Talk:Main Page:Archive15

Cleanup
I've archived the old messages. moa3333 21:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * thanks, it has been a while since any of us has gotten to that 71.208.122.96 06:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

OpenSource Laser Business opens in New York
This article I read recently.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/12/233215&threshold=-1

It says that they even teach, and help to start such business.

Thanks for Moa3333 for cleaning up the page.

--Inyuki

Appropedia
Another wiki with howtos is Appropedia, the wiki site for appropriate technology, sustainability and international development.

There's some overlap, but Appropedia has more specific subject areas (especially appropriate technology) and also has projects, case-studies etc.

If there are relevant howtos here, please let us know at Appropedia - add the link yourself, or leave a note at the Village pump. Likewise, you may wish to link some of Appropedia's Howtos from here.

I'm keen to see collaboration between these wikis as much as possible, and want to make sure we link to each other and transwiki where appropriate. --Singkong2005 15:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


 * It's good to see you chose the GFDL for that wiki's license which does make collaboration possible since content can be shared between these two wikis, as well as with other sites, like Wikipedia or Wikibooks. Angela talk 16:24, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes - it took a long discussion, but that was the reason we went with GFDL.


 * I'm not very familiar with licensing, but I'm told that GFDL requires attribution. Does this mean we need some kind of attribution notice for any page that takes a significant amount of text from another GFDL source? If you can suggest a good link on that topic it would be much appreciated, so I can add that to the appropriate page on Appropedia. --Singkong2005 16:49, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The template at Wikia:Template:Wikipedia can be adapted to give attribution. See Wikipedia:Project:Copyrights for more information. Angela talk 21:25, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

New Object page design?
I have been thinking about the object page design and listening my friends' opinions about it. one major problem they have is, It is not obvious that the link on the object name goes to wikipedia I would have to agree with them. One idea i though would also be useful is have a very short description of the object, on the page. No more than 5 words, just so people know is the object is what they think it is, without having to goto wikipedia and back . So here is my solution to the above stated and more. The page intro could be a simple template exp
 * User:ZyMOS/temp/neo-object
 * User:ZyMOS/temp/neo-object

Let me know what you folks think, and if naything can be improved ZyMOS 07:11, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * So i worked on it a little more, and made this test example, cheeseburger. Here are also some stuff about my idea and other examples. User:ZyMOS/temp
 * ZyMOS 06:37, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

277 howtos and 108 Guides
Not bad, and our spanish site has over 80 howtos. We are really becoming an awsome site ZyMOS 18:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, that was really amazing to see the appearance of the ES version Inyuki 07:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

What I see wrong
Wrong is that many pages still have only links to some other pages. It is the job of Google, not us to collect links; and I guess that most people will find it easier to find the links through Google.

It's not so interesting to just browse the links.

I think we have to create the genuine content of our own.

Inyuki 07:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Sometimes it is a better way of writing Howtos
Here is how:

to write Your real stories of accomplishing things, rather than writing abstract howtos
I started doing it this way now in the Japanese version of the Wiki.

Asking people to write their stories of a accomplishing things, with the comments on how it may be possible to do the same thing in different circumstances, may be more effective way of actually getting people writing howtos than only asking "How to do X?"

Here are the reasons:


 * Stories of doing something are something that people already know, whereas trying to write a highly abstract howto for a number of situations is almost impossible, and this leads only to confusion, because the writer does not know how to do it in a number of other situations that he or she has probably no experience of, except the particular situation that he had done it in.


 * It is much more time-efficient to share the personal experiences than trying to write abstract workable howtos for any possible situation, because you do not need to use much time to think of all the possible situations, and only to tell your unique story well, the one and only that you are 100% competent about that it had succeeded.


 * Stories are easier to read. They are more fun and more straightforward and natural method of expression. From the ancient times stories were the form of knowledge that remained in people's minds best. It is perhaps so because it is the closest thing to reality that one can get in a written form. Understanding the reality well was what was important in survival of any living being. (Abstraction is further from actual reality than the experience is.)


