Appropedia:About
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[edit] What is Appropedia?
Appropedia is the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development.
Appropedia is a wiki, a type of website which allows anyone to add, remove, or edit content. Registration is encouraged but not required for contributors. But most importantly, Appropedia is a open site for stakeholders to come together to find, create and improve scalable and adaptable solutions. For more about our motivation, see Appropedia:Mission.
Appropedia began in April of 2006. Six other similar sites have joined Appropedia since its inception:
- Sustainable Development Wikia
- WinWinWiki
- Wikigreen.org
- Village Earth's ATwiki
- HowToLiveWiki, home of the Hexayurt
- sgoals, the site for sustainable business
These collaborations have brought many content pages, readers and contributors. You can learn more about the history of Appropedia at Appropedia:A_history_of_collaboration.
[edit] Content on Appropedia
Appropedia welcomes contributions of many types of content:
- Project histories and project how-tos
- Textbook-style information, tables, and figures
- Photographs and illustrations
- Information for finding supplies and help
- Links and information on other organizations
- Collaboration pages for co-creating solutions
- Discussion pages for commenting on work done and work that needs to be done
- And more
Posting encyclopedic content on Appropedia is discouraged, as Wikipedia is a more-used resource for this style of article.
[edit] People who make Appropedia possible
[edit] You
The community of contributors and visitors makes Appropedia work, and makes working at Appropedia meaningful.
[edit] Founder, admin and bureaucrat
[edit] Founding administrators
- Chriswaterguy, a.k.a. Chris Watkins, major contributor to Appropedia and other wiki projects.
- Curt Beckmann
- GoodSignal, a.k.a. Gabriel Krause. Founding technical administrator.
[edit] Other administrators
- On2Leggs, a.k.a. Ryan Legg - Senior staff at Cornell's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise in charge of program development and management.
- Vinay Gupta of the Hexayurt.
[edit] Technical Assistance
- Aaron Antrim, a student of Humboldt State University consulted the original appropedia team, and provided the recommendation to use MediaWiki software.
[edit] Financial Assistance for hosting Appropedia
Thanks to a kind (and fairly modest [ CurtB ]) donation from Curt Beckmann, Appropedia has a fast and secure server - DreamHost.
[edit] The Foundation
Oversight of Appropedia is provided by The Appropedia Foundation.
