Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-4151266-20140805233721/@comment-25263848-20140816134425

IMHO Wikia promotion, Wikia spotlight and or social media, will do you jack shit.

You are looking for regular editors, who are "history buff"s. iirc Wikipedia biggest editor demographic is split between teenagers and folks in their retirement. I wouldn't be banking on the first be generally interested in the topic and the later use any of the above.

I think that your best bet to advertise, is in dedicated forums to the topic and maybe gaming forums focused on that era (namely PC strategy games/mods e.g. Paradox:Heart of Iron)

Also try a soft pitch, because most people when they see any kind of advertisement tend to glaze over the post i.e. "I don't care you need extra hands, its my off time, F you". Its better to respond to the topics at hand in a natural way, and offer a link to the wiki. If they start to use your wikia as point of reference you'd get your extra visitors, who eventually might decide they can help.

anyway, its my two cents.