 * People will be more confident trying to repeat the story, because they can be sure that it has once been done, and not something that one just has to follow and see. Also, there is a person who is responsible for the story, and can answer the questions through talk page.

This is my personal opinion, but I think that writing an open story, and giving your situtational background, your thoughts while solving a task may be much more educational. I really miss the times of books. Is it that people have lost their skills in story telling?

Inyuki 08:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * By the way, I think that scientists are already doing it this way, - they write descriptions of the experiments the way that other researchers could repeat them and check, and the best is to write a story how they managed to do that, in very detail. However, in case of Wikihowto, perhaps we should try to consider a general audience rather than narrower scientific community. Of course, that would require much more writing... Inyuki 06:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yet I think reading a real story composed of paragraphs where for every paragraph the author is first off explaining what actually was done, and then commenting the choices and grounding them by the authors thoughts and considerations, can be more interesting to read, than reading only the directions, only steps. Inyuki 11:04, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


 * It may well be that if every decent creation will have it's open story, much more people will be able to catch up with the technological progress. This awareness of the stories may be very important approaching the technological singularity. Inyuki

The Japanese version...
I mean, what I did in the Japanese wiki, is I put the invitation in the main page to write creation stories, and started explaining how did I create a simple Japanese-Lithuanian online dictionary for mobile phones using a rental server in Lithuania, not only as an example of the explanation method, but because one Japanese visitor of the dictionary asked me, how did I do it.

I have put the link to it in the main page as an example. I think it is a good way to make people catch the idea of actually sharing their production stories. I started with the object link, linking directly to the online dictionary, and then follows a short introduction, why did I thought of making a dictionary, when. Then I just straightforwardly wrote what I did, braking down the big steps into small paragraphs in such a sequence that one paragraph but ennumerates a number of actions I did (so that the reader could just repeat the actions if he or she wants), and the following paragraph explains my choice and thoughts.

What is specific about the way I did, is perhaps that I just wrote down just the way I did, not "how to do". For instance, - that I just found a piece of code on the internet or PHP help, and just changed some variables. (i.e., username, password). So the one who reads can kind of understand the simplicity.

Thinking of the next steps, I thought I would like to know a story of ZyMOS writing the bot for Wikihowto, that actually works :-), just as an instance of actually-working knowledge.

MediaWiki also has it's story, from what did the developers start? What is particularly their production, and what are the parts that they have used from somewhere else? (If we understand that, we could much better contribute to it's development, wouldn't we?)

I think people should be quite good at remembering their own story, and there should be ways of asking to write them it down.

If we had such stories for every product, I believe that even the open source projects could be more accessible, even for non-programmers. (So, I will try to put the link to the page of the dictionary, to it's explanation.)

If we explain our thought processess, then I think others will understand how actually simple the things are. And who will benefit from it, is all mankind.

Important, in order to be as close to the reality as possible, one has to be as OPEN and HONEST about writing how exactly he or she did that and how thought of doing so, as it is possible.

Telling the pure true in the first place, without much abstraction or pondering about other possible situations is what is a good way not to get confused, I think.

That is the thoughts for now.

みんでぃ 17:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I drafted both howto install FreeDOS in QEMU and howto test if your BSD system supports IPv6 based from my experience, but nowhere in either document do I cite my experience. Further, if I actually wanted to document a "success story", I would have to write howtos like "howto run DOS programs above Unix" or "howto add your BSD system to the IPv6 internet". Maybe later, I will work upon that. --Kernigh 15:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Mr. Kernigh, I took a look at your works. I find it quite confident trying to follow them. I think it could be a good idea to make something like a "featured howto stories" in the main page.


 * Why else write personally? Just my own impression: I would really more gladly grab reading your howto install FreeDOS in QEMU, if you had added some more of personal touch into it. I would also feel more confident asking you questions through talk page. In the Japanese version I wrote it using the pronoun "I".


