It’s that time of year again, folks! As some of you may (or may not know), we started a tradition a couple years ago, which was to write and share your goals for the next year, so everyone had something to work towards. 

Here’s a link to last years thread, for those of you who want to check if they reached their goals:  http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/12189/wikihow-time-capsule-2014/p1

These were my goals for 2015:

*Have written 30 or more articles (Almost reached this. 29 articles as of now)
*Have 10 Featured Articles (Almost reached this as well. 8 featured articles)
*Attend a meetup (Yes!)
*At least get to 20.000 edits patrolled (Still stuck at 16.000)
*Earn a Barnstar (Nope)
*Translate some articles over to the Dutch wikiHow (Nope)

And now for the next year. By this time next year I…

*Hope to have 20.000 edits patrolled

*Hope to have 35 articles started

*Do more NAB

*Go to another meetup?

*Translate articles to the Dutch, French and German wikiHow

Tell us your wikiHow goals for next year! 

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By August of 2016, I…

*Hope to be a Booster and a Welcomer

*Hope to have at least 2,200 edits

*Hope to earn a Barnstar

*Write at least 7 more articles

*Write at least 2 Rising Star articles

*Review 20 articles for accuracy

*Give 10 awards who DESERVE it

*Earn at least 70 thumb-up edits

*Patrol 11,000 changes

*Help at least 100 new users learn something

Tough goals, but I will try to accomplish them!:slight_smile:

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By this time next year I:
*Hope to be a Booster and possibly a Featured Author.
*Hope to have at least 2,500 edits.
*Hope to make at least 3,000 contributions.
*Write at least 3 more articles.
*Have at lease 1 Rising Star/Featured Article.
*Get the Award Team project back up again and “popular”.
*Have 5,000 edits patrolled.
*Get up to at least 1,000 contributions on the Community Dashboard each week.
*Do more welcoming.
*Read up on more of the wikiHow policies and rules so I can understand them better.
*Stop being such an off/on editor.
*Try and make 10 new wikiFriends.

Hard goals, but hoping I can get at least 75% of them a reality!

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Ahh, I knew it was that time! I feel as if I achieved all my goals for last year, and I did happen to attend my second meetup in Montreal when we had our epic 10th anniversary party . Me and my mom had a blast there, just as with the Florida meetup!

By August 2016 I hope to attend my third meetup which will take place in Portland during May (I hope to see you there @danielbauwens !), continue to work on the accuracy review & outreach project I’m trying to construct, find at least five unwritten topics to write about (possibly through research?), and continue to welcome and help people around here.

Great goals everyone! I look forward to seeing more of them.:slight_smile:

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*Be able to welcome more users from the welcome wagon tool

*Become a full booster

*Write at least 15-20 more articles

*Start to patrol recent changes a lot again

*Find more ways to edit

*Get at least 3 featured articles (I already have 2)

*Get 10 more rising stars

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*Become a booster

*Write 3 more articles

*Welcome more than 100 users

*Have an article be featured

These can be reached by determination - except for the last one - so I think they’re the ones for me. Also, I’ve been on a haitus, I’ll try to participate more now! 

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(My newest information will be in bold, but I’ll repaste what I had last year.

1.) Create an article somewhere in the range of 850 to 1000. I’m right now in the 770 range and would like to be within that number between now and Christmas this year. (Although 883 is less than what I was hoping to accomplish in the given time period, being that most of these articles are high quality, I know I have achieved this task for 2014-2015. However, I will continue to shoot for 1000 in the 2015-2016 capsule.)

2.) Take a large lead in helping in the Method Editor tool. (This Dashboard tool is defunct, however, at the time this was written in 2014 and throughout most of the 2014-2015 time, I was helping out in adding these alternate methods that come up through the tool (s). Therefore, this capsule item will not carry over to 2016.

3.) Update screenshots to the new “green design” of articles dealing with the site. In the past, I only gave consideration to the article’s I’ve started and gave little consideration to those having screenshots already. (Nope. Couldn’t accomplish this at all, though I intend to hope to get a few done for 2016 time capsule.)

4.) Help on a few other merges. With the help of other spreadsheets I was given access to from other forum threads on this issue, I’ve helped reduce the number by a bunch, and would like to reduce those that have incorrectly placed templates. I’d like to drive that one side down to few, along with at least 1 or 2 of those that have accurately-placed templates. ( Lost the will to merge articles or take care of those that were incorrectly placed and take care of the process according to policy, though I still have a copy of the link sitting on my Windows desktop waiting to be done. Perhaps I will get around to this in 2016; we’ll have to wait and see what I can and cannot do (assuming my time restraints don’t put too much burdeon on me.))

