Toggle menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.

Leftypedia: Difference between revisions

From ProleWiki, the proletarian encyclopedia
More languages
No edit summary
Tag: Visual edit
(History)
Tag: Visual edit
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Infobox website|name=Leftypedia|logo=Leftypedia wordmark.png|type=Online encyclopedia|language=English|founding_date=2019|founder=CyberSynGang|url=leftypedia.org (2019–2022)
{{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–)}}
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. At the moment, Leftypedia is edited by its two current administrators.  
'''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.  


== 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>{{Web citation|newspaper=Leftypedia|title=Blocked users|url=https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Special:BlockList|retrieved=2024-06-18}}</ref>


== Comparison to ProleWiki ==
== Comparison to ProleWiki ==
Line 15: Line 17:
* [https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Main_Page Leftypedia]
* [https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Main_Page Leftypedia]
*[https://matrix.to/#/!gRJLashoUWkKyqNfjB:matrix.org?via=matrix.org Matrix link]
*[https://matrix.to/#/!gRJLashoUWkKyqNfjB:matrix.org?via=matrix.org Matrix link]
*[https://lemmy.ml/c/leftypedia Lemmy Community]


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 22:12, 18 June 2024

Leftypedia
TypeOnline encyclopedia
Available inEnglish
Founded2019
FounderCyberSynGang
URLleftypedia.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.

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.[1]

Edit wars

Between February and August 2023, administrator Harrystein banned several alt accounts of Wisconcom.[2]

Comparison to ProleWiki

The primary difference between ProleWiki and Leftypedia is that Leftypedia seeks to be a big tent, "catch-all leftism" encyclopedia, whereas ProleWiki expressly follows the line of scientific socialism and Marxism-Leninism.[3] Without an emphasis on scientific socialism, one runs the risk of supporting imperialist propaganda against 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.

Links

References

  1. "Leftypedia". Leftypedia. Archived from the original on 2024-04-09.
  2. "Blocked users". Leftypedia. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  3. “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”

    "Main Page". Leftypedia. Archived from the original on 2022-10-15. Retrieved 2022-11-25.