User:SBJohnny/howto guidelines worksheet

Introduction

 * General definition of how-tos
 * How-to books are textbooks designed for use in a vocational setting. This setting might be a classroom, a family project, or for self-teaching. Topic areas include home economics, crafts, construction and repair, and so on.


 * Goals
 * Completed how-to books should provide clear and easy to understand instructions for the project at hand. These instructions should be accessible to a beginner, but detailed enough to be of use to an expert.

Standards
('Note - a good example is Cookbook
 * Accurate descriptions of processes, easy to follow step-by step instructions
 * Tools and materials well-described (linking to wikipedia may be acceptable in some instances)
 * Well-categorised
 * (In general, the how-to categories need to be cleaned up to allow for clear structure).
 * Suggested splits below
 * Well-defined topics
 * Particular modules should not describe more than one process. If there are alternative processes, perhaps use something like the disambig pages on wikipedia.
 * Not too narrow: unless a project has multiple stages that justify independent treatment (e.g.: "building a house"), it's better to keep the process on one page.
 * Flowcharts may be useful: some how-to modules may require flow charts for steps. This may override the preference for keeping all the steps on one page.

Transwikis

 * Transwikis should be cleaned up and then put into the proper (sub) categories. In the case of transwikied articles from wikipedia that contain how-to information only in part, it may be useful to create a page using the form MODULENAME/Transwiki, and use it as source material for the main module. The contribution history from the wikipedia side can be placed onto the talk page of the "/Transwiki" page.

Category structure

 * Vocational manuals
 * Cooking
 * Recipes
 * Ingredients
 * Equipment
 * Outdoor cooking
 * Barbecue
 * Campfire cooking
 * Gardening
 * Survival
 * Disasters
 * Camping
 * Shelters
 * Foraging
 * Campfire cooking
 * Construction
 * Crafts
 * Woodworking
 * Metalworking
 * Stoneworking
 * Cloth and fibre
 * Maintenence
 * Automotive maintenence
 * Home
 * Machine
 * Electronics
 * Self-help
 * Learning
 * Presentation