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 and sysop
Other 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. Technical Administrator.
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.