From: "David Sabel" <david@sabels.org> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Introducing upto11.net - seeking advice
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We just launched upto11.net, a music recommendations and search community
that integrates articles about musical artists, albums and songs.
So far, I've added us to the Friends of Wikipedia page
Are there othere pages where links might be appropriate? We'd like get the
word out to the Wikipedia community, but do it in a way that is appropriate.
Thanks in advance,
David Sabel
1) THANKS FOR ASKING. Good move.
2) One very good approach would be to encourage _your_ user base to do useful work editing Wikipedia articles, create accounts, and _identify themselves as upto11.net members on their usage page._ You can... let me phrase this carefully so nobody will jump on me too hard... get away with a reasonable amount of promotion on user pages, which can be personal chatty diaries or pretty much whatever you want.
You can certainly create such a user page yourself. And Google does index Wikipedia user pages.
3) DO caution your user base _against_ inserting links to your site on any pages that are in the "main" name space--that is, in actual encyclopedia articles. This will raise hackles unless the link provides useful information that is very clearly pertinent to the article and is not easily found elsewhere.
4) I was just on your site. Jeez, I wish Wikipedia were as fast. (Wikipedia is having a bad day today... don't try to do anything with Wikipedia right now!)