The power of Wikipedia in Online Missionary Work
If you are looking to make a large impact in your time spent
in online missionary work. May I suggest Wikipedia as one of the places where
you will make a big splash. Wikipedia is powerful because people are already
coming there for information. They are interested to learn and they are coming
by the thousands each and every day. This weekend I edit two post on Wikipedia
‘Miracles of Jesus’ and ‘Noah’. Miracles of Christ previously had no reference
to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or miracles in the Book of
Mormon and Noah only had one sentence in reference to church doctine.
How can I tell that it is powerful.
Wikipedia publishes statistics of how often each page is
viewed. If you are curious to see how many people will see your Wikipedia edit.
This is what to do. On the left bar of the page, click on page information.
Then scroll to the very bottom of that page information and
you will find page view statistics
This is what you will see.
So in the last 30 days, this article has been displayed an
average of over 2000 times per day.
That is a lot of people coming into contact with the
doctrine of the church. Find a page where you can insert a link back to the
church. I believe this will greatly help people be able to learn more about
they church in a non-pushy informative way.
