Forum:I'm starting a new wiki and i need some advise?

Hi i am the parkster and i have requested a Burnout Paradise wiki. I tried to gain users by posting topics into forums, but i was then told to stop as this was "counted" as spam (though i disagree with the termanology). I then looked at the wiki promotion help page and it gave me useful advice on how to advertise the requested wiki. It said to post invites to indaviduals but i was once again accused of spam. This has now brought me a block on one site and a serious warning, which i fing completely unfair and unjustified, when in fact i was doing what the help page stated. So i'm stuck, i don't now where to step next as it is too risky so i seriously need some help. Thank you:''' The Parkster "I'm all ears" "my stuff" "Something else to say?" 16:43, 1 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, but what you have done IS spam. And the help page clearly state to not go that way.
 * You can go to a forum where the topic is the same as your wiki and create a new thread to present it and ask if people there would be interested to contribute some (or at least just read it). But when the thread has been created one time, it doesn't matter if it get locked or deleted, you can't do another one unless you want people to say you're spamming.
 * You're also spamming if you go to the userlist to send a private message to a bunch of them. They did not ask for it ? Then it's spam.


 * But, if on any forum where you are a normal user and behave like it, someone ask a question about something kind of hard to explain and there's a page on your wiki that would greatly help, then you can post a link to that specific page. But not just a link. Try a small explanation anyway and continue with something like "for more infos on that, try the following link".


 * But, i'm not the best person to talk with about promoting a Wikia project. I've stoped trying to promote my first Wikia project after the first fews try because... well... i've created a thread on a related highly frequented forum only to have people saying to me that i'm just wasting my time because there already was a wiki with a real lot more content and that i should just learn english.
 * I forgot to mention, it a french wikia. And yes, there was already a better english wiki. But this is no reason to not do one in any other language. Is Wikipedia only in enlgish ?


 * So, you see, promoting our projects is indeed needed. But, people can be reluctant to any new things and it's even worst when it comes to wikis. If you only have a few contributor and there a real lot of content that need to be done, there's not a lot of people who will get involved with a project like that. It's overwelming (sorry for the bad spelling).
 * They would think "i dont have time to waste in that".


 * In a few month, my french wiki will have one year. And we're still less than 5 regular users.


 * Sorry to not been any more help. I dont possess any knowlege of a magical way to promote a wiki, or any other site. — TulipVorlax 23:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

If you have $30 US, Google Adwords is something worth investing into. -- LordTBT Talk! 00:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC)