How to Appreciate wikiHow
wikiHow has had many critisisms, good and bad. Despite that, all the authors and adminstrators still work hard to bring you a great website. There is still a lot more to wikiHow than meets the eye, or your computer. Here's a how-to article on appreciating this small, yet wonderful part of the wiki community.
[edit] Steps
- Read the Writer's Guide and follow it when writing, editing, or patrolling articles.
- Understand wikiHow's Mission. wikiHow is intended to become the world's largest and highest quality how-to manual, and is already a major resource. wikiHow currently has 49,360 articles, and is still expanding.
- Contribute to wikiHow. There are plenty of things you can do here at wikiHow, including writing articles, editing them, patrolling recent changes, and many other activities.
- Learn wikiHow's policy. Understand all guidelines of wikiHow and follow them. For example, avoid trolling other users.
- Use discussion pages to comment on an article and find ways it can be improved. Do not post irrelevant and/or random nonsense on discussion pages, as that is inappropriate and wastes the time of patrollers.
[edit] Tips
- Create your own account. You can have your page that you can edit and a talk page that you can use to communicate with other users about articles or other wikiHow-related things. It also lets you track your contributions.
- Use edit summaries when editing wikiHow. This will help people understand what you have done to an article, especially bold edits that might be reverted.
- wikiHow has its own forum for discussion. Talk to friends in the General Chat area, or discuss wikiHow in general in other areas of the forums.
[edit] Warnings
- Please no spamming. We do have active patrollers who will delete the spam and ban your IP address or account.
- Avoid using talk pages to chat about non-wikiHow things. It creates more work for patrollers and can get you blocked.
