Smarity suggested leading a project to change all the old forum URLs to the new ones. Sounds like a great project! To help out, I’ve asked Travis to assemble a list of every page that as of yesterday linked to the old forums instead of the new ones. I’ve done an example link change here: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Administer-wikiHow-Projects&diff=5401300&oldid=4867462 Note that if you take on this job, please do not remove references to specific old forum threads. Since we will be keeping our old threads on the old forum, we will continue to link to specific threads. But any general link to the forums, should be replaced. I might suggest that whomever wants to do this start at the top of this list and then come back and say how far down they made it so others don’t have to repeat the same process. Here is the list! http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Chatting-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Getting-Your-Image-Deleted-From-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-an-Edit-War-on-a-Wiki http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Smart-wikiHowian http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-wikiHow-Hero http://www.wikihow.com/Become-Famous-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-wikiHow-Admin http://www.wikihow.com/Categorize-a-wikiHow-Article http://www.wikihow.com/Close-Your-wikiHow-Account http://www.wikihow.com/Collaborate-on-a-wikiHow-Article http://www.wikihow.com/Communicate-with-Other-Users-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Contribute-to-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Contest-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-wikiHow-Template http://www.wikihow.com/Criticize-wikiHow-Constructively http://www.wikihow.com/Deal-With-the-New-wikiHow-Format http://www.wikihow.com/Earn-an-Award-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Edit-and-Maintain-wikiHow’s-Category-Structure http://www.wikihow.com/Edit-the-wikiHow-Site-Notice http://www.wikihow.com/Find-Help-As-a-New-wikiHow-User http://www.wikihow.com/Find-a-Mentor-in-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Involved-in-wikiHow-Projects-Through-Collaboration-Corner http://www.wikihow.com/Get-More-People-to-Visit-Your-User-Page http://www.wikihow.com/Get-out-of-a-False-Accusation-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Go-on-a-wikiBreak http://www.wikihow.com/Handle-Recipes-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Have-Fun-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Help-the-Wicked-Obsession-Project http://www.wikihow.com/Import-Freely-Licensed-Images-Into-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Improve-a-Forum’s-Presence-As-a-User http://www.wikihow.com/Join-MFK-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Join-the-wikiHow-Help-Team http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Award-Templates http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Friends-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Multitask-in-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Nominate-an-Article-for-Featured-Article-Status http://www.wikihow.com/Notagdk/Welcome http://www.wikihow.com/Promote-a-Project-or-Contest-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Promote-a-wikiHow-UIB http://www.wikihow.com/Put-a-Photo-in-a-wikiHow-Article http://www.wikihow.com/Put-a-Photo-in-a-wikiHow-Article-(Advanced-Editor-Technique) http://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-a-Spambot-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Report-a-Bug-in-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Respond-to-Personal-Attacks-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Respond-to-an-Underage-User-Illegally-Using-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Select-and-Create-wikiHow-Articles-for-UNICEF http://www.wikihow.com/Select-wikiHow-Articles-for-the-One-Laptop-Per-Child-Association http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Project-at-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Suggest-Changes-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Test-the-Draft-Feature-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Understand-What-wikiHow-Is-Not http://www.wikihow.com/Understand-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Upload-Your-Image-to-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Templates-on-wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/Use-the-wikiHow-Forums http://www.wikihow.com/Vote-for-wikiHow’s-Best-Subcategory http://www.wikihow.com/Work-With-the-wikiHow-Writing-Coach http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Character-Article-(a-“Be-Like”-Article)-on-wikiHow

hey dude could you tell them that i will have the project up in a few minuets Thanks

how do you catogorize a project?

My project’s UP!!! http://www.wikihow.com/Wikihow-Forum-Link-Project

The forums.wikihow.com link shows up as an external link when it is placed in articles. I’m not sure if this needs to be fixed or not, I just wanted to note it for consideration.

I got through Get Involved in wikiHow Projects Through Collaboration Corner. I’ll probably do more tomorrow, but I have to sleep now.

I did a little bit, up to Improve a Forum’s Presence As A User. On http://www.wikihow.com/Join-the-wikiHow-Help-Team there is a link to the old “About the Author” Forums - are these returning, or should the link just be removed?

I noticed that, too…I’ll work on getting it fixed:slight_smile:

I don’t think it’s a problem

just put in "(Old forums) " after the link

good job everybody

jack, There is one named join the help team but when I click on it it goes to join the help tea! It tells me there’s no exact article with this name?

everybody who wants to do it go to the project. It has only the new ones on it and none that are allready done!

our current pleace is at http://www.wikihow.com/Promote-a-wikiHow-UIB

Hey all, just a reminder to not rush through this. If you mistype the link, it could send readers to a spammy page, like it did in this revision (now fixed).

I don’t think this one is returning. I started an “Introduce yourself” thread in General Chat - that seems to be what most other forums have. http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Avoid-Chatting-on-wikiHow&diff=5401587&oldid=4796072 I updated the links in the help team article like so: http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Join-the-wikiHow-Help-Team&diff=5403864&oldid=4866212

I went to finish these up and noticed Harri did them all. Thanks Harri! It turns out there are more links that need to be updated…these are in the wikiHow: Special: and Template: namespaces. If anyone can help out that’d be awesome. 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I’m up to wikiHow:Coaching Editors. From then on quite a few of them are admin-locked.

I got through wikiHow:Frequently Asked Questions. If any are locked, please list them here so that admins can be sure to notice them.