 * The difference from a traditional success story would be the level of detail, and the intention (to share knowhow, leaving no technological secrets), thus "open stories" :-) As soon as we have many instances of concrete open stories, we will have more confidence in writing abstract howtos, so I think the two subtypes of instructional knowledge could quite well coexist here. --みんでぃ 21:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Howto & DIY category on u-tube
http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp&t=t&c=26

nl
Hi!!!

Since 28 March, we have got a http://nl.howto.wikia.com/ site. we are growing very fast. bye --Jorgechp (ke t kuentas?) 10:03, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

P.D: es.howto just reached 140 articles

Add French language
Could you please create the French version of Wikihowto ? (Further, when will it be a Wikimedia Foundation project ? It should become a very popular and useful wiki)

Pattern Language
Hi, all interested in the project. You can read this Wikipedia page when you have time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language. I think it is very much related with the goal of this project.

I found this Wikipedia page after inspecting one comment on our project:

zen_tom @ halfbakery.com comments on our project: I was cynical at first - but having had to do something similar (albeit within a much more specific remit) I found some approaches more useful than others. The most interesting, I discovered after learning about the work of a chap called Christopher Alexander, who wrote a pair of books, "The Timeless Way of Building" and "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" which describe generic architectural forms (entranceways, passageways, rooms, bridges, connections etc) with a few suggestions and examples of how these have been made in the past. The same technique was utilised by the 'gang of four' who published "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" which explored the concept of design patterns in the realms of software design. This technique should be scalable to adapt to work within almost any realm of technological design, construction or engineering, and a wiki is the ideal way to put such a thing together.

--Inyuki

Request for French language being processed
Here is the request http://requests.wikia.com/wiki/Fr.howto Hopefully, the French version will appear soon.

Inyuki


 * I've created this wiki and set Jean-Baptiste Martin as the wikis admin. Angela talk 18:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, thank you. He seems to be interested in innovation, so, hopefully we can see something new on that page soon. He has also provided his e-mail on his homepage. I think it could be a good idea to give him the message usually issued after creation of a new wiki, with the links and passwords to the mailng list, and such things. It may be encouraging. Inyuki 22:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I initiated 4 articles in the French version, and added a link to fr in the current page. To help, how could I add a link to fr on the left of this current page, and (if possible?) add the Image:Wikihowto-logo-2.1-stable-med.png logo 2 times in the fr.howto.wikia as you did in the current page ? I didn't found the right syntax.


 * Well, you go to the Upload special page ( http://fr.howto.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Upload ) and upload the image file, wich has to be named as Wiki.png, which should be located at http://fr.howto.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Wiki.png ), as an example, I will upload the English versions's present logo. -- Inyuki

I thank you very much, it's run.

"How did we create MediaWiki" article
I have added a namespace for the article titled as "How did we create MediaWiki". I thought to make it the kind of story I was talking about above. I wrote more details on the article's talk page.

The article's name is not in the "Howto*" syntax. It is so because I making it "Howto*" would de-spiritualize (make it impersonal), but it had been developed by people who have their own personalities, their own character, thus 'WE'. I think this way the information will be easier to convey to a 6-year old. (As it was mentioned before, I very much agree with Albert Einstein's phares: "If you cannot explain a concept to a 6 year-old, then you do not fully understand it."

From now on I intend working on this article for a long, really long time, to have an example of an article.

Inyuki 13:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Links to fr.howto
Hello, could you add the down and left links to the recently created fr.howto version? Thanks and good luck for your version.
 * I have asked this question to Angela on her Talk Page. みんでぃ 20:12, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Promotion of WikiHowTo
To make WikiHowTo useful and known, there should be a minimum number of pages and of contributors, in each language.

How could we get that? How to promote WikiHowTo? I think the life of 3 or more languages is key success factor.

I feel that to show a dynamic TimeLine (I was refering the TimeLine shown in the paragraph "Wikihowto and the rest" of the Main_Page--Jean-Baptiste Martin jbm.schtuff.com 06:33, 10 April 2007 (UTC))is another key factor. Would it be possible to add at least one event per month from 2006, June 15th to today? And to include in this TimeLine the creation of Spanish WikiAyuda, French Wikicomment, and others?

