User blog:Sannse/Promoting Your Wiki on Community Central's Discussions

Everyone is welcome to write about their community on Community Central's blogs, whether it's an old and established wikia, or one that's brand new.

The two most important things in doing this are to provide a link to the wikia, and make sure you explain what the project is about.

Blogs that are just a sentence or two long, and don't include a link or an explanation are not going to attract any attention, and may even be deleted. Remember, most people on Central will have very different interests to you. So you need to try and encourage them to come to see your project anyway.

When you create your blog post, you need to think about what you want people to know. And what those people will want to know. The Community Central community might be interested in things like:


 * What is your wikia called?
 * Where is it? (give a link!)
 * What is it about?
 * Why are you making a wikia about this topic?
 * Why might people want to join your community?
 * What have you written so far?
 * What do you want to do with the wikia in the future?
 * How could others help out?

It's also good to add a picture. Maybe one that shows your subject, like a cake for a Cake Wiki.

So here's my example for an imaginary wikia about butterflies.

Hi everyone. My name is Sannse, and I would like to share my new project The Butterflies WikiI'm making this so you can get all the information you need about butterflies, my favorite insect! I love to see all the colors of this wonderful insect and want to give everyone a chance to enjoy them too.

If you love butterflies, or are just interested in making a great wikia about something awesome, please join me. So far I've written just 10 pages, but I want to make many many more. My goal is to have a page for each species, and pages about other things related to butterflies.

I would love you to add a page about any butterfly, or to help with categories and images. Together we can make The Butterflies Wiki awesome! So feel free to promote your community on Wikia, we would love to hear about it!