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This is the new Wiki Equine team chat.

Our goal: Improve horse related articles.

Rules:

  1. Stick to goal, no off-topic chat
  2. No mean or disrespectful comments
  3. Please ask before joining the Wiki Equine team
  4. Don’t lie. If you know nothing about horses, please let us know and we can teach you.
  5. Have fun

To join the team or view our page, click on the following link: https://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:WikiEquine

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Now, If any one comes across an horse-related article they think need images or editing, post it below.

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As to quote Alex on the other thread, here at wikiHow, we don’t really do team chats. However, I’m pretty sure that chats about one specific article are allowed. I’m not sure whether this thread will be closed or not, but I’m not an admin.

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Ok, thanks for letting me know.

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This team dose have a goal though. We are currently working on horse related articles that are stubs, or need images and/or editing

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Perhaps it might help to learn a bit more about how projects work?

Throughout the history of wikiHow, we’ve found that projects with a clear, specific goal do far better than a project that just has a goal of “improving articles” or “expanding stubs”. With a goal like “working on articles that need editing”, it’s hard to tell if there’s any progress being made. It’s also been found that projects with a generic goal of “improving stubs” tend to fall flat if they’re not being run by someone who’s shown a strong willingness to expand and de-stub articles themselves. Projects are most successful with a clearly defined goal (like “Correct the inaccuracies in articles in the Horses category”) and users who are genuinely passionate about helping.

We had a feature in the wikiHow Herald about this a couple of years back; you can read it at https://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Herald/Best-Practices:-Creating-a-Successful-Wiki-Project .

It might also be worth noting that creating a “chat thread” doesn’t really indicate that there’s a clear goal - if anything, especially now that we’ve moved to Discourse (rather than a platform that doesn’t operate in real-time, like Vanilla), it just seems like a way to skirt the chatting restrictions under the guise of “working on a project”. It’s best to find a clear goal before making these threads, so it’s not just viewed as chatting.

Projects can be truly beneficial to wikiHow, as can be individual editing. If you want to improve the horse articles, you’re more than welcome to:slight_smile:

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Oh Ok. Thanks!:slight_smile:

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So, say I wanted to Correct the inaccuracies in articles in the Horses category,

Could I do that?:slight_smile:

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You could, but in order to make a true project goal you would want to look at the category and see what kind of work needs to be done for the category to be at its best:slight_smile:

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Ok! Let me think of a goal.:slight_smile:

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Horses sleep standing up.
They need to got to vet every 6 to 8 weeks.
Horses can live up to 35 years.

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Yes! Thanks for adding the information!!:smiley: