Pages are "highlighted" on Appropedia in several ways:
- Bookmarked on Appropedia's Delicious account - this provides a searchable set of "good" pages on Appropedia.
- #Excellent pages, below - meeting a very high standard
- #Highlighted stubs - interesting enough to get someone started on a subject, but in need of work.
- Appropedia:Highlighted Projects
- Special:PopularPages - this is simply a list of pages with the most views - a rough and unreliable indicator of page quality.
It is planned to add voting features and other mechanisms for finding and highlighting the very best content, as part of Appropedia's site development.
Criteria
To be tagged as a Good Page, (using with {{good page}}), the page should meet these criteria (these are initial suggestions):
- Tidy - no major unfinished or confusing sections.
- Layout - uses sections appropriately, so it is easy for any reader to understand the purpose of each section.
- Useful - some relevance, great or small, to improving the world.
Add suggestions
Please suggest more pages on Appropedia that are worth highlighting, to the list below - that's any page that you find very useful and clear. It's acceptable to list pages you've made yourself. These will be checked and adding to the Delicious account:
- Arcata Marsh (and many of its sub-pages)
- International Development Design Summit
- Kiva's straw bale greenhouse
Candidates, to be checked:
- Category:Practical Action - many are not properly formatted yet, and there are many page moves to be done, and notice templates to be changed, but the content is excellent.
Excellent pages
Nicely presented pages with excellent info - a more selective set of highlighted pages.
Highlighted service learning pages
Teachers: Please put pages from Appropedia:Service learning programs here, so we can use them to share the good work by students.
- Bicing
- Singapore Green Plan 2012
- Samsø renewable energy
- Ekoviikki Suburb - Transition Town
- Arcata Marsh (and all its sub-pages)
- Category:Queens Green IT ECMs (and all its sub-pages)
- Charcoal Cooler
- Design of a low-cost household water treatment system
- Hotel Perote solar pool heating system
- House insulation
- International Development Design Summit
- Kiva's straw bale greenhouse
- Laser surface texturing
- LED FAQ
- Parabolic basket and tin can solar cooker
- Pulser pump
- Recycling of Wind Turbine Blades
- Solar resource measurement for PV applications
- The solar resource
- Zeer pot refrigeration (design)
- Cloth versus disposable diapers
- LCA of coffee
- Paper versus plastic bags
Highlighted stubs
These are important topics that are highlighted because they need work. Ideally at least a couple of paragraphs of information are there to start with, that would be new, interesting or helpful to the average visitor.
Check Category:Stubs for more.
About this page
Pages here may be highlighted on the main page, on portals, in blogs, and in all of Appropedia's social media and publicity efforts.
We may later develop classes of highlighted content meeting stricter criteria - perhaps in conjunction with the "Flagged Revisions" MediaWiki extension.
See also
- Special:PopularPages
- Category:Highlighted content
- Category:Offline content bundle
- Appropedia's offline content bundle (see lists at bottom)
- Appropedia:Good pages - an old proposal, on the backburner.