Wiki Participation

[dtumacde]

I recently started a niche focused wiki 6 weeks ago and started to generate decent traffic through reddit, facebook and twitter. On average I get 500 unique visitors per day, my problem is that I am having a hard time getting people to post content.

I would appreciate any ideas that wiki owners might have or tricks you have used to get people to post.

[lucy24]

Will search engines get mad if you ask your friends to pre-seed the site with made-up posts? Sometimes people just don't like to be first.

[ken_b]

Did you seed the wiki?

If so, how many posts/articles?

[dtumacde]

so far I have posted about 50 articles and I am trying to divide my time between writing more and promoting the site.

what are your thoughts about incentives? I was thinking about giving away a few popular study guides that students use to pass their credentialing exams after graduation.

[piatkow]

At a guess a combination of the increasing reluctance by people to contribute anything more complex than a Tweet and perhaps others not realising that your wiki is open to contributions.

[thecoalman]

I have a fairly active forum community and even with a built in community getting them to use the wiki for static articles was a giant flop.