ProleWiki:How to contribute

Hello, comrades! This is a page reserved for updates on how you can contribute to the development of our encyclopedia. Readers are also encouraged to contribute in any way possible, as they'll be not only helping the project but also helping spread Marxism-Leninism and make our science more accessible to all.

Here is a list of current things you can do:

• Editing articles. There is currently no academic criteria for citation of sources, and you don’t need an account to edit articles, feel free to do it right away (although your IP will be publicly seen unless you create an account). Our encyclopedia is in need of quantity of articles, not quality at the moment. You can write a stub, you can contribute with just a sentence in an existing article, and it will be a valuable contribution. You can also collectivize parts of articles from other projects such as Leftypedia and Wikipedia. Just try to clean any traces of bourgeois ideology in it. Collectivizing articles from EcuRed is not only allowed, but also encouraged. Do it.
  • Translate articles. It would be ideal if we had the same article written for different languages, but this is very utopic. Right now, it's actually possible to do so, considering we have few articles. But when our project reach more people, there will be a lot of movement between different languages, and we'll have trouble tracking those changes through all languages. If you see an article in another language that is not available in your language, feel free to translate it to your language. Also if we don't have a language available that you can contribute to, please leave Felipe Forte a message in Lemmygrad and we'll create one for your language.
• Web and wiki development. We are currently in need for comrades who can work with PHP to add more languages to our language list in our home website. We also need a version of this front page a bit more accessible to smartphone users, since the majority of people only use smartphones to access the internet. In the far future, comrades can also fork Wikipedia's Android app to make it functional for ProleWiki, but that may also take a while to organize. Wiki development means using MediaWiki's engine formatting to make editing articles easier. It's not that hard, anyone can learn MediaWiki's engine formatting by looking at the article sources in Leftypedia, Wikipedia, etc. This work makes editing articles a lot easier for everybody and it's very valuable to all comrades.
  • Work on our main page. As a reference, you can look at Leftypedia's homepage or EcuRed's homepage.
  • MediaWiki templates. When editing articles, a most valuable tool is having ready-to-go templates for styles that handle certain necessities. For example, we can create a template for quotations, like it was used here. The best way to know what features are needed for editing articles is to edit yourself the articles and understand how any work could be made easier through templates. Another thing is figuring out if templates can be used across different languages, since MediaWiki templates are local by default, and having to write them in different languages is also labor.
• Share your experiences with your comrades. It's important that everyone look at our project and point exactly what is missing in our style of work. Everything can be improved, and having a community organized on a common goal is very rewarding. We can request articles, discuss issues that may arise during our project, or suggest a feature that you think would improve our work. You can do this by creating a post on our community on Lemmygrad
• Monetary contribution. Not only we live in a class society and are part of the lower class, but we also live in a market economy. Hosting websites has its expenses, and to keep ProleWiki, we have to pay an yearly fee. Currently we have no donation platform, so it's not yet available. Every donation (and expenses) are transparently shown here and if our project ends up with a surplus amount of money, we can discuss collectively through Lemmygrad how this money can be used to improve our work, or also to begin new projects, or even help existing ones. Any donation is based on class solidarity, we reject any funding from enemies of our people.
• Spread the word. Share with your comrades about our project. Who knows, maybe they can also help improve it? If you're going to use bourgeois internet media (like Twitter, Reddit or Facebook) to share ProleWiki around, make sure you're sharing with people you trust. We are not ready to avoid organized attacks yet.