The Power of Wikipedia in Online Missionary Work

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.