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Our main ways of finding good quality content are:
Our main ways of finding good quality pre-existing content are:
* [[Porting]] content which we have permission to use
* [[Porting]] content which we have permission to use. We should start with documents with few images; those with many images to upload will work better when we have a MultiUpload extension or similar tool.
* Porting [[open access]] content, especially [[CD3WD]].  
* Porting [[open access]] content, especially [[CD3WD]].  
* Wikipedia pages can be the basis for a good Appropedia article, with some work. The best way is to do many at once, and this is planned for early 2009 (by [[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]]) - see: [[Appropedia:Finding content/Wikipedia pages to port and adapt]] and add suggested categories.
* Wikipedia pages can be the basis for a good Appropedia article, with some work. The best way is to do many at once, and this is planned for early 2009 (by [[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]]) - see: [[Appropedia:Finding content/Wikipedia pages to port and adapt]] and add suggested categories.
* http://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Memorandum_of_Understanding/OLPC
* [[Appropedia:Memorandum of Understanding/OLPC]]
service learning
* Creation of content by students in [[service learning]].
* MoUs with organizations that produce content.
* MoUs with organizations that produce content.
* [[Public Domain Search]]. This needs work, but is already useful. The best way is to use it to find sites or subsites which are public domain, then port the entire site.
* [[Public domain]] content. The best way is to use it to find sites or subsites which are public domain, then port the relevant pages. See the [[Public Domain Search]] (needs work, but is already useful) and [[Appropedia:Porting_pages #Public domain and other open content information]]. We would attribute such content with the {{tl|pd source}} template, even though attribution is not technically required for public domain work.
 
 
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Our main ways of finding good quality pre-existing content are:

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