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New users or beginners on wikiHow often find it difficult to contribute in a positive way, as they have to go through a series of rules and regulations. Many often skip it and try editing, which in turn gives them a bad feedback. This article contains a series of easy methods to Contribute to wikiHow positively and instantly.

Edit Steps

  1. 1
    Visit the page labeled as "Community" to choose a task to do.

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    Use the Spell Checker wikiHow App with Fix Spelling. In this page, you can correct possible spelling mistakes in an article.

  3. 3
    Patrol Recent Changes on wikiHow. This is a page that you can patrol everything that happens on wikiHow. Everything that happens passes through here and is patrolled to ensure zero vandalism and 100% quality for articles on wikiHow.

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    Answer some Article-Requests with the Answer-Requests app. Here you can find a list of articles that have been requested, and answer a request.

    • Here, choose any article you want to write upon. You also write your own articles by clicking "Write an article" on right hand side toolbar of your profile page. Make sure the article you are writing is not a duplicate of an already existing article, or your article might get deleted or merged with the existing one.
    • Answer requests
      Answer requests
      While writing articles, make sure you don't use first person language (E.g. I, me, he, she etc.). Don't copy matter from other sites as they may have copyrights. You can however, convert them to your own language and present them in your article.
    • Make sure you do research on the topic and not write anything blindly. Do not spam by writing names or advertisements. Explain your article as much as you can and add images to steps if possible, just make sure that the image is freely licensed.
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    Use the wikiHow Image Adder Tool with Add Images. Here, images are added to the articles introduction based upon its content to enhance quality.

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    Categorize some of wikiHow's Articles with Categorize Articles. Here, articles created are sorted and placed into different wikiHow categories.

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    Format Articles. Here, articles get a special makeover, for those articles that don't have that special wikHow formatting.

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    Develop some short articles in Expand Stubs. Here, articles that are very short and don't have enough information receive the attention they need, and get quality information added to it.

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    Guard the quality of pictures and videos added with the Guard Quality app (Sometimes, henceforth, this app is called the reverse "Quality Guardian"). Here, newly added intro images and videos are checked for approval by voting process.

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    Add some videos to articles with the Add Videos app. Here, articles are embedded with related videos on the topic to enhance the quality of the article, and make it easier for the reader to understand the article.

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    Boost some New Articles with the Boost New Articles app. Here, New Article Boosters look at all the new articles that have been created, and edit them, add related articles, and improve the article.

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    Edit by Topic. Here, you can edit and enhance articles based upon your consolidated interest areas.

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    Guard some NFD'd articles in NFD Guardian. Here, Admins and New Article Boosters vote on keeping or deleting articles that have been nominated for deletion.

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    Use Tweet It Forward to help promote articles in Twitter by tweeting about them.

Edit Tips

  • While patrolling, make sure no one vandalizes articles by either emptying the whole article, spamming on the articles, or use of vulgar language. Make sure you rollback them.
  • While patrolling if you are not sure of some edit, then simply skip it.
  • Do not remove {{nfd}} tags as they can only be removed by admins or New Article Boosters. You can give your views on deletion by stating your opinion on the discussion page.
  • Make sure you read guidelines of the original applications like How to Contribute to wikiHow which have a greater dimension to the topics.
  • If you have any problem then you can either contact an admin or user or post it in forums under your places to visit tab on right hand side of your user page.
  • Whenever writing an article make sure that there are no duplicates for the article which can be either in same format or slightly rephrased in different title so make sure you search well using the wikihow search bar on top right corner of the page.
  • If you want to give somebody thumbs up then you can do so during patrolling or guarding quality wherein a thumbs up icon is present in blue color.

Edit Warnings

  • Do not vandalize user pages. If you want to talk to them, leave a message on their talk pages.
  • Do not chat on wikiHow. You will raise the recent changes count, and may be blocked.

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Recent edits by: Maniac, Bobbi Brandon, Zach

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