Flickety

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

The one thing that matters is the effort. ~~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

About Flickety

Tertiary qualifications. Professional experience in government, private sector and NGOs including in consumer affairs, environment, natural resources and sustainable development, rural and regional infrastructure and production, human rights, health, cancer prevention, international affairs, senior research, languages, teaching and communications etc.

Australian in origin. In North America until recently; now in New Zealand.

Proudly a volunteer on wikiHow. An admin when the tools & responsibilities call for it. Author, categoriser and category maintenance, editor most of the time. Passionately a coordinator of OLPC and UNICEF projects on wikiHow.

Passionate about writing, freedom of knowledge and transparency.
Pragmatic and realistic, tempered by ever rejuvenating idealism; constantly combining healthy cynicism with innate positivity, a little like wikiHow.
Always to be found writing on any scrap of paper and hoarding information from anywhere in the world.
Enjoys the great outdoors - hiking, camping, skiing, snowshoeing, kayaking, swimming, photographing wildlife & landscapes, and more besides.
Passionate about healthy eating, healthy living and good nutrition.
Spends moments converting conventional recipes to vegan; a decent kitchen is one of life's treasures.
Passionate about sustainable living, fair trade, positive internet interaction, and building self-esteem.
Tea, chocolate and fresh food fanatic.
Always learning and always open to new ideas.

Writing and research should speak for itself. Learn to trust your own sense of judgment when you read and interact with authors and editors on wikiHow. Many of the contributors you see around wikiHow and whose work you read care a great deal about donating time, effort and talent to wikiHow. I cannot speak for others but I know I feel that this is a productive means for me to disseminate my knowledge and skills via a free medium that can reach millions of people whilst at the same time belonging to a tight-knit and like-minded community.

Repository of human knowledge. I see great potential in wikiHow to become the key online resource capable of preserving and promoting generations of human knowledge from all cultures. It will include both expertise from recognised professionals in the field and expertise from you and me, people who have tried things out every day of our lives and worked out what works best and wish to share this helpful how-to knowledge with the rest of the world.

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NB: Some of this is FORTHCOMING

Civility helps build a strong community and ensures wikiHow succeeds.
Be constructive
Kindness and Thoughtfulness
Community and You
Respecting volunteer effort

Is that fellow wikiHowian really out to get you or might it just be an online misunderstanding? Better to react carefully and not have regrets.
- On spotting a spammer or troll-in-sheep's-clothing faced with content removal. And remember - don't feed the vandals - insulting them will simply add fuel to their fire.
- Quit whining and start doing.
- Lacking in perspective? Maybe it's because you're single issue editing and need to step out and broaden a little to cease the soapboxing.
- Observations on Wiki Behavior - wiki-world getting you down? Read this.

Quality versus quantity - the dreaded wiki disease neatly summarised as editcountitis. Not to be confused with Editors Matter, also known as policy is not a trump card.

Adminship and trophyism

Taking a Break from wikiHow

Go find some of your own wisdom and relate it back to life on wikiHow. Keep in mind that a hobby can be treated with serious intent without taking things too seriously and definitely without taking people down when they don't seem to conform with your ideals. Leadership through thorny issues is difficult but a good leader will balance both sides of a story and find a way for most to meet in the middle.