[WikiEN-l] Re: upto11.net

Mon Mar 7 16:13:42 UTC 2005

>From: &quot;David Sabel&quot; &lt;david at sabels.org&gt;
>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!)