wikiHow:Attribution

What is Covered by the Creative Commons License?

Some, but not all, article text content is covered under our Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Creative Commons license and may be republished for non-commercial purposes. For avoidance of doubt, the article text content included in the license is only the title and text that is held within the text editor when you click "edit" on an article page. This includes the text in the introduction, “things you should know”, steps, tips, and warnings sections. It does not include staff content, the wikitext references to images, videos or related wikiHows.

Please note that staff content and images created by wikiHow are not released under a Creative Commons license unless expressly indicated as such. For images, please consult the Image page of each specific image for the attribution requirements.

You may republish non-staff written article text content following the guidelines on this page.

Reasons for Our Attribution Requirements

When you republish wikiHow content in another source, we require that you attribute wikiHow as the source of the information. Why?

To aid editors who will use the link back to the source document to edit and improve the information.
To give credit to the original authors. Our volunteer editors work hard and it wouldn't be fair for publishers to claim authorship of their work. By linking back to the original page at wikiHow, you will allow others to see who actually wrote the pages.
To attract more readers to wikiHow. By prominently linking back to us, you may send more readers to wikiHow. Some of these readers will eventually become editors and thus help us accomplish our mission of building the world's largest and highest quality how-to manual.

How to Properly Attribute wikiHow

In Online Media

Place a prominent link back to each wikiHow page used (e.g., the specific article such as How to Tie a Tie .)
- On the website page where the wikiHow article is posted, use the rel="canonical" attribute on the page so that search engines that crawl your content properly recognize the wikiHow article as the original. For example:
  
  <link rel="canonical" href=" http://www.wikihow.com/Tie-a-Tie ">
- See these recommendations from Google for best practices when using the canonical tag: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html
State that the material is available under our Creative Commons license with a link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ .
Attribution to wikiHow should be at least as prominent as any attribution to other sources on your website or publication.

Ideal Website Attribution Example

Article provided by wikiHow , a wiki that is building the world's largest and highest quality how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Tie a Tie . Content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons License .

In Offline Media

Prominently state something to the effect of
- "Article provided by wikiHow , a wiki building the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at wikiHow.com. Content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons License."
Attribution to wikiHow should be at least as prominent as any attribution to other sources on your offline publication.

wikiHow Logo

Using the wikiHow logo in your attribution is optional, but appreciated. However, you may not use the wikiHow logo to potentially confuse people that your site is the actual wikiHow site or to imply that wikiHow endorses you or your re-use of our content.

Use of wikiHow Articles on YouTube and other Video Platforms

For avoidance of doubt, wikiHow articles and images may not be placed on YouTube or similar platforms under our Creative Commons license:
- YouTube is a commercial platform, and wikiHow articles and images may not be used on YouTube without written permission.
- YouTube does not support the rel="canonical" attribute.
- If you wish to use wikiHow articles or images on YouTube, email wiki@wikihow.com with your request.

Additional Information

We specifically do not license any of the following under wikiHow's Creative Commons license: staff content, videos, quizzes, Q&A content, any media copyrighted and hosted by third parties, user profile photos, advertisements, trademarks, trade dress, article summaries, and any other non-article text content that does not have the Creative Commons license clearly marked.
We do not allow the use or scraping of wikiHow content or data to train machine learning or artificial intelligence models for any purpose without express written permission from wikiHow.
Sites that use over 1000 wikiHow articles on a domain are considered mirror sites. These sites risk being especially confusing to readers as to whether they are the actual wikiHow site, so we do not permit mirror sites.
wikiHow is a registered trademark at the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Questions or modification requests should be sent to wiki@wikiHow.com.

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