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Wikihowto has a total of 1,529 pages, 401 Howtos, 61 Guides

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Wikiayuda (Español, Spanish)
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ウィキテク (日本語, Japanese)
Padaryk pats vikis (Lietuvių, Lithuanian)
Wikicumsă (Română, Romanian)

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.

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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

<center>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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