wikiHow:Creative Commons

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Our how-to manual is free to share, remix, republish, and build upon. Granting this freedom makes wikiHow available to more readers and provides our community a right to fork. This open content license has enabled organizations such as UNICEF and One Laptop Per Child to freely redistribute wikiHow content. Our articles have also been reprinted on countless blogs and websites. We hope you do this too!

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December 7, 2009 by Eric W

Recent edits by: Lillian May, BR, Glutted (see all)

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