The Community Dashboard

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