WikiReUse

This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.

WikiReUse
Status of the proposal
Status	rejected
Reason	no support. Pecopteris (talk) 06:51, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Technical requirements

I've been looking around the web for various green / reuse / repurposing / self

sufficiency ideas for a while and find that information is very fragmented, on not very well indexed websites, or made by people who have read an e-book about making money from websites and have no little content and lots of banners...

Anyway, the thought came to me that it would be cool to have a wiki style repurposing website... e.g I have say 2 meters of plastic tube, what can I do with it apart from use it for plumbing... or swarf from my drill - can it be used for something apart from just going in the bin...

Articles could be of 3 types indexed firstly by material, alternatively by use.  

1st:- Item or material to be recycled
2nd:- Individual projects to convert to a new use (or item)
3rd:- Processing pages - Recycling pages, to process an item into a different material, or more likely, split it into it's component materials for reuse or disposal.

I had a look around the web, and the closest I found was:- http://green.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Green which seems to be a lot of adverts for not much content... It's also just generally green, rather than based on reusing stuff.

I know http://www.instructables.com/, http://makezine.com/ and http://blog.makezine.com/craftzine/ sort of fill this role, but they are project based, and not so nice to search...

Proposed by

Damian Mitchell

Alternative names

WikiRepurpose WikiRecycle

People interested

1. Wikibooks seems to fit the desire for making a collection of materials that can be recicled and the methods to be used. It is aimed to didactical materials. Not interested 189.125.162.182

1. Hi, maybe we can collaborate and join forces: WikiObject#Related projects.2Fproposals Qupro (talk) 10:18, 1 August 2016 (UTC)