We all have to get benefits from common stimulations. Based on your experience, please advise how should I promote Wikicomment (with French pronunciation as it means HOW and not COMMENTARY).

Thanks for cooperation.--Jean-Baptiste Martin jbm.schtuff.com 09:40, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I believe we have to give some good examples of what we expect on this howto. I have done it this way in Japanese version:


 * 1. Added a Create article field
 * 2. Added an example of personally written howto that I wrote as an answer to my friend
 * 3. Added few samples of open story kind of howtos and a few samples of normally written howtos


 * My best results of writing howtos appeared to be the ones where I wrote howtos in response to other people's howto questions.


 * Yes, if we had a good dynamic international timeline, that could really help to coordinate the project.


 * I think ZyMOS would suggest just adding more content, no matter if it is genuine or not, because the more quality content we would have, the more likely it will be shown on a search engine. That is also an option.


 * I personally prefer alive pages (with creator's support), not dead pages. Alive pages are the ones that are supported by a person who actually has done the thing at least once, has experience, and can answer additional questions through talk pages.


 * We are not in a hurry, just let us remember this project whenever someone asks us personally, how did we do something. (I find it most motivating thing to give a link to my own article at Howto Wiki, instead of writing an explanation in an email; so I automatically advertise it at these moments.


 * Another suggestion - to write short stories of "How did I create this page?" to the upper right corner of the page, or as a related link. みんでぃ 20:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I think one wiki we should cooperate with is Wikianswers. People can ask questions there and when there is an answer, we should try to rewrite it better and make a Howto or Guide of it. I think also that, as Wikihowto will eventually become o Wikimedia project, we could merge the two wikis into a single one. I mean, make wikianswers a sub-wiki of Wikihowto or womething becaus i don't see Wikimedia aprove the creation of two unrelated official Wikimedia projects. moa3333 10:14, 15 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I saw few questions directly connected to a Howto (e.g. those beginning by "How do" in http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Allpages, and several others). Some other could be rewritten with Howto point of view. I feel the answer to many questions is often a Wikipedia purpose. The cooperation is a good suggestion, at least to explain in Wikianswers and in Wikihowto the existance and role of the other one. Further : I feel there is somewhere in Wikipedia a space to ask questions ? In this case there should be the same space in Wikihowto, and Wikianswers could be connected to these two spaces ?--Jean-Baptiste Martin jbm.schtuff.com 10:45, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Promotion of Wikihowto writting Howtos for most frequent questions
As suggested by User:Moa3333 in Help:Users ('general practical "solutions" to every day life: from where the name Wikisolutions came first') I created the Guide to find wich content the internauts expect in web site, based of my experience for Wikicomment (recent French version of Wikihowto). I feel apply this guide would accelerate the development of Wikihowto. Mainly Wikihowto would fit the need of many web surfers. Please advise?--Jean-Baptiste Martin jbm.schtuff.com 15:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Promotion of Wikihowto thru DMOZ directory
Wikia and many Wikia projects are registered in DMOZ.

I just asked DMOZ to register Wikicomment in the category "World: Français: Références: Encyclopédies".

Would you ask DMOZ to register Wikihowto in something like http://dmoz.org/Reference/Open_Access_Resources ? --Jean-Baptiste Martin jbm.schtuff.com 21:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Done ZyMOS 22:23, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

