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I’ve been using wikihow for over a month, and I still don’t know half the things it provides. For example: what is “Village Pump”, how do you send fanmail, how do you block wikihowians… These are just a few question I have on this website although I’ve already been on for quite a while.

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Yes wikiHow can be a little difficult to pick up quickly, however the more you use the various functions on the Community Dashboard and practice the easier it gets.  wikiHow also has an article page on everything you need to know so all you have to do is put key words into the Search bar and see what pops up.  The articles also have links to other pages related to the topic you searched for.  Some of the important stuff like the Deletion Policy I have printed so it is handy to read, but you can save the url of pages you use often.

You can leave a message wikihow.com/wikiHow_talk:Help-Team   asking for help and someone will get back to you or simply ask another wikiHow user. 

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I have also not read about what is village pump etc but I can explain what I understand.

  • On village pump wikiHow related news, update etc is posted.

  • Collaboration Corner is for projects or articles in wikiHow where you must seek others views, input, help etc.

  • Help Using wikiHow is self-explanatory that you ask how a certain feature in wikiHow works.

  • New Category Suggestion you must be aware of that its where we suggest new categories in which to segregate the articles for better search results and for arranging them in an order.

  • Bug Report is for starting a discussion or for posting any technical issues you may be facing using wikiHow at large.

  • General Chat is about chat, sharing ideas, stories on wikiTwitter and other relevant threads. The topic need not be related to contributing to wikiHow.

  • Forum Games is for playing games that are there or you can start a game.

Apart from these few details, you may post any other questions you have as per Sarah’s guidance:slight_smile:

Or you may post here itself.

Thanks.

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As Sarah said, there’s a lot of things in wikiHow and it just takes a while to get used to everything. There’s a lot of articles in the wikiHow category  that might be able to help you out with things.

But for starters:

The Village Pump is a forum category. It’s basically for people to post announcements and public things similar to that.

To send fan mail, check out  http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Fan-Mail-on-wikiHow

Only admins can block users on wikiHow, but if you see someone whose behavior needs attention, leave a note on the Administrator Notice Board .

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Hmm, from what I could see from wikiHow, there are a few minor details that I could give, although this would probably confuse some bit. It helps when doing article fixing:slight_smile:

Do this: ==Method1== to make a new method.

Do this: =Big Letters= to make an extra big font.

Do this: ‘‘italics’’ to make italics. (two apostrophes – make sure that you don’t use quotes, because then you will get regular quotes)

Do this: ‘’‘bold’’’ to make bold. (three apostrophes)

You could put templates, like this. For example, if you wanted an inuse template, you would put {{inuse}}. UIBs (User Info Boxes) work the same. For example, if you wanted an “I Like Orange” template, you would put {{User Orange}}.

I hope this helps:slight_smile:

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You can also give them tips on how to write a good article using the links http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-New-Article-on-wikiHow and http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Writer’s-Guide . To add to Blackcat’s post above, a useful link to share with new users can be http://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Editing-Basics . You can share some of these tips and links with newcomers both in talk pages and in the forums.

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Thanks. This helped me too:slight_smile: