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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Protection
Original documents are protected, and can only be edited by admins.
This is for two main reasons:
- to give original copyright owners peace of mind, that they won't be misquoted or misrepresented, or have their work vandalized.
- because there is less need for open editing of these documents. This can be done on the relevant topic pages, (which should be linked from the Original document using the {{used in}} template).
=To add links or categories
Question - will these be categorized in the usual categories? --Chriswaterguy · talk 21:58, 15 April 2007 (PDT)
Links (See also and External links): In most cases the best place for links is on the relevant topic page, e.g. on the Rainwater page rather than on Original:Rainwater management.
Where there is a link of particular relevance to the original article rather than the topic, they can be added in the usual place. An admin will have to do this - please leave suggestions on the talk page of the original document, which an administrator can add.