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.
WikiHow Media
Workshop on women on wikiHow at Wikimania 2012.
References
- ↑ Herrick, Jack. WikiHow Site Traffic Statistics (Apr 2007)wikiHow. Retrieved 2011-08-24.[dead link]
- ↑ Herrick, Jack. History of eHow and wikiHow (Sep 2006)wikiHow. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
- ↑ wikiHow Deletion PolicywikiHow. 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