How to Contribute to wikiHow As a New User or Beginner

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   Visit the "Community Dashboard" to choose a task to do. From any page on the site, click the Community tab from the top of the website page.
   
   
   
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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.
   
   
   
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   Use the wikiHow Copyedit Article Greenhouse to focus on grammar, punctuation, and other writing mistakes. Keeping up with a complete spell check makes for one exceptionally great article.
   
   
   
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   Use the wikiHow Cleanup Article Greenhouse to do general revisions, editing, and reformatting on articles that need that special attention.
   
   
   
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   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.
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     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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   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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    Edit by Topic. Here, you can edit and enhance articles based upon your consolidated interest areas.
    
    
    
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    Use Tweet It Forward to help promote articles in Twitter by tweeting about them.
    
    
    
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    Use the Method Guardian app to help sort out articles that have been requested to have alternate methods added from those edits that just having nothing usable to be added.
    
    
    
    • For Method Editor, you must be either a New Article Booster or a wikiHow Admin.
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    Realize that there are many things a new user can do, besides what's on the Community Dashboard. They can edit articles by searching, as well as requesting articles be written, or even clearing out the double redirects page on wikiHow. All 163,169 articles are completely editable on wikiHow.
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    Take some good quality pictures and good quality screenshots, or even draw some good quality illustrations to match the step-by-step listings and upload them to the articles in the order they are presented.
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    Use the Manage Related wikiHows link or Embed Video link from the Editing Tools tab on the right siderail to an article to add Related wikiHows. Or, for an even more randomized selection that won't allow much selection to the order of titles to adjust, use the wikiHow Relateds Adder tool.

New Admins and/or New "New Article Boosters only

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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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   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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   Edit those articles that were approved in Method Guardian in the Method Editor app. Method Editor is specifically designed for use by only those users who have the right credentials and know just what's right and what's completely wrong to add when dealing with alternative steps and subsections.
   
   
   
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   Understand the processes in how you can use other apps, including the Proposed Redirects page and Manage Suggested Topics pages of wikiHow.
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   Realize that, as items come out for the Community Dashboard, you, the trusted users tend to get a first look to decipher bugs of the apps, along with a time to suggest new things.
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   Know the process on how to completely change a wikiHow article title, as there is a Special namespace page that is only accessible to you. The link to the page, can also be found in the Recent Changes Patrol app from the dashboard for these trusted users now.
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   Understand that there are many projects you can help out with that only these kinds of users can do, including adjusting the proposed whitelist and adding Rising Stars to patrolled articles(through NAB) that might have been missed the first time around.

Welcome Wagon Users

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   Use the Welcome Wagon Tool on wikiHow. This tool can help trained users welcome a user who has made an edit and help them to get more contributions from them.