Template:Shortcut Appropedia allows for the hosting of significant original content, i.e. documents authored by specific people or organizations. This includes thesis papers, journal articles, technical briefs, project descriptions and more.

This is one key content policy distinction between Appropedia and Wikipedia.

Original content has its own namespace. The content can be used in other pages, as long as it is attributed.

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.

Protection

Original documents are protected, and can only be edited by admins. Special permission may be granted to the person porting the page, and in some circumstances to the author(s).

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).

Note also that alerts can also be set up to watch all pages on a user's watchlist, by editing preferences, giving an additional check.

Naming

The author or organization, or a unique abbreviation, should be mentioned in the page name, to make it easier to identify the content in links and in categories. The standard approach is... (in brackets at the end?)

To add links or categories

Questions:

  • Will these be categorized in the usual categories? --Chriswaterguy · talk 21:58, 15 April 2007 (PDT)
  • Should we wikilink key words in the original articles? I'd suggest at least linking the key topic phrase when it first occurs in the document... beyond that I'm not sure if we should limit it, but some wikilinking would be useful. --Chriswaterguy · talk 17:36, 16 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.

See also

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