The Community Dashboard, (http://www.wikihow.com/Special:CommunityDashboard), is the central for everything. You can find a lot of things to do there, Write articles, Patrol articles, add images, do the Quality Guardian, Categorize articles, format, and tons more! Every day, I'm going to post about a certain activity, so, today's will be, Patrolling! I love to patrol, and so does a lot of other people!
http://www.wikihow.com/Special:RCPatrol
Patrolling is the "Control panel" of wikiHow, simply because that's where everything comes out, when you hit "OK", or "Publish". You have to be careful when you patrol, and look at every edit, because if you don't, and bad edits come through, they stay, unless an Admin, or a person who pays close attention changes it back.
"Quality is better than quantity" on wikiHow, so, Don't rush.
If you're not sure about an edit, like if it's something in a category you don't know too much about, just skip it. There's no harm done in it, and it's better then patrolling a bad edit. Or in another case, if you're not sure if it looks good, or not, just skip it, because someone else will come across it, eventually, and look at it.
Giving Thumbs Ups, is like a pat on the back! "Spreading wikiLove" as they call it! If you see someone doing a good job on wikiHow, no matter what, adding an image, or categorizing an article, it's a nice, and kind gesture to do!
If you know it's vandalism, rollback is the right choice. If you see someone who put swear words, roll it back. If they put something in all caps, that's completely irrelevant, roll it back. There are all types of vandalism, so keep a close, watchful eye! If it's something as little as a few typos, but the edit was good, push "Quick edit", and change the words.
Quick note allows you to give a message giving them a bit of wikiLove, and TU as well! Type them a kind message, or just use the pre-set one. Also, if the edit was bad, you can roll it back, and quick note the author, asking him why he did the edit.
Well, that wraps up all of the patrolling directions, you can also look at How to patrol Recent Changes on wikiHow (http://www.wikihow.com/Patrol-Recent-Changes-on-wikiHow), and check out the community Dashboard to see more activities to do. But remember, make great edits, instead of okay, or good edits! ;) http://www.wikihow.com/ June Days
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Question/Answer time
To some new people, wikiHow might be a little confusing. That's why, this part of the blog, you can ask any questions, about wikiHow, and me, or another member, will answer them! And I hope you read my last post, about our community members, they're wonderful! :D Well, happy reading, come to the site, and ask questions here, in the comment box's. http://www.wikihow.com/ June Days
Meet our community members!
Every week, I'm going to interview a few of our wikiHow members. This week, we have a total of 5 members, interviewed. Metsguy234, ISahreMahKnowledgeWisley, Not Perfect But Almost, Love2, and Knight Hawk.
Metsguy234, AKA, Mike's interview
Mike Massaroli joined wikiHow 5 years ago. He wrote one article, anonymously. (How to start a baseball card collection) Mike is an NAB, patrols more, as well as spell-checks, categories, and NFD Guardian. He's written the most articles in our "Fans of baseball" subcategory, and a few, in other categories. "I'd like to maybe write an article about NY state government or political internships at some point, in conjunction with the work I'm currently doing in my spare time with a local politician." He used to be a committed troll, but that's all changed! He's running in this March's Admin election, and has ran 8 times! Hopefully he'll get elected this time! Good luck Mike! http://www.wikihow.com/User:Metsguy234
Thank you Mike for letting me interview you!
Next, a wonderful friend:
Not Perfect But Almost, AKA, Beth's interview
Beth found wikiHow one day, looking up "How to look like a punk". "The article was really well written," She said, "And the site was really well organized", so, she ended up joining! Beth loves to patrol Recent Changes and has patrolled a total of 2,318 edits! But the thing she's most proud of, is that she's a great page designer! She's designed my page, multiple times, and tons of others! She writes articles in our Personal Care and Style, and Relationships Category and life choices in general. Beth is a Featured Author with many Rising Stars, and Featured Articles. She likes to make templates, and has gotten 16 Thumbs ups! She's a very friendly, and wonderful community member. http://www.wikihow.com/User:Not-perfect-but-almost
Thanks Beth! Up next, a person from another country, who has learned the English language, and is a wonderful author at wikiHow
Love2, AKA, Salma's interview
Salma found wikiHow while searching for an article, and when she found wikiHow, she edited part of it, then, she made her account. She enjoys patrolling the most, and has patrolled 1,604 edits, and she writes about animals. She loves music, and has written a few articles in that category, as well as some life choice articles. She's a wonderful page designer, and she's gotten two Rising Stars! http://www.wikihow.com/User:Love2
Wonderful interview Salma! Next is a person who cares about me, and his friends, and an active member in the wikiHow IRC chat room
Knight Hawk's interview
Knight Hawk found wikiHow by accident, he was just surfing the web, when he found wikiHow. "Interested in helping other people learn, I signed up". He likes to do the Quality Guardian, and writes/edit articles about pets, in our Pets category. "Pets have always been there for me and they don't judge, they just want you for you". He currently has 1,765 article views, and 31 Thumbs ups! Go Knight Hawk! http://www.wikihow.com/User:Knight-Hawk
Thanks so much Knight Hawk for doing this!
