Forum:Public Accountability Wiki

I intended to start a Scratchpad mini-wiki but things went awry and I ended up with this. The last time I tried this, I burnt out for lack of community; now I'm overwhelmed by both loneliness and my own inexperience with the topic (political writing). I'm mainly looking for someone who is interested in the idea... Experience would help too, but it's not essential.

I read this, and I have some questions...
 * (I don't have any visitors yet.)
 * Should I just post on random politics boards? Should I discuss with a moderator first?
 * Any advice for my Squidoo?
 * Or for the WikiIndex Entry?
 * How do I add it to Google?

Also, "Public Accountability Wiki" is pretty long; is there a shorter name I could use?

Thanks! --Jesdisciple (talk) 02:46, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) Build up some good contents yourself. Don't advertise now or people will be driven away.
 * 2) What is this question to do with your wiki? Do you mean abandoning the wiki and posting your ideas/articles in politic boards instead?
 * 3) Not bad!
 * 4) Not bad!
 * 5) Google is your friend. Try Submit Your Content.

Your ideas are great and may attract like-mind people. However your wiki looks too empty. People don't feel like starting from scratch. You will be on your own to make a good start. At the time people see the potential of this wiki, they will join your force. The progress is slow so a lot of patience is required.

BTW you said you initially want to try out at Wiki Labs but you ended up starting a new one. '''What's up? Any problems about Wiki Labs?''' --MyBrute Resource Center@Ronga 11:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) Bummer...
 * 2) In the other thread I linked to, the OP said he "Post[ed] messages on related web forums announcing [his] wiki."  Once I have content, should I just Google for a political forum and post?  Should I discuss it with staff first?
 * 3) Any constructive criticism?
 * 4) Thanks; I should have thought to search, but I subconsciously doubted it would turn up with a simple query ("google add site" - first result).
 * 1) Thanks; I should have thought to search, but I subconsciously doubted it would turn up with a simple query ("google add site" - first result).

Thanks again. =)

Oh, see here and here for Wiki Labs. --Jesdisciple (talk) 14:00, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


 * For my experience, any new user on any forum for any given topic will be treated as a spammer if he is clearly comming there to make publicity for his website (or wiki).
 * When i started fr.guildwars.wikia, i got on french GuildWars forums saying that we needed some help. All i got as a reply was that i was loosing my time copy-pasting wiki instead of learning english and using GuildWiki (wich i already knew since more that 2 years before the incident).
 * So, since we need to be part of any forum for a real long time before other users trust us, i stopped trying to advertise any wikia on forums.
 * In fact, i can't remember last time i advertised a wikia at all.
 * But it's perfectly normal to "fear" of getting spammed. When people comes to this forum posting links to their new blog that only contain 2 really bad articles, it kind of make me mad. Lol. — TulipVorlax 02:42, 13 May 2009 (UTC)