Appropedia
| Appropedia Foundation / Appropedia | |
|---|---|
| founding | 2007 ( 501c3 status) |
| founder | Lonny Grafman, Chris Watkins, Curt Beckmann, Catherine Laine, Andrew Lamb |
| Seat | Arcata , California |
| main emphasis | Rural and indigenous communities |
| method | Adapted Technology and Sustainable Development |
| Action space | Global |
| Website | appropedia.org |
Appropedia is a wiki that serves to jointly develop solutions in the areas of sustainability , poverty reduction and development cooperation. The focus is on adapted technology and the exchange of knowledge about specific projects. Appropedia is mainly used by people and organizations working in the field of sustainable development. It is also used in the service learning teaching method, e.g. B. in language teaching and engineering training.
MediaWiki is used as software . There are currently around 8500 items (as of August 2, 2020). Most of them are written in English.
The wiki’s vision is that all of humanity can work together to enable a full and sustainable life. Appropedia offers an infrastructure for this and helps to bring together different individuals and organizations. The exchange of knowledge should make it possible to fall back on previous attempts so that efforts and mistakes do not have to be repeated. Appropedia's motto is Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives (something like: exchanging knowledge in order to live fulfilled and sustainable).
Content
Appropedia is suitable for the following content, for example:
- Projects (instructions, testimonials)
- Best practices in sustainability and development
- Pages for solving problems together
- Information, tables, diagrams
- Designs, photographs and illustrations
- Links and information about organizations
Emergence
Appropedia was put online by Lonny Grafman in April 2006. He got help from Aaron Antrim, Gabriel Krause and later from Curt Beckmann. In December 2006, Appropedia merged with WikiGreen. As a result, the number of articles increased significantly. Among other things, the rights for many publications and content from CD3WD (CDs for the 3rd World) were transferred.
Later, content was imported from the following other sources:
- Several pages from the International Rivers Network
- Several pages from Demotech
- Over 100 articles from Practical Action
- In March 2007, the content of the Village Earth wiki was added to Appropedia
- Also in March 2007, the content of the How To Live Wiki was added. The operator Vinay Gupta joined the Appropedia team.
- In mid-2007 the Sgoals Wiki joined Appropedia
- In January 2008 the Students for Global Sustainability Wiki was added
- In April 2008 CCAT (Campus Center for Appropriate Technology) became a partner of Appropedia
The Semantic MediaWiki extension has been used since 2012 .
Use as a source
The following papers and books use information from Appropedia as source material:
- Kreye, Melissa M. " Metal accumulation in gill epithelium and liver tissue in steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) reared in reclaimed wastewater ", Thesis (MS) - Humboldt State University, Natural Resources: Wastewater Utilization Program, 2008.
- Urmila Balasubramaniyam, Llionel S. Zisengwe, Niccoló Meriggi, Eric Buysman, Biogas production in climates with long cold winters (PDF; 1.9 MB), Wageningen, May 2008.
- James A. West and Margaret L. West, "Using Wikis for Online Collaboration: The Power of the Read-Write Web," Jossey-Bass (December 15, 2008).
See also
Web links
- official website
- Citizen Engineer - Chapter 9, page 109 recommends Appropedia ("an overview of key considerations and recent engineering community insights.")
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joshua M. Pearce, Lonny Grafman, Thomas Colledge, and Ryan Legg, “Leveraging Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship and Global Collaboration for Just Sustainable Development” Proceedings of the 12th Annual National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Conference, pp. 201–210, 2008. Full text: (PDF; 155 kB) ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ JM Pearce, L. Grafman, T. Colledge, and R. Legg, “ Leveraging Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship and Global Collaboration for Just Sustainable Development ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link became automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 155 kB) ” Proceedings of the 12th Annual National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Conference , pp. 201-210, 2008.
- ^ E. ter Horst and JM Pearce, “Foreign Languages and the Environment: A Collaborative Instructional Project”, The Language Educator , pp. 52-56, October, 2008.
- ↑ JM Pearce and E. ter Horst “Appropedia and Sustainable Development for Improved Service Learning”, Proceedings of Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Joshua M. Pearce and Eleanor ter Horst, “ Overcoming Language Challenges of Open Source Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Development in Africa (PDF; 65 kB)”, Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa , 11 (3) pp. 230-245, 2010.
- ↑ Joshua M. Pearce, “ Appropedia as a Tool for Service Learning in Sustainable Development ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ”, Journal of Education for Sustainable Development , 3 (1), pp. 45-53, 2009. Q-Space pre-print
- ^ S. Murphy and N. Saleh, " Information literacy in CEAB's accreditation criteria: the hidden attribute ", In Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Innovation and Practices in Engineering Design and Engineering Education , 2009. Hamilton, ON July 27-29, 2009.
- ↑ Appropedia welcomes the WikiGreen community . Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ↑ www.cd3wd.com - Welcome to the Websites of the SEEV low-cost tamper-proof electronic voting for the 3rd world Project, the cd3wd Project, the DVD for DVD-Player Project, Weir Consultants and Alex Weir . 2011/03. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ↑ International Rivers, People - Water - Life . Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ^ Demotech, design for reliance . Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ↑ Practical Action - Technology challenging poverty . Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ^ Village Earth - Sustainability Through Empowerment . Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ^ Students for Global Sustainability Wiki . Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ^ CCAT - Campus Center for Appropriate Technology . Retrieved May 10, 2012.
