Feedback on, addition to and even editing of material on the content ideas page is welcome. I am concentrating on helping to get the Appropedia working nicely and the existing content integrated, so I don't have time to add all of the enormous amount of new content that I would like to.
More extensive drafts, and draft postings for other sites, will be posted at my Sandbox.
Quotes
It would be so much easier if climate change hid in caves in Afghanistan and had a beard. It’s a shame that the thought of the impending chaos and destruction wrought by our own making doesn’t quite have the same affect as an 80 year old man with a walking stick. - Tom Taylor
Content
Dehumidifiers? The Sietch are at least aware of them. Try W
Templates
conditional arguments in templates. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Fact&action=edit
Pages to go over
- Zero waste/Cradle-to-cradle]]? add Zero Waste, Perpetual Food - WorldChanging, June 23, 2005.
- Appropriate technology hand wash station, Thailand
- Appropedia community of editors - redirect or...?
Merge these links at Category:Appropedia maintenance:
- Check Category:Pages needing attention
- View the templates in Category:Maintenance templates, and click "What links here."
Cats to move:
- Category:Land Use - & where does it fit?
- Category talk:Collaborative pages where have the pages been moved to?
+Move Category:Demotech/Learning from Poverty (have agreement with Demotech person...) +Power and energy) should direct where? Cat?
Cats to create:
Topic pages which are now articles, content to be moved to categories:
- Appropriate technology car - +is http://fueleconomytips.com a useful, factual site, or pseudoscience?[expansion needed]
- Vegetarianism
- Heating
- Permaculture
- Water Filtration --> how to?
- Water catchment --> rainwater
- Recycled (grey) water
- Waste, Humanure & Humanure or reutilizing your own body wastes
- Laundry, though perhaps then replaced with something less disturbing.
- Housing density?
- Community culture --> Community?
- Biobutanol
- Washing and drying clothes
Sustainability
Op-shops
Urban planning
zoning issues, commercial activity: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/20/1055828489719.html
Low cost computer
Have posted to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=462379
Will ask Indo group at http://www.lug.or.id/ & http://www.gerbanglinux.com/ + See http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
Userboxes
...with cats, for expertise/interest, e.g. water engineering. (expertise can be noted in text on userpage (e.g. I studied Public Health Engineering at UNSW, which is water & sanitation).
+for admins.
+for active wikipedia users
Indonesia
Have started a stub on AT at the Indonesian Wikipedia: Wikipedia:id:Teknologi tepat guna Indonesia. Division of the government science foundation, LIPI. Based in Subang, West Java. Holds Appropriate technology expos & competitions, e.g. an upcoming expo in Pontianak, West Kalimantan. Info:
- Teknologi tepat guna tidak identik dengan teknologi sederhana
- Ditantang lomba inovasi teknologi tepat guna (halfway down) - Fifth Appropriate Technology Expo (TTG) to be held in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on September 2-6, 2006.
(Indonesian description of appropriate technology: Teknologi Tepat Guna atau dengan kata lain teknologi yang sesuai kebutuhan sehingga bisa dimanfaatkan masyarakat. - Technology to suit the use, or in other words technology which conforms to the needs so that it can be used by society.)