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Special need
At the moment, Appropedia is particularly seeking a volunteer to help us develop some specialized RSS / XML delivery functionality to enable us to exchange content with a closely aligned partner. The existing mediawiki extensions are close, but not quite there. We'd appreciate some guidance/suggestions/help. Drop us a note at my talk page if you have any to offer. Thanks!
How to help
There are many ways that you can contribute to Appropedia.
- Spread the word. Read articles and share them with others. Add a link to Appropedia to your email signature.
- Add links to other related useful web content that you know of.
- Use the "External links" section. You can create it by inserting "==External links==" on a line by itself.
- Improve the formatting, readability, spelling or grammar of articles. Many excellent contributions are provided by authors who are not native English speakers. For more information, see this section.
- Help Appropedia achieve its goal of centralizing its target content by porting some of the many articles that we have already received permission to republish.
- We are seeking at least 20 porting helpers to accelerate the growth of great content. If you're interested, please see this section.
- If you know of some other great content that would be great to see at Appropedia, please let us know by leaving a note in this section.
- Become a steward of a collection of articles in a topic category. Write overview articles that explain the how the other articles tie together. Create links between related articles.
- Propose, create and manage a portal about a particular topic, or associated with a particular organization or community. See this section.
- Are you an expert willing to help people implement sustainable solutions? Register and create a user page, and add links to your user page from articles about the topics in your areas of expertise.
Do what you have passion for:
Edit
- Spelling and grammar errors drive you crazy?
- Check the Articles asking spelling and grammar review page to find articles listed by authors asking for assistance.
- Or, if the category above is empty, look over other articles for errors, and then commit the satisfying act of correction.
- Click the edit tab, or one of the section edit links ([edit]). This will open an edit window.
- Find and correct the offending part
- Write a quick summary and click save page.
- Thank you. You've improved an important tool for sustaining the world.
- Have areas of expertise?
- Search for articles in those areas
- Contribute by clicking the edit tab or the discussion tab.
Port (integrate) useful content into Appropedia pages
- Willing to help others port their content to Appropedia?
- Visit Appropedia:Port pages to find folks that are looking for some help
- "Register" yourself as a "Porting Helper" by copy/pasting the following at the bottom of your user page:
- [[Category:Porting helpers]]
Maintain a portal and/or moderate a topic
Take ownership of a corner of Appropedia.
- Create a new portal
- Sign up for a stint at managing an existing portal
- Take a shot at moderating a topic
Portals are "entry pages" or "landing pages" for users with specific interests. We need folks who can maintain a topic portal, and/or manage many articles related to a topic. If you have an interest in a particular topic and are willing to commit a few hours per week to Appropedia for a month or more, we would like to hear from you! Please leave us a note on the discussion page (click the discussion tab above), or see here to see how to send an email to a member of the Appropedia team.
Create
Builders/Inventors
Built an amazing appropriate technology project or worked on a sustainable development process?
- Create a page and tell the world about it. Let others learn from your experience and receive feedback from others.
- Include the following category at the bottom of your new page: Template:Tlc
Community/Organization Members
Part of a appropriate technology/sustainable development community or organization?
- Create a page that advertises your organization and provides a working space for your organizational needs, such as contracts, upcoming events, maps, collaborative grants, etc.
- Include the following category at the bottom of your new page: Template:Tlc
Educators
Are you a teacher?
- Post your coursework, schedule or lecture notes.
- Consider making Appropedia a part of your curriculum. Students can post and edit about sustainability, this allows them to take part in a global context, receive broader feedback, learn mediawiki (very simple, but useful) and more easily collaborate with peers.
- Include the following category at the bottom of your new page: Template:Tlc
Program Directors
Are you part of the directing of a program, intensive, workshop or school?
- Create a page that advertises your organization and provides a working space for your program goals, such as curriculum, important contacts, contracts, schedule of classes, upcoming events, collaborative work, etc.
- See Category:Parras for an example.
- Include the following category at the bottom of your new page: Template:Tlc
Thesis Authors
Do you have a Thesis that should be shared?
- Create a page and post it here
- If your thesis in word format consider using word2wiki
- Include the following category at the bottom of your new page: Template:Tlc
How to'ers
Know how to do something appropriate really well?
- Search for a page on it.
- If a page already exists, add your knowledge.
- If no page exists, create one and tell us how to do what it is you do.
- Include the following category at the bottom of your new page: Template:Tlc
Local resource finder
Do you know where to find the inexpensive, useful, appropriate local resources?
- Search for: your area supplies. e.g. Humboldt CA supplies
- If a page already exists, add your knowledge.
- If no page exists, create one and tell us where to find the good resources.
- Include the following category at the bottom of your new page: Template:Tlc
Have a passion that you didn't see listed?
- Leave a note on the discussion page above, or click here to send an email to a member of the Appropedia team.