There are over 150 great tech brief documents that may be ported, in several categories from Practical Action's site.

A suggested process

The following process is suggested to help coordinate multiple people doing the porting:

  1. Identify a page that has not yet been tagged by someone for porting
  2. Before you get too far, check that, indeed, the page has not yet been ported
  3. 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.
  4. Create the target page using the name of the Technical Brief, plus "PATB" (Practical Action Technical Brief) to make the name distinct
  5. Copy / paste the following at the top of your new article: {{PATBpage}}
  6. As you work through the page, please check to see if there is any indication of content that is not sourced by Practical Action.
    1. If so, make note in the status that addition permission is required.
    2. 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.
    3. Otherwise just note that permission is needed.
    4. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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)
  9. 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

  1. Biogas and liquid biofuels
  2. Micro-hydro power
  3. Solar thermal energy
  4. Refrigeration for developing countries
  5. Rural lighting
  6. Energy from the wind
  7. A number of water related pages ported by Fatima in early 2008, to be listed here...:

Not yet started

  1. Biomass
  2. Diesel
  3. Grid connection
  4. Kerosene and LPG
  5. Paddy husk and sawdust-fired industrial stove
  6. Solar cooking
  7. Solar (PV) energy
  8. Solar (PV) refrigeration of vaccines
  9. Solar water heating
  10. Stoves for institutions

Not ready to start

  1. 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)
  2. Wind for electricity generation
    • Contains Images with a copyright not from Practical Action (at least port without the images? --Chriswaterguy · talk 17:48, 5 February 2008 (PST))

Transport

  1. Aerial ropeway in Nepal 288k
  2. Gravity ropeways 1.1Mb
  3. Bicycles 522k
  4. Bicycle trailers 647k
  5. 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.
  6. Plywood boat building in South India 390k

Miscellaneous

  1. Mineral processing 281k
  2. A mercury retort 599k
  3. Producing printed material 191k
  4. Artificial reefs and their placement 1.8Mb

Manufacturing

  1. Candlemaking 324k
  2. Dyeing of textiles 270k
  3. Oil-soaked wood bearings 2.1Mb
  4. Papermaking 266k
  5. Recycling of organic waste 187k
  6. Recycling of plastics 361k
  7. Recycling of rubber 270k
  8. Soapmaking 158k

Water and Sanitation

Ported or in process

  1. Compost toilet 284k
  2. Hydraulic ram pumps 190k
  3. Micro-irrigation 380k
  4. Sand dams 156k
  5. Solar distillation 88k
  6. Underground rainwater harvesting 159k
  7. Windpumps 175k
  8. Handpumps 292k
  9. Run-off Rainwater harvesting 495k
  10. Water harvesting in Sudan 296k
  11. Reuse of faeces and urine
  12. Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine
  13. Solar (PV) water-pumping 195


Not yet started

  1. Rainwater harvesting 934k
  2. Water hyacinths 319k
  3. Water supply and sanitation 166k

Agriculture

In process or porting complete

  1. Beekeeping 471k
    • Ported to Beekeeping. Original document not created, and not protected.
  2. Community cereal banks 140k
  3. Dead level contours 241k
  4. Donkey plough 206k
  5. Integrated soil fertility 146k
  6. Micro-irrigation 221k
  7. Sand dams 156k
  8. Small-fish farming 337k
  9. Underground rainwater harvesting 159k
  10. Compost bin manufacture 910k
  11. Conservation of indigenous breeds 123k
  12. Home composting 292k
  13. Run-off rainwater harvesting 459k
  14. Seed fairs 202k
  15. The 'A' frame 118k
  16. Tsetse fly management 326k
  17. Water harvesting in Sudan 296k


Not yet started

  1. Community-based animal health care 161k
  2. Rainwater harvesting 934k

Construction

In process or porting complete

  1. Earthquake-resistant housing 281k
  2. Methods for testing lime in the field 596k
  3. Testing methods for pozzolanas 492k
  4. Mud plasters and renders 2.5Mb


Not yet started

  1. Micro concrete roofing tiles 501k
  2. School buildings in developing countries 317k

Food Processing

Started or ported

  1. Pineapple jam 46k
  2. Evaporative Cooling 46k

Not yet started

  1. Anagi tray dryer 338k
  2. Banana beer 28k
  3. Banana chips 241k
  4. Biltong 44k
  5. Bottle and jar cooling system 82k
  6. Bottle washing and steam sterilisation 115k
  7. Brown sugar 80k
  8. Butter making 47k
  9. Canning of foods 45k
  10. Cardomom 150k
  11. Cashew nut processing 273k
  12. Chiuri (the Butter Tree of Nepal) 63k
  13. Cinnamon 51k
  14. Cloves 39k
  15. Cocoa and chocolate 65k
  16. Coffee 190k
  17. Cold storage of fruits and vegetables 82k
  18. Coriander 38k
  19. Cumin 39k
  20. Dairy processing 122k
  21. Drying of apricots 175k
  22. Drying of chillies 170k
  23. Drying of foods 200k
  24. Drying technology 190k
  25. Essential oils 278k
  26. Food poisoning and its prevention 59k
  27. Food processing building design 58k
  28. Food processing equipment design 57k
  29. Fruit juice processing 137k
  30. Fruit leathers 131k
  31. Fruit waste utilisation 55k
  32. Ginger 71k
  33. Grape wine 139k
  34. Groundnut processing 188k
  35. Gundruck (pickled leafy vegetables) 41k
  36. Honey processing 110k
  37. Jam, jellies and marmalades 155k
  38. Kawal 40k
  39. Lime cordial 44k
  40. Lime juice manufacture 38k
  41. Lime marmalade 151k
  42. Lime oil and juice 118k
  43. Liquids filling and packaging 113k
  44. Marshmallows 66k
  45. Mixed fruit juice manufacture 44k
  46. Nas Naran lime juice manufacture 39k
  47. Nutmeg and mace 58k
  48. Oil extraction 312k
  49. Packaging food in glass 441k
  50. Packaging materials 214k
  51. Papain production 29k
  52. Passion fruit jam 45k
  53. Passion fruit juice 44k
  54. Pepper 178k
  55. Pickled cabbage (Kimchi) 41k
  56. Pickled cucumber 40k
  57. Pickled dry salted lime 44k
  58. Pickled fruits 54k
  59. Pickled papaya 51k
  60. Pickled vegetables 47k
  61. Pineapple peel vinegar 46k
  62. Quality control 78k
  63. Solar drying 120k
  64. Solids filling and packaging 43k
  65. Spice processing 146k
  66. Strawberry jam 44k
  67. Sugar production from cane sugar 63k
  68. Toddy and palm wine 54k
  69. Tofu and soymilk production 51k
  70. Tomato processing 54k
  71. Tomato semi-processing 141k
  72. Tray dryers 184k
  73. Turmeric 45k
  74. Watermelon jam 44k
  75. Yoghurt 45k
  76. Yoghurt incubator 196k
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