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Wikihowto has a total of 1,498 pages, 388 Howtos, 61 Guides

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What is Wikihowto?
Wikihowto is a new wiki-style site offering open and free know-how, do it yourself guides, independent solutions and tutorials in a diverse range of subjects and languages. The site started in January 2005 and aims to become a Wikimedia Foundation project. For more information about the project, read the public proposal.


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Wikihowto, WikiHowTo, Wikisolutions and Howto wiki have been used to refer to this project since 2005. If there is a project with similar goals, please tell us: we love to cooperate.

Read the proposal and join us on the discussion page.
Help with the domain name and the project name.

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Ways that you can help Wikihowto:

  • Make new Howtos or Guides for pages that don't exist but are Wanted, or redirect the page if it already exists
  • Check that the links to wikipedia on Object Pages are valid pages and go to the appropriate article

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Featured howtos and guides

Special recognition


Nature (edit)
Dealing with natural resources and phenomena, including application of all kinds of laws of nature.


Culture (edit)
Dealing with relatively simple man-made environment, including all kinds of tools.


People (edit)
Dealing with individuals and organizations.


Constructions (edit)
Dealing with various large or complex (industrial) man-made constructions, and building them.


Wikihowto and the rest

Time line:
  • 2005, Jan 22nd: Wikia HowTo Wiki ([1]) was created by Inyuki
  • 2005, May 8th: Wikibooks Wikisolutions ([2])was created by moa3333
  • 2005, Sept 1th: Wikisolutions take over the old HowTo, and change the name to Howto
  • 2006, Jan 2th: More than 500 pages and the original HowTo resurrected: a mixing of ideas begin slowly
  • 2006, Jan 9th: original WikiHowTo ([3])was created on meta/mediawiki by ZyMOS
  • 2006, Jan 28th: New proposal for a universal howto site, called WikiHowTo, joining all three howto sites with new guidelines
  • 2006, Feb 26th: Number of total articles breaks 500. Number of Howtos breaks 100.
  • 2006, March 4th: Number of Objects break 250.
  • 2006, April 8th: First page is improved to be closer to the Wikimedia standards of quality and name changes to Wikihowto.
  • 2006, Mai 2nd: Cooperation with other web sites is included as an important element. Ease of use and promotion is a problem to be discussed.
  • 2006, June 15th: Number of page edits breaks 10000. Number of total articles breaks 1300.
  • 2007, April 29th: Wikihowto is available in 5 languages


Wikihowto currently has four other languages. If you want it in your language, contact us.
300+ Howtos in: 150+ Howtos in: 60+ Howtos in: 5+ Howtos in: 1 Howtos in: 1 Howtos in:
English Español (Spanish) Français (French) 日本語 (Japanese) Lietuvių (Lithuanian) Română (Romanian)

Wikihowto is run by Wikia. You can help Wikihowto in order for it to be run by the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

Meta-Wiki
Coordination of all Wikimedia projects
Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia
Commons
Shared media repository
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations
Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus
Wikisource
Free source documents
Wikinews
Free content news source
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