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.

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.

Censorship

wikiHow's censorship policy usually does not allow articles about things that:

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 Archived 2008-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
"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.