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Okay, let me see where that leads!
Okay, let me see where that leads!
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==[[:Category:Water|Water]]<ref>begin WATER refs</ref><ref>Moderator: Chris!</ref>==
Notes for Water section<ref>Should moderators define categories in their areas?</ref><br>
'''[[:Category:Greywater|Greywater]]'''
:Garden box &bull; Planter box
'''[[:Category:Pumping|Pumping]]'''
:Hydraulic ram &bull; Solar &bull; Rope &bull; Hand
'''[[:Category:Rainwater|Rainwater]]'''<ref>Should we add "snowmelt" to this? Or separate?  Change to precipitation?</ref>
:[[:Category:Flood control|Flood control]] <small>Swales</small>
:Rooftop catchment &bull; Stormwater catchment
'''[[:Category:Sanitation|Sanitation]]'''<ref>I opted to place Wastewater treatment under Sanitation.  Discuss</ref><br>
:[[:Category:Wastewater treatment| Wastewater treatment ]]'''<br>
:<small>Primary &bull; Secondary &bull; Tertiary &bull; Physical &bull; Chemical &bull; Biological &bull; Constructed lagoons &bull; Community scale</small>
'''[[:Category:Water conservation|Water conservation]]'''
:[[:Category:Composting toilets| Composting toilets]]
'''[[:Category:Water delivery|Water delivery]]''' (instead of transport?)
:Water jugs &bull; Aqueducts and plumbing
'''[[:Category:Water purification|Water purification]]'''<br>
:Desalination <small>Solar desalination</small>
:[[:Category:Distillation|Distillation]] <small>[[:Category:Solar distillation|Solar distillation]]</small>
:[[:Category:Filtration|Filtration]] <small>Slow sand filtration</small>
'''[[:Category:Water quality|Water quality]]'''<ref>Water quality part of purification and sanitation? Health?</ref><br>
'''[[:Category:Water storage|Water storage]]'''
:Cisterns<ref>How is a Cistern different from a storage tank?</ref>
:Storage tanks <small>Ferrocement &bull; Plastic &bull; Wood</small>
'''[[:Category:Water supply|Water supply]]'''<ref>Wells moved to "water supply" from storage</ref><br>
:[[Rural water supply]]<ref>Regional categories or articles beneath this</ref> &bull; Wells
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==[[:Category:Food and drink| Food and drink]]==
Notes for Food section<ref>begin FOOD AND DRINK refs</ref><ref>"Food and drink" has 126 articles, Food has 5! I choose "Food and drink" for practical reasons! Plus it's also an okay name</ref><br>
'''[[Agriculture]]'''<ref>What about soil preparation? Too sandy? Too clayey? Grading? Plowing? Put that above Fertilization</ref><ref>Are agricultural blights the same as pests? Rot? Aphids? Locusts? What about weeds?</ref><br>
:Biodynamic farming?
:Companion planting &bull; Crop rotation &bull; Crop drying &bull; Crop storage
:Seed saving &bull; [[Specific crops and climates]]
:[[Soil preparation]] <small>[[:Category:Composting|Composting]] &bull; Fertilization &bull; Grading &bull; Plowing</small>
:[[:Category:Uncommon Tropical Crops|Uncommon Tropical Crops]]<ref>existing category, noncompliant capitalization, 3 members</ref>
'''[[Agroforestry]]'''<br>
'''[[Animal husbandry]]'''
:Animal health &bull; Chicken tractor &bull; Beekeeping &bull; [[:Category:Fish farming|Fish farming]] &bull; [[:Category:Livestock | Livestock]]
'''[[Aquaculture]]'''<br>
'''[[Food preserving]]'''<ref>Former name, Preserving and storing food, 5 members</ref><br>
:Canning &bull; Dehydrating <small>[[:Category:Solar dehydrating|Solar]]</small>
:Refrigeration &bull; Storing
'''[[:Category:Food preparation|Food preparation]]'''<ref>Food processing category exists.  Transfer to preparation?  Subcategory of preparation?</ref><br>
:[[:Category:Cooking|Cooking]] <small>[[:Category:Cookers|Cookers]] &bull; [[:Category:Solar cooking|Solar]]</small>
:Macrobiotics<ref>Does Macrobiotics belong in nutrition/diet?</ref> &bull; Raw
'''[[Gardening]]'''
:Biointensive &bull; Organic &bull; Double digging
'''[[Greenhouses]]'''
:Pit &bull; Lean to &bull; Attached &bull; Freestanding &bull; Hoophouses
'''[[Nutrition and diet]]'''
:100 mile diet &bull; Omnivorism &bull; Vegetarianism
'''[[:Category:Pest control|Pest control]]'''<br>
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==[[:Category:Public health|Public health]] or [[:Category:Health|Health]] or [[Health and safety]]==
Refs for public health section<ref>begin HEALTH AND SAFETY refs</ref><ref>"Health and safety"?  Where to put various safety items? Under community? Note that "Health" already exists and has 13 members.  Public health exists and has 8 members.</ref><ref>I'm concerned about the value and liability of "treatment" articles.  I would suggest a conservative policy in the treatment area, or huge disclaimers.  Both, really.<br>
:*I'm not sure how conservative you are thinking, but I'd like to major on the prominent disclaimer and restrict editing as little as possible. --[[User:Singkong2005|Singkong2005]] &middot; <small>[[User talk:Singkong2005|talk]]</small> 03:56, 15 January 2007 (PST)</ref><ref>What to include?  Cysts, bacteria, virus, but not broken bones, sprains, cuts, concussions, malnutrition, exposure, heat stroke, dehydration?<br>
:*Some are obviously development-related, like malaria... but I wouldn't be inclined to categorize diseases by pathogen type (Cysts, Bacterias, Viruses) - not at this stage, anyway. We're focusing on the technology and practice of treatment on prevention, not on the biology of the pathogen.
:*I guess the aim here is to suggest likely topics, rather than define limits? To be honest, I'm actually not sure why we need this table at all, as opposed to just relying on the category structure (which would also save a lot of work, and avoid getting out of date)...
:If we end up having pages on appropriate technology casts for broken limbs, and suitable transport for people in a delicate condition (with broken bones or internal injuries) in rough, poor situations, then we we might think about having a category for those topics. --[[User:Singkong2005|Singkong2005]] &middot; <small>[[User talk:Singkong2005|talk]]</small> 03:56, 15 January 2007 (PST)</ref><ref>Prevention and treatment are called out separately.  What else is there?  Description, diagnosis, prevalence, perhaps?</ref><ref>I dropped specific diseases under "diseases, and implicitly raised "prevention and treatement" within each category to be included with categories as, say, Cysts.</ref><br>
'''[[Disabilities]]'''<br>
'''[[Diseases]]'''
:[[Cysts]] &bull; [[Bacterias]]<ref>Bacteria is already plural right?  And yet, my gut says adding the "s" is okay</ref> &bull; [[Viruses]]
'''[[Health care by region]]'''<br>
'''[[Health paradigms]]'''<br>
:Homeopathy &bull; Aleopathy &bull; Herbalism<ref>I wouldn't be making a fuss if someone added pages on these topics, but are they really part of Appropedia's focus? (Did Chris leave this?)</ref>
'''[[Human dignity in public health]]'''<br>
'''[[:Category:Hygiene|Hygiene]]'''<br>
:Hand washing<ref>Moved from Sanitation as agreed with Chris</ref> &bull; [[:Category:Washing|Washing]]<ref>existing category(2)</ref><br>
'''[[:Category:Medical storage|Medical storage]]'''<br>
:[[:Category:Refrigeration|Refrigeration]]
::<small>Food refrigeration &bull; Vaccine refrigeration</small>
'''[[ORT]]'''<ref>What is this?  Is there a better label? Does it fit under something else?</ref><br>
'''[[:Category:Pest control|Pest control]]'''<br>
:[[:Category:Mosquito control|Mosquito control]]
'''[[Public safety]]'''
:Ambulance &bull; Earthquake preparedness
:Fire response &bull; Tsunami alert
'''[[Sanitation]]'''<ref>How is "wastewater treatment" distinct from Sanitation?  Bigger? Smaller? Same?</ref><br>
:[[:Category:Composting toilet|Composting toilets]]<ref>Need to change the name of the current category name by adding an "S".</ref><ref>IMHO, the subcategories (bucket, double-vaulted) don't add value, can be added later.  This is a recurring theme and needs to be addressed as a policy. Do we create empty or single-article categories and hope they grow?  Meanwhile live with bunches of empty or near-empty categories, which seems annoying and seems to exaggerate gaps.  Alternatively, we are forced to regularly create and expand categories, which has its own set of issues...</ref> <small>Bucket &bull; Double vaulted</small>
:Humanure &bull; [[Pit latrines]]<ref>Merged "improved pit latrines" into </ref> &bull; [[Septic tanks]]
'''[[:Category:Waste management|Waste management]]'''<ref>Is this solid was management, different from, say, wastewater treatment and sanitation?</ref><br>
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==[[:Category:Culture and community|Culture and community]]==
Notes on "C and C" section<ref>begin CULTURE AND COMMUNITY refs</ref><ref>Category:Community exists with 51 members!</ref><ref>Category:Corruption belongs here (1 article) and Poverty (1)</ref><ref>"Culture and development" has 8 articles.  Need to figure out where they fit</ref><br>
'''[[:Category:Activism|Activism]]'''<ref>New proposal:Active citizenry? Maybe that's different from Activism?</ref><br>
:Accounting practices &bull; Microfinance
:Sustainable accounting &bull; Triple bottom line
'''[[:Category:Cities|Cities]]'''<br>
'''[[:Category:Commerce|Commerce]]'''<ref>Economics?</ref><br>
:[[:Category:Banking|Banking]] or [[:Category:Finance|Finance]]<ref>Although I had originally suggested Banking as a category, commerce is a better meta term, and the category exists (1 member).  For example, there are a variety of manufacturing articles that would seem to be supportive of sustainable development; they could fit under commerce along with banking.  Another discussion might be licensing, permits, cap-and-trade, etc.  Not all are applicable to 3rd world</ref><ref>Finance already exists also.  Seems broader than banking, so perhaps drop banking?</ref> <small>[[:Category:Microfinance|Microfinance]]</small>
'''[[Community organizing]]'''<br>
:[[Building partnerships]]
:[[Collaborative meeting tools]] &bull; [[:Category:Cooperatives|Cooperatives]]
'''[[:Category:Culture and development|Culture and development]]'''<br>
'''[[Decision making techniques]]'''<br>
:Pugh diagrams &bull; Delphi method
'''[[Decision making structures]]'''<br>
:Consensus &bull; Democratic &bull; Hand clasp
:Majority rule &bull; Minority rule &bull; Unanimity
'''[[Effective lobbying]]'''<br>
'''[[:Category:Environmental justice|Environmental justice]]'''<br>
'''[[:Category:Gender and development|Gender and development]]'''<br>
:[[Equal rights for women]] &bull; [[Male contraception]]
:[[Separate facilities]]
'''[[Intentional communities]]'''<br>
:Communes &bull; Ecovillages
'''[[Legal systems]]'''<ref>I don't know if "Legal Systems" is the best top category?  Maybe "Governance"? Or maybe it should be Justice itself, or Rule of law?</ref><br>
:[[:Category:Justice|Justice]] &bull; Rule of law
'''[[Multiculturalism]]'''<br>
'''[[Social artistry]]'''<br>
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==[[:Category:ICT|ICT]]==
Notes for ICT section<ref>begin ICT refs</ref><ref>Now leaning toward "Education and Communication"</ref><ref>where would satellite go? web connection?Email?</ref><br>
'''[[Computers]]'''<ref>If we have a category for repeaters, seems like computers deserve a slot</ref><br>
:Laptops &bull; Servers
'''[[:Category:Education|Education]]'''<br>
:Curriculum development &bull; Computer based education
:Education paradigms <small>Piaget &bull; Montessori</small>
:International programs &bull; Intereducation
:Service Learning &bull; School construction
:Teaching materials <small>Copyleft materials</small>
:Teacher training
'''[[GIS]]'''<br>
'''[[Networking]]'''<br>
:[[:Category:Internet|Internet]]<br>
:<small>Blogs *&bull; Email &bull; Instant messaging</small>
:[[:Category:Wikis|Wikis]]
'''[[Repeaters]]'''<br>
'''[[Short wave radio]]'''<br>
'''[[Software]]'''<br>
:[[:Category:Open source|Open source]] &bull; Shareware
'''[[Telephony]]'''<br>
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==[[:Category:Energy|Energy]]==