cron
i finally setup a cron job for the howto count script that makes the lists of pages Help:All_page_types. It should run once a week. Let me know if there is any problems, or you have any suggestions ZyMOS 04:49, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Great job. It is now like in Google, where you can search for different kind of content by putting additional commands such as " define: " before the query. If I understand it correctly (tell me if I am wrong), essentially what you did is creating the kind of new type of categories like Howto:, Guide: , Object: , etc in order to be able to manage the content better. Considering the recent appearance of the "Open Story" thing, I am thinking that maybe the pages of the kind " OpenStory: " could also exist (yet this kind of content may also become popular). Another thought is that it is good to have the kind of sorting of information in our case, when the instructional information is of diverse types. It is now being done by the bot, but as soon as we start hacking the MediaWiki more seriously, it might be a good idea to implement the kind of link-based sorting capabilities into the MediaWiki itself. :-) [just thoughts for now] Inyuki 14:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * By the way, do you think that writing now about how did you create the bot, could yield a meaningful example of a good "howto" or "openstory" ? Inyuki
 * Ya sounds good, I used to just have the scripts source but it hasn't been updated in forever.  Ill make a howto like you sugested above when i have time.  Another note I have combined allot of the similar free software guides, so there soon will only be about 20 guides listed. So dont fret. see Guide to FOSS (free open source software), Guide to FOSS games (free open source software) ZyMOS 18:53, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I see. It sounds good, actually, recently I have made a list of software/tasks that I need to learn how to do in Linux or other opensource operating system, to be able to abandon using windows... (now I just cannot because there is a number of applications that I would need). This kind of guid may also prove useful.
 * If you are gonna write an "OpenStory", I think you don't have to write how you created some piece of code that you just used fros somewhere else. Maybe just to mention how did you think of using, or how did you find it. Inyuki 06:23, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * If you are gonna write an "OpenStory", I think you don't have to write how you created some piece of code that you just used fros somewhere else. Maybe just to mention how did you think of using, or how did you find it. Inyuki 06:23, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Prosumers are getting popular
Just recently I read news about MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices)."Called a mobile Internet Device, or MID, the devices will have screen sizes from 4.5 to six inches with a target audience described as consumers and prosumers ' rather than mobile professionals."Being that industry is getting aware of the term is happy news to me.

Inyuki 13:06, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Open source hardware slashdotted!
This article has recently been slashdotted. I think it is also a great news! みんでぃ 20:12, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * ya i saw that, pretty cool. ZyMOS 01:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * and open hardware is discussed on Slashdot again! みんでぃ 07:40, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thats awsome, i just bought a xilinx board] from my freind for 20$US and was hoping to turn it into a testing insturment, such as a logic analyser.

A howto on Wikibooks
Recently I happened to open a page Pimsleur language learning system on Wikipedia and on the bottom of the page I found a link to a book How to learn a language on Wikibooks.

Though this particular "book" appeared to be very short, the construction-creation type how-to stories that I envision as a method to convey even the most complicated knowhow to lay people, would in fact be documents of a scale of a book.

This brought me to think about Moa3333's start on Wikibooks.

I thought about continuing the story titled "How Did We Create MediaWiki?" in the realm of Wikibooks. But since the Wikibooks is limited to textbooks and does not include all the kinds of books with more personal perspective, I am ending up that HowTo Wiki project is still the best place for this sort of content... Yet this is the way we are, right. Perhaps Moa3333 would have to say more about it. :-)

みんでぃ 16:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes i have been aware of it, but i think that howto's are not quite apropiot for wikibooks. Esecially short ones.  Like most of them.  So i think we have the right idea.  And hopefully wikibooks howto shelf will move here.  ZyMOS 17:50, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I concur. みんでぃ 13:24, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

other lang pages
User:Inyuki read the comments i made on the other lang talk pages. I have an idea to keep inter-lang pages up to date with the # of howto's and guides. also, what is the deal with http://nl.howto.wikia.com/wiki/Hoofdpagina. it seems to not have started. Im not sure what to do with other lang pages, that are never updated or unstarted. should we advertise them on the main page or add them as a side note in Community portal. any comments? ZyMOS 17:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've seen the comments the comments, still thinking, how to implement it. Since I have not been using any different types of pages in the Japanese version (with intention to leave the content concentrated, i.e., "less organizational pages, more content"), I do not want to add the type of organizational pages as pages visible from as articles. To sort out my organizational pages in Japanese version, I am using the Project: namespace. This allows the number of articles counter work properly, showing the exact number of worthy articles (including the main page, however). If I add a page named "Object:foo", my article counter would turn to number "6", but the number of actual howtos would not increase that much, which would confuse the people trying to find articles through the "all pages". I am thinking, how to implement this object. Maybe there is some way to swtich-on the additional namespaces to exclude the Object: type of pages from the articles count. If so, it would be very good. I will ask Angela. みんでぃ 13:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

