Content Initiatives that are close to launch
Proposed for the second half of 2010:
- Appropedia:Content Initiatives/ICT4D
- See Category:Appropedia Content Initiatives - the main need for most of these is in finding volunteers.
Ideas for Content Initiatives
- A Summer of Content - Southern Summer, 2010-11? Who is the owner or custodian of the name "Summer of Content"?
- Disaster management
- Principles of development
- Key actions for sustainability (identifying the most important steps or actions in every area of green living).
- Green building
- Prof David Hood may me interested. Lonny Grafman's & Joshua Pearce's contacts in academia.
- E4C said (via Facebook?) they have people.
- Import relevant pages from Greenlivingpedia: (Some extremely good content, e.g. Greenlivingpedia:Sustainable house design features checklist). We could do whole pages or extracts. (Note that the license is compatible to importing with attribution, and Peter Campbell is supportive.)
- Relevant sites & groups to ping. E.g. Green living and green building (check with Peter first)
- 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?