5.) Attend another wikiHow meetup. Although I’m always hoping that there’d be something on the East coast I could travel to easily, I’d be happy to take whatever I can get. Oh yeah, staying more than 3 days is actually key. I felt I didn’t have too much time and by the time I got to the area this past year, my vacation felt “over” (and I’d love to be able to change that in the upcoming year’s version.) (Couldn’t make it to the wikiHow meetup in 2015(Montreal,QC,Canada), but would be willing  to come next year, assuming there is no change in city schedule for the next meetup in Portland!)

6.) Become a Welcome Wagon user. Having started wikihow.com/Become-a-Welcome-Wagon-User-on-wikiHow (based on a split-off from Adelaide’s wikihow.com/Use-the-Welcome-Wagon-Tool-on-wikiHow . (I think I set too high a bar in 2014 for 2015’s time capsule. I couldn’t get through this, or even get a start on trying out for it.)

7.) Help work on expanding the wikiDictionary (much like @Alabaster thoughtful expansion). (I helped on occasion with this, though I wasn’t too helpful in this dictionary in the last year. I much intend to pull this over into 2016 too.)

8.) Create a few more UIB’s, where other UIBs are needed (yes, I’ll still be searching to ensure no duplicates) Are there any pages onsite that can quickly show where other UIBs are needed @Krystle @Anna ? (Finally, there IS something I can say is COMPLETE from my end for 2015, though I occasionally find the need and use to create a few more from time to time, so this is a rather endless project.)

Additions for 2015- 2016 capsule.

10.) Although my own personal pet project I’ve mentioned to only a select group, I’d like to start another project. Although I’ve called my personal pet project the “Theme Park creation Project”, I’d like to start it publicly.  More details to come, as soon as I can start this one (after I do the research and such. I’d highly doubt there would be others, but to comply with policy, I’ll check!).

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I want to write a great article that gets featured!!!
Work so well that become a wikiHow staff.
Boost as many articles that there are no articles left in forgotten articles project.

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*Become an NAB (like most people here want to do)

*Become a featured author by getting one more Rising Star

*Get twenty members in the wikiHow:Forgotten Article Project

Mine are simple goals, but achievable.

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2015 goals: - Finish writing the numerous articles saved in my drafts (Published a few of them but not all) - Summon “power booster Matt” more often:slight_smile:(Yas) - Attend another meetup ( #montreal2015 ) - Cope with the increasing number of readers, editors, and backlogs due to wikiHow’s obvious growth in popularity (hooray for NAB 2.0!) 2016 goals: - Actually publish all the articles in my drafts - Find a niche topic and write numerous articles about it - Attend the Portland, OR meetup (and convince @Travis-McKay to tag along) - Reach 100k patrols - Continue to cope with wikiHow’s increasing popularity - Improve my coaching and user interaction skills

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By 2016:

I want to be part of at least 6 projects

Improve patrolling skills

Be a welcomer

Edited at least 55 articles

Have another one of my articles featured

Edit my best article as much as I can

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Thanks @danielbauwens , always fun doing this! Looks like unfortunately I fell short of some of my goals from last year (starting 75 articles, using Welcome Wagon tool regularly, etc.) but I did get somewhat more involved with NAB, NFD Guardian, and attended another meetup!

Goals by this time in 2016:

-Actually get to 75 articles written (or more), and find at least 3 articles to write that are requested topics 

-Focus on tasks like copyediting, spellchecking, etc. around the site to keep quality high and consistent

-Get even more involved with NAB and NFD Guardian

-Patrol my 300,000th edit

-Attend yet another meetup (would be my 5th time:slight_smile:

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These are my set of goals for this year:

  • Write 20-30 new articles.
  • Become a Welcomer!
  • Focus on RC Patrol and patrol my 5,000th edit.
  • Boost at least 100 articles per month
  • Improve my existing articles such that they get featured (maybe)!:wink:
  • Concentrate on copyediting and NFD Guardian as well.
  • Earn a barnstar.
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All the best to all and those who are yet to share it!:slight_smile:

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I know I’m new, but by August 2016 I’d like to: -Write at least 10 articles -Earn a Barnstar award -Make at least 8000 contributions to Wikihow -Become a Featured Author (…) I’ll try to complete at least 2.

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  • Contribute more consistently 
  • Write another 20 articles
  • Pass the NAB test
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I just joined, by 2016 I would:

  • Like to have written 2 great articles at least
  • Made my 500th edit
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This is what I hope to achieve by the end of this year. 

  • I hope to write five or six more articles. 
  • I hope to pass the NAB test.
  • I hope to have over a hundred edits. 
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This is what I hope to achieve by 2k16:

~I hope to write up to 20 articles

~I hope to have one featured article

~I hope to have 6000 edits patrolled

~I hope to pass the NAB test

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By August 2016:

I.) Write at least three articles.

II.) Edit at least five articles.

III.) Gain better understanding of Wikihow.

I just joined recently (Less than two weeks ago) so could someone tell me what the NAB test is, and what a Barnstar award is?

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