wikiHow

wikiHow is a wiki-based website with a collection of articles which tell people how to do things. The site uses version 1.12.0 of MediaWiki. As of August 2017, wikiHow contains more than 190,000 free how-to articles and over 1.6 million registered users. wikiHow's mission is to create the world's largest collection of how-to information. In May 2011, wikiHow had 36 million unique readers.^[1]

History

In January 2005, Jack Herrick and Josh Hannah started wikiHow. On April 28, 2006, wikiHow was launched on its own www.wikihow.com domain.^[2]

Censorship

wikiHow's censorship policy usually does not allow articles about things that:^[3]

Are "sexually charged"
Are inaccurate
Contain potty humor
Are joke pages, or pages that rely on backwards logic
Are spam pages, or pages advertising a product or service
Violate copyright
Are not a step-by-step how-to guide
Are illegal
Contain drug use; especially information about illegal drugs
Or are potentially destructive or dangerous.

Some people complain that this does not support the idea behind an educational resource.

References

↑ Herrick, Jack (Apr 2007). "WikiHow Site Traffic Statistics". wikiHow. Retrieved 2011-08-24.^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ Herrick, Jack (Sep 2006). "History of eHow and wikiHow". wikiHow. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
↑ "wikiHow Deletion Policy". wikiHow. Retrieved 2010-06-26.

Other websites

wikiHow.com
wikiHow to Open Content
"How to do absolutely everything" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Macleans, October 16, 2006

[1] Herrick, Jack (Apr 2007). "WikiHow Site Traffic Statistics". wikiHow. Retrieved 2011-08-24.^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] Herrick, Jack (Sep 2006). "History of eHow and wikiHow". wikiHow. Retrieved 2006-10-26.

[3] "wikiHow Deletion Policy". wikiHow. Retrieved 2010-06-26.

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