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== Ongoing Initiatives ==
* [[Appropedia:Content Initiatives/Biofuel]]
== Content Initiatives that are close to launch ==
== Content Initiatives that are close to launch ==



Revision as of 04:28, 19 October 2010

Ongoing Initiatives

Content Initiatives that are close to launch

Proposed for the second half of 2010:

Ideas for Content Initiatives

Note: some projects list tasks to "summarize documents" from valuable but restricted sources (i.e. not under compatible licenses). This implies something more than an abstract (i.e. containing the key points & conclusions) but usually less than a paraphrase of the whole document. These kinds of tasks are serious work, but very valuable for student volunteers, especially those with upcoming courses or projects in the given subject area.

  • Prosperity Without Growth, looking the whole area of degrowth, post-growth, zero-growth, quality of life vs environmental impact. Building a balanced and extensive coverage, with a critical eye, but also an eye for possibility.
    • Resources Prosperity Without Growth report/book,
    • Compare innovation (how much innovation is needed to sustain the current economic model)
    • Economic assumptions & possibilities (beware of overemphasizing fringe theories): e.g. can we decouple the economies of services with no impact from the destructive economy?
    • Tweeps: @donmacca, @postgrowth, @Jeremy_Williams
  • Disaster management
  • Principles of development
    • porting humorless and bloodandmilk blogs
  • Sustainable food and agriculture - food security, sustainable ag, permaculture, vegetable foods, farming models (e.g. CSA), marketing, transport
    • Work out policy on Locally Delicious content - do we leave original versions? Keep the book separate from general topic pages? If separate, use relevant content (with attribution) in existing or new wiki pages.
    • summarize key FAO documents
    • diet trends also relevant... largely outside the scope of Appropedia, but some info on a healthy sustainable diet is key (maybe starting from widely agreed principles of a healthy diet - even if some of them conflict, can still cover how to follow each principle sustainably).
    • Networks: http://swcsnetwork.ning.com/ + permaculture lists & forums
    • Should be some good food security blogs, for example
  • Key actions for sustainability (identifying the most important areas, and the most important steps or actions in every area of green living).
    • withouthotair, greenlivingpedia
  • Green building
  • Appropriate technology
    • Sources: CATs, ap tech and alt tech orgs around the world. AIDG, Paul Polak?
  • Health
    • Page ideas: Jamkhed,
    • Sources: London school of tropical medicine (Joe Raftery can make contact?); Hesperian, OLPC Health
  • Interwiki linking, to broaden our topic coverage.
    • Agree to work with other wikis, so we link to them, and them to us. E.g. Greenlivingpedia, EnviroWiki, Akvopedia, Wikia Green.
    • This would apply both where our wikis have a different focus (e.g. Wikia Green has more pop culture, Appropedia has more case studies & LCA) and also where we are both making an effort to cover the same area exhaustively. (Idea based on this conversation.)
    • Systematically find relevant articles covered by another wiki but not by ours.
    • Create a stub, with either a brief extract (no more than 100 words?) and no attribution notice, but just a link; or a longer extract and a link, if it's considered that this can be built on effectively at Appropedia. In either case, add link to other wiki under "== Interwiki links =="
  • Low cost school construction, Practical rope pumps, Percussion drilling (This can go on and on)
  • Earthquake safety.
    • AIDG (note Peter Haas' TED Talk) may have content or contacts re good building design)

Proposing/Starting an initiative

  • To start a new page, start a new page[1] with title of the form Appropedia:Content Initiatives/SUBJECT AREA (Subject area will usually be a category that already exists on Appropedia.)
  • Paste this code into the page and save (remember to enter the SUBJECT AREA):
   {{subst:Appropedia:Content Initiatives/launch template|SUBJECT AREA}}


  • Search for good openly licensed content: text, video, images, audio?

Notes

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