Works Spore

Works Spore — The Maker Wiki

• Proposal at meta: meta:WikiWorks

A free place for makers, DIY, and Open-Source Hardware enthusiasts to collaboratively design and develop manufacturing solutions for the humanity. A place to share knowledge and instructions about OpenSource Hardware.

A maker wiki is essential to the world. Most existing maker websites do not offer free licensing or give power to the community despite being crowdsourced. So a Maker wiki should be sprouted.

Purpose

Materialize ideas for humanity

A wiki for:

• Open Manufacturing, Design, Engineering
• Open-source hardware
• DIY & how-to guides
• Makers
• 3D printing or Additive Manufacturing
• CNC, CAD, CAM, CAE
• Collaboratively Design & Engineer products
• Woodworking, Metalworking, techs
• Open Research, Massive Online Open Research
• aiding Fab lab, Makerspaces, etc.
• illustrations and video demonstrations to do things
• solving immediate needs of Humanity, collaborative development

Content

This Wiki will be having following types of content

• Instructions, manuals and procedure. (main)
• DIY or How-to guides
• Lab/Research: to do collaborative open research to solve a task, for MOOR
• Files: of codes and design
• Data: for data, factsheets
• (Optional) Shop: to purchase or facilitate fabrication through fablabs

Similar communities

Main article: Works Spore/Similar sites

• Wikifactory.com - Manufacturing wiki. (hybrid)
• instructables.com, by Autodesk (for profit company)
• Appropedia.org - sustainability wiki, solutions for humanity
• WikiHow:.com - how-to-do wiki
• Maker subreddits
• wiki.restarters.net Fix-it-yourself community. CC-BY-SA
• Wikibooks:DIY, Wikibooks:How-tos bookshelf
• Wikipedia:Category:Open-source hardware and Wikipedia:Open-design movement#Organizations

Alternative names

• Factory Wiki, Production Wiki
• DIY Wiki, How-to Wiki, Wiki Fix, Wiki Craft
• Maker Wiki, Hacker Wiki

Meta proposals

• Current proposals: meta:WikiFactory
• Archived: meta:Category:Proposed projects - DIY (many), meta:Grants:IdeaLab/Wikideas