How many times do you think a person searches wikiHow for a perfect solution to their present issue? Too many times, is the perfect answer. There seems to be a wikiHow page for everything a person needs and understanding how these pages even come to be is an interesting spectacle. It is great to imagine that the world can be connected to new ideas on how to do virtually anything from others on this one website. I mean there are articles on how to mediate. Amaze-balls.
When it comes to actually picking a subject to write a wiki page about, it could be compared to finding a contact lens after it drops in the kitchen sink. Almost impossible, but with perseverance a person shall see it through. Now that there is something to write about, a person has to wonder... "well, how do you do this thing?". Actually, breaking down step-by-step how to do an action that you've been accustomed to is harder than once can imagine. And the specifics, oh man, the specifics! Don't just assume the public will know the difference between a splash or a teaspoon, or whatever.
If a person didn't get to experience the PicNik photo editor before it closed, that’s very unfortunate. PicNik and Photoshop literally could go hand in hand with Photoshop being the more adult grown up version. Changing the color levels and sizing photos is the most fun part of the whole wiki experience, this can be argued.
Coding the page brings back memories of Myspace days. Remember picking a layout for your background, what special effects that you wanted on your page... maybe even a personal quiz in the corner somewhere? Just about the same. Only this isn't as flashy there's no top 5 friends list to compete for a spot on. No seriously, copy pasting the format of a similar wikiKow page was one of the easiest tasks having that layout experience. It was configuring the demo page's layout to the layout of the intended page that was tricky.
Taking the pictures for the project is probably the best part of the whole ordeal. The inner artist comes out as he searches for the perfect angle ensues. Photography is all about the eye of the beholder. Finding angles with only using the landscape camera view was not a hard challenge but making sure the pictures looked good was in fact a little difficult. Hats off to the great Gilles Bensimon, because taking good pictures is hard.
After this whole process the brain seems to zone out and it can be compared to a zombie like trance, with all of this code and intricate detail and whatnot. Just know that all the hard work results into a fabulous tutorial on a brand-new subject for some person in the world. Add a coin to the metaphorical karma bank. With all of the work being put into this one can wonder why they didn’t pursue an engineering degree instead of the arts? Insert laugh track here.
While making a wikiHow page is quite a process, there Is not a real desire to make any more from scratch. Some people are do-ers while other people are searchers. Maybe send an email to the creator of wikiHow and figure out how this site even came to be in the first place.
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