In a message dated 10/21/2010 6:52:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, me@marcusbuck.org writes:

I think your proposal is a good idea and that that wiki could develop into a very useful resource. However it does not fit into Wikimedia. Wikimedia is strictly about educational content and "neutral point of view" etc. and your how-to is just the opposite of neutral point of view. It collects the experience of people from their own point of view. >

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Personally I think this is wrong. Neutral point of view, does not mean to discount your own experience. What it means, is to objectively report the "facts" of the situation. Obviously if I do research, I am using my eyes and hands and brain, I cannot discount my experience in doing my research. What I report of my research is based on my judgement of what's important and what's not, what's interesting, what's mundane, what's silly, what's someone's unsupported opinion, what's an accurate summary....

If I can objectively describe how to fix your lawnmower engine, my contention is that that would be a neutral point of view. Someone else might object that it's too vague or too obtuse, but I don't think they'd object that it's too politically left or too religiously biased....

W.