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* [[Demotech]] - This is almost all Reinder's work and he's happy to release under GFDL as well. Start with [http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=11 publications] and add a note that the original author would appreciate feedback. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 21:12, 9 May 2008 (PDT)
* [[Demotech]] - This is almost all Reinder's work and he's happy to release under GFDL as well. Start with [http://www.demotech.org/d-publications/designA.php?d=11 publications] and add a note that the original author would appreciate feedback. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] 21:12, 9 May 2008 (PDT)
* [[Mana Mushrooms]]
* [[Mana Mushrooms]]
* http://www.slowsandfilter.org
* [http://www.eoearth.org/ Encyclopedia of Earth] - CC-BY-SA.
* [http://www.eoearth.org/ Encyclopedia of Earth] - CC-BY-SA.
* [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Overview Openfarmtech.org] ('''Notice''': Don't port these pages yet - we're looking at using transclusion. Should be sorted by 11 Feb. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] &middot; <small>[[User talk:Chriswaterguy|talk]]</small> 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.
* [http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Overview Openfarmtech.org] ('''Notice''': Don't port these pages yet - we're looking at using transclusion. Should be sorted by 11 Feb. --[[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] &middot; <small>[[User talk:Chriswaterguy|talk]]</small> 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.

Revision as of 04:54, 22 October 2009

There is a huge amount of material that we have permission to use on Appropedia. (See #Finding other open content information, below.) Can you help us bring it onto the wiki and make this a part of our growing, living library of knowledge for a better world?

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:

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):

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:

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)Reply[reply]

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:

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:

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?
  • 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).

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))Reply[reply]

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...)

Any not PD/open content... to be highlighted and lobbied as part of the OSN's program, or just Appropedia's?

How to port

See also

Notes

  1. 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))
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