# wikiHow

> wikiHow is a collaborative, wiki-based platform on a mission to teach anyone how to do anything. Founded by Jack Herrick in 2005 and run as a self-funded 'hybrid' company that pairs a profit-making ad model with a nonprofit-style public mission, it hosts hundreds of thousands of community-written, expert-reviewed how-to articles in 19 languages and has reached tens of millions of monthly readers worldwide.

- **Founded:** 2005
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Jack Herrick (Founder (former CEO, now Chairman))
- **Team size:** Small core staff (famously ~14 employees in early years working from a Palo Alto house) supported by a large global community of volunteer contributors; third-party listings cite up to ~200 including contributors/contractors
- **Products:** wikiHow.com, wikiHow Pro, Mobile apps
- **Notable:** Grew to 235,000+ how-to articles across 19 languages, Reached 100M+ monthly visitors at its 2016 peak, Webby Award for Community (2009)

## Products & services

- **wikiHow.com** — Free, collaboratively written and expert-reviewed how-to articles with step-by-step instructions, illustrations and video, spanning thousands of topics in 19 languages.
- **wikiHow Pro** — Subscription tier (launched 2020) offering ad-free reading plus paywalled features such as custom PDF downloads and expert-created email courses.
- **Mobile apps** — iOS and Android apps providing the wikiHow library, offline reading and how-to of the day.

## Achievements

- Grew to 235,000+ how-to articles across 19 languages
- Reached 100M+ monthly visitors at its 2016 peak
- Webby Award for Community (2009)
- Co-Creation award in The Guardian / Nesta Open Innovation competition (2010)
- Named to Gizmodo's '100 Websites That Shaped the Internet' (2018)
- Forbes 'Best Small Companies' (2019)
- Sustained profitability while remaining fully self-funded and independent

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Changed content licensing: new content moved from Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike to proprietary licensing (effective March 24, 2025).
- **2025-02** — Reported ~35.5M monthly visitors as how-to publishers navigate traffic pressure from Google's AI Overviews and AI chat assistants.

## Links

- Website: https://www.wikihow.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wikihow
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/wikihow
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/wikihow
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wikihow/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wikiHow/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wikihow

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