How to get users to commit and collaborate to make a website valuable? [closed]

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Published on 2012-12-12T19:15:23Z Indexed on 2012/12/12 23:21 UTC
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I own a website that requires a fairly largish amount of users to collaborate and commit occasionally to make the website valuable, so basically, the website can't be any valuable without users helping me put some content on it.

To not get confused, I'm thinking of websites like Wikipedia, Stack Exchange and Yahoo! Answers, most of the content is based on peer effort. How do they actually get users interested and committed in the first place?

What are the things I have to do to get users involved in the website and actually help me grow it bigger?

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