About wikiHow

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  Our editorial process begins with rigorous research, plus interviews with experts to answer the question "What problem are readers trying to solve, and how can we provide the most helpful information?" From there, our writers and reviewers work together to polish drafts and make sure they are comprehensive and accurate.
  
  While we began as a community-based wiki, the vast majority of our new content is written by our team of professional writers. For both existing content and new articles, our team of fact checkers and professional content managers regularly audit and review pages to make sure they meet our editorial standards for helpfulness and high quality.
  
  We also collaborate with experts to review our content. When you see the green expert checkmark on a medical article, you know an actual doctor reviewed a version of it. Similarly, veterinarians review our pet articles, lawyers review legal articles, and our diverse team of 2000+ experts provide insights on topics from pest control to dating advice. Find a list of wikiHow's Medical, Legal, Financial, Relationship, Psychology, Slang & Linguistics, Social Media Trend, and other Expert Article Reviewers here.
  
  We don’t stop there. We’re constantly improving what you see on wikiHow to provide fresh, trustworthy, up-to-date information. We monitor the feedback readers leave on each article. If an article is accurate but incomprehensible, we rewrite it. If our illustrations don’t simplify the complex, we redraw them. Even after readers shower an article with praise, we find ways to make it even better. We never stop.
  
  So you see, wikiHow isn’t just the work of one person. It’s the combined effort of many. Our staff writers and content managers, thousands of volunteers, the largest team of illustrators on the web, hundreds of photographers, and over 2000 credentialed experts are continually working and reworking articles till they are the most helpful and reliable how-to guides on the web.
  
  

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  As a 2022 World Changing Idea finalist, wikiHow has been honored as a company with enduring impact on the world. wikiHow’s groundbreaking course on misinformation, developed in partnership with the United Nations, has empowered thousands of people to help slow the spread of harmful information online. With this award, wikiHow joined the ranks of other trailblazing organizations at the forefront of world-changing innovation for the good of society and the planet.Start the Award-Winning Course Today

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• wikiHow is an award-winning website. We’ve won multiple awards, including a Webby Award for Community and the Co-Creation award in the Open Innovation competition, by The Guardian and Nesta. We’ve also been favorably referenced in: The New York Times, BBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, ABC, CBS, Fox, Forbes, The Times of India, CBC, The Guardian, USA Today, The New Zealand Herald, and more.
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  wikiHow works with a small but mighty team to make a huge global impact. wikiHow was honored as a Small Giant in 2019 for our dedication to greatness, growth, and people over profit.
  
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  Jack Herrick founded wikiHow in 2005, fueled by the same educational mission that guides the site today. To ensure the company achieved this mission over the long term, Jack refused venture capital funding and opportunities to sell the company to larger publicly traded corporations. wikiHow remains a hybrid organization, a for-profit company focused on achieving a socially positive mission. wikiHow is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and also maintains a few remote offices.

wikiHow has two unofficial mascots: Blobbert and wikiBookstackington. Blobbert is an adorable, green, amorphous blob with an insatiable thirst for how-to knowledge. Blobbert's birthday is January 15th which corresponds with the founding of wikiHow. wikiBookstackington is a whimsical stack of 7 books in various colors. wikiBookstackington supposedly contains over 125,000 articles within the pages in its stack. Not much else is known about wikiBookstackington, but it's rumored that it is the beloved home of Blobbert. It is the perfect dwelling for a how-to loving green blob, and it's said that Blobbert once read 65,734 articles in a single reading session. While rarely pictured on the site, these two characters can be seen on the wikiHow homepage header image.

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