About WikiWaste

To apply the principles and philosophy of Wikipedia to help inform, educate and share knowledge about the UK waste and resources market.

The change in Spring 2026 to the new software platform was driven by three key factors:

Increased activity by AI search engines

Whilst we encourage and accept that AI will play an increasing role in searching for and providing content, in many cases this is leading to a lack of control of the use of our data and information.

As a result, it is our intention to continue to make large sections of WikiWaste freely available for any user or search engine, but for more detailed content we will ask users to create an account and sign in to get additional free content.

Ability to generate income

Since early 2024, and indeed over the entirety of the existence of WikiWaste to date, Monksleigh has managed the website and content at its own cost with no income to offset those costs.

In order to create income for WikiWaste to cover the cost of running it and adding new content, we will seek to raise income from a number of sources.

This might include using targeted advertising on pages and the ability for account holders to pay to remove these adverts.

It will include ‘added value’ content that historically has largely not been in WikiWaste, but will be able to be accessed by account holders for a subscription payment.

WikiWaste may also include specific software tools in the future that will be developed and accessed based on a subscription payment, if there is a need and/or appetite for such tools by users

Better control third part added content

The current philosophy of Wikipedia and WikiWaste is to have different levels of editorial control to allow a range of third parties to add content directly into the website, with a degree of centralised over-sight of new content

The new approach for WikiWaste will not enable any third party to add content directly – any observations, updates, and suggested changes to content by third parties will be via the contact form on the website and this will be reviewed by the Monksleigh editorial team to determine whether any such suggested content is added or changed in WikiWaste.

This will enable a higher level of control over content, and an ability to ensure the new layouts, formats, and linkages through the new software platform work correctly. It will also allow content to be more closely managed for appropriateness and to ensure the website is factual rather than opinion-based or having an advertorial/marketing bias (for example for a company or equipment manufacturer).