Last but not least is
IShareMahKnowledgeWisley, AKA ISMKW's interview
ISMKW found wikiHow while looking for some Rune Scape advice, and he stumbled across a Rune Scape article. "After a few half-vandalesque, half-useful accounts, I took a break and made this account" ISMKW hangs out in the forums, but patrolls Recent Changes occasionally. He writes articles about Rune Scape, and has over 1,000 edits! He's also running in this March's Admin elections (Go ISMKW!), so wish him luck too! http://www.wikihow.com/User_talk:IShareMahKnowledgeWisely
And that's our wonderful bunch of this week's users! Thank's so much for taking time to read this, wish Mike, and ISMKW good luck for the elections, and more blogging to come! http://www.wikihow.com/
~June Days
Metsguy234, AKA, Mike's interview
Mike Massaroli joined wikiHow 5 years ago. He wrote one article, anonymously. (How to start a baseball card collection) Mike is an NAB, patrols more, as well as spell-checks, categories, and NFD Guardian. He's written the most articles in our "Fans of baseball" subcategory, and a few, in other categories. "I'd like to maybe write an article about NY state government or political internships at some point, in conjunction with the work I'm currently doing in my spare time with a local politician." He used to be a committed troll, but that's all changed! He's running in this March's Admin election, and has ran 8 times! Hopefully he'll get elected this time! Good luck Mike! http://www.wikihow.com/User:Metsguy234
Thank you Mike for letting me interview you!
Next, a wonderful friend:
Not Perfect But Almost, AKA, Beth's interview
Beth found wikiHow one day, looking up "How to look like a punk". "The article was really well written," She said, "And the site was really well organized", so, she ended up joining! Beth loves to patrol Recent Changes and has patrolled a total of 2,318 edits! But the thing she's most proud of, is that she's a great page designer! She's designed my page, multiple times, and tons of others! She writes articles in our Personal Care and Style, and Relationships Category and life choices in general. Beth is a Featured Author with many Rising Stars, and Featured Articles. She likes to make templates, and has gotten 16 Thumbs ups! She's a very friendly, and wonderful community member. http://www.wikihow.com/User:Not-perfect-but-almost
Thanks Beth! Up next, a person from another country, who has learned the English language, and is a wonderful author at wikiHow
Love2, AKA, Salma's interview
Salma found wikiHow while searching for an article, and when she found wikiHow, she edited part of it, then, she made her account. She enjoys patrolling the most, and has patrolled 1,604 edits, and she writes about animals. She loves music, and has written a few articles in that category, as well as some life choice articles. She's a wonderful page designer, and she's gotten two Rising Stars! http://www.wikihow.com/User:Love2
Wonderful interview Salma! Next is a person who cares about me, and his friends, and an active member in the wikiHow IRC chat room
Knight Hawk's interview
Knight Hawk found wikiHow by accident, he was just surfing the web, when he found wikiHow. "Interested in helping other people learn, I signed up". He likes to do the Quality Guardian, and writes/edit articles about pets, in our Pets category. "Pets have always been there for me and they don't judge, they just want you for you". He currently has 1,765 article views, and 31 Thumbs ups! Go Knight Hawk! http://www.wikihow.com/User:Knight-Hawk
Thanks so much Knight Hawk for doing this!
Last but not least is
IShareMahKnowledgeWisley, AKA ISMKW's interview
ISMKW found wikiHow while looking for some Rune Scape advice, and he stumbled across a Rune Scape article. "After a few half-vandalesque, half-useful accounts, I took a break and made this account" ISMKW hangs out in the forums, but patrolls Recent Changes occasionally. He writes articles about Rune Scape, and has over 1,000 edits! He's also running in this March's Admin elections (Go ISMKW!), so wish him luck too! http://www.wikihow.com/User_talk:IShareMahKnowledgeWisely
And that's our wonderful bunch of this week's users! Thank's so much for taking time to read this, wish Mike, and ISMKW good luck for the elections, and more blogging to come! http://www.wikihow.com/
~June Days
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Where the writing's at!
There's so much to do on wikiHow! Aside from writing, you can edit articles that interests you the most. I, personally (June Days) love to write about acting, while other authors write things in our "Pokemon" section (TechFlash1), horse category (IsabelleZita), crafts (PJ Min), photography (lc2), and so many more categories, and authors!
This blog post will beb about the writing/editing part of wikiHow. There are 21 different categories, each with sub-categories:
*Phew!* See how many categories? Altogether, wikiHow has over 135,000 how-to articles! And people are writing more every day! Write about whatever you want. wikiHow wants to write how-to (and strictly how-to) articles on any subject. Try your best to write that articles that are:
*Quality based. Quality is better than quantity, really! wikiHow doesn't want any bad edits, so, think, if you make 5 OK edits, then that's not the best of making 2 great edits! See? So, don't overwork, so much as to speed, slow and steady.
