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Revision as of 22:44, 20 December 2006
- Here are my 9 proposed top-level topic categories-
- Water
- Food
- Public health
- Culture and community
- Communication and information technology (maybe just "Information technology" or "Communication and information")
- Energy (notice not Power and Energy as energy implies both)
- Land, materials and construction
- Transportation (most debatable, could fit some under energy, some under culture and then just have a Transportation portal)
- Metaconcepts (these will mostly be concepts that are implicitly incorporated in many different pages. They will be mostly definitions, that are linked to inline from the text of other pages)
- These 9 top-level categories are based on 8 basic human needs-
- Water
- Food
- Health
- Community
- Knowledge
- Energy
- Shelter
- Transportation (arguable)
- An example category tree based on these 9 top-evel categories follows.
Please note that many subcategories will be in multiple higher categories.
Water
Water conservation
Rural water supply in _______
Greywater
Garden box
Planter box
Rainwater harvesting
Rooftop rainwater catchment
Stormwater catchment
Swails
Pumping
Hydraulic ram pumps
Solar pumps
Rope pumps
Hand pumps
Water quality
Water storage
Wells
Cysterns
Storage tanks
Ferrocement tanks
Plastic tanks
Wood tanks
Wastewater treatment
Primary wastewater treatment
Secondary wastewater treatment
Tertiary wastewater treatment
Physical wastewater treatment
Chemical wastewater treatment
Bilogical wastewater treatment
Constructed lagoons
Community scale wastewater treatment
Water sanitation
Filtration
Slow sand filtration
Distillation
Desalination
Solar desalination
Water transportation
Water jugs
Food
100 mile diet
Companion planting
Food preperation
Macrobiotics
Raw
Vegetarianism
Omnivorism
Food preserving
Canning
Dehydrating
Storing
Seed saving
Organic gardening
Double digging
Composting
Vermiculture
Pit compost
Spinning barrel compost
Agriculture
Crop rotation
Crop drying
Crop storage
Growing _______ in a ______ climate
Fertilization
Pest management
Aquaculture
Agroforestry
Biointensive gardening
Greenhouse
Pit greenhouse
Lean to greenhouse
Attached greenhouse
Freestanding greenhouse
Hoophouse
Animal husbandry
Chicken tractor
Animal health
Beekeeping
Public health
Pest control
Health care in _____
ORT
Cysts
Prevention and treatment of _____
Bacterias
Prevention and treatment of _____
Viruses
Prevention and treatment of _____
HIV
Sanitation
Hand washing
Pit latrine
Improved pit latrine
Humanure
Bucket composting toilet
Double vaulted composting toilets
(Many topics from water sanitation)
Septic tanks
Disabilities
Human dignity in public health
Refrigeration
Vaccine refrigeration
Food refrigeration
Health paradigms
Homeopathy
Aleopathy
Herbalism
Culture and community
Active citenzry
Collaborative meeting tools
Effective lobbying
Environmental justice
Multiculturalism
Builiding partnerships
Cities
Community organizing
Cooperatives
Intentional communities
Communes
Ecovillages
Social artistry
Male contraception
Banking
Microfinance
Triple bottom line
Sustainable accounting
Accounting practices
Decision making techniques
Pugh diagrams
Delphi method
Decision making structures
Hand clasp
Democratic
Consensus
Minority rule
Majority rule
Unanimity
Communication and information technology
Internet
Open source
GIS
Repeaters
Short wave radio
Wikis
Education
Service Learning
Teacher training
Curricullum development
Teaching materials
Computer based education
Education paradigms
Piaget
Montessori
International programs
Intereducation
Energy
Electrical energy
Batteries
Hydrogen fuel cells
Microcapicitors
Grid intertie
Photovoltaic power
Solar pumping
Solar vaccine refrigeration
Microhydro power
Wind power
Wave power
Pedal power
Heat
Cookstoves
Refrigeration
Thermodynamics
Solar thermal hotwater
Hydronic radiant floor heating
Insulation
Stawbale insulation
Fiber board insulation
Fiberglass insulation
Thermal mass
Passive solar design
Fuel
Biogas
Ethanol
Biodiesel
Materials and construction
Natural capital
4Rs
Supplies
Alternative materials
Lechugilla
Hemp
Bioplastic
Smartwood
Material science
Solid statics
Solid dynamics
Fluid dynamics
Bioremediation
Surveying
Compost
Alternative building
Bamboo
Papercrete
Cordwood
Earthship
Tires
Strawbale
Ferrocement
Living roof
Earthen construction
Adobe
Cobb
Bajareche
Earth bags
Earthen oven
Earthen plaster
Rammed earth
Wattle and daub
Stone and brick
Transportation
Greenbelts
Busses
Trains
Light rail
Bicycles
Recumbent
Rickshaw
Bicycle parking
Electric bicycles
Critical mass bike rides
Fuel
Multiple occupancy vehicles
Single occupancy vehicles
Metaconcepts
Poverty Reduction
International development
Appropriate technology
Sustainable development
Permaculture
Biomimicry
Natural capital
Triple bottom line
Comments
Place comments here.
