There are over 150 great tech brief documents that may be ported, in several categories from Practical Action's site.
- See also: Help:Porting content from PDF format for some suggestions about techniques (and if you have additional techniques, by all means please share those on the help page).
A suggested process
The following process is suggested to help coordinate multiple people doing the porting:
- Identify a page that has not yet been tagged by someone for porting
- Before you get too far, check that, indeed, the page has not yet been ported
- Tag the page, with your user signature (we request that all porters create logins and simple user pages) and timestamp (you can use the 4 ~'s; clicking the second-from-right button in the editing toolbar will insert that for you). See examples below.
- Create the target page using the name of the Technical Brief, plus "PATB" (Practical Action Technical Brief) to make the name distinct
- Copy / paste the following at the top of your new article: {{PATBpage}}
- As you work through the page, please check to see if there is any indication of content that is not sourced by Practical Action.
- If so, make note in the status that addition permission is required.
- Go ahead and request the permission if you're comfortable with that (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission), noting in the status that you have done so.
- Otherwise just note that permission is needed.
- Of course, if we cannot get permission for some content, we need to make note of that and remove the document from the list of content to be ported
- As you make progress, update the status bullet (below) for the page, update your signature and timestamp so that we can tell if a page gets stuck for some reason.
- If you're clear about how to categorize the page, please go ahead and do that when the page is largely complete (i.e. worth reading)
- If you're not comfortable doing the categorization, please note that in the page status when you are done with your work
Thanks for your help!
Energy
Started or ported
- Biogas and liquid biofuels
- Ported to Biogas and liquid biofuels (original) and Biogas and liquid biofuels. --CurtB
- Micro-hydro power
- Ported to Microhydro power (original) and Microhydro power. --CurtB
- Solar thermal energy
- Ported to Solar thermal energy (original) and Solar thermal energy --CurtB
- Refrigeration for developing countries
- Ported to Refrigeration for developing countries (original) and Refrigeration for developing countries --LeissKG 09:29, 19 September 2007 (PDT)
Not yet started
- Biomass
- Diesel
- Energy from the wind
- Grid connection
- Kerosene and LPG
- Paddy husk and sawdust-fired industrial stove
- Rural lighting
- Solar cooking
- Solar (PV) energy
- Solar (PV) refrigeration of vaccines
- Solar water heating
- Stoves for institutions
- Wind for electricity generation
Not ready to start
- Batteries
- This tech brief is subject to additional copyright restrictions. I have requested permission from the other copyright owner. I have been transferring content to the new page at Batteries PATB. For now I will be removing from view what I had thus far transferred. --CurtB 07:59, 24 November 2006 (PST)
Transport
- Aerial ropeway in Nepal 288k
- Gravity ropeways 1.1Mb
- Bicycles 522k
- Bicycle trailers 647k
- Dry-stone causeways 202k
- This document has additional copyright constraints that are being addressed. Do not begin porting of this document until the copyright situation is sorted out.
- Plywood boat building in South India 390k
Miscellaneous
- Mineral processing 281k
- A mercury retort 599k
- Producing printed material 191k
- Artificial reefs and their placement 1.8Mb
Manufacturing
- Candlemaking 324k
- Dyeing of textiles 270k
- Oil-soaked wood bearings 2.1Mb
- Papermaking 266k
- Recycling of organic waste 187k
- Recycling of plastics 361k
- Recycling of rubber 270k
- Soapmaking 158k
Water and Sanitation
Ported or in process
- Compost toilet 284k
- Ported to Compost toilets (original) and Compost toilets --CurtB 15:24, 11 December 2006 (PST)
- Hydraulic ram pumps 190k
- Ported to Hydraulic ram pumps (original) and Hydraulic ram pumps --CurtB 22:02, 28 December 2006 (PST)
- Micro-irrigation 380k
- Ported to Micro-irrigation (original) and Micro-irrigation --CurtB 15:22, 1 January 2007 (PST)
- Sand dams 156k
- Ported to Sand dams (original) and Sand dams --CurtB 15:22, 1 January 2007 (PST)
- Solar distillation 88k
- Ported to Solar distillation TB (original) and Solar distillation TB --CurtB 22:02, 28 December 2006 (PST)
- Underground rainwater harvesting 159k
- Ported to Underground rainwater storage facilities (original) and Underground rainwater storage facilities --CurtB 17:10, 30 December 2006 (PST)
- Windpumps 175k
- Ported to Windpumps (original) and Windpumps --CurtB 15:22, 1 January 2007 (PST)
Not yet started
- Handpumps 292k
- Rainwater harvesting 934k
- Run-off rainwater harvesting 459k
- Solar (PV) water-pumping 195k
- Water harvesting in Sudan 296k
- Water hyacinths 319k
- Water supply and sanitation 166k
Agriculture
In process or porting complete
- Beekeeping 471k
- Ported to Beekeeping. Original document not created, and not protected.
