Something Exists Called WikiHow?

            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.

           

WikiHow was created during Web 2.0. Web 2.0 was the second stage of the development of the World Wide Web. This was the addition of social media and more interactive websites being created. Without Web 2.0 being created, the World Wide Web would not be able to do even close to half of the things the Web provides now. It was something that this world needed in order to keep up with everything going on in this crazy life. The way things change constantly in our world is why technology and the Web need to always need to be updated.

            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.