Finding out how to do something can be a complicated process filled with research and endless instruction. On the other hand, you can find out how to do something or tell others they way you do it though the simple website at wikiHow.

wikiHow is actually a collaborative writing project that is on the way to becoming the world’s largest how—to manual. Currently, wikiHow contains 24,618 articles and new articles are created everyday to tell people how to solve problems that occur in their everyday existence. Volunteer contributors can post their own articles and edit pages started by someone else to improve the content.

At the wikiHow website, anyone can write and anyone can edit. Although most of wikiHow is only available in English, slowly Spanish, Portuguese, French and German wikiHows are being built. wikiHow discourages criticism of other contributors and expects helpful instructions. When you contribute to wikiHow, you can include a promotional link but it must be part of offering useful content. If an article you submit to wikiHow reeks of self—promotion, it will be deleted.

wikiHow is available to anyone in the world free of charge and is supported by advertising. I was fascinated with the vast number of useful how—to entries at wikiHow and also look forward to contributing to the how—to content in the future.

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