For anyone who does not know what a
WikiHow is, it is a website where many different users can post “how to” guides
about anything and everything. It actually is really useful and has a lot of
well-informed material on there.
WikiHow is also a way that people can communicate in many
different ways as well. When a user makes a post and publishes it to the
website, the user is able to communicate through wiki and the other things they
post along with it to make it relatable to other things. It is also able to
relate to other topics already published, but it can also be completely
different. In order to help another user get a clearer idea on the topic
someone wrote, the author may have used some pictures to help the readers be able
to visualize their how-to guide better. Pictures are one of the best ways to
visualize or represent something better. Especially if someone was writing
about a recipe or trying to explain to a reader how to do something, it makes
it easier to at least have a picture to look at rather than trying to figure
out if it has been done correctly by reading the directions.
If someone is writing a WikiHow based on something
personally experienced, it seems a little bit easier to do because it is easier
to explain and show visually. Especially if it is something the user is good
at. It makes writing about the topic easier because the better knowledge an
individual has behind it, the better instructions or advice would get posted.
Although writing an article for this website is not always the simplest thing.
It still does take a lot of work because a good, solid topic to write about
comes first. But a person should want to be unique about a topic and try to
think of something that has not been posted on the website yet. That can be a
bit difficult but the user should try to think of different things that are
unique about them that many other people could not do easily.
It is possible for an article for this website gets
assigned during a class for a project. Many students often know the trials of
trying to get a big project done and putting in a lot of effort. It is also
very possible for this assignment to be easy to manage because as previously
stated, know the topic well that the individual wants to write about. The
better a person knows what to write about and can write about it well makes for
more detail and makes the post become that much better. Projects are a lot of
work, but getting done a little at a time always helps, especially when it
requires a lot of writing and proofreading. It might be better to actually get
it assigned as a project or think of it as a project because a person’s name
will be published with that article. Also, it is a website that everyone can
get access so if it is not the best, everyone and anyone would be able to see it.
Every person who uses WikiHow will view it differently and
form different opinions than others. It can sometimes be nerve-racking using
this website when publishing an article because as it gets edited, the user needs
to keep saving drafts and previewing the article so the steps are numbered
correctly, the subheads are there, the tips and warnings are lined up correctly,
etc. Be as careful as possible not to publish it because then the admins are going
to be reviewing the post before it can be fully accepted to make sure
everything is correct.
Since WikiHow has so many different tips and types of advice already posted on there, it is easy to look up some other wikis as a
reference. For example, if a person was writing an article about cheerleading,
maybe the writer would want to check out a similar wiki page to see what
someone else wrote about or help an idea click in their head. If that person
felt that it might feel like it was taken from someone else, it is possible to
reference and hyperlink it like this. It will directly take the reader to the
other writer’s post. But most importantly, it shows the differences between the
posts because the posts will be different articles with possible similarities.
One major key that any new author posting on WikiHow needs
to remember is how to code the website properly because the post is supposed to
look a certain way. The way WikiHow gets things to line up and how it should look
visually because it is going to need sense to anyone who reads it. To code
something, it means to be able to identify it on different terms when an
article or website is created. There’s certain codes and ways to publish things
properly because every website has different procedures each person needs to
follow. Coding can be difficult, but once a person gets the hang of it, it is
not too bad because then it is easy to understand what to do.
WikiHow was a new experience and was also a learning experience
too because it is good to know how to do these different types of ways to
publish on different websites. Especially if someone is going into the
communication field and for someone who is going to need to know these kinds
for the future.
