"Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote in message news:a4359dff0908210918w6ad2a4a5q14a3fc036fa31b82@mail.gmail.com...
2009/8/21 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
What's so bad about encouraging howto information? I'm sure that a lot of people would find such practical information very useful.
Sure, it would be very useful, but it isn't within Wikipedia's scope. Perhaps a new WikiHowTo project? (Several such projects already exist: http://www.google.com/search?q=wikihowto Maybe no need for a new Wikimedia one.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/template:howto {{howto}} DID contain links to http://www.wikihow.com and http://howto.wikia.com/ One is a sister project. The other is more closely allied with google and penis enlargement product comparisons. I also found either a performance or a connectivity difference. In specific instances, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha , both could be in the external links. It seems that we are now recommending wikiversity and wikibooks for training.