User blog comment:Sannse/Navigating the Wilds of Adminship/@comment-3545644-20130803055013

The secret to being the admin of a site where the monthly traffic is hard to predict with precision, but where dry spells are likely and membership low:
 * 1) Have a clear topic.
 * 2) Build a navbox first.
 * 3) Sort the navbox by categories.
 * 4) Build a category system from there.
 * 5) Have an "Unfinished" template.  Put on all articles that you don't have time to flesh out.  These articles are "placeholders."  Put a link to the navbox on all of them.
 * 6) Flesh out articles one at a time, based on article type, need, relevance to main topic, likelihood of visitor interest, etc.
 * 7) Have another site (like DeviantArt) for content to network with.
 * 8) Use fleshed-out ("built") articles to build others with.

From there, the wiki should grow to a decent size. Mine went from nothing to 3,000+ articles in size using a similar approach, in only two years.