WikiFab - Open Source Hardware Documentation
Channel: Marcin Jakubowski
Date: 2016-09-02

Wikifab appears to be the most suitable open source documentation platform that we know of for open hardware instructionals. This is a new project started about a year ago. It's a MediaWiki with templates and semantic mediawiki on top. Unlike others in the space (Instructables, Github, Wevolver, Dozuki) - the source code for the platform itself is open source, and compared to Appropedia, which is also Mediawiki - Wikifab has a more refined user interface.

We will work with Wikifab on further documentation and support towards making their platform sustainable. It's a great addition to open source ecology - and perhaps the wikipedia for hardware documentation - in terms of also meeting the openness criterion of the software itself. 

We are thus planning on installing wikifab over the Open Source Ecology wiki - retaining all data and adding a great user interface for hardware documentation.

We are planning on using WikiFab now for realtime documentation of the September 23 build of the CEB Press at Factor e Farm - where we produce a build manual by the time the machine itself is finished - in one day.

I love it when a plan comes together. Dr. Evil's finger in the corner of his mouth.

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