How-tos
Wikipedia articles that explain how to do something:
- How does one edit a page
- How to write a great article
- How to create a How-to in Wikipedia
- How to add content to Wikipedia with minimal effort
- How to avoid cramps while swimming
- How to banish crows from a field
- How to cook pasta
- How to clear fields from weeds
- How to cultivate barley
- How to cultivate beans
- How to cultivate tares
- How to cultivate potatos
- How to cultivate turnips
- How to drive safely Driving
- Harrowing How-To
- How to find a book
- How to make compost
- How to make bread
- How to make butter
- How to make cider
- How to make starch from frosted potatoes
- Seaweed farming how-to
- How to solve the Rubiks Cube
- How to solve the knight's tour
- How to tell the origin of an accent
- how to distinguish a monocot from a dicot
- How to use moss as manure
- How to write a Java applet
- How to simulate a rotary dial on a phone
- How to use an electronic adding machine
- How to read a poem
About 400 HOWTOs on Linux are published by the Linux Documentation Project. Many of them are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and parts of them can be included in the Wikipedia as long as attributed properly. However, please do not copy them into Wikipedia wholesale; Wikipedia is not a repository for primary source documents.
There is an excellent argument for including this sort of information in an encyclopedia: an encyclopedia is a compendium of human knowledge. Usually, encyclopedias describe little of what epistemologists call procedural knowledge, or knowledge of how to do things. Since this is a kind of human knowledge, and since it can, sometimes, be usefully imparted via prose (as well as, or instead of, by direct demonstration or teaching), an encyclopedia should include articles describing procedural knowledge.