Direct mail to genealogical societies
I sent a letter to the Newsletter of the Pilgrim Edward Doty Society alerting members to the information I have been entering on Familypedia. I was pleased to see my letter published in full in the March newsletter. I'm hoping to recruit a little help from my fellow Doty Society members. That's one reason I'm so eager to get forms working. DennisDoty 13:28, April 3, 2010 (UTC)
- Great work, Dennis. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:49, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
Promotion on Central Wikia
Copying message sent today to admins and possibly others:
The "here" page says:
- Do you have an awesome wiki you would like everyone to know about when they visit Wikia? Well now is your chance to tell us all about it!
- You have until June 29 to let us know why your community should be featured on the main page of www.wikia.com. Please use the space below to tell us, in your most creative voice, why your wiki deserves to be on Wikia.com for two weeks in July. In 250 words or less, highlight why your wiki's content, design, growth and community make it special.
- Wikis of all sizes and topics are encouraged to enter. Please remember to be a good Wikian, and don't leave any discouraging comments about other wikis. At 5:00pm Pacific time on June 29th, we will close the contest to entries. All entries must be submitted here in order to be considered. The winner will be announced in early July.
- So chat with your community about your entry, then submit it here. Remember to provide links to examples you use, and while you wait to hear who the winner is, keep improving your wiki! We look forward to hearing lots of funny, interesting tidbits about all of the amazing wikis on Wikia!
See the "latest Wikia features" page mentioned above, including the comments; it refers to Help:Galleries and slideshows, which is presumably an improvement on the slideshow we already have.
Let's assemble a case, folks! - see /Draft submission to Wikia/, with discussion of it on the same page below it.
— Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:24, June 16, 2010 (UTC)
No response there. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 08:39, November 1, 2010 (UTC)
Possible promotion on the SMW website homepage
Maybe this one will get the necessary help, not actually needing much: screenshots, anyone? See the last item on Familypedia:Promotion of this site. It might manage to attract an expert with time to investigate our problems. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 08:39, November 1, 2010 (UTC)
Our information page has had two editors working on it. It still needs a screenshot and maybe more precision in the numbers of templates and categories. Maybe other editors can think of paragraphs to add or improve. PREFERABLY IN THE NEXT WEEK so that we may have a chance of being chosen as the wiki of the month for December on one of the main SMW info websites. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 13:04, November 15, 2010 (UTC)
Detailed review by Dick Eastman
The world's most popular genealogy newsletter gave us 17 paragraphs of insightful review on Remembrance Day 2010. The review was republished with his permission for a genealogy group on multiply.com (which is how I learned about it). In the "best" 24-hour period following, we got 50 new registered users, the same number as for the previous 30 days. Unfortunately, Wikia management decided (without any notice to us) to cut off our SMW for 3 hours (because of server overload: to patch something) and have not yet restored it to how it was. By the time we got Wikia staff to tell us what was going on, we may have lost 90% of those new people. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 13:04, November 15, 2010 (UTC)