Template:Shortcut Appropedia allows for the hosting of significant original content, including thesis papers and journal articles. (This is one key content policy distinction between Appropedia and Wikipedia.)

Appropedia's approach to Original Content

Original Content may be hosted at Appropedia using several techniques.

  1. When permission has been granted by the copyright holders for publishing under GNU-FDL, Original articles may be hosted in their entirety on their own article page (or article pages, for especially long articles) within Appropedia's Original namespace.
  2. Clearly identified extracts from original works that are hosted in Appropedia articles (as just described) may be included in other articles as long as appropriate attribution is provided.
  3. Clearly identified extracts from original works that are NOT hosted at Appropedia may be included in Appropedia articles so long as doing so does not violate the terms of the copyright for that work.

Original articles

Appropedia provides a separate namespace for Original articles. This provides for a clear distinction between Original content articles and other articles. The article name itself calls attention to the original nature, and Appropedia (as well as individual users) can use CSS "skins" to give the Original namespace a different "look", again highlighting the original nature of the article.

In order to simplify and promote the referencing of content within Original articles, each Original article should provide appropriate character string for copy/pasting to the point of reference. That is, a string like the following should be located near the bottom of the article:

{{Original ref|<article name>|<author name>|<org name, if any>}}


Permission

Before any content is ported, permission must be granted by the copyright holders for publishing under GNU-FDL, which is the license used on Appropedia. See Appropedia:Copyrights.

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