How to Join a wikiHow Team

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As a wikiHow contributor, you will expand your knowledge in different areas and tasks and the have the ability to share that knowledge by assisting others by joining one or more of the wikiHow teams.

Steps

1. Determine what interests or kind of contributions you enjoy doing on wikiHow. Are you someone who enjoys welcoming new members, offering assistance, reverting vandalism, or being creative?
   
2. Find out which teams are a good fit for you:
   
   • Help Team: providing one to one coaching to help people learn their way around wikiHow. This is the most general team as questions may be about how to make links inside of wikiHow, add an image to a page, or ideas of how to help out.
     
   • Awards Team: providing assistance and promoting the use of awards throughout wikiHow. This group also comes together to design awards and curb any vandalism of award misuse.
     
   • Merge Team: group of volunteer editors that comb through wikiHow articles & look for articles that can be merged to make a more comprehensive single article.
     
   • Welcome Team: volunteers whom dedicate their time to greet new users and answer their questions. This team can answer beginner's questions, for example how to create an article or how to find their way around wikiHow.
     
   • Recent Changes Patrol Team: otherwise known as "RC Patrol", this team patrols the edits that are made in wikiHow. They give cheers to regular or significant helpers and rollback or undo vandalism.
     
   
   
3. Click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the article page, scroll down to the bottom, and add the code provided in each team page.
   

Tips

• After adding yourself to the respectable team you chose, be sure to add the corresponding or matching User box to your user or talk page. This not only automatically adds you to the team category, but also identifies you to wikiHow users that you are "motivated" or knowledgeable in that specific area.
  
• If you are a minor or teenager, it's advisable not to put your age or any other real life information as you're doing your team profile. Please read the article, How to Be a Safe and Smart Kid on wikiHow for more details.
  
• If you have Firefox/Mozilla, using the wikiHow toolbar is a great help with patrolling recent changes.
  

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