Posts

Showing posts from March, 2020

WikiHow: It's Not as Easy as it Looks

Image
The internet makes it so easy to find information at our fingertips. Dont know how to do something? Easily look up how on Google and you will get multiple helpful articles and videos. One of those will most likely be a WikiHow page.  "WikiHow is an online wiki-style community consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides. Founded in 2005 by Internet entrepreneur Jack Herrick, the website aims to create the world's most helpful how-to instructions to enable everyone in the world to learn how to do anything" according to Wikipedia. People will often go on WikiHow when they need a recipe or a step by step guide on how to perform a task. When looking at all of these WikiHow pages we never realize how much time and effort is put into them. It seems so simple but the backend of it is very extensive. The first, and most difficult step, is to come up with a good enough idea that can be backed up with solid information. Some tasks may be too simple where you don...