I started wikiHow with the goal that we would one day accomplish our mission of building the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. Our long term goal should be to have every article be the single, most accurate, most helpful set of instructions on that topic available anywhere . A freely available, multilingual, and complete how to manual would improve millions of lives in both small and large ways. Indeed it already has. It is an ambitious goal that will take us decades to achieve.

In addition to the pleasure I get from building a great how-to manual, I also take pride in the manner that we build it. Our open editing and community self management challenges old assumptions about how organizations need be built. A successful wiki requires that thousands of strangers assume good faith, collaborate and build trust. It demonstrates that many people want to do something for the common good and will do so if empowered to make changes. It shows that people can self organize productively. And it happens across nationalities, religions, and age groups.