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Revision as of 05:53, 31 October 2006
This page shows where Appropedia fits in with other collaborative projects, and hopefully will help create greater synergy.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, while Appropedia is for non-encyclopedic material - they complement each other. While Wikipedia doesn't have project information or how-tos, it does have a growing collection of information on topics including:
If you are keen to get involved with developing articles on these topics, you may want to check out these collaborations:
- WikiProject International development
- WikiProject Environment
- WikiProject Energy development
- WikiProject Water purification
Wikis on similar themes
See these categories at WikiIndex:
Appropedia is a living library of appropriate technology, sustainability and development.
http://www.appropedia.org
Some wikis are so similar that we'd probably be best to merge and combine our efforts. These include:
- The Village Earth Appropriate Technology Wiki, which has fewer pages and is much less active, but nonetheless has good stuff and valuable contributors.
Wikis on themes of development and sustainability:
Ecovillage wiki is a site for exchanging information
and ideas about ecovillages in particular, and
sustainable community in general.
This Wikia will facillitate ecovillages to develop
regional and global networks. It provides a place for
individual ecovillages to edit relevant documents and
for individuals in different geographic locations to
collaborate. It will also be a knowledge base for
people to learn about ecovillages generally, or about
a particular ecovillage.
http://ecovillage.wikia.com/
G. Knowledge is the definitive repository of green
knowledge. G.Knowledge will bring together the collective
knowledge of green thinking people throughout the world to
produce a collective memory to take from and to deposit the
deep knowledge of the world.
The success of a greener, happier, safer, friendlier,
cleaner, more productive world relies on passing on the
knowledge of green minded individuals and their
collective wisdoms. Green Knowledge is not a commodity,
it's a necessity." Note this is not actually a wikia, but directs people to their page.
http://gknowledge.wikia.com/
WikiGreen, A Wiki for Sustainable living, Intentional communities and life Off the grid. You will find here the personal experience of Alternative energy, Back to the land and Do-It-Yourself people, as well as regular folks wanting to live more Green.
http://wikigreen.org/
Sustainable Community Action, or SCA21, is a Wikia
to develop information on all aspects of local sustainability,
particularly community run action for sustainability.
As well as providing a Local Sustainability Ideas Bank,
the site contains a shared work space for developing
ideas for networking, both virtual and real world, for
local sustainability action and seeks to link up community action for sustainability across the world.
http://sca21.wikia.com/ SCA WikiNode, SCA collaborations page
WaterWiki, created as a resource for use by members of the Rio Grande Basin Roundtable and the other roundtables created under the provisions of the Colorado Water for the 21st Century Act. In addition to that circumscribed use, this wiki may be used to develop and present information regarding world wide water resources and issues by anyone. Not very active. http://water.wikia.com/
How tos
There may be some overlap between ours and these wikis:
http://howto.wikia.com/images/b/bc/Wiki.png
How To Engineer It will be a comprehensive
encyclopaedia of technology which answers questions about how to make modern products in the natural environment from scratch.
http://howto.wikia.com/
http://www.wikihow.com/skins/common/images/wikiHow_logo_5.gif
wikiHow The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit
http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
These wikis may be useful (e.g. research tools) or involve likeminded people (activist sites).
http://campaigns.wikia.com/images/b/bc/Wiki.png
The Wikia for Campaigns recently set up by Jimbo Wales, aims to explore new ways of doing politics and campaigns.
http://campaigns.wikia.com/
http://worldcitizen.wikia.com/images/b/bc/Wiki.png
The Wikia for World Citizenship, Global Justice and
Global Governance aims to create a new space for
publishing and discussing opinion articles on topics
related to world citizenship, global justice & global
governance. The wiki is construed as a combination of
an open journal, a thematic non-neutral encyclopedia
and an open discussion forum. Although it is expected
to attract people from the world citizenship and global
justice movement, the wiki welcomes all sorts of
opinions, statements and comments provided with respect
for each other position.
http://worldcitizen.wikia.com/
http://activism.wikia.com/images/b/bc/Wiki.png
The Activism Wikia is a place for sharing information about all forms of activism.
http://activism.wikia.com/
http://search.wikia.com/images/b/bc/Wiki.png
The Search Wikia accompanies the development of the
Wikia search engine, an open source search engine with user editable search results.
The search index is being created using the Wikiasari
http://search.wikia.com/index.php/Wikiasari
software, which is currently in a beta version.
This Wikia serves as a sounding board for ideas and
development, and a place for the search community to
discuss the project.
http://search.wikia.com/
http://translation.wikia.com/images/b/bc/Wiki.png
The Translation Wikia is for collaborative
translations of free texts and fair use extracts. The
wiki also provides a meeting space with information
about translation, and from translators. Information
and discussion on the theory and techniques of
translation will be included.
http://translation.wikia.com/
http://censorship.wikia.com/images/b/bc/Wiki.png
Censorship is a Wikia which will provide official
and unofficial accounts on censorship, particularly
internet censorship in areas such as Iran, so that
international observers and activists have a better
picture about the situation of freedom of information.
The wiki is a space to gather information and analysis
on effective ways to bypass censorship.
http://censorship.wikia.com/
http://future.wikia.com/images/b/bc/Wiki.png
Future is a Wikia about futurology, technology
foresight, and futures studies. This wiki aims to develop
future forecasts (using scenarios, timelines, etc.),
and to write speculative articles on future topics.
The wiki's logo is a combination of a nanogear and the
A molecule, which signifies the importance of
nanotech and biotech. The "wikia: " brackets show that
it's a wiki.
http://future.wikia.com/
Other WikiNodes
Non-wiki collaborative sites
- This is a tentative list and probably needs cleaning up.
- Worldchanging (choose a category and click "Go." Some interesting appropriate technology articles.)
- Full Belly Blog
- HowStuffWorks - covers a wide range of topics.
- CREST has some good discussion pages - see also the links on left side of this page.
Online volunteering
Help without leaving your computer:
- Nabuur - "The global neighbour network." Connects local communities in need with online helpers.
- Online Volunteering (a United Nations Volunteers service). Assignments Search
- Murphy's volunteer project: http://www.keyfarmers.org
- Siebert's volunteer project: http://spear.org.bz
- Elder Wisdom Circle: http://www.elderwisdomcircle.org
- Myths: http://www.coyotecommunications.com/volunteer/ovmyths.html