lefty, who appears in the news occasionally.
• User:Guaka - a fellow CouchSurfer, it seems, with some overlap of interests.
• User:Earthmytemple

...and many, many more of course.

• User:Jimbo - the creator.
• User:Larry Sanger... if Jimbo's the creator, then Larry might be the devil, in some kind of gnostic view of co-creation followed by conflict. That's if I understand Gnosticism, which I probably don't.
• User:Kierant - some interesting links.

:During the May 1998 Revolution, when calls for political reform or reformasi in Indonesia led to the resignation of President Suharto, Malaysian satirists Instant Cafe lampooned a government broadcast in which 'Malaysians are reminded that reformasi is an Indonesian word, which has no equivalent in Bahasa Melayu.' ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Malay_and_Indonesian])

• Work on development-related & sustainability-related articles
• Put ^{citation needed} on articles (using {{tl|fact}}). I've even used it on things I wrote myself, and very happy when someone [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Appropriate_technology&diff=next&oldid=43372472 replaces one with an excellent link]].

• Promote love, joy, peace, etc (or try to).
• Do any minor edits I see that need doing (if I have a fast connection at the time)
• Ask questions that seem to need asking.

I think about one day doing more on other topics I want to learn about... so I'd be learning, researching, adding well-verified information when the articles are too skinny, and making suggestions on the user page... but not taking a strong position on what should and shouldn't be in the article. These topics include:

• A few of the articles in :Category:Alternative economy. Institutions such as Cooperatives, and practices such as Local currency & Local Exchange Trading Systems - I'm really not sure the latter are a good thing, though I suspect some variation of them would enable some people at some times to engage in the economy when a cash-based economy would not.

When English speakers see the words "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" we probably think: cool, it's free, I don't have to pay. I realised that there more to it when using the [http://id.wikipedia.org Indonesian Wikipedia]. For "free" it didn't use the word gratis (no cost), but rather bebas (as in free from restrictions). Actually, both meanings are true of Wikipedia.

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