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Revision as of 19:01, 30 August 2009
Porting material to Appropedia has the benefit that more people can have access to it, and the material can also be combined with other information in this W, and continually improved.
This page is for:
- content owners who are looking for some help in getting their content ported to Appropedia.
- those who wish to help in porting material here.
Helpers
The sources below, listed under #Permission granted: Requests for porting help, need porting. Before starting, please see Help:How to port pages for further instructions. Note that these pages are in development - please edit and improve them, when you find something lacking, and contact a porting helper if you have questions.
Also it would be wise to check what porting is already in progress before you start... again, ask a helper.
Owners: How to list your content
Please click on the edit tab above and type in some information about the content you have into the "Requests" section below, plus a link to the content. Please understand that by listing your content below you are agreeing to posting that content under the terms of the GNU-FDL.
If your content is not available to the general public on the web, please provide contact information, such as a link to your Appropedia user page, if you have one (which is a good idea, but not required).
Prefer to contact a helper?
See the list of volunteers willing to help port your content
Permission granted: Requests for porting help
Finding public domain information
Public domain content can also be used.[1]
- "USA Web Alert" - from the US embassy in Canberra (search hits). These Web Alerts include links to US federal government resources, and some of the topics are relevant to Appropedia.
- Appropedia's Public Domain Search (it just needs more work to make it give better results usable). The results are usually public domain, but please check the permissions of the particular page or site before using. (If it's ambiguous see US federal government websites and public domain for some guidance.) But you can also look up the US federal departments for whatever subject you're trying to find info on.
Finding other open content information
CC-BY and CC-BY-SA works can be ported to Appropedia, with attribution, now that the Appropedia Foundation has decided to change the license to CC-BY-SA. Ways of finding works under these open licenses include:
- Search engines:
Google's advanced search, specifying content "free to use, share or modify, even commercially": Click "Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more" and next to "Usage rights:" select "free to use, share or modify, even commercially".(Google's search seems broken, as it often returns NC pages.) Try Yahoo via the interface at http://search.creativecommons.org/ - The Creative Commons Content Directories - see the Text page for a full list; image & video also available.
- The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) (about).
- See also Wikipedia:Project:Public domain resources#Encyclopedic_or general resources & ff (includes distance learning material) and maybe Wikipedia:Public domain (and other wikis?) for more leads.
We'll get more sophisticated over time as we look for diversity of input, and search more widely. One list/categorization of free content (and there's a lot) is being developed at #Governments and intergovernmental organizations, below.
Good relevant open content to port, on sites which give clear permission (add link to permission page):
- USAID[1] - e.g. Drip Irrigation Turns Gravel into Green
- USAID Telling Our Story - light, readable stories about development.
- U. S. Department of Agriculture[2]
- Natural Resources Conservation Service - NRCS is particularly relevant
- U.S. Department of Energy[3] - statement only states a summary of government policy, and doesn't promise that copyrighted material is noted as such, but it does appear to treat public domain as the norm for content on the site. (After all, we're asked to respect copyrighted materials, but this is a useless request unless the material is so marked.)
- EERE Energy Education: Energy Science Projects and Activities. Note http://www1.eere.energy.gov/webpolicies/ - PD unless there's a copyright notice on the page
- Appropriate Technology for Small and Subsistence Farms - "Public Domain--a gift to humanity."
- Public Library of Science - issues including public health. CC-BY. Mostly research, or based on recent research - the limitations and possibility of error should be made clear (template notice?)
Good relevant content, on sites which should be open content (e.g. US federal government sites) but where the statement is not clear. These should be researched, and the sites contacted if necessary:
Priorities
Start with quick, easy pages, i.e. HTML:
- Most of the public domain info above
- Most of CD3WD - wait for license clarification
- Demotech - This is almost all Reinder's work and he's happy to release under GFDL as well. Start with publications and add a note that the original author would appreciate feedback. --Chriswaterguy 21:12, 9 May 2008 (PDT)
- Mana Mushrooms
- Encyclopedia of Earth - CC-BY-SA.
- Openfarmtech.org (Notice: Don't port these pages yet - we're looking at using transclusion. Should be sorted by 11 Feb. --Chriswaterguy · talk 21:54, 4 February 2008 (PST)) please port the content from the Overview page and any linked pages. We are dual license: public domain and open license.
