My opinion on wikiHow. Wow. What a topic! So many people have many different opinions on the site, and I am taking a bit of a writer’s risk by stating mine.
Let’s just jump write in though! (Get my pun? Write, right?)
When you first enter the wikiHow site, you are immediately greeted by a “We’re trying to help everyone on the planet learn how to do anything. Join us.” That’s a big mouthful! And obviously, wikiHow is undertaking a big challenge. It say’s on their search bar, wikiHow to do anything. So let’s explore a bit!
In my case, I decided to search up something simple like: “How to Make Vanilla Fudge ” and here is what I found!
I was indeed greeted by a heck load of fudge articles, and yes, there was one on vanilla fudge! The article was good quality, in depth and overall seemed pretty helpful.
It had a 4 and some star rating, but I gave it a full 5 stars in my rating. The article has over 15,300 views and seemed pretty good in total.
An article like this is what makes wikiHow a good site in my opinion. A article that has information, direction and quality to it makes any site good.
If wikiHow was filled with reasonable, helpful articles like this, I would totally give the overall site 5 stars! But unfortunately, there are some… weird articles.
I decided to test my luck, and google how to “Live”. Living is something we literally all do, but I wanted to see if wikiHow editors were odd enough to have a article on it.
Sure enough, they had a article on it. But it seemed weird. Like why? Everyone kinda knows how to live! What about even titling it as: “How to Live Better” so it doesn’t seem so weird! There is also other wikiHow’s on how to be mean, rude etc. Why would you want to promote that is my question?
Here’s my opinion in general through. They have some great articles on wikiHow, such as how to Make Money as a Kid, or how to Make Vanilla Fudge. But they also have some nutty ones. This youtuber, Danny, had some fair points to make about wikiHow.
I’d say all in all, its a good site, but sometimes its wacko, so be carful! (Also, I just want to point out that there were a TON of ads on the site!! Like a lot!)
Till’ next post, Everleigh
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