wikiHow: stories from the founder

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:30 PM

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Groundhog Pub
401 BLOOR STREET EAST
Toronto ON M4W 1H7
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Travis Derouin, cofounder and lead engineer at wikiHow, will give a walk through the wikiHow website, a brief history and technological overview.

wikiHow, launched in January, 2005, has a collection of about 57,000 articles and receives 16 million unique visitors a month. All of wikiHow content is licensed under a creative commons license.

In addition, some of the challenges experienced by the community, growing the wiki, working in a small, remotely distributed organization and the benefits of a hybrid business model will be discussed.