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| == How are Appropedia and Wikipedia diffrent? ==
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| Appropedia complements [[Wikipedia]]{{w|Wikipedia}} rather than competing with it. Appropedia has different kinds of information, and can go into much more detail on a topic.
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| Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (see [[Wikipedia:Project:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia]]), whereas Appropedia is a much broader resource, with [[Appropedia:Original content|original content]], original research, case studies, [[Projects|project writeups]], [[how-to]]s and more, as well as [[Appropedia:Networking|networking]].
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| Where there is relevant encyclopedic material on Wikipedia, we can link to it, as described [[#Linking to Wikipedia|below]].
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| ==What is encyclopedic material?==
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| Encyclopedic is used in the same way as in Wikipedia policies. It refers to information which is notable, not original; it relies on published secondary sources, not on original research. This is the kind of information which is acceptable at Wikipedia. However such material can also be developed on Appropedia, as long as it is not simply duplicating Wikipedia.
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| See [[Wikipedia:Project:What Wikipedia is not]] for further explanation.
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| ==When is encyclopedic material suitable for Appropedia?==
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| *When information develops here that initially is not suitable, but thanks to other editors adding sources and making other improvements. In this case it should be [[transwiki]]ed to Wikipedia. ''Then, does the [[GFDL]] require that it credits Appropedia? This might be a problem.''
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| *When Wikipedia's information which is relevant to Appropedia's focus is buried within other information, then it may be useful to summarize the encyclopedic information as well as linking to the article. If using verbatim slabs of text from Wikipedia, this must be credited. Use the {{Tl|Attrib wikipedia}} template.
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| *When it is likely that a person coming to the page may not understand the topic, then a brief description is useful, as well as a link to Wikipedia. See [[Wikipedia:WP:LEAD|Wikipedia's guidelines for the lead section of an article]].
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| ==Linking to Wikipedia==
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| There are two key ways:
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| * {{tl|W}} - creates a little superscript W that links to the article named - e.g. "<tt>{{W|Foo}}</tt>" creates a link, {{W|Foo}}, to the Wikipedia article about "Foo". Place this after a relevant word. Use it when the Appropedia article is not created yet, or not satisfactory, or if it's something mentioned in passing that isn't likely to need an Appropedia page.
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| * add an "Interwiki links" section and list the links in the form <tt>[[Wikipedia:Pagename]]</tt>.
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| Don't "hide" the link with a pipe - better to show it in raw form, so the reader can see that it's a link to Wikipedia.
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| If you specifically want to link to a specific Wikipedia page from Appropedia, rather than just referencing it in passing, then again use a raw link - or, if you use a piped link, make it clear that it's a Wikipedia link.
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| To link to a page in Wikipedia's project space, e.g. a Wikipedia policy with a full pagename like "Wikipedia:Be bold", use "Wikipedia:Project", e.g. [[Wikipedia:Project:Be bold]].
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| [[Category:Appropedia policy]]
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