Thursday, December 12, 2019

My First Battle with WikiHow


WikiHow is the How-To Manual of the 21st century. Whenever we need help using or making something, wikihow provides a detailed answer with very accurate pictures. It's a thinking tank that accessible to the world and is fact checked by thousands of moderators. The system is perfect because it allows for truthful and useful post without any of the uselessness that’s posted on other help sites. In fact, upon posting on WikiHow, the creator will immediately get an email telling them that their post is under reviewed. If you’re lucky the post will pass the review and will immediately be posted. But the reality is that the review process will take at least a month as the reviewers are very detailed in their criticism. But all those reviews serve the purpose of being a perfect teacher for the idiot reading the post. Image result for wikihow

An important part of WikiHow is visual examples. Words although very detailed won't provide the same type of definite detailing as pictures or videos. If you look at a Wiki post it has pictures which provide technique for the individual learning. Its intuitive to add visuals because WikiHow understands that people learn differently. For some people, words will be enough to provide a step by step guide. But other people are visual learnings and require a guide in which the process is clearly shown. Both ways of learning are represented in WikiHow by allowing visuals and words.

Another part of WikiHow is references. When trying to post something on the site, it may seem that all tutorials have already be done. But when you find an original idea those tutorials will serve as guides. They can be used to just learn how to format your ideal tutorial. Such as using exact wording to provide detail without being general. A unique thing about post is that you can preview the coding the publisher used. For those who don't know much about coding, they can review the code and learn what to use so they can construct their guide. And for those who have similar ideas to past post that's acceptable to. Instead of mimicking the post, the person should review similar post and then they'll know what not to use. Or better yet they use the post as inspiration to incorporate specific details that otherwise would've been criticized by the reviewers. The only thing that publishers should be worried about when referencing others work is plagiarism. But if you follow the rules, WikiHow is the home for any of those who wish to teach and learn. 
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