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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 worldview more accessible to all.

Editing articles

Where to start?

Here are some pages that can help you get started with your first edits!

Recent changes - to see which things others are actively working on, and help them develop
Wanted pages - auto-generated list of pages with dead links pointed to them
Stub pages - pages that are short and need to be expanded

Over time, we might add more maintenance category pages to help contributors to tackle pending tasks.

Article guidelines

It's recommended that you cite sources for the information you are writing. This is not hollow academicism, this serves to track sources of information so that they can be verified to ensure we are delivering trustworthy content and to give readers sources so that they themselves can read and study. If you need any help on how to write articles on MediaWiki, take a look at this handbook provided by Wikimedia. We are also happy to help you on the Discord server as well.

Wanted pages can be created with small stub articles, but try to cite at least one reference for it.

We also have an editorial style, which helps us have a consistent work throughout the encyclopedia.

Social media work

We have opened accounts for ProleWiki on numerous platforms, such as Twitter, Reddit and Facebook, and we plan to open in more platforms. But, as you may easily see, these platforms are lacking any content whatsoever. ProleWiki depends on the voluntary workforce to develop the work on these platforms. This is no irrelevant work, these social media platforms are very important to make our work known and this attracts more comrades to contribute their labor with us. A creative approach to social media content to bring attention to us can be essential for the project to keep going.

Financial contributions

See: ProleWiki:Donate

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. Every donation (and expenses) are transparently shown here and if our project ends up with a surplus amount of money, we can discuss collectively how this money can be used to develop our work. Any donation is based on class solidarity, we reject any funding from our class enemies (they have no reason fund us, in any case).

Development

See: ProleWiki:Development

To summarize, we need more comrades available to do this work:

Development of MediaWiki templates and modules
Website administration
Fork Wikipedia's app to work with ProleWiki

It's essential for the long-term success of our project and our goals of educating people on the theory of Marxism-Leninism that we have a mobile app for ProleWiki. Forking Wikipedia's app is not an easy task, and requires an understanding of Kotlin and Java programming languages. Developing an app from scratch may also be an option. If you think you have the knowledge to do that, please, let us know in any way possible.

Translation

To have ProleWiki translated to your language, firstly invite others who speak your language to use the Weblate tool to translate the system interface: https://weblate.yerbamate.ml/projects/prolewiki/interface/

Opening a ProleWiki for another language requires a lot of work on the part of the administration, and we need some reassurance this work won't be in vain. So, considering that, we require that at least 3 other people join you in developing ProleWiki in your language and that you can speak fluent English so that our work can be discussed.

Spread the word

ProleWiki's ultimate purpose of existence is to provide a resourceful source of information to workers from all nations, so they can have the theoretical knowledge to understanding their own realities. By spreading the word of the project, you are also helping us immensely, and helping other people get acquainted with Marxism-Leninism as well.

