How do I start a category or a team? I see categories for articles marked with {{accuracy}} and teams like the Merge Team and the Welcome Team, and I was wondering if I could make my own. If anyone knows how, please tell me.
Categories should be suggested in this forum category
. As to teams, I have no idea.
Thanks! But, how do I start a page?
Thank you! I’ll definitely try that out!
You can just go to start an article, name it wikiHow:“Name of Team”, and create the page for it. After creating the page, tell everyone about it in the forums or in the IRC chat room.
Harri
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In my experience, when you create an article titled wikiHow:Something, it automatically omits the “How to” - should be fine =)
Only things in the article namespace adds the “How to” part. If it’s a category, it would be “Category:Whatever”. If it’s a userspace page, it would be “User:Person/Whatever”. If it’s a UIB, it’s “User:Whatever”. If it’s something on the wikiHow space, it would be “wikiHow:Whatever”.
Also, depending on the team/project, is where you put it. Something to improve wikiHow goes in the main name space. If it’s a personal or pet project, then it would go down as one of your pages.
To start a team just… start one! Be bold. Get an idea, make a page for it, come into the forums to talk about your new team. I’m sure you’ll have members in no time.
Most people tend to use http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Name-Of-Project-or-Team
Leaving out the “wikiHow:” part will throw your team page in with all of our how-to articles, which you don’t want. So, say you want to create the “Juggling Team” to improve juggling articles on wikiHow. You’d go here ( http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Juggling-Team
), and if it’s blank (this one is), you can give a write-up on your club, a list of members, some of your goals, etc. Of course, if the page isn’t blank, it means someone had the idea for your team already. If it’s an inactive team, feel free to revive it, and if it’s an active team, feel free to join it. How to make it look pretty I’m not too good at, contact one of the Page Designers (hey, another team) and they probably could get it looking how you want.
I’m pretty sure (someone like Krystle, Jack, frankly any administrator would probably have a better idea of this) that if you use the “start article” feature to make a team page, using the format you suggested, that you’d end up with an article called “How to wikiHow: Name of Team” which would end up functioning as a normal wikiHow article (which makes things a bit messy). Someone correct me if I’m wrong on this.