- Compressed Earth Block press work is most developed
Single Pages
- Mechanical Mathematician for Paraboloids
- Offered by Brian White -- Ported to Mechanical_mathematician_for_paraboloids (is that the correct title?) Oorxax 03:37, 13 March 2009 (UTC) (page needs some editing and formatting)
PDF docs
See Porting PDF files to wiki for advice on how to do this.
- Demotech
- Many amazing, low cost, local materials based, how tos
- Invitation from Reinder van Tijen of Demotech
- If you port a page from Demotech, please include the following near the top of the page:
- {{Demotechpage}}
- To see what Appropedia pages have been ported from Demotech (using the Demotechpage template above) see the articles in Demotech.
- CD3WD - wait for license clarification
- 1 gigabyte offline library of Appropriate Technolog for the third world
- Invitation from Alex Weir Harare founder of CD3WD
- If you port information from CD3WD, please include the following near the top of the page:
- {{CD3WDpage}}
- Experiments in Sustainable Urban Living
- A remarkable site documenting numerous real world applications of sustainable technology in an urban environment by the Erssons. Ole Ersson has given permission for us to port any and all content from their site.
- If you port a page from the Ersson's site, please include the following near the top of the page:
- {{Erssonpage}}
- Practical Action Technical Briefs
- Practical Action offers over 150 briefs, in PDF form, on "how to" do various things from generating power to food preparation.
- Appropedia has received permission to republish all the content that Practical Action has copyrights for. Most of the technical briefs fall into that category, though some photographs are from other sources that would require separate permission that has not yet been received.
- (Note: when secondary source permissions have been received, please make specific notes here.)
- Since there are so many documents to port, please see this page where we will be tracking the pages ported.
- PDF port requests
- see the pages linked at to Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Pdf_port_request.
Open access pages
See Open access. While open licensed content is preferred, open access is still good, especially when it covers content that we don't have under an open license.
Suitable sources include:
The following are probably suitable, but need to be checked:
- World Bank - by permission:
- Toolkit on Hygiene, Sanitation & Water.
- The World Bank Participation Sourcebook - & anything else that Deepa Narayan has contributed to should be worth a look.
- Development Gateways might have useful content - e.g. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/, and the individual national gateways.
- UN agencies. UNICEF, World Food Program?
- FAO - free, but only non-commercial.[6]
- Village Earth content - what has been granted? What about The Appropriate Technology Sourcebook? --Chriswaterguy · talk 23:59, 22 April 2007 (PDT)
- Much of the content from #Governments and intergovernmental organizations would be open access, and sometimes open licensed.
- SODIS: Solar Water Disinfection Education Materials - Need to ask for special permission re GFDL, as normally they exclude commercial use, which can't be guaranteed under GFDL. "Permission is granted for reproduction of this material in whole or part, for education, scientific or development related purposes except those involving commercial sale, provided that full citation of the source is given and written request is submitted to the holder of the copyright."
- Food and Agriculture Organization - on a publication page (e.g. Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme) there is a note about contacting re permission.
- shelter library
- Bill Mollison's permaculture teaching material. In PDF e.g. here. Available in other forms?
Images under suitable licenses
Note: based on Commons:Licensing#Acceptable_licenses and noting that our license situation is similar to Wikimedia's, we cannot we use images on non-commercial licenses, and cannot use no-derivs licenses. (Also stated at Wikipedia:Special:Upload and Wikipedia:Project:Image copyright tags.
General:
- Commons
- Flickr: Use the [http://flickr.com/search/advanced/ Flickr advanced search, scroll to the bottom, and select all 3 boxes next to CC (Creative Commons) (this specifies a license that allows commercial use and derivatives).
- Wikipedia:Project:Free image resources lists quite a few more.
Images sources specifically related to Appropedia's areas of interest:
- Images of water and sanitation available from the WEDC Image Library - from photographs and computer graphics to technical drawings and artists' illustrations related to various aspects of sustainable development, especially water and sanitation. Includes search facility. Images will not be used for commercial ends, by re-sale or otherwise Images will be credited with the correct acknowledgement (supplied when you download the image).
