Think Wikidot rocks? Why not spread the word then!
Here is what you can do:
Spread the word
Link to Wikidot
Put some of the various banners, buttons, wallpapers and animations onto your profile in forums, social networks, etc.
You may also add the page in which you mentioned Wikidot here.
Hint Wikidot about relevant places to tell the world about itself
You know a great directory, social network, forum, etc where it'd be just to the point to mention Wikidot, but you don't have time to register and post messages? No problem! Just submit the link and let the Wikidot guys do the boring work when they decide.
Submit adware
No, not talking about spam here. :) Just help Wikidot with the various ways for advertising it, listed below:
Submit a banner, button, wallpaper or animation
You have an artistic talent and computer skills in visual expression? Then you can help Wikidot by making a beautiful banner or button or animation. You can upload your creative work here.
Tell your story
Your talent is rather verbal than artistic? Then why not share your story how Wikidot helped you? Submit your stories here.
Suggest a slogan
Ever felt you were born for a politician? Invent a slogan for Wikidot to help the masses think the right way! ;)
Submit a promotional screensaver
Let the image of Wikidot hypnotize your co-workers while you are not on the PC!
Add your Wikidot site in dir.wikidot.com
The "Wikidot Directory" is conceived to be a directory of sites created on Wikidot only. It can well serve as a show case of what can be achieved by the Wikidot platform. Add your site in it and let web visitors see what jewels of wiki design can be created!
Share your ideas and tips
If you have a brilliant marketing idea for Wikidot or just a small tip (which could have a big impact, though!) go on here.
Welcome the newcomers
Help a newbie make the first steps
They say the first impression is very important… What if someone lands to Wikidot and no one is willing to stretch a helping hand? Let's not forget how we made our first steps in Wikidot and asked stupid questions.
You can help newbies by subscribing to the RSS feed of this thread: http://community.wikidot.com/forum/c-10/how-may-we-help-you and by participating when you can. You can also contribute to http://handbook.wikidot.com/en:wikidot-for-beginners.
Voice your disappointment with Wikidot, if there's any
Sometimes a user can feel so loving to the favourite piece of software, as if it were a living mate! That is true to an extent because humans are the ones who create software. Humans make errors and worse yet, humans often repeat them…
If you feel like telling yourself "I'd love to help Wikidot but why do they never fix this or never add that great feature? How could you ask me to recommend Wikidot when I myself, am no longer happy with it?", then, well, tell the Wikidot guys they may be already losing a true friend.
Help translate the "Wikidot handbook"
Take a look here first:
http://handbook.wikidot.com/en:translations
http://handbook.wikidot.com/forum/c-17342/a-good-start-for-new-languages
Help with the visual design of this page
It says it all. Make this page more beautiful. :)
Visual summary:
Do you think this whole thing should go on a different site? Just checked "promote.wikidot.com" and see that the domain is free. I am really not sure if this is necessary, but "promote.wikidot.com" sounds nicer to me than "community.wikidot.com/promote". :) What do you think?
Help in the forum is easier with screenshots: http://community.wikidot.com/forum_screenshots
Not sure, why the PR should not be in the "hands" of Michal himself ?…
What we try here ( and I understandd your page in this manner) is to collect ideas and technics how this can be done from "foreign" users..
As I tried 4 times to create a wikipedia entry about wikidot - without success :( .
With a long fight with their admins…
What we need is a book or a public presentation , not coming from wikidot team or members…
Even a radio - interview is not enough of the needed "public interests" for this…
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org, www.zusi.de (Demo-Video)
Wollen Sie Wikidot helfen im deutschen » Handbuch ?
Actually I forgot to add that one of the reasons I was thinking for a separate site for all this, was that I wished an official representative of Wikidot would be the admin of such a site.
It's nice to have a "depot" for collecting ideas, suggestions for links, banners, etc but the final say what should be published, should remain in the hands of the Wikidot team.
A user may have in mind a way for spreading Wikidot which could actually hurt its image. This is why I made the http://community.wikidot.com/start-links page, where users are invited only to suggest places in the virtual world where Wikidot should be mentioned. The mentioning itself is left to Wikidot so that they have full control over what is being said about them, even with the best of intentions.
I would be glad to know if Michal is interested in starting promote.wikidot.com (or whatever).
As for how the marketing of Wikidot should be carried out, I am optimistic about this inititative, even though I realise it cannot cover all things. Take spreadfirefox.com for instance, if anything, it doesn't hurt the fox. :) You never know when someone may come up with a brilliant idea or the most beautiful banner on earth.
The picture, agh, I have no idea how I can make it "step" into the left column so that it doesn't elongate the page?
And thing about the links behind the image, it's spot-on, I have been wondering these days if there was such an application at all! http://www.imagecure.com/mapdespro.html - is this it?
Help in the forum is easier with screenshots: http://community.wikidot.com/forum_screenshots
I think squark would be the guy to talk to. You might PM him with your idea.
They have the final say here as well, as wikidot has admin here at the community forum.
If promote.wikidot.com gets started up, it would be helpful to the site's visibility to have a link or page somewhere at wikidot.com. And you could maintain the page here, but with links pointing to the new domain instead of other pages here.
There are many imagemap programs. I haven't used any in a long time, but you can find something by googling imagemap freeware.
Thanks!
Help in the forum is easier with screenshots: http://community.wikidot.com/forum_screenshots
Now I see that Wikidot is added in this page, at least: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_farms.
There is a page for Wikidot at WikiIndex: http://www.wikiindex.org/WikiDot , which needs more content to be added.
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The picture I see now ( I have a very slow line) is really nice.
But to broad , hanging over the right side of the browser window….
I can remember , some times ago I used a jpg and gif software to "hide" appropriate links behind the right positions in such image.
( it was "mapdesignerpro" with an easy technic to put links in little areas…)
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org, www.zusi.de (Demo-Video)
Wollen Sie Wikidot helfen im deutschen » Handbuch ?
Hi all you guys,
Thank you for the word about Wikidot Promote initiative. I have just created promote.wikidot.com. When I will have some time, I'll make a structure of this Wiki. If you guys will have some ideas about it, just tell me or — what will be simpler — edit this wiki. I invited David, maki and Helmuti. I think it should be enough for the promote.wikidot.com team. If you have any suggestions about the member, who should be invited, tell me.
Later, I will make some banners, buttons etc. Now I have to find out why we're blocked by digg and The Great Wall of China :)
Wikidot Team
I owe my thanks to wikidot.com.
Thank you very much.You have made me a web publisher a web master of 20+ sites all fully loaded with Google Ads. With patience and dedication now i have collected 85+ dollars in my a/c. Soon pay out will reach 100USD.
Let me tell the world that i am computer illiterate. Do not know much about computers and different techniques. But the codes, snippets and syntax provided by Wikidot.com are very simple and impressive.
With the passage of time I have created few attractive webs… Thank you wikidot.. hats off to you. My all the webs can be seen here…. www.my21webs.wikidot.com but i think the best 1 are www.the99.wikidot.com www.thetattoos.wikidot.com www.hatsoff.wikidot.com which is infact a tribute to wikidot.com and Adsense program.
Thank you again…
Marki h Meer
web publisher
http://www.sitemention.com/results.php?url=www.wikidot.com&button=Go%21
Help in the forum is easier with screenshots: http://community.wikidot.com/forum_screenshots
Now that Kanjo has made wikidot's community polls embeddable through iframe, they can be placed on sites outside wikidot the same way we can place external iframe content here. Since it's got "powered by wikidot" with a link, any time someone uses a wikidot community poll, people don't just learn about wikidot, they have a chance at describing some the cool things wikidot can create.