*Not offensive towrads other races
*Doesn't contain sexual content
*No foul language
*No violence
Check out our Writers' Guide for more! Here's the link to the site: http://www.wikihow.com/ Hope to see you there! And, that concludes this blog post, more blogging, TO COME! ~ June Days ~
This blog post will beb about the writing/editing part of wikiHow. There are 21 different categories, each with sub-categories:
*Phew!* See how many categories? Altogether, wikiHow has over 135,000 how-to articles! And people are writing more every day! Write about whatever you want. wikiHow wants to write how-to (and strictly how-to) articles on any subject. Try your best to write that articles that are:
*Quality based. Quality is better than quantity, really! wikiHow doesn't want any bad edits, so, think, if you make 5 OK edits, then that's not the best of making 2 great edits! See? So, don't overwork, so much as to speed, slow and steady.
*Not offensive towrads other races
*Doesn't contain sexual content
*No foul language
*No violence
Check out our Writers' Guide for more! Here's the link to the site: http://www.wikihow.com/ Hope to see you there! And, that concludes this blog post, more blogging, TO COME! ~ June Days ~
Thursday, March 8, 2012
wikiHow
wikiHow is a how to manual that anyone can edit. Our editors strive to make us the highest quality how to manual on the Web. In order to best explain what we do, first we should explain what wikiHow is not:
-wikiHow is not a role-playing site, so don't pretend to be someone else.
-wikiHow is not your own blogging site. You don't "own" any pages there.
-wikiHow is not a chat site. All talk page posts have to be patrolled, so don't fill up talk pages with idle chatter.
-wikiHow is not an advertising platform.
-wikiHow is not a test site for vandalism. Most spam and vandalism is reverted almost immediately - we get to all of it eventually.
-wikiHow is not a playground, a joke book, opinion site, or link farm.
-Most importantly, wikiHow is not a social networking site! Your user and talk pages are only intended to be used in basic communication with your fellow editors - they should not be the bulk of your editing experience.
*above list adapted from How to Understand What wikiHow Is Not*
wikiHow is a how to manual. Each article is intended to give individuals instructions on how to perform a particular task, and every edit makes a difference. The website is run by its editors, and most decisions are made by consensus. Much like Wikipedia, we use the same sort of wiki software as they do, but we are not Wikipedia (nor are we eHow - they are not open for freelance editing).
*above information adapted from our FAQ*
If you are new, and would like to get started, you can:
-Create a new article. You can take a look at requests, or you can come up with your own. We have several articles already, so make sure the article you are creating is not a duplicate of another article.
-Start editing. There may be spelling and grammar errors within our articles - you can help fix them by just hitting the "Edit" button and changing the text.
-Start adding images. You can create the images yourself, or you can use the Image Picker to choose an image that would best match the introduction of an article.
-Patrol recent changes. Determine whether an edit made was a good one or a bad one - this takes a while to fully grasp, but we are grateful for any carefully executed patrolling!
-See what your fellow editors are doing. They might be able to point you in the right direction.
-wikiHow is not a role-playing site, so don't pretend to be someone else.
-wikiHow is not your own blogging site. You don't "own" any pages there.
-wikiHow is not a chat site. All talk page posts have to be patrolled, so don't fill up talk pages with idle chatter.
-wikiHow is not an advertising platform.
-wikiHow is not a test site for vandalism. Most spam and vandalism is reverted almost immediately - we get to all of it eventually.
-wikiHow is not a playground, a joke book, opinion site, or link farm.
-Most importantly, wikiHow is not a social networking site! Your user and talk pages are only intended to be used in basic communication with your fellow editors - they should not be the bulk of your editing experience.
*above list adapted from How to Understand What wikiHow Is Not*
wikiHow is a how to manual. Each article is intended to give individuals instructions on how to perform a particular task, and every edit makes a difference. The website is run by its editors, and most decisions are made by consensus. Much like Wikipedia, we use the same sort of wiki software as they do, but we are not Wikipedia (nor are we eHow - they are not open for freelance editing).
*above information adapted from our FAQ*
If you are new, and would like to get started, you can:
-Create a new article. You can take a look at requests, or you can come up with your own. We have several articles already, so make sure the article you are creating is not a duplicate of another article.
-Start editing. There may be spelling and grammar errors within our articles - you can help fix them by just hitting the "Edit" button and changing the text.
-Start adding images. You can create the images yourself, or you can use the Image Picker to choose an image that would best match the introduction of an article.
-Patrol recent changes. Determine whether an edit made was a good one or a bad one - this takes a while to fully grasp, but we are grateful for any carefully executed patrolling!
-See what your fellow editors are doing. They might be able to point you in the right direction.
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