Hey Jet, getting a wiki started is hard work. I know for myself since I started the German Memory Alpha wiki three years ago. If you loose interest in that project fast, it's futile; you need a long breath. First few months is just starting the wiki itself with content and help pages.
I was lucky enough to have a side project of a bigger English version. The community came for themselves. Still, this project is not that much populated and I though of Guerilla marketing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing) but declined that idea for several reasons. In order to get the wiki started, I recommend to do this: * Outline a structure for your wiki -- What is a topic for the wiki, what is not? -- Are there similar structured topics? -- Can you create a skeleton page with topics you want to feature, for instance index pages of topics? * Outline some basic guidelines such as style-guides for articles * Go looking for similar wikis, forums, mailing-lists which feature parts of your topics -- Have private and direct conversation with users, ask them to help, motivate them, introduce them to the wiki concept * Write articles, lots of articles, as many as ten to twenty per week -- Wikify new articles, create links to other articles, wikis, wikipedia -- No need to be perfect on the first version, rewrite articles later * Help new users, help them a lot * If you have some hundred articles, you can think of advertising or linking big articles from wikipedia to your wiki ## Write for that wiki as much as you can -- If you don't write, no one will do. YOU must start the wiki. Invite friend and colleagues. LATER invite others to do. ## Starting a wiki is like starting a business. It consumes a LOT of time in the beginning. After some time you realize that it starts running on it's own and after a year or two you have the rewarding feeling of having built a community. Motivate others, motivate yourself. You can reach your aim. Florian _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
