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

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