Creating a Wikipedia entry for your startup?

Wikipedia is extremely competitive and guarded about this - one of the reasons it's such a great resource. I have been a Wikipedia editor for a few years now, and it's one of the most frustrating yet logical places on the web.

In order to qualify for your own article, you have to have some significant press.

I worked for a startup a few years ago (West Coast, 40-50 employees) and when they tried to get a wiki, they didn't qualify. Indie Hackers itself probably wouldn't even qualify. Stripe would (and has a page). My own tiny startup (Discosloth) has had a handful of articles in smaller press written about it, and even some mentions in the New York Times/Washington Post/etc. Yet we would not qualify for a wiki page. If we even tried, we'd get flagged immediately.

There are services that exist to get you some mentions and possibly pages, but ultimately they're circumventing Wiki policy and eventually your article will get deleted. Basically, these services are paying trusted editors a couple grand to slip your article in there and hope it doesn't get flagged for COI.

Yes, your SEO will definitely improve. However it's super hard and for the time and expense required, I'd recommend you just spend that money and energy on other SEO efforts.

The company I founded a while back (~2003) and ran until recently was linked from Wikipedia in the context of articles about the general space & solutions. I'm fairly certain we never saw Wikipedia produce an appreciable amount of traffic. YMMV obviously, but there is a lot of much lower-hanging fruit.

I have tried to get a few startups I worked for pages. Everyone got removed because it wasn't 'significant' enough. Even when the startups had significant press. It is nebulous who qualifies so the editors just remove anything they don't agree with or like.

You are probably better off working on other content.

i have incorporated few links in wiki pages for authority improvement but never tried to add a page in wiki.

Still link from it will help a lot.

So I think this may be easier said than done. There is an approval process for wiki pages:
Criteria:

1. You have an industry-changing technology that your company invented or developed. This technology can be anything from mechanical to chemical to musical (e.g., iTunes).

2. Your founder or company is “notable.” Wikipedia editors apply a “notability” test to determine if your subject warrants a Wikipedia page. If your company has invented something or if your founder is a person-of-note (e.g., a famous author, the first person to row a boat across the ocean), then your company or founder might be a good candidate.

3. You can’t find any information about your technology or topic in Wikipedia already.

So really the way wiki works is it relies on other SOURCES of information with some level of "reputability" which is of course is decided "subjectively" by whoever is reviewing them and deciding if those sources are "credible" or "noteworthy".

I have actually heard this done before - but usually after there are a few (has to be multiple for your own page) articles on the company already out in some "reputable" (larger) online journals (vice, entrepreneur, reddit/HN only if something really huge happens like you go viral).

The easier way to go, is to have an article written about you, then create a link to an existing wiki page that has something to do with you and a link to your article. (Example - you are a facebook competitor - and on the FB wiki page you create a sentence somewhere which links to your article in: (anything that a reviewer could consider "reputable") - which lists you as a "viable" growing competitor trying to break into the industry based on "some differentiating factor" (privacy?).

Whether all this effort is worth it simply from an SEO perspective is another question in and of itself.