Social media
Social media is a great way to inform your audience about your wiki. This page contains some tips you can use to make a great experience for your users.
Discord
Discord can be very useful to organize help and communicate live with editors and readers. For larger wikis, it can also be used as a reporting channel for vandalism.
We strongly recommend creating a Discord server, as this is a great way to attract new contributors. If creating a server takes too much work, try and partner with the wiki topic's official Discord server or, alternatively, a community site's Discord, and have them create a channel for wiki discussion.
Wiki-Bot makes it easy to link wiki pages in the Discord server by using familiar square bracket syntax. It can also be used to verify wiki users and display the wiki's recent changes directly in the server.
Microblogging
Look into creating a microblogging account for your wiki. This allows you to post content about your wiki—such as content changes, patch notes, or general updates—on a regular basis.
We strongly recommend using Bluesky, though these tips would also work for X/Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, and other platforms.
Here are some example Bluesky wiki accounts:
wiki.gg has an official Bluesky account for sharing platform updates, #we-did-this Discord posts, and other news. If you create a Bluesky account for your wiki and follow the official wiki.gg Bluesky account from it, we may repost your posts! Let us know if there's anything in particular you would like us to repost!
Using hashtags
You can broaden the reach of your posts by using popular hashtags for your wiki's subject. You can even create your own hashtag for posts that are strictly related to your wiki. For example, a wiki about bees could use the #BeesWiki hashtag.
Search URLs
If you forked, search for the old wiki's URL in the platform's search bar to see posts that link to the old wiki. If you find any such posts, you can reply to the post and inform the author and others who read the post that you have moved. Be careful not to spam, but a lot of people will be glad to hear about it! If someone says they already know about the new wiki, but they're having trouble using it because Google links them to the old wiki, you can let them know about the wiki.gg redirect extension. It may be seen as aggressive to tell everyone about the extension, so only link to it to respondents who express a need for it.
You can also search for the new wiki's URL (i.e. yourwikiname.wiki.gg) and interact with any posts you find by "liking" them, replying to them, or reposting them.
A lot of game subreddits link to the "main" community wiki for the game. If your wiki is a new wiki, you can inform your mods that it exists and ask them to add some information about it; if you forked, you can ask them to update the information to send people to the new wiki.
Moderator instructions for updating a subreddit
Header
- Visit "Mod Tools"
- Click "Community Appearance"
- Click "Menu Links"
- Add the new wiki URL
Sidebar
- Visit "Mod Tools"
- Click "Community Appearance"
- Click "Sidebar Widgets"
- Click "Add Widget" and then choose "Button"
- Add the new wiki URL
AutoModerator
Thanks to the /r/warcraftlore subreddit mods for creating this template!
- Go to
https://reddit.com/r/SUBREDDIT_NAME_HERE/about/wiki/config/automoderator/ - Add the following rule, replacing everything in ALL CAPS:
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domain+body+title+media_description: [OLD_WIKI_URL]
comment: |
Your post contains a link to the old WIKI_NAME_HERE and that wiki is out of date. The WIKI_NAME_HERE community is now using [WIKI_NAME_HERE at wiki.gg](NEW_WIKI_URL). Please update your bookmarks or [download the wiki.gg redirect extension](https://wiki.gg/redirect/) to redirect old links.
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