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Re:WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly... by vbtemp on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:06PM (#22110931)
> wikihow is a cancer on the internet, clogging google and google image results with inane how-to guides

This 100x over. I've been trying to find a convenient way to block the domain from all my devices. It's all just utterly content-free cyber squatting.

Re:WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly... by ringzero on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @08:54PM (#22113816)
Does the content on wikihow not deliver on what it promises to do? And if so, have you considered editing it - given that it’s a wiki?

Of the things destroying the internet (Google AMP, and Pinterest, in that order), I wouldn’t include wikihow.

Re:WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly... by notatoad on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @10:08PM (#22114225)
No, the content on wikiHow does not deliver. It promises to help you learn how to do something, and I have never successfully used a wikiHow article to learn how to do anything. The content is so low-quality as to be useless.

And "it's a wiki" isn't a defense. What is my motivation to improve it? Nobody trusts wikiHow anyways, so contributing would just be creating more content that nobody should trust.

Re:WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly... by drewbug01 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:33PM (#22122288)
“What is my motivation to improve it” is an excellent question in my opinion, and worthy of discussion. I don’t know if I have an answer to it, but I do know that there isn’t really another Wikihow-like place out there that’s better. So at least my default answer would be “improve it because it’s better than starting from scratch.”

I do overall disagree with the thrust of your comment, though: your anecdote and mine cancel each other out. You haven’t been helped; I have! On balance I think they are helpful. I don’t have access to the statistics anymore but from what I remember, more people interacting with the website rated articles positively than not.

Re:WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly... by notatoad on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:09PM (#22123068)
the wikihow-like place that's better is the entire internet. It contains more useful information than wikihow does (by definition, because it contains wikihow).

wikihow could be valuable if the content it contained had some generally assumed level of authority that was better than the internet at large, so you could assume that a wikihow article was more trustworthy than any other random result from google. as long as wikihow articles can't be assumed to be more helpful than any other google search result, google is a superior alternative to wikihow.

Re:WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly... by asxd on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:40AM (#22137241)
I feel that this a somewhat circular argument. The wikipedia-like place that's better is also the entire internet, no?