Curt's first comments
Looks good. I see this mostly as a major tuning of categories, but not something strikingly different (except that perhaps placing the top 9 categories under fundamental might be called "striking"). Here are some random questions:
- I am happy with whereever you would like to place those 9 top-level topic categories. --Lonny
- Sort of a general question about singular/plural. I see a lot of plurals, but Earthen oven is singular. Perhaps "earthen oven" is a concept, and not just an object, and that could explain the singular. (This question is really with respect to category naming policy of course, and not category structure.)
- Earthen ovens (plural) is great and we should change it. But as far as a plural/singular policy: I added some more comments at Appropedia talk:Policy discussion#singularizing categories. --Lonny
- It's still okay for some subcategories to appear in multiple higher categories, right? Fuel, for example, seems to belong in Transportation as well as in Energy, especially if a fuel serves dual (or more) purposes.
- Absolutely. Fuel is in both of those categories. (I did not place the subordinate subcategories of Fuel on the second instance in the outline above only to save redundancy, clearly Fuel has the same subcategories beneath it in both instances.)
- Since the table representation or presentation seemed well received, presumably this could also be placed in a table format. Would that belong in the Fundamental category page?
- Table format would be great, I love it. I acquiesce to wherever you feel it should be placed. My only need is that it is linked directly from the Navbar. I think Category:Topics, where it currently lives, is the best place for it. --Lonny
Gotta run. I'm sure to think up some more questions, but there's nothing really surprising about this to me. --CurtB 07:46, 19 December 2006 (PST)
Curt's second comments
- There is a threshold where category name length becomes painful to me. Consequently, I prefer "Information Technology" as the category name over the longer option.
- I don't readily see the "land" connection...perhaps it's about "land use"? I can see Land as part of farming and agriculture..., but that would be under "Food". Where I'm going is that "Land, ... construction" is pushing my comfort zone on category name length, and I'm looking for a way to shorten the name, and "Land" doesn't fit naturally for me. Is "Land" a prominent enough category to participate in the name? I guess this is similar to me to the "refrigeration" topic. A useful category, but not really top level. (Having said all that, Lonny is going to give 12 examples of the importance of Land, and that's fine, I'll learn :-))
Sample table of category structure
Here is a table that talks about category framework a bit more, based on extensive exchanges Lonny and I have had via email. Since this is a structure comment, I'm not sweating the plural/singular decisions here.
cells below contain category pages | cells below (under the headings) contain article pages | |||||
Cat:Topic(s)are below /// Areas are to the right | Cat:Projects | Cat:How tos | Cat:Principles (?) | Cat:Organizations | ||
Cat:Water | Cat:Rainwater harvesting |
Cat:Swails | Portland example | (empty) | Beyond dams article | Bob's swails |
Cat:Rooftop catchment |
Ersson project | Catchment how-to | Beyond dams article | George's gutters | ||
Cat: Greywater | Cat:Garden box | (empty) | Grey box how-to | (empty) |
In the table above, I propose the "Principles" area name for articles that are not quite Projects or How-tos. "Basics" seems too constraining, "Musings" seems too glib or lightweight for me. The need for this area category is not entirely clear yet, but if someone wants to see the list of such articles, it would be good to look here. We have several examples of such articles, like many from "Beyond Dams", as well as the "Power and energy basics" article.
How much content information belongs within Category pages themselves? Some are nearly empty, some have a lot of content. One view on the "principles" notion is that all that content could be placed in a category page. (Then the natural next question is, what about the principles of some subject that is too narrow to be a category?) My bias (just from my gut, without clear reasoning) is that Category pages should not have substantial content, except navigational content (like the table on the Topic page). What do others feel about this?
What are the benefits of placing the Topic category pages in Category:Topic? In part, if there are benefits, do we want to have a Category:Area that includes the area category pages? (The answer could easily be "no", since the Topic category pages are subject to much more growth than the Area category pages.)
What are the benefits to categorization generally? Are there more than those listed below?
- Navigation
- especially for the topic categories
- Context
- this benefit seems doubtful for me since category is very low profile, unless it is done through maintenance
- Maintenance
- admins can sort thru groups of articles
- Intersections of categories (in future) seems like a very cool thing!
Enough for now... --CurtB 11:04, 20 December 2006 (PST)