- Public Health Image Library (PHIL) on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It seems that the content is public domain unless stated otherwise - the wording leaves a little ambiguity[7][8] but I'm inclined to go with that interpretation. (It's a US govt site, and any content created by a US govt employee is automatically PD - if there's content which isn't PD, they really should have it clearly marked as such, as describe on a page about course materials - "Almost all the graphics and animations contained in this course are in the public domain unless otherwise specified."[9]).
Aside from suggesting that we contributors take photos and upload them, we can also ask for permission to use:
- images from Flickr. Note that some, such as AIDG's, are under a CC license... but we have to be sure they're not non-commercial versions. Lobby them to change?
- AIDG's photos (CC, but check in case some are different).
- Susie from EWB-Australia - Chriswaterguy to contact and suggest different license, and ask if she uses other tags/phrases (be
- Images with an appropriatetechnology tag - check licenses.
- Search for other specific tags like biogas, biodigester.
- Wikimedia commons - these can be transcluded directly into Wikimedia projects. Is there any chance this can be done with non-Wikimedia projects? (Presumably not, but worth checking.)
Questions
- Any way of mass uploading images in MediaWiki?
- Do we require a free license, or is permission specifically for us sufficient? (Requiring a free license could prevent potential problems down the track, since the photos are published within GFDL pages?)
Suggestions for content to request
Let's focus on documents in HTML and Word format first, as they're much quicker (at the same time work on Porting PDF files to wiki to develop a an efficient way of porting all those excellent PDFs).
- This Indian local government site - in Tamil Nadu. some good pages. Other Indian govt sites?
PDF documents that we would like
- AIDG Technology Network :: File Repository (PDF), and AIDG - Appropriate Technologies (HTML). Agreed in principle. What's the status - license is the hurdle? If insurmountable (or until resolved) can we make a copyright notice for these pages?
- Eldis OnDisc - note that they refer to "months spent in pursuit of copyright permission" so we'd have to check whether the material is copyright and used with permission (meaning we can't copy it) or released under W.
- Ken from Nabuur - can give suggestions on other DVD or CD based resources to request.
- Humanure Handbook, I'll look into it--Vacuum1313 13:04, 30 November 2006 (PST)
- W - I'll contact them. I met someone from here, in late 2005, who said they had a lot of info that at that stage was not on their website. --Chriswaterguy · talk 21:34, 2 May 2007 (PDT)
- Kamal Kar's material on CLTS. (PDF) - I'll contact. --Chriswaterguy · talk 21:34, 2 May 2007 (PDT)
- Climate change reports & studies, especially those focusing on necessary measures, targets, solutions, and especially those focused on peer-reviewed science:
Non-commercial Creative Commens material
These can be ported when either we get permission for them to be released under our license, or (more likely) we start using a separate NC namespace for such material, or a template similar to {{open access}}. Is there a substantial amount of material to outweigh the likely confusion that will result? (Probably not, IMO. For non-open-licensed content, we're better off sticking to a single type, i.e. open access content, which is available in far greater amounts. --Chriswaterguy 06:39, 23 March 2009 (UTC))
Governments and intergovernmental organizations
- Priority: identify which governments release their documents under public domain by default.
- Some of this content is already PD - help us find which is. (should google:public-domain+government as a start...)
- Government documents?
- US federal govt documents are usually public domain. Check the individual site. If uncertain, see US federal government websites and public domain and also contact the site or department. Examples of public domain content from the US federal govt:
- United States Department of Agriculture - Home - (see Digital Rights and Copyright on permission info). Good pages/subsites include:
- Other govts?
- US federal govt documents are usually public domain. Check the individual site. If uncertain, see US federal government websites and public domain and also contact the site or department. Examples of public domain content from the US federal govt:
Any not PD/open content... to be highlighted and lobbied as part of the OSN's program, or just Appropedia's?
How to port
- Help:How to port pages
- Appropedia:Porting formatted content to MediaWiki
- Help:Porting PDF files to MediaWiki
- Help:Porting PDF files to MediaWiki (old method, manual formatting)
See also
Notes
- ↑ There are no restrictions on public domain content. We don't have to attribution, but it's nice to do. If a page says that the content is public domain as long as it is attributed... then they are confused. (In any case, it's good practice to attribute the content regardless, and I propose that that be our policy. --Chriswaterguy · talk 07:52, 2 November 2007 (PDT))