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**The annual (or almost annual) state of the wiki report:**Together we have been building the world’s highest quality how-to manual for 6 years. And after 6 years, I continue to be awe struck by what we are doing together. It’s simply amazing how we have banded together and achieved so much. I’ve always loved how we are building something bigger than any single one of us could build by ourselves. But the scale of our impact continues to humble and amaze. For lack of a better word, what we are doing here is epic. Just epic. Here are some stats to speak when the words can’t: Readership- Our mission is to provide a free practical education to every person on Earth. And there is no better way to measure that than the size of our readership:
wikiHow_Statistics - wikiHow

31 million people is a LOT of people! We are one of the most popular sites on the web. And we are more popular than most forms of media. More people now read wikiHow in a month than the nightly audience of the news of all the networks combined in the US for example. More people read wikiHow than read the paper copies of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Times, and LA Times all put together. But there are 6 billion people on the planet. Each of them wants to learn to do something. We still have much work left to do.:slight_smile: Very active editorsFor most of wikiHow’s existence, the number of our “power editors” or people who make 100 article edits in a month has hovered around 40 or so. But over the past few months, its grown over 50% to 67 and it’s now the highest it’s ever been. Great to see that more and more people are discovering the joy of building something the world loves.wikiHow Community Dashboard New EditorsEvery wiki has a problem convincing new editors to get over their fears of actually editing someone else’s work. On the good news front, our new editors who successfully make their 10th edit has doubled in recent months. I’d like to think that is because we are getting even better at providing a warm welcome and good home for these people to share their quality work.wikiHow Community Dashboard Number of Article EditswikiHow’s quality improves through the process of iterative editing. About 20-30% of edits are garbage that gets rolled back. But hiding in that trash is some real treasure that improves our wiki tremendously. That’s why it’s so great to see the number of article edits per week really growing:wikiHow Community Dashboard QualityQuality is core to our mission. It’s something that is difficult to measure in a pretty chart like the ones above. But I think we have all seen that our overall quality just continues to improve as more and more people help make each article better. Together we truly are building something that was inconceivable just a few years ago. And I’m pretty sure that as we stay dedicated to our mission, the best of wikiHow still lies ahead of us. Thank youfor contributing to this epic success. P.S. Please leave a celebratory “woot” or similar in the comment field below to put your name down as one of the many people who has made this truly incredible project such a great gift to millions of people.

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I don’t woot, just wanted to know how you created the great graphs without our beloved Eric (who I do seriously miss!)

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Have a whole bunch of celebratory woots! The occasion is much deserving!! And thank you, o epic founder:wink:

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Woot!:wink:That is amazing…thank you for sharing this, Jack. Definitely something to be proud of being a part in.

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woothaha.

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This is absolutely awesome! So here are 2 woots ! woot woot !:stuck_out_tongue:

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Totally awesome!

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w00t

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This is great.

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Jack deserves most of the praise for even believing this would work in the first place. Thanks, Jack, for your incredible gift to the world. WOOT

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WOOT!

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Absolutely Fabulous!

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That really is totally awesome! Woot!

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Great!

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Good work wikiHow!

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w00T!!:wink:

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Krystle and Travis deserve a lot of praise as well because they were here from the beginning, putting a lot of work into wikiHow without knowing whether it would take off or not. From my own work on websites, I know how hard it is to start something from scratch. Tom Viren also deserves a lot of praise, because he was wikiHow’s first admin. He also did a lot to develop the NFD process here on wikiHow. He was a great rolemodel for me and other admins here on wikiHow.

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Seconded, absolutely. Thanks so much Krystle, Travis, and Tom. Thanks and praise also to all the engineers who keep the website up and running in such a way as to allow us to fulfill the mission that we share. Bebeth ( @Bsteudel ), Jordan ( @Jordansmall ), @Reuben , Scott ( @Agent86 ), and especially Travis ( @Tderouin ), thank you so much. You don’t get enough thanks from the community, but know that we appreciate the work that you do. Thanks as well to the people in the back office who keep us within all the rules of the world and help us to grow to reach new people who want to know how to do things all over the world. Chris ( @Chris+H ) and Elizabeth ( @ElizabethD ), thank you. Few people know what you do (I admit to having had to look it up myself), but I realize that what you guys are doing is so important to the health of the site and to our ability to reach people and help them out. Thank you. While the amazing people working behind the scenes make quite a difference to the wiki, there wouldn’t be a wiki if it weren’t for every single contributor out there. Maybe I’m not exactly qualified to say this, but, on behalf of the world, thank you. Also, thanks on behalf of myself. When I joined wikiHow in November 2010, it was to copyedit. Then I realized how much fun patrolling was, and then I realized what a community exists here. I am so privileged to be a part of it. Thank you all.

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WOOT!:smiley:

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Woot! Woot! Woot!