Refs for Energy section<ref>begin ENERGY refs</ref><ref>there's some inconsistency here. A mix between sources of energy and forms of energy.  Sources may be: human, animal, wind, water, solar, etc.  Forms might be mechanical, thermal, electrical, light, etc.  We have human and wind under electrical, but windmills can be used for, yep, mills, or for pumping, with no electricity involved.  Solution?  A more complete subcategorization by energy form, or by source, or possibly both</ref><ref>"Power and energy" was the former name. 6 members</ref><br>
'''[[Efficiency]]'''<br>
*[[Energy auditing]]
'''[[Electrical energy]]'''<ref>We have "electricity" as an existing category...what to do?</ref><br>
:[[Batteries]] &bull; [[:Category:Electric lighting|Electric lighting]]<ref>Highlights the categorization problem. Need a "lighting" section</ref> &bull; [[Fuel cells]]<ref>Use the broader term, most are hydrogen anyway</ref>
:[[Grid intertie]] &bull; [[Microcapicitors]]
:[[:Category:Human power|Human power]]<ref>Subcategories may not be needed</ref> <small>[[:Category:Pedal power|Pedal power]]</small>
:[[:Category:Microhydro|Microhydro]] &bull; [[:Category:Photovoltaic|Photovoltaic]]
::<small>Solar pumping &bull; Solar vaccine refrigeration</small>
:Wave power &bull; Wind power
'''[[Heat]]'''<br>
:[[:Category:Cooking|Cooking]]<ref>"Cooking" includes stoves and ovens, and consistent with policy, existing "Solar cooking" category, "heating" (not heaters) and "refrigeration" (not "refrigerators")</ref> <small>[[:Category:Cookers|Cookers]] &bull; [[:Category:Solar cooking|Solar]]</small>
:Hydronic radiant heating<ref>This can also be done in the lower part of walls, right?</ref>
:[[Insulation]] <small>[[:Category:Strawbale|Strawbale]] &bull; Fiber board &bull; Fiberglass</small>
:Passive solar design &bull; [[:Category:Refrigeration|Refrigeration]]
:[[:Category:Solar hotwater|Solar hotwater]]<ref>Even if, technically, there are thermal and nonthermal version of solar hotwater, Chris and I agree that "solar thermal" is overly pedantic and not natural.  In any case, choose the larger label that can include both thermal and non-thermal solar hotwater</ref> &bull; Thermal mass &bull; Thermodynamics
'''[[:Category:Fuels|Fuels]]'''<ref>Category:Biofuel already exists...</ref><br>
:[[:Category:Biodiesel|Biodiesel]]<ref>IMHO, these subcategories shouldn't exist for a while...Just bundle the small number of articles under the "Fuel" or "Biofuel" category.</ref> &bull; Biogas &bull; Ethanol &bull; Hydrogen
(Legacy categories)<br>
'''[[:Category:Renewable energy|Renewable energy]]'''<br>
'''[[:Category:Solar| Solar]]'''<br>
*[[:Category:Parabolic| Parabolic]]
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==[[Materials and construction]]==
Materials and construction refs<ref>begin MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION refs</ref><br>
'''[[:Category:4Rs|4Rs]]'''<br>
:Reduce &bull; [[:Category:Material reuse|Reuse]] &bull; [[:Category:Recycling|Recycling]] &bull; Rethink
'''[[:Category:Construction|Construction]]'''
:'''[[:Category:Alternative building | Alternative building]]'''<ref>Alternative building needs to be a redirect to Construction, or a subcat</ref><br>
:Bamboo &bull; Cordwood &bull; [[:Category:Earthquake safety|Earthquake safety]] &bull; Earthship<ref>Huh?</ref> &bull; Ferrocement &bull; Living roof &bull; Papercrete &bull; [[:Category:Strawbale|Strawbale]] &bull; Tires
:[[:Category:Earthen construction|Earthen construction]]
::<small>[[:Category:Adobe|Adobe]] &bull; Bajareche &bull; [[:Category:Cobb|Cobb]] &bull; Earth bags &bull; Earthen oven &bull; Earthen plaster &bull; [[:Category:Living roof|Living roof]] &bull; Rammed earth &bull; Stone and brick &bull; Wattle and daub</small>
'''[[Alternative materials]]'''<br>
:Bioplastic &bull; Hemp &bull; Lechugilla &bull; Smartwood
'''[[Bioremediation]]'''<ref>Bioremediation seems more like agriculture</ref><br>
'''[[:Category:Composting|Composting]]'''<br>
:[[:Category:Vermiculture|Vermiculture]] &bull; Pit &bull; Spinning barrel
'''[[Material science]]'''<br>
:Fluid dynamics &bull; Solid dynamics &bull; Solid statics
'''[[Natural capital]]'''<br>
'''[[:Category:Supplies|Supplies]]'''<ref>This also belongs in User resources, as does services availability, etc. </ref><br>
