How To Use Howtopedia

You Are a Visitor?

If you visit Howtopedia.org maybe do you just want to browse through the articles. The main page allows you to see all the articles at one glance. Click on the articles that are underlined in black and you will be linked to the article. If you look for something specific, enter your search in the search field on the left side of the window. If you have questions or need more information about a technology, join the discussion by clicking on the discussion button above the article title. If you have comments corrections or ideas to bring to the articles, then become an Editor!

What will you find on Howtopedia?

Howtopedia is meant to gather practical knowledge and to become a lively knowledge exchange platform.

• We are convinced that many of the most important technologies for survival, emergency and empowerment are possible to explain and to exchange.
• We are convinced that good ideas should not be restricted to a specific area, but shared to reach all areas where these ideas are needed.
• We are convinced that people are able to recognize solutions to their problems.

Howtopedia is not a link directory, nor a database of bibliographical references, nor an announcment place for internationnal policies conferences or regulation texts.

Why becoming an editor?

Howtopedia is a collaborative work, and the exemples of Wikipedia, linux and others prouve the incredible strenght that collaborative works can develop. The risk of such a collaborative project is vandalism and amateurism. But both of the weaknesses can be contrered by even more involvment and professionalism.

How To Become an Editor?

It is very simple. You need to log in, link top right and give in a name and password. If you feel like it you can give in you email address. That's it, you can begin editing.

You Are an Editor

Once you've logged in you can start editing, correcting or create articles on Howtopedia. Howtopedia is based on the same interface as Wikipedia.org. That means that most of the functionnalities and rules to edit Wikipedia will work in Howtopedia, and if you need help on a very specific topic to edit Howtopedia, you are very likely to find it in the help section of www.wikipedia.org.

First: take a look at how it is made

The first time you want to edit an article, please read the editing and syntax rules. You will need them to present your text the way you want. then take look at the model and at the empty page . You might want to do some trials in the sandbox.

You want to correct an error in an existing article?

Just click on the article title from the main page. It links you to the article. Go to the edit button and look for the error you want to correct. To save your changes, click on the Save page button.

You want to write the text of an existing but empty article

Go to the edit button of the empty page and copy the text from the text field. You will paste this structure in the edit window of the article you want to write. Use the structure as a template and start sharing your knowledge.

If you want to add illustrations, go to the Special pages section from the toolbox on the left side. There you will find the Upload file page. The only file format that you can upload is

Don't forget to respect the copyrights: You are also promising us that you write the text and make the illustration yourself, or copy it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Project:Copyrights for details). DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!