- Community cereal banks 140k
- Ported to Community cereal bank (original) and Community cereal bank --CurtB 16:34, 17 December 2006 (PST)
- Dead level contours 241k
- Ported to Dead level contours (original) and Dead level contours --CurtB
- Donkey plough 206k
- Ported to Donkey plough (original) and Donkey plough --CurtB 16:14, 20 December 2006 (PST)
- Integrated soil fertility 146k
- Ported to Integrated soil fertility (original) and Integrated soil fertility --CurtB 18:23, 30 December 2006 (PST)
- Micro-irrigation 221k
- Ported to Micro-irrigation (original) and Micro-irrigation --CurtB 15:22, 1 January 2007 (PST)
- Sand dams 156k
- Ported to Sand dams (original) and Sand dams -- CurtB
- Small-fish farming 337k
- Underground rainwater harvesting 159k
Not yet started
- Community-based animal health care 161k
- Compost bin manufacture 910k
- Conservation of indigenous breeds 123k
- Home composting 292k
- Rainwater harvesting 934k
- Run-off rainwater harvesting 459k
- Seed fairs 202k
- The 'A' frame 118k
- Tsetse fly management 326k
- Water harvesting in Sudan 296k
Construction
- Earthquake-resistant housing 281k
- Methods for testing lime in the field 596k
- Testing methods for pozzolanas 492k
- Micro concrete roofing tiles 501k
- Mud plasters and renders 2.5Mb
- School buildings in developing countries 317k
Food Processing
Started or ported
- Pineapple jam 46k
- Ported to Pineapple jam (original) and Pineapple jam CurtB
Not yet started
- Anagi tray dryer 338k
- Banana beer 28k
- Banana chips 241k
- Biltong 44k
- Bottle and jar cooling system 82k
- Bottle washing and steam sterilisation 115k
- Brown sugar 80k
- Butter making 47k
- Canning of foods 45k
- Cardomom 150k
- Cashew nut processing 273k
- Chiuri (the Butter Tree of Nepal) 63k
- Cinnamon 51k
- Cloves 39k
- Cocoa and chocolate 65k
- Coffee 190k
- Cold storage of fruits and vegetables 82k
- Coriander 38k
- Cumin 39k
- Dairy processing 122k
- Drying of apricots 175k
- Drying of chillies 170k
- Drying of foods 200k
- Drying technology 190k
- Essential oils 278k
- Food poisoning and its prevention 59k
- Food processing building design 58k
- Food processing equipment design 57k
- Fruit juice processing 137k
- Fruit leathers 131k
- Fruit waste utilisation 55k
- Ginger 71k
- Grape wine 139k
- Groundnut processing 188k
- Gundruck (pickled leafy vegetables) 41k
- Honey processing 110k
- Jam, jellies and marmalades 155k
- Kawal 40k
- Lime cordial 44k
- Lime juice manufacture 38k
- Lime marmalade 151k
- Lime oil and juice 118k
- Liquids filling and packaging 113k
- Marshmallows 66k
- Mixed fruit juice manufacture 44k
- Nas Naran lime juice manufacture 39k
- Nutmeg and mace 58k
- Oil extraction 312k
- Packaging food in glass 441k
- Packaging materials 214k
- Papain production 29k
- Passion fruit jam 45k
- Passion fruit juice 44k
- Pepper 178k
- Pickled cabbage (Kimchi) 41k
- Pickled cucumber 40k
- Pickled dry salted lime 44k
- Pickled fruits 54k
- Pickled papaya 51k
- Pickled vegetables 47k
- Pineapple peel vinegar 46k
- Quality control 78k
- Solar drying 120k
- Solids filling and packaging 43k
- Spice processing 146k
- Strawberry jam 44k
- Sugar production from cane sugar 63k
- Toddy and palm wine 54k
- Tofu and soymilk production 51k
- Tomato processing 54k
- Tomato semi-processing 141k
- Tray dryers 184k
- Turmeric 45k
- Watermelon jam 44k
- Yoghurt 45k
- Yoghurt incubator 196k