'''[[Surveying]]'''<br>
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==[[:Category:Transportation|Transportation]]==
Notes on Transportation section<ref>begin TRANSPORTATION refs</ref><ref>Distinguish between human focus and freight?</ref><ref>Lots of oddball possibilities, seems almost like you need some kind of "alternative" category for things like Hovercraft</ref><ref>Where would tractors belong? Here, or agriculture?  Are they a tool?  Where are tools categorized?!?</ref><br>
'''[[Air transport]]'''<br>
'''[[Animal transport]]'''<ref>Is this legitimate?  Seems like?</ref><br>
'''[[Automobiles and Trucks]]'''<br>
:[[Multi-person vehicles]] <small>Buses</small>
:[[Single person vehicles]]'''<ref>Is this skateboards and Segways? Is this meant to include motorcycles /scooters /mopeds?  They carry about 4 people in many parts of the world.  Should we say 2 wheels, 2 axles, multiaxle? These don't seem natural...  Perhaps we need to capture some article titles and see where the potential content takes us.</ref>
'''[[:Category:Bicycling|Bicycling]]'''<ref>Consider "Human powered" section, to include bicycling, skating, rollerblading, skateboarding, skiing, walking etc?</ref><br>
:Bicycle parking  &bull; Bicycle towing
:Critical mass bike rides &bull; Electric bicycles
:Recumbent &bull; Rickshaw
'''[[Fuel]]'''<ref>Do hybrids and plug-in hybrids go here?</ref><br>
'''[[Greenbelts]]'''<br>
'''[[Mass transit]]'''<ref>This was not brought forward.  If it was intentionally dropped, then remove this...</ref><br>
'''[[Rail transport]]'''<br>
*[[Light rail]] &bull; [[Trains]]
'''[[Rideshare]]'''<br>
'''[[Roads and bridges]]'''<ref>Is it fair to merge these?</ref><br>
'''[[Rope and cable transport]]'''<ref>Two tech briefs at Practical Action on Ropeways</ref><br>
'''[[Water-borne transport]]'''
*[[:Category:FerroBoats|Ferrocement boats]]<ref>([[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]])</ref>
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==[[:Category:Metaconcepts|Metaconcepts]]==
'''[[Appropriate technology]]'''<br>
'''[[:Category:Biomimicry| Biomimicry]]'''<br>
'''[[International development]]'''<br>
:[[:Category:Principals of development|Principals of development]]<ref>1 member</ref>
'''[[:Category:Natural capital| Natural capital]]'''<br>
'''[[:Category:Permaculture| Permaculture]]'''<br>
'''[[Poverty Reduction]]'''<br>
'''[[:Category:Sustainability|Sustainability]]'''<br>
:[[Sustainable development]]
'''[[:Category:Triple bottom line| Triple bottom line]]'''<br>
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==Where to put these?==
==Where to put these?==
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'''[[:Category:Tools|Tools]]'''<ref>existing category name is singular ("tool")</ref><ref>Interesting.  Tools are not an inherent human need, but a means to an end.  Getting more philosophical, all technologies are tools, and so the whole site is about tools, but many tools are highly specialized. So the more general tools fall into the "tool" bucket.  One could argue that Tools is a meta-topic, and that ICT belongs under tools.  If we were to pursue that method (fine by me), then Education might belong under Community. I would also be fine with that.</ref><br>
'''[[:Category:Tools|Tools]]'''<ref>existing category name is singular ("tool")</ref><ref>Interesting.  Tools are not an inherent human need, but a means to an end.  Getting more philosophical, all technologies are tools, and so the whole site is about tools, but many tools are highly specialized. So the more general tools fall into the "tool" bucket.  One could argue that Tools is a meta-topic, and that ICT belongs under tools.  If we were to pursue that method (fine by me), then Education might belong under Community. I would also be fine with that.</ref><br>
:[[:Category:Knots|Knots]]<ref>Currently, Knots is a subcategory of How_to</ref>
:[[:Category:Knots|Knots]]<ref>Currently, Knots is a subcategory of How_to</ref>
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