WikiHow

WikiHow (styled as wikiHow) is an online wiki-style community consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides. Founded in 2005 by Internet entrepreneur Jack Herrick, wikiHow is a hybrid organisation, a for-profit company run for a social mission. WikiHow is an open source and open content project; the content of the website is released under a Creative Commons license.

WikiHow and Wikimedia/Wikipedia are not related in any way; WikiHow states the website is inspired by Wikipedia. They both use the free and open-source MediaWiki software.

The website aims to create the world's most helpful how-to instructions to enable everyone in the world to learn how to do anything.

In February 2005, wikiHow had over 35.5 million unique visitors. As of January 2020, WikiHow contains more than 212,000 free how-to articles and over 2.1 million registered users. On April 11, 2010, a WikiHow article titled "How to Lose Weight Fast" reached 5 million page views, a first for the site. "How to Take a Screenshot in Microsoft Windows" is the site's most popular article. According to WikiHow, four babies have been born in emergency situations referencing instruction from wikiHow articles.

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