Find the subject that your site is on, make a relevant page and add it as an external resource. Hopefully people won't remove it.
As long as the link goes to relevant, useful and unique content the link has a chance of staying there IMO
1. Go to a highly specific (and maybe very unpopular) Wiki page that's related to your niche. 2. Write a good article about that specific subject in your site 3. Put a link to your article from the Wiki's page. 4. Pray no one deletes it the next hour (happens mostly when no 1 & 2 are executed badly).
Wiki links brings quite a bit of traffic to my sites, but I'm an established Wikipedia editor, so no one messes with my edits. The traffic is really high quality, a lot of them click ads.
This very same question is asked about once a week. The most important thing is to have quality content. I have gotten some of my pages linked by Wiki Editors themselves. Those links have been up for quite some time and are very unlikely to be removed. So the bottom line, write very high quality content and present yourself as a true master of your subject and noone will complain if your site actually adds something to the wiki article. If it is simple linkspam it will be gone very quickly. I am very opposed to everyone just dropping their links. At some point Wikipedia will introduce nofollow to make it less attractive.
What others have said is good advice... one other thing is that if you are going to submit your own link to wikipedia as a reference, it's probably a good idea to make some other contributions first so you don't look like you're just trying to get a backlink... they don't like that
It really depends on your site. I have dropped two links (not even registering a user). Those links have multiplied and spread through multiple language versions of the same article.
Cool, that's really nice (& lucky). The same thing happened to me a little over a year ago but they ended up being deleted about 3-4 months later with the comment "Wikipedia is not a link directory."
Weird. I always assumed that if they are in the history, they will stick even when they revert back to an older version. Mine have been up for over 6mo already, but you never know. I guess my article is not THAT wildly popular (but not unpopular either, its very big). Anyways, I am against everone heading over there and just dropping some links for SEO purposes. If you have a really good article, you may consider it, but then again, let them find your site.
Yes, all the above mentioned things do work, I got a pr8 link on one of my health sites, (its not been removed for the last 3 weeks )
This would reduce wikispamming - not sure why they don't. Maybe they secretly love the seo community - cos done the right way - as described here - i'm sure a lot of webmasters are adding a lot of good wikicontent!
There are some subjects among those find your's one and create the and add it as an external resource.
create an article for your niche...it should be unique...and hope that no one will edit it or delete it...