1. WikiHow Authors AnonymousAnonymous, Jack H, Travis Derouin, James Quirk, Josh Hannah, Nathan Wong, Sorry, AlexSorry, Krystle C., Versageek, Flickety, KnowItSome Jack HTravis DerouinJames QuirkJosh Hannah Nathan WongSorryAlexSorryKrystle C.VersageekFlickety KnowItSome AnonymousJack HTravis DerouinJames QuirkJosh Hannah Nathan WongSorryAlexSorryKrystle C.VersageekFlickety KnowItSome Abiola isola Eng 393 Eng 393

2. Overview What is wikiHow What 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 language? Can I help make wikiHow in my 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 financially? How does wikiHow support itself financially? What software does wikiHow use? What software does wikiHow use? How can I contact wikiHow? How can I contact wikiHow?

3. What is wikiHow wikiHow is a collaborative writing project aiming to build the world's largest how-to manual. wikiHow is a collaborative writing project aiming to build the world's largest how-to manual. There mission is to provide free and useful instructions to help people solve the problems of everyday life. There mission is to provide free and useful instructions to help people solve the problems of everyday life. As of this minute, wikiHow contains 20,624 articles. New articles are created every day and the existing articles are gradually improved by volunteer contributors. As of this minute, wikiHow contains 20,624 articles. New articles are created every day and the existing articles are gradually improved by volunteer contributors.

4. How does wikiHow work? How does wikiHow work? wikiHow is a wiki, which is a web site that anyone can write and anyone can edit. wikiHow is a wiki, which is a web site that anyone can write and anyone can edit. Any visitor to wikiHow can create a new page to write about how to do something. Any visitor to wikiHow can create a new page to write about how to do something. Once the page is submitted, any other visitor can edit, improve or change the page. Over time, the quality of the page rises as many people make improvements. Once the page is submitted, any other visitor can edit, improve or change the page. Over time, the quality of the page rises as many people make improvements.

5. How you can help Please improve wikiHow by editing any page that needs help. Please improve wikiHow by editing any page that needs help. Browse there articles in the early stages of development and see if you can add some information. Browse there articles in the early stages of development and see if you can add some information.early stages of developmentearly stages of development Share your knowledge by writing a new page by clicking "Create a Page" in the top right of most pages on the site. If you need ideas of topics to write you can look at a list of suggested articles made by other users. Share your knowledge by writing a new page by clicking "Create a Page" in the top right of most pages on the site. If you need ideas of topics to write you can look at a list of suggested articles made by other users.Create a Page a list of suggested articlesCreate a Page a list of suggested articles

6. Can I help make wikiHow in my language? Yes! Right now wikiHow is predominantly for English speakers only...and that is a real shame. Yes! Right now wikiHow is predominantly for English speakers only...and that is a real shame. wikiHows are now slowly being built in Spanish, German, French, and Portuguese. wikiHows are now slowly being built in Spanish, German, French, and Portuguese.Spanish GermanFrenchPortugueseSpanish GermanFrenchPortuguese

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

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

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

10. Want to join the community? To register click on Special:Userlogin in the upper right corner of most pages. To register click on Special:Userlogin in the upper right corner of most pages.Special:Userlogin

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

12. How does wikiHow support itself financially? wikiHow needs funds to sustain its operations, but rather than ask their users for contributions, they have chosen to display tasteful, non- obnoxious advertising on the website. wikiHow needs funds to sustain its operations, but rather than ask their users for contributions, they have chosen to display tasteful, non- obnoxious advertising on the website. They think that tasteful advertising is the most unobtrusive way to fund our operations. They think that tasteful advertising is the most unobtrusive way to fund our operations.

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

14. How can I contact wikiHow? How can I contact wikiHow? Please email them at wiki@wikihow.com or leave a talk page message for wikiHow's founder Jack H. Please email them at wiki@wikihow.com or leave a talk page message for wikiHow's founder Jack H. Jack H Jack H

15. conclusion In conlusion wikihow is a very good web site. A web site that anyone can write and anyone can edit. Any visitor to wikiHow can create a new page to write about how to do something. In conlusion wikihow is a very good web site. A web site that anyone can write and anyone can edit. Any visitor to wikiHow can create a new page to write about how to do something. Anyone is welcome to edit any existing page they find on the site. Anyone is welcome to edit any existing page they find on the site.