working together with http://www.wikihowto.org
I sent this email to the admin of wikihowto.org in hopes that we could work together.
 * Hello,
 * I am the co-founder of another site named 'Wikihowto'. Our goal is to create a wiki style howto site that is inter-wiki'ed as much as possible with wikipedia and other wikimedia pages.  Our ultimate goal is to become part of the wikimedia project.  We noticed a while back that you owned the domain http://www.wikihowto.org/.  But since you were not did not use mediawiki software we were not sure how we could collaborate with you.  Since you seem to be redoing the site, perhaps we can combine our projects into one unified site using ideas, stiles and polices from both our sites.  Your site seem to be doing very well and i hope that we will be able to find a way to work together.


 * Thank you,
 * Jeff Israel (User:ZyMOS)
 * http://howto.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page


 * PS
 * Feel free to email me or comment on the main talk page (http://howto.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page). Thanks


 * Well, let WikiHowTo'er be pro-opensource, pro-opencontent, and pro-wikimedia one. I guess I found his page online. The register information gives http://www.planetwhois.com/www.wikihowto.org : Daniel Moore from Great Britain, after googling I found this homepgae: http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~drmii/ ... Inyuki 13:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Making articles more personal/groupal
In the Japanese version I am planning to try an approach of making articles more personal/communal.

Since most of the information is written by individuals through their personal experience, the idea is that every article has to be signed by the username belonging to the entity that shares the creative experience.

The entity could be a group of people or one person. It is important, especially because it to ask more easily and straightforwardly if you did not understand well someone else's actions / how did he/she/they do/create something.

Inyuki 19:03, 18 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I have thought about this and i don't think i agree. I think the howtos should be informational and written technical.  To make these personal and signed would make these awkward for others to edit.  Adding a step or correcting a problem would make an article chopped with other people's personalities.  The risk is making howtos and intermittent forum.  On the other hand  I think if there are differing opinions about a step or a whole howto then they should be added.  For example:
 * Some people prefer to use X, others prefer Y
 * Opinions on X:
 * A
 * B
 * C
 * Opinions on Y:
 * D
 * E
 * F
 * Another way that an opinion/personality could be added is:
 * I prefer to put X in a a try so it does not get mixed with Y.
 * I think this is good way to do it and I think allot of howtos are already written this way.
 * but that is just my opinion. ZyMOS 05:10, 19 May 2007 (UTC)


 * ZyMOS, I am mostly curious about already-made products, and how they were made, so I am thinking how to make the people and groups that worked on them share it.
 * Ideally I would prefer to have pages titled with the product name and containing designing and production experience. For example, there could be a page like A80502150 SY015 without any prefixes of "how to", containing the story (factual information) written by the (group) emploees who worked on it, and how they created it, how did they reason, and how did they succeed... Inyuki 08:11, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * OK i understand. like how we designed the pentium (5x86) processor, writen by an intel guy.  Im still a  little torn on the issue, but i wont push ether way.  the howtos on wikihowto seem to be written in both mannors ZyMOS 02:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * OK i understand. like how we designed the pentium (5x86) processor, writen by an intel guy.  Im still a  little torn on the issue, but i wont push ether way.  the howtos on wikihowto seem to be written in both mannors ZyMOS 02:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikihowto Template
Is there a Wikihowto template I can add to an article in Wikipedia? I am working on the article "Ideas" in Wikipedia and would like to add this to the list in section "See also".--Doug Coldwell 12:49, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * You can simply type cat for cat
 * ZyMOS 02:42, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

TOP 100 wanted pages
The TOP 100 wanted pages lists the howtos by which Wikihowto would become the absolute reference in the internet for HOWTOS !


