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What is wikiHowWhat is wikiHow How does wikiHow work?   How does wikiHow work?    How can you help?   How can you help?    Can I help make wikiHow in my Can I help make wikiHow in my

language?   language?    Guidelines of the wikiHow community   Guidelines of the wikiHow community    Want to join the community?     Want to join the community?      Will wikiHow always be free?  Will wikiHow always be free?   How does wikiHow support itself How does wikiHow support itself

financially?   financially?    What software does wikiHow use?   What software does wikiHow use?    How can I contact wikiHow?   How can I contact wikiHow?   

What is wikiHowWhat is wikiHow

wikiHow is a collaborative writing project wikiHow is a collaborative writing project aiming to build the world's largest how-to aiming to build the world's largest how-to manual.manual.

There mission is to provide free and useful There mission is to provide free and useful instructions to help people solve the instructions to help people solve the problems of everyday life.problems of everyday life.

As of this minute, wikiHow contains 20,624 As of this minute, wikiHow contains 20,624 articles. New articles are created every day articles. New articles are created every day and the existing articles are gradually and the existing articles are gradually improved by volunteer contributors.improved by volunteer contributors.

How does wikiHow work?  How does wikiHow work?  

wikiHow is a wiki, which is a web site wikiHow is a wiki, which is a web site that anyone can write and anyone can that anyone can write and anyone can edit.edit.

Any visitor to wikiHow can create a new Any visitor to wikiHow can create a new page to write about how to do page to write about how to do something.something.

Once the page is submitted, any other Once the page is submitted, any other visitor can edit, improve or change the visitor can edit, improve or change the page. Over time, the quality of the page page. Over time, the quality of the page rises as many people make rises as many people make improvements. improvements.

How you can helpHow you can help Please improve wikiHow by editing any Please improve wikiHow by editing any

page that needs help.page that needs help. Browse there articles in the Browse there articles in the

early stages of developmentearly stages of development and see if you and see if you can add some information. can add some information.

Share your knowledge by writing a new Share your knowledge by writing a new page by clicking "page by clicking "Create a PageCreate a Page" in the " in the top right of most pages on the site. If you top right of most pages on the site. If you need ideas of topics to write you can look need ideas of topics to write you can look at at a list of suggested articlesa list of suggested articles made by made by other users.other users.

Can I help make wikiHow in Can I help make wikiHow in my language?my language?

Yes! Right now wikiHow is Yes! Right now wikiHow is predominantly for English speakers predominantly for English speakers only...and that is a real shame. only...and that is a real shame.

wikiHows are now slowly being built wikiHows are now slowly being built in in SpanishSpanish, , GermanGerman, , FrenchFrench, and , and Portuguese.Portuguese.

Guidelines of the wikiHow Guidelines of the wikiHow community  community  

A civil group effortA civil group effort wikiHow is a group effort to create a wikiHow is a group effort to create a

great resource: the world's largest great resource: the world's largest free how to manual. You must expect free how to manual. You must expect your writing to be modified, criticized, your writing to be modified, criticized, or improved by others. Changes or improved by others. Changes should be viewed in the spirit of should be viewed in the spirit of improvement and not as a criticism of improvement and not as a criticism of your approach or capabilities.your approach or capabilities.

Limit egregious self-Limit egregious self-advertisingadvertising

wikiHow exists to help people, not wikiHow exists to help people, not for product promotion. While they for product promotion. While they encourage useful articles about how encourage useful articles about how to shop and buy things, writers to shop and buy things, writers should refrain from creating articles should refrain from creating articles to purely promote one specific to purely promote one specific business without providing useful business without providing useful insights to our readers. insights to our readers.

Helpful instructionsHelpful instructions

wikiHows should help people solve wikiHows should help people solve their everyday problems. They their everyday problems. They believe that profanity, sexually believe that profanity, sexually charged, sexually explicit, hate charged, sexually explicit, hate based, recreational drug focused, based, recreational drug focused, joke topics, societal instructions, and joke topics, societal instructions, and vanity pages are inappropriate for vanity pages are inappropriate for wikiHow. wikiHow.

Want to join the Want to join the community?community?

To register click on To register click on Special:Userlogin in the upper right Special:Userlogin in the upper right corner of most pages.corner of most pages.

wikiHow will always be freewikiHow will always be free

wikiHow is available to anyone in wikiHow is available to anyone in the world free of charge. There goal the world free of charge. There goal is to help as many people as possible is to help as many people as possible by sharing their instructions and by sharing their instructions and therefore they will never charge for therefore they will never charge for access to the site.access to the site.

How does wikiHow support How does wikiHow support itself financially?itself financially?

wikiHow needs funds to sustain its wikiHow needs funds to sustain its operations, but rather than ask their operations, but rather than ask their users for contributions, they have users for contributions, they have chosen to display tasteful, non-chosen to display tasteful, non-obnoxious advertising on the obnoxious advertising on the website. website.

They think that tasteful advertising They think that tasteful advertising is the most unobtrusive way to fund is the most unobtrusive way to fund our operations.our operations.

What software does What software does wikiHow use?wikiHow use?

wikiHow is powered by MediaWiki wikiHow is powered by MediaWiki open source software created by open source software created by volunteers for use on Wikipedia and volunteers for use on Wikipedia and other wikis. It is available for free other wikis. It is available for free under the GNU General Public under the GNU General Public License. License.

How can I contact How can I contact wikiHow?   wikiHow?   

Please email them at Please email them at wiki@wikihow.com or leave a talk wiki@wikihow.com or leave a talk page message for wikiHow's founder page message for wikiHow's founder Jack H. Jack H.

conclusionconclusion

In conlusion wikihow is a very good In conlusion wikihow is a very good web site.web site. A web site that anyone can A web site that anyone can write and anyone can edit. Any write and anyone can edit. Any visitor to wikiHow can create a new visitor to wikiHow can create a new page to write about how to do page to write about how to do something. something.

Anyone is welcome to edit any Anyone is welcome to edit any existing page they find on the site. existing page they find on the site.