Requesting weblinks on linguistics department sites

[John Stephenson]

I'm in the process of emailing the webmasters of as many linguistics department home pages as I can, particularly those who show up high on Google when you type in 'linguistics' or 'linguistics links', to try and get them to add a link to the main Linguistics page on CZ. I've offered to link back to them via a subpage of the article.

None of them are linking to Wikipedia - tasteful people - but it we can convince them we're legit some might just help up our ranking. Plus it gets the word out. I recommend doing this for every workgroup. The letter I sent looks like this (made sure to have tracked down a real contact name first):

Dear <title> <surname>,

Please could you consider adding a link to the linguistics article on Citizendium (the expert-guided alternative to Wikipedia) on your site (<insert their links site here>), in exchange for which we'll link to your site via a subpage of the article:

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Linguistics

For more information, please see the recent announcement on the Linguist List:

http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-1080.html

Thanks,

John Stephenson.

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[John Stephenson]

Further to this, we got our first link very quickly; it remains to be seen what will develop over the next few days:

http://www.uwm.edu/~iverson/linglinks.html

I'm familiar with Professor Iverson's work as he's a leading expert in language acquisition, phonology and Germanic linguistics.

I am linking back to them at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Linguistics/links - with a list of contactees on its Talk page.

John.