| wikiHow is an online wiki-style community consisting of an extensive database of how-to guides, also, consisting of many animated images. Founded in 2005 by Internet entrepreneur Jack Herrick, wikiHow is a hybrid organization, a for-profit company run for a social mission.
wikiHow was founded by Jack Herrick on January 15, 2005, with the goal of creating an extensive how-to manual with accurate, up-to-date instructions for multiple tasks in many languages. January 15 was selected as its launch date to honor Wikipedia, which was launched on January 15, 2001.
wikiHow software is open source and its text content is released under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license. wikiHow states that it was inspired by Wikipedia, but it is not related to Wikimedia/Wikipedia in any way. Both organizations use the free and open-source MediaWiki software.
In 2006, the non-profit foundation One Laptop per Child chose wikiHow as one of the content sources for the educational laptops it distributed around the world. On September 21, 2007, the website's 25,000th article was published.
In 2009, it surpassed 20 million monthly visitors and completed a redesign. In 2014, Google chose wikiHow as one of the launch partners for Google Contributor, an ad-free Internet product.
On April 11, 2010, a wikiHow article titled "How to Lose Weight Fast" reached 5 million page views, a first for the site. "How to Take a Screenshot in Microsoft Windows" is the site's most popular article.
As of May 2021, wikiHow contains more than 232,000 free how-to articles and over 2.5 million registered users.
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