wikiHow is a wiki-based website with a collection of articles which tell people how to do things. The site uses version 1.12.0 of MediaWiki. As of August 2017, wikiHow contains more than 190,000 free how-to articles and over 1.6 million registered users. wikiHow's mission is to create the world's largest collection of how-to information. In May 2011, wikiHow had 36 million unique readers.^[1]

History

In January 2005, Jack Herrick and Josh Hannah started wikiHow. On April 28, 2006, wikiHow was launched on its own www.wikihow.com domain.^[2]

Censorship

wikiHow's censorship policy usually does not allow articles about things that:^[3]

• Are "sexually charged"
• Are inaccurate
• Contain potty humor
• Are joke pages, or pages that rely on backwards logic
• Are spam pages, or pages advertising a product or service
• Violate copyright
• Are not a step-by-step how-to guide
• Are illegal
• Contain drug use; especially information about illegal drugs
• Or are potentially destructive or dangerous.

Some people complain that this does not support the idea behind an educational resource.