Forum:What else should I do to increase contributors?

[Computer Security Wiki http://computersecurity.wikia.com/]

I have done these things:


 * Welcome all visitors
 * Post messages on related web forums announcing your wiki
 * Sign up for an account on Squidoo and create a lens relating to your wiki.
 * WikiIndex Entry
 * Added the wiki to Google

I only have one regular contributor (Artyfowl) and one contributor who appeared never came back when I suggested some stuff on how to improve the article he created.

The second part is actually indirect, I only added a link to my wiki in my signature.


 * — Pikachurin - (Talk) (Contribs) 23:29, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Sign up for Google Adwords. --LordTBT Talk! 05:08, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * You can't make horse drink the water. Anyways, the topic of the wiki doesn't really make me want to post there. Its a tech type wiki and by default is about things like troubleshooting issues. Get over 100 articles and then get your wiki spotlighted : Wikia talk:SpotlightsDevilmanozzy 18:45, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The wiki is actually research-based. People do not need specialized qualifications to contribute. You can just research an article on Google then try to make the information turn into an article.


 * Anyways, I need at least 100 non-stub articles. 45% of my wiki are stubs (contains at least 8 sentences).
 * — Pikachurin - (Talk) (Contribs) 19:39, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * You complain of having 45% of pages with 8 sentences? On fr.guildwars 90% of pages only contain an infobox because we're only 3 regulars users. (But yeah, that still count as more than 8k pages.) — TulipVorlax 04:34, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Almost 145 of 465 articles on Elder Scrolls Fanon are soft redirects disguised as disambiguation pages, so 30% of our articles don't even have sentences. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 04:53, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

The contributor who never came back finally came back! How short should the article be in order to be considered a stub?
 * — Pikachurin - (Talk) (Contribs) 18:11, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The quantity is subjective; it's a matter of opinion. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 20:58, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Squidoo
I see the above promoter got onto Squidoo. I haven't checked that lens yet, but I will. Having just been persuaded to publish on Squidoo, by a staggeringly enthusiastic new contributor to Genealogy (whom I recruited from Multiply), I'm surprised that this page is apparently the only page on this wiki that mentions Squidoo. Project:Squidoo should be a separate page. Every Wikia should have a Squidoo lens.

See my effort for inspiration (and to do the quick polls and leave a message, please).

See some of Angela's lenses too, particularly http://www.squidoo.com/add-your-wiki-to-squidoo.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I've experimented a little bit with Squidoo lenses. They might help to increase your rank in google and they can help google to find your site, but they don't bring in an awful lot of traffic. Check out Help:Attracting Contributors for some others ideas (Squidoo is listed there). Don't forget to add your lens to the Wiki group. Robin - I'm surprised that your lens doesn't contain any links to your wiki! Angela (talk) 05:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC)


 * My wiki? I don't have a wiki. I work in 20-odd wikis though, as you know. Some of them may look like mine from the last few pages of recent changes! Anyway, I must have spent a good 20 hours building and linking that lens. It now does have clickable links to Familypedia in several of its modules instead of only one. That was the third version, published just a few hours ago, which added some lensrolling, some bold, and the clickable links replacing those that had to be pasted. Now I'm looking for more images for version 4! I guess I can use something from this site. "Tomorrow"— Robin Patterson (Talk) 15:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I have subsequently created two more lenses promoting Familypedia and two promoting other Wikia sites. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 12:27, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Twitter
My second memorable recent recruit to Familypedia came as a result of a tweet I sent her after she mused that the coming Saturday afternoon posed a choice between lolling around at home and going to a Historical Society meeting. I suggested a genealogically useful alternative to the lolling around. One follow-up and she was in. Soon she created one of our best surname articles along with several good articles about her relatives individually.

Twitter is fairly easy to get into and takes as much or as little time as you like. Search by topic and you can post brief direct messages to anyone who has posted on that subject. Include a link to your Wikia, and you may get a convert out of that person or people who are "following" that person (because they will read the message too). And when you publish an update to your Squidoo lens you can post a note about it to your Twitter blog with a single click, and post a similar though more elaborate note to your Facebook profile with just a few clicks and optional text. "Networking" ...

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 12:27, 8 May 2009 (UTC)