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What is Appropedia?

Appropedia is a living library of international development, appropriate technology and sustainability which began in April of 2006. Three other similar sites have joined Appropedia since its inception: Sustainable Development Wikia, WinWinWiki and Wikigreen.org. These collaborations have brought many content pages, readers and contributors and every day that it grows is another step towards creating a single site for sustainable solutions. 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 and create scalable, adaptable solutions that all can search through, learn from and add to.

Content on Appropedia

Appropedia includes and 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 cocreating 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.

People who make Appropedia possible

Founder, admin and bureaucrat

• Lonny Grafman

Founding administrators

• Chriswaterguy, a.k.a. Chris Watkins, major contributor to Appropedia and other wiki projects. Incidentally looking for work in Asia.
• Curt Beckmann (now jointly blogging with Chriswaterguy at Resolution)
• GoodSignal, a.k.a. Gabriel Krause. Founding technical administrator.

Other administrators

• On2Leggs, a.k.a. Ryan Legg - Senior staff in charge of the implementation of the Business, Engineering & Sustainability initiative at Cornell's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise.
• Vinay Gupta of the Hexayurt.

Technical Assistance

• Aaron Antrim, a student of Humboldt State University consulted the original appropedia team, and provided the recommendation to use MediaWiki software.

Financial Assistance for hosting Appropedia

Thanks to a kind donation from Curt Beckmann, Appropedia finally has a better, faster and more secure server - DreamHost.

You

A whole community of contributors and visitors make appropedia work.

Praise and attention from organizations, media, and websites

See Appropedia:Promotion of Appropedia#Some interesting links to Appropedia.