Welcome

Hi Joe,

It is great to have you here. Thanks for your contributions so far. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks, --Lonny 23:42, 6 December 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Appropriate Health care manual

Hey Joe, answered your comments at http://www.appropedia.org/User_talk:KVDP#Appropriate_health_care_manual Yours sincerely, KVDP 13:34, 13 December 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Offline content collaboration

Seeing some of the pages you've made, I thought you might be interested in Offline content collaboration and other pages in Category:Knowledge sharing.

Btw, I also left a comment at User talk:Filceolaire - I assume that's you, so you may want to add a redirect at the user and talk page. Cheers. --Chriswaterguy 06:47, 14 December 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Organizations

We've been intending to get in contact with the organizations you're making pages about - I'm curious whether you have any connections with them?

We've recently been contacted by The Hesperian Foundation and Eldis - I don't know if they're willing or able to release content in an open way that's compatible with Appropedia, but we'll see! --Chriswaterguy 21:37, 16 December 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have no connections with them except that when I worked in Africa, back in the eighties, these were resources that we referred to. While it might be nice if all these organisations were to publish all their information through Appropedia that will not happen overnight. In the meantime we can have links to all the best information with user reviews and comparisons so Appropedia becomes the starting point for any Appropriate tech info search.
The hesperian Foundation has a wonderful collection of tried and tested medical and healthcare information. At the moment it is tied up in pdfs so they need to linkify it and a wiki is one way to do that in a collaborative way. They are, rightly, worried about keeping the medical information sound so there is an issue to be resolved there (We could say changes to medical pages have to be approved - there is an addon for mediawiki software for this) but we could certainly collaborate.
Eldis seems to be more of a clearing house and publisher for papers. They have thousands of papers which hardly anyone ever downloads. As information scientists they will have been watching Wikipedia in fascination and they may have some interesting ideas they would like to try out with us. Lets get a tie up with them before they decide to start their own wiki.Joe Raftery 16:04, 19 December 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Good thoughts! Re medical pages, I'd like to explore an extension called FlaggedRevs, so I just added that to Appropedia:Desired features. Very busy at the moment, but if you don't hear an update from me by late January re our Hesperian and Eldis, feel free to prod me. (And of course earlier than that if you have ideas about engaging them.) --Chriswaterguy 22:23, 19 December 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

all i did

was move the attribution from the page to the talk page. Emesee

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