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 {{changetitle|''How to contribute to ProleWiki''}}
-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.
+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|Marxism-Leninism]] and make our worldview more accessible to all.
 == Editing articles ==
 === Where to start? ===
 Here are some pages that can help you get started with your first edits!
-*[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] - to see which things others are actively working on
+*[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]] - to see which things others are actively working on, and help them develop
 *[[Special:WantedPages|Wanted pages]] - auto-generated list of pages with dead links pointed to them
 *[[:Category:Stubs|Stub pages]] - pages that are short and need to be expanded
 Over time, we might add more [[:Category:Maintenance categories|maintenance category]] pages to help contributors to tackle pending tasks.
-=== Article contributions ===
+=== Article guidelines ===
-There is currently no academic criteria for citation of sources.
+It's recommended that you '''<u>cite sources</u>''' for the information you are writing. This is not hollow academicism, this serves to track sources of information so that they can be verified to ensure we are delivering trustworthy content and to give readers sources so that they themselves can read and study. If you need any help on how to write articles on MediaWiki, take a look at this handbook [[metawikimedia:Help:Contents|provided by Wikimedia]]. We are also happy to help you on the [https://discord.gg/uz5dbxgQ Discord server] as well.
-Wanted pages can be created with a small stub articles. Articles that are already big enough should have their information corrected by references to Marxist literature.
+Wanted pages can be created with small stub articles, but try to cite at least one reference for it.
-For reference on how wiki articles are written, check [[metawikimedia:Help:Wikitext_examples|this link from Wikimedia]].
+We also have an [[ProleWiki:Editorial style|editorial style]], which helps us have a consistent work throughout the encyclopedia.
-Take a look at our [[ProleWiki:Editorial conventions|editorial conventions]] once in a while, too.
+== Social media work ==
+We have opened accounts for ProleWiki on numerous platforms, such as [https://twitter.com/prolewiki Twitter], [https://www.reddit.com/r/prolewiki/ Reddit] and [https://www.facebook.com/groups/747910359442297 Facebook], and we plan to open in more platforms. But, as you may easily see, these platforms are lacking any content whatsoever. ProleWiki depends on the voluntary workforce to develop the work on these platforms. This is no irrelevant work, these social media platforms are very important to make our work known and this attracts more comrades to contribute their labor with us. A creative approach to social media content to bring attention to us can be essential for the project to keep going.
-=== Translation ===
+== Financial contributions ==
-To have ProleWiki translated to your language, you should have 3 to 5 other comrades with you to do work translating interface. We will offer support when translating interface messages to your language. To help with that, we will use the Weblate tool: https://weblate.yerbamate.ml/projects/prolewiki/interface/
+<blockquote>''See: [[ProleWiki:Donate]]''</blockquote>
+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. Every donation (and expenses) are transparently shown [[ProleWiki:Donate|here]] and if our project ends up with a surplus amount of money, we can discuss collectively how this money can be used to develop our work. Any donation is based on class solidarity, we reject any funding from our class enemies (they have no reason fund us, in any case).
-=== Development ===
+== Development ==
 <blockquote>''See: [[ProleWiki:Development]]''</blockquote>
-We need comrades who are familiar with MediaWiki software and website administration. Any comrade who is able to fork [https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia Wikipedia's app] to work with ProleWiki should let us know in our [https://t.me/joinchat/GTCZSBQzgjGTrg2TQhOE5w Telegram commune].
+To summarize, we need more comrades available to do this work:
-== Financial contributions ==
+* Development of MediaWiki templates and modules
-<blockquote>''See: [[ProleWiki:Donate|ProleWiki:Donate]]''</blockquote>
+* Website administration
-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. Every donation (and expenses) are transparently shown [[ProleWiki:Donate|here]] and if our project ends up with a surplus amount of money, we can discuss collectively how this money can be used to develop our work. Any donation is based on class solidarity, we reject any funding from enemies of our people.
+* '''<u>Fork [https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia Wikipedia's app] to work with ProleWiki</u>'''
-== Spread the word ==
+It's essential for the long-term success of our project and our goals of educating people on the theory of [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxism-Leninism]] that we have a mobile app for ProleWiki. Forking Wikipedia's app is not an easy task, and requires an understanding of Kotlin and Java programming languages. Developing an app from scratch may also be an option. If you think you have the knowledge to do that, please, let us know in any way possible.
-ProleWiki's sole purpose of existence is to provide a resourceful tool to workers from all nations, so they can have the theoretical knowledge to understanding their own realities. We are Marxists-Leninists, however, which means we are not satisfied with understanding our reality, we also want to provide practical knowledge to assist in changing the current state of things.
-For that, ProleWiki intends to be an international organization in the future, keeping the same purpose of assisting revolutionaries all over the world. Changing the world is no small task, and it won't be done by a sect or small conspiracy group, this will be done by the mass of people through revolution. This is the reason we should make our project as known as possible. Not only to have more contributors available to enhance the quality of our collective work, but to make the revolutionary ideas more known.
+== Translation ==
+To have ProleWiki translated to your language, firstly invite others who speak your language to use the Weblate tool to translate the system interface: https://weblate.yerbamate.ml/projects/prolewiki/interface/
-<blockquote>
+Opening a ProleWiki for another language requires a lot of work on the part of the administration, and we need some reassurance this work won't be in vain. So, considering that, we require that <u>at least 3 other people</u> join you in developing ProleWiki in your language and that you can speak fluent English so that our work can be discussed.
-By sharing our work, you're helping revolutionary ideas spread. </br>
-By contributing, your effort becomes part of the collective effort.
-Long live marxism-leninism!
+== Spread the word ==
-</blockquote