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Welcome to Wikihowto.

Wikihowto is a new wiki-style site offering free and open howtos, tutorials, DIY guides or what ever wish to call them. Our goal is to provide howtos and guides in a diversity of subjects and languages. For more information about the goals and direction of Wikihowto See: Wikihowto:About

If you are new to Wikihowto you should check out Guide to getting started on Wikihowto. If you want to help contribute, check out Howto write a new Howto page on Wikihowto or get involved it some of the tasks under the Get Involved section.

Wikihowto is still in its initial stages and could use any help available. If have a special talent or you just know howto do something, please feel free to contribute. It doesn't have to be anything fancy.

[edit] Get involved

• Contribute your knowledge:
  • Guide to getting started on Wikihowto
  • Howto write a new howto page
• Let people know you are interested in Wikihowto signing the supporters page Help:Supporters
• Help out with some of the Specific Site Needs

Ways that you can help Wikihowto (edit)

Make new Howtos and Guides for Objects that are Empty Make new Howtos or Guides for pages that don't exist but are Wanted, or redirect the page if it already exists Make some of the TOP 100 wanted howtos of the world Check that the links to wikipedia on Object Pages are valid pages and go to the appropriate article Make sure that all Howto and Guide Lists are linked in the appropriate Objects Check spelling and grammar of all pages, especially Help Pages Make Help Pages more readable and more useful Make nice looking rules and warnings Templates or clean up the old ones Fix pages that are poorly formated or empty pages or mark for deletion Convert pages in the Category:Merge to proper objects, howtos, or guides. Fix Broken Redirects Fix Double Redirects Visit a Random page and see if it could be improved or should be deleted Join the Discussion, and help guide the direction that Wikihowto is going.

Current Goals: short term (edit)

Goals Spell and grammar check all main pages. including all help and about pages Make sure the incomplete of short howtos are stubbed Check grammar, spelling, and capitalization correctness in Howto pages and Guide pages Decide on a slogan Come up with a howto/guide naming style for international pages. Guide to ... -> ? Start object pages for all the wanted objects listed on the wanted objects page Completed Goals Wikihowto logo is complete. Image:Wikihowto-logo-2.1-stable.png All titles of converted to howto Cleaned up and shortened stub templates.

[edit] Users & Community

• Users: Contribution users

[edit] Creating, Editing, and Formating Pages

• Guide to getting started on Wikihowto: Understanding Wikihowto's structure and pages.
• Guide to Wikitext Markup Language (wiki code): Wiktext code to used to format pages quicker and easier.
• Howto write a new Howto page on Wikihowto
• Howto modify an existing Howto page on Wikihowto

[edit] Page Lists

• Objects List
• Portal List
• Howto List
• Guide List
• All page types

[edit] Howto Requests a Howto or Guide

If you want you can request a howto, just create a link on your User Page or on the howto list. It will automatically be added to the wanted howtos page. the same goes for guides. Help:Guide list

[edit] Helpful Pages

• Guide to getting started on Wikihowto
• TimeLine
• OtherPages a list of all pages organized by type.
• Help:Contents
  
  
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