How-to
- Many how-to's are found in Wikibooks. Most How-tos now on Wikipedia are in the process of being moved to Wikibooks.
A how-to is an informal, often short, description of how to accomplish some specific task. They are generally meant to help non-experts, and may leave out details that are only important to experts, and may be greatly simplified from an overall discussion of the topic. See procedural knowledge for a discussion of what sort of knowledge is imparted, and how far it can be imparted, in how-tos.
Other types of instructional documentation include FAQs, manuals and guides.
Procedural knowledge in the Wikimedia universe is generally found in Wikibooks. For a list of how-tos related to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Help.
Procedural content in Wikipedia
Although articles on specific procedures are kept in Wikibooks, articles in Wikipedia also contain useful procedural information. The following is a list of some of that information. You can learn something about how to:
- perform CPR
- aid someone who's choking by performing the Heimlich maneuver
Microbiology
- prepare and use agar plates
- perform gram staining
Gardening/agriculture
- clear fields from weeds
- banish crows from a field
- make compost
- use moss as manure
- harrow
- farm seaweed
- cultivate barley
- cultivate beans
- cultivate vetch (a. k. a. tare)
- cultivate potatoes
- cultivate turnips
Cooking/food preparation
Writing
Arts and crafts
- make egg tempera paint
- make marbled paper
- paint walls to look like marble
- upholster
- learn lines using mnemonics
- sing a cappella
Outdoor activities
External links
- http://www.eHow.com has a wide variety of how-to information. You can learn everything from how to throw a curveball to how to tie a tie to how to buy a condominium
- For more about how to do something see the Know-How_Wiki (down, jan. 2005, will come back)
- For more about how to perform a specific task in linux, see Linux HOWTOs (LDP)
- For more about how to perform a specific task in Pick-style, see MultiValue HOWTOs
- http://www.soyouwanna.com/
- Learnthat.com offers a great deal of tutorials and free courses.
- Howtoons How-to comics, MIT style.
- Free humanized how-tos at myprimers.com