Appropedia:About: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 15:08, 26 September 2006

What is Appropedia?

Appropedia is a living library of appropriate technology information which began in April of 2006. 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.

Content on Appropedia

Appropedia includes and welcomes contributions of several 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

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 and sysop

Lonny Grafman

Other administrators

Singkong2005, a.k.a. Chris Watkins, major contributor to Appropedia and other wiki projects. Incidentally looking for work in Asia.

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 (of wannaresolution blog), Appropedia finally has a better, faster and more secure server - DreamHost.

You

A whole community of contributers and visitors makes appropedia work.

Praise and attention from organizations, media, and websites

Engineers Without Borders has listed Appropedia as a useful tool.

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 *[[user:Singkong2005 | Singkong2005]], a.k.a. [[User:Singkong2005/Chris Watkins|Chris Watkins]], major [[Special:Contributions/Singkong2005|contributor]] to Appropedia and other wiki projects.  Incidentally looking for work in Asia.
-===Technical Assistance to Appropedia===
+===Technical Assistance===
 *[[user:aaron | Aaron Antrim]], a student of [[wikipedia:Humboldt State University | Humboldt State University]] consulted the original appropedia team, and provided the recommendation to use [[wikipedia:MediaWiki | MediaWiki software]].
+===Financial Assistance for hosting Appropedia===
+Thanks to a kind donation from [[User:Curtbeckmann|Curt Beckmann]] (of [http://wannaresolution.blogspot.com/ wannaresolution blog]), Appropedia finally has a better, faster and more secure server - [http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?228554 DreamHost].
 ===You===