Click on "history" at the top of the page, just to the right of "edit this page". Another tip to consider - if your page has lots of adverts on it, remove them for a day or two after adding your link to Wikipedia. I'm sure that editors are less tolerant of pages that look like they built for profit. So far my success rate for links staying in Wikipedia is about 50%, and one of them is sending me 10 hits a day. I'm not sure I'm totaly comfortable with doing this though... some of the editors can be snotty when they remove your links sometimes. Cryo.
I don't think it work really unless you have real good content. I've tried to post the link up there but they do moderate it pretty well so.... Unless you have real content which your link should be up there, then i think it would be a waste of time.
Precisely, and whether you are adding value to Wikipedia by improving the wiki article at the same time.
Hey Guys! thanx a lot for share! I have read all that you have suggested here and made some conclusions... I decided to write a case on customized programming and also will place some tips on how to deal with problems we faced during the proccess... Than I will post this article in a proper section in Wiki I'm pretty sure this will work...
If you have a good article and know how to fit the links in its not hard... you have to see it as a way to add resources to wiki not getting just another link =]
I've done something similar to this before. I had information on my site and I spent about an hour updating an article and using my site as a reference. My link stayed up for about 6 months. Then an admin came through, decided my link was spam and removed it. However he left in the content that was referencing my content. Wikipedia makes a big deal about needing to have references for everything, but they don't tie references to the content that was created from the reference. I don't mind them removing my link, but their current system of trying to tie content to references for that content is pretty broken. Honestly I think they should re-implement the nofollow tag in order to cut down on spam and make it easier for real references to stay on and not be deleted.
Thanks I would wait for a few months to see if it stays up though! (Until then, you could always give me some positive rep for my advice )
Yeah, gonna be checking up on it on a weekly basis but it does seem like as long as you contribute something useful that others approve, it would stay up. I am actually prepare for my link to be taken off at any moment, just trying out how everything goes atm.
Be warned - if you add too many links, you can really upset an editor and they will hunt down and remove every link you've ever added, even the ones that were really relevant.
yes... I totally agree to that... The main idea is just to do your best not as a link manger but a link builder... Do smth useful for your own site (making a content page that you would be proud of) and for Wiki as well - letting them know, what they don't know (yet)! In fact, I think that providing a link back to Wiki from your content page will be a good idea.... At least you don't just take from them - but also contributeto them as much as you can. Probably you can go like this: /-------end of your article----./ this article is also posted at Wikipedia or other variant read some more related articles here: Wikipedia might work..... Cheers
If you run a site with actual content on it instead of MFA Spam all over the place it's not too hard to get a link up on Wikipedia. I have about 15 or so links on pages for various chicago neighborhoods, Chicago's own entry, and the entries for a few of the schools. How? I edit a Chicago news blog by student journalists. Good stuff that people on Wikipedia are interested in...
it looks easy to get a link from wikipedia but the main autohor or the wikipedia people deletes the back links
Well sometimes it is hard to predict editior's logics... why he/she removes links that really contribute to Wiki....