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How to Make Alcohol-Infused Chocolate-Covered Strawberries WikiHow experience

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An important how-to guide to add to the WikiHow community is “How to make alcohol infused chocolate strawberries.” While most people stop at the fruit and chocolate, some believe that booze makes everything better. Chocolate covered strawberries are a great snack, but when in doubt, add booze! Coding a WikiHow page from concept to publishing the article proved to be a fun, sometimes annoying experience. Developing the concept was interesting, but communicating with the admins after publishing the article simply sucked the fun out of the project.

In order to guide someone through the process of making alcohol infused chocolate strawberries, visuals are a great help. Using pictures for the step-by-step process make the recipe almost fool proof. If someone cannot read or understand the instructions, the pictures allow everyone to follow along and get the opportunity to make a delicious snack.

In addition to using photographs, you also have the option of using illustrations and video. Videos give those that visit the WikiHow pages the opportunity to get a live feel for the how-to process. Illustrations allow article visitors be exposed to art and give them the same benefits as those viewing the photographs and videos. Clipping the videos to appropriate sizes may take a little longer, so if you’re looking for a faster method, photographs may be the better alternative. No matter what kind of visuals someone decides to incorporate the fact that they have that aid makes following the article easier. Steps 7, 8 and 12 in the "How to make alcohol-infused chocolate-covered strawberries" are excellent visuals that sum up the outcome of the tutorial. These images include both the strawberries being coated in chocolate, and the alcohol being inserted into the strawberries. 

 

An important piece of information to consider is that you must record your videos and capture your photos the landscape way. If you film or capture your photos the vertical way, the admins may make you correct this. If the article you are publishing is a recipe or requires you to be in a certain place, this can serve as a financial burden or coordinating another visit to that location may be difficult.

WikiHow is also very strict about the use of name brand products. It’s important to remain objective and not support or promote a certain brand or product. For example, if you chose to use Ciroc for a recipe, you may want to cover the logo and name on the bottle. Using a strip of paper or printing a generic vodka label off the internet can fix this problem. By doing this before an admin corrects you, you can save a significant amount of time.

To start the process, one may consider searching similar pages to get a general idea of what to do and maybe even get some ideas for their own WikiHow article. The pages that appear during a search have already been published and edited by the admins, so reading through some pages may allow a new WikiHow contributor to make less mistakes while creating their article. This step also proved to be important because the admins will likely combine your page with someone else’s if they are too much alike. The goal is for your work to be chosen so that you can have influence over those that visit your article.

After developing the content for your desired WikiHow topic, the coding process is the next step. It may be helpful to click on a random WikiHow page and act as if you’re going to edit it. Pretending to edit a page allows you to see the special coding needed to properly organize your content. For example, making alcohol infused chocolate covered strawberries would be categorized as a recipe. WikiHow has a published article on how to make chocolate covered strawberries, so you should open this recipe to assist you in your coding. The only difference between the two articles is the alcohol, so this can really be helpful during the coding process.

Once the coding is complete and the article is published, the article will undergo a major editing process by numerous admins. This process can take a couple of weeks. During this time, the admins encourage you to not make any major changes to the article. Making major changes will slow down the editing process which slows down the admins decision to publish your article. It’s important that you check your messages frequently to speed up the process.

When the admins are done butchering your article, they will send you messages telling you all of the things you need to fix before your article is published onto the site. The correspondence between you and the admin is public which means any and every one can see it. Keeping this in mind while replying to the admins is important because you always want to be respectful and professional. If you make snarky, passive aggressive comments, the admins may remove you from the site. If you are publishing a WikiHow article for a project and you are kicked off the site due to something you were in control of, will possibly negatively impact your grade. It’s not worth risking your grade, so just keep in mind that everyone can see you and being a jerk isn’t worth it.

Although there are many people that contribute to a WikiHow article, it is up to the initial contributor to take charge of the process. During the time your article is undergoing major edits, you can check back and view the changes being made to the article. Some have noted that by the end of the entire process, their article is completely unrecognizable. After the admins send their recommendations and changes for your article, it is a good idea to immediately follow up and make those changes. This can significantly speed up the project and allow your article to be live on the site.

Overall, the creation of a WikiHow article from conceptualization to publishing can ultimately be what you make it. If you’re slow to reply to the admin, the process will take a little longer. The WikiHow admins have published pages for every potential problem someone may face while creating a WikiHow. The important part is that your content is original and if you are publishing a WikiHow article for a school assignment that you stay on top of the entire process.