Wikipedia 10K Redux

Reconstructed by Reagle from Starling archive; see blog post for context.

Publicize_Wikipedia

There are numerous ways you can help publicize Wikipedia, and thereby get more people to edit your work and make this into a real live encyclopedia. Just think--in a few years, Wikipedia is probably going to be amazing. (Feel free to add to this list.)

  • If you've done a lot of work in some particular area, post an announcement to a mailing list or newsgroup telling people about your work and asking them to help.
  • Tell friends and colleagues. E-mail an announcement to them. Ask them to check your work, or to write pages on their areas of specialization, or their hobbies, or whatever.
  • Submit particular wiki pages (e.g., your "baby" pages) to search engines.
  • Observe (in writing and smugly) on other wikis that Wikipedia is easily the fastest-growing wiki in the world.
  • Link to Wikipedia from your websites.
  • Ask other people to link to Wikipedia.