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Adding video, audio or images to wikipedia.org can have a two fold effect on your marketing.
It can be used for either getting quality backlinks to your own content or to hijack traffic from wikipedia.

The quality of the content has to fit in with the article you want to add your multi media content to though. The admins within wikipedia are very quick to delete content they think is not relevant or does not fit with the article or the section of the article.

So the first thing you need to do is choose between what form of multi media you want to add.

Here are the three options we have:


Images:
           This is not new, images have been on wikipedia.org for a long time. I found personally the best way to do this was by adding local images of a library, an underground station and adding these images first to my own local seo site and then adding to commons.wikimedia.org and then from there adding them into wikipedia.org in a relevant page about my locality with the file source leading back to the page on my site that the image came from. I found this particularly useful if linking to a content page and I would subtly add some info about a free video training course or a free consultation.

Video:
           This is very new! This gives us a huge opportunity as there are millions of articles on wikipedia and very few of them have video! Its possible to add video you have on sites like youtube and flickr and its also OK to add video from your own site as long as you own the rights to that video. Now we have some options within these options...If using your youtube channel then you can link to your channel, your video URL or you can use your name and link that to anywhere really as long as its to your own stuff on the web. Linking to a google+ profile might be the best way of doing this and it needs to be tested, especially if you are syndicating your youtube channel content to Google+ which can be done by using ifttt.com and in the hootesuite account you link to ifttt.com then make sure you have google+ activated :)

Audio:
           This is another great opportunity especially if you are doing podcasting or curating articles via audio. What you can do here if not, is use content that is freely available as public domain licensed content...for example martin Luther King speech but also link your name to your own content with your name being the vehicle for anchor text to your chosen web page, I would think that linking to your Google+ profile would be acceptable for the wikipedia.org admins!

There are a couple caveats though!