 * Jean-Baptiste Martin jbm.schtuff.com, it's great idea to popularize Wikihowto. Thanks for the efforts. Let us see what most popular search engines link to when searching for these howtos. Inyuki 15:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Tutorials
I think tutorials are a good. I just found a web site under GFDL licence: MeshPlex. moa3333 07:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Request for Romanian language
Here is the request http://requests.wikia.com/wiki/Ro.howto

Neutral point off view???
I have some objection to the NPOV applied here. i think we should apply multiple points of view usefull and complementary as i explained in french edition. And no page should be deleted unless it is not usefull to anyone. If a page is usefull to one person, it should be kept. If inside a page, some content is not usefull to some people, then that page can be splited into two pages. No other reason should justify deletion of content!!! not even bad grammer (unless it makes the page less usefull than previously) This is a major shift from Wikipedia, Wikibooks, etc... And we should try to convince Wikimedia to accept a projet that does not apply the neutral point of view in order to be more usefull for practical subjective experince. if not we could create a new foundation if we have support from the comunity. moa3333 00:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Here is a translation of that, i am too lazy to translate it manualy because i don't speek so well english... but i'll do it when i will have time.Here is the translation:

In addition to the objects, there are other good ideas which can be apliquées. I think notamant of one, which was not discussed too much nor on the English version up to now. When I have the English version I create realized that there is a probl (me compared to Wikipedia relating to the neutral point of view. Déjç I have evil has to digest the policy wikipediar with regard to the neutral point of view, I does not know if people are able to judge qual point of view is neutral and which point of view is not it. I think that the neutral point, or the point of balance complicates the task of the contributurs, even if it helps the reader. With regard to Wikicomment, the things are diferentes. Wikipedia and Wikibooks seek to create a wiki which must present at the reader representative information on a precise subject in a total and universal context. By opposition, Wikihowto/Wikicomment must permetre with the user organize specific knowledge on a practical subject in a context local and changing. In conséquance, the objective and neutral point of view cannot apply here. One must apply here from the useful and complementary points of view. By conséquance one must allow the creation of several Comments and Guides the same subject, each one applying to another public, in another context, etc… When the encyclopaedic knowledge is objective and is included/understood by the ration and the debate, the knowledge to make is subjective and is learned by the practice and the experiment This can also applies to the debate between categories and objects. The categories are fixed, call upon a fixed organization. The objects are more concrete. Well on, it is easier for new to sail with categories! But a person who implies herself as if this wiki were the prolongation of its experiment and not the reflection of its connaisances, then for this person, it will then poura to publish the objects until it is able to find the pages easily. I.e. one applies içi the idea to sail by éxperience. This wiki must resemble one workshop more or a bazaar that with a printing works or a bookshop! This wiki belongs to the deuxiemme generation of wikis…. and I think that one must also create a wiki2 with all fonctionalitées of the web2. If the Web produced the wikis like Wikipedia, then the web2 will produce wikis like Wikicomment/Wikihowto, which occupy more than one information representing an experiment which changes all the time instead of a very objective knowledge… Conclusion: on Wikipedia, all that is not objective, interesant, encyclopaedic, written well, etc must be éffacé. On Wikicomment, and Wikihowto, nothing must be erased, no page, except those which are not useful or which practically does not give results if part of page is useless with a certain number the reader, S they can then forge this page in two guides or comments on the same subject by just keeping the part which leut is useful on one of the branches. There is enough comments of it to embrace and turn to the idiot, but one does not want to erase a utilse page on pretext which it did not represent EP the neutral point of view or which it is not pretty or another reason when ell is useful in practice for part of the contributors. It should not even be useful to everyone!!! moa3333 June 17, 2007 with 00:44 (UTC)
 * I'm ok with that, so I created the http://fr.howto.wikia.com/wiki/Wikicomment:Pluralité_des_points_de_vue. The adaptation of the Wikipedia's NPOV. --Jean-Baptiste Martin jbm.schtuff.com 07:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)