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Show Me How is a website where anyone can make or edit guides on how to do just about anything.

I've found that when I'm learning how to do a new project, I often have to consult multiple guides across the internet because they seem to all lack one or two key pieces of information. My hope for this website is to create a place for people to write tutorials, and if someone else comes along and wants to add what they think is a useful piece of information, they are free to do so. Any info that helps, such as personal anecdotes, is welcome. And hopefully this results in more "complete" guides.

Let's get guiding! (I'll work on the catchphrase.)

Guides:

Shortening jeans with hand sewing

Works in Progress:

Draft:Using Arduino as ISP to program an ATMega microcontroller

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Any content on the actual guide page should be on topic, but the Discussion page for a guide can stray into more informal chatting.

There is no "correct" format for how to write a guide. For example, a page titled "How to turn on a computer" with the content "Plug it in. Press the power button." is totally fine. I don't know how useful that specific guide would be, but hopefully you get the idea. If you want to jazz up a page with nice formatting and pictures, feel free.

Page editing can be done via the easy to use Visual Editor, by clicking Edit at the top of the page. Or if you want to edit the wikitext directly, click Edit Source. This website uses MediaWiki, the same software that runs Wikipedia, so the wikitext formatting work

Page editing can be done via the easy to use Visual Editor, by clicking Edit at the top of the page. Or if you want to edit the wikitext directly, click Edit Source. This website uses MediaWiki, the same software that runs Wikipedia, so the wikitext formatting works the same too. MediaWiki has a helpful guide on editing.

If you try to follow a guide here, but it doesn't quite have everything you need, and you later find the missing piece somewhere else, I encourage you to come back and add what you learned. Make sure it's in your own words, though, so that you aren't using someone else's copyrighted material.

To suggest ideas for how to improve Show Me How, visit Show Me How:Ideas and click on "Add topic" at the top of the page.