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{{Infobox website|name=Leftypedia|logo=Leftypedia wordmark.png|type=Online encyclopedia|language=English|founding_date=2019|founder=CyberSynGang|url=leftypedia.org (2019–2022)<br>[https://wiki.leftypol.org wiki.leftypol.org] (2022–)}}
{{Infobox website|name=Leftypedia|logo=Leftypedia wordmark.png|type=Online encyclopedia|language=English|founding_date=2019|founder=CyberSynGang|url=leftypedia.org (2019–2022)
wiki.leftypol.org (2022–)}}


'''Leftypedia''' is an online collaborative encyclopedia that inspired the creation of [[ProleWiki]]. Unlike ProleWiki, Leftypedia aims to be a big tent organisation, containing views from all sections of "[[leftism]]," whether [[Marxist]] or not.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=Main Page|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Main_Page|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015020124/https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Main_Page|archive-date=2022-10-15|retrieved=2022-11-25|quote=Leftypedia aims to document and propagate left-wing theory from a variety of different tendencies, and thus contribute to a more unified leftist movement in which no view is misrepresented}}</ref>
'''Leftypedia''' is an online collaborative encyclopedia that inspired the creation of [[ProleWiki]]. Unlike ProleWiki, Leftypedia aims to be a big tent organisation, containing views from all sections of "leftism", whether [[Marxist]] or not. At the moment, Leftypedia is edited by its two current administrators.  


== History ==
== History ==
Leftypedia originated in 2019 with the purpose of safeguarding content from [[Marxistpedia]] following its shutdown. Initially hosted at the leftypedia.org domain, the site was taken down in July 2022. However, it was subsequently revived under the wiki.leftypol.org domain later that year, where it remains active as of 2024.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=Leftypedia|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Leftypedia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240409061819/https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Leftypedia|archive-date=2024-04-09}}</ref>
Leftypedia originated in 2019 with the purpose of safeguarding content from [[Marxistpedia]] following its shutdown. Initially hosted at the leftypedia.org domain, the site was taken down in July 2022. However, it was subsequently revived under the wiki.leftypol.org domain later that year, where it remains active as of 2024.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=Leftypedia|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Leftypedia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240409061819/https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Leftypedia|archive-date=2024-04-09}}</ref>
=== Edit wars ===
Between February and August 2023, administrator Harrystein banned several alt accounts of [[Comrade:Wisconcom|Wisconcom]].<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=Blocked users|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Special:BlockList|retrieved=2024-06-18}}</ref>
=== Hoxhaist coup attempt ===
RedParabola was promoted to administrator on 18 June 2024. [[MediaWiki]] allows administrators to ban other administrators, including those who appointed them.<ref name=":2">{{Web citation|author=Harrystein|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=Leftypedia:Community hub|date=2024-06-18|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/index.php?title=Leftypedia:Community_hub&oldid=23019}}</ref> RedParabola banned Harrystein and nine other users over the course of 16 minutes, accusing some of being [[Anarchism|anarchists]], [[Maoism|Maoists]], or [[Left communism|left-communists]] despite the non-sectarian principles of the wiki.<ref name=":1" /> RedParabola then deleted several pages including [[People's Republic of China]], which he described as a "[[Fascism|fascist]] and [[Social-imperialism|social-imperialist]] state,"<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=Deletion log|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=delete&user=&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=delete&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist|retrieved=2024-06-18}}</ref> before retiring and handing over power to Aussig,<ref>{{Web citation|author=RedParabola|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=User talk:Aussig|date=2024-06-18}}</ref> who then banned four users including RedParabola himself,<ref name=":1" /> and Stalinium Magnus (an alt of either RedParabola or Aussig) changed the wiki's description to be explicitly "[[anti-revisionist]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]]" instead of generically leftist.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Stalinium Magus|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=Leftypedia: Difference between revisions|date=2024-06-18|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/index.php?title=Leftypedia&type=revision&diff=23011&oldid=20853}}</ref><ref name=":3" />
Discomrade, who had been blocked but not removed from administrator roles, was able to unban themself and temporarily restore admin powers to Harrystein and Capuch1n, allowing Harrystein to permanently ban Aussig and RedParabola, restore the formerly deleted pages, and unblock other users banned during the coup attempt.<ref name=":3">{{Web citation|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=All public logs|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=&user=&offset=&limit=100|retrieved=2024-06-19}}</ref> In a statement after the incident, Harrystein stated that RedParabola was likely an alt account of Wisconcom.<ref name=":2" />


== Comparison to ProleWiki ==
== Comparison to ProleWiki ==
The primary difference between ProleWiki and Leftypedia is that Leftypedia seeks to be a big tent, "[[Left unity|catch-all leftist]]" encyclopedia,<ref name=":0" /> whereas ProleWiki expressly follows the line of [[scientific socialism]] and Marxism-Leninism. Without an emphasis on scientific socialism, one runs the risk of supporting [[Imperialism|imperialist]] propaganda against [[Socialist state|socialist states]], due to allowing multiple tendencies definitions' of imperialism which may contradict one another. This was attempted by ProleWiki with other Marxist currents in its very early days, and ultimately led to endless debates in private internal chats that negatively impacted the output of content on pages.
The primary difference between ProleWiki and Leftypedia is that Leftypedia seeks to be a big tent, "[[Left unity|catch-all leftism]]" encyclopedia, whereas ProleWiki expressly follows the line of [[scientific socialism]] and [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxism-Leninism]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=Main Page|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Main_Page|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015020124/https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Main_Page|archive-date=2022-10-15|retrieved=2022-11-25|quote=Leftypedia aims to document and propagate left-wing theory from a variety of different tendencies, and thus contribute to a more unified leftist movement in which no view is misrepresented}}</ref> Without an emphasis on scientific socialism, one runs the risk of supporting [[Imperialism|imperialist]] propaganda against [[Socialist state|socialist states]], due to allowing multiple tendencies definitions' of imperialism which may contradict one another. This was attempted by ProleWiki with other Marxist currents in its very early days, and ultimately led to endless debates in private internal chats that negatively impacted the output of content on pages.


Another difference is that Leftypedia is only available in English while ProleWiki has instances in several other languages in the spirit of [[proletarian internationalism]].
Another difference is that Leftypedia is only available in English while ProleWiki has instances in several other languages in the spirit of [[proletarian internationalism]].
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* [https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Main_Page Leftypedia]
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*[https://lemmy.ml/c/leftypedia Lemmy Community]


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