skyHow:About

skyHow is an open-source wiki-based how-to manual. Not only it has how-to articles, it also has quizzes.

skyHow was founded on March 29, 2025 by User:Xeverything11. skyHow has two languages: English and Spanish, the latter being founded on April 21, 2025.

skyHow naming is inspired by SkyWiki, the hosting service where it originally hosted skyHow when it was founded, and wikiHow, the other wiki-based how-to manual.

Migration to WikiOasis

skyHow migrated from SkyWiki to WikiOasis on April 29, 2025, because SkyWiki wikis had encountered 4xx and 5xx errors, most notably on April 27 and 28.

skyHow was originally going to be migrated to Miraheze, which is much more stable and has thousands of wikis. But the wiki request for skyHow on Miraheze was declined, because of "lack of a specific focus or scope" and "the wiki will cover 'any topic' as long as it instructs, which aligns with the 'Encyclopedias of Everything' category that is extremely limited on Miraheze. Wikis of this nature pose a high risk of copyright violations and lack a clear, defined scope." This suggests that the request violated Miraheze's content policy, prohibiting wikis with "anything goes" basis.

So skyHow looked for another wiki farm, and WikiOasis is a good option. Not only it is more stable than SkyWiki, but WikiOasis' content policy is less strict than Miraheze's, so then the wiki requests for English and Spanish versions of skyHow were made and both got approved.

In numbers

35
articles

1
quizzes

3,702
edits

25
users

Browser support

skyHow aims to support as many browsers they can. Although skyHow occasionally uses bleeding-edge features such as backdrop-filter, skyHow aims to gracefully fallback in older browsers.

For example, in Chrome 76+, Firefox 103+, Edge 17+ and Safari 9+, skyHow displays the frosted glass effect in the header, but in older browsers, it just displays an opaque background.

Additionally, skyHow uses prefixes to support older browsers. For example, in Safari 9-17 and Edge 17-18, backdrop-filter needs -webkit- prefix to function.

Due to the variable fonts in place for icons, skyHow only supports the following browsers:

• Chrome 62+ (October 2017)
• Edge 79+ (January 2020)
• Firefox 62+ (September 2018)
• Safari 11+ (September 2017)
• Opera 49+ (November 2017)

For the best experience, skyHow recommends the following browsers:

• Chrome: current and previous 6 versions (136, 135, 134, 133, 132, 131, 130)
• Edge: current and previous 6 versions (135, 134, 133, 132, 131, 130, 129)
• Firefox: lstest stable and supported ESR versions (138, 128 ESR, 115 ESR)
• Safari: current and previous version (18, 17)
• Opera: current and previous 6 versions (118, 117, 116, 115, 114, 113, 112)