is it worth adding a listing to here to try and bring in new people?

Where

would help if I explain.
I think it would be useful to have a page within wikipedia trying to promote the history of the site/ethics etc
just another way to bring numbers here (without it looking like an advert)

That's not a bad idea kevboy. Do you know how to do it? I'm not sure where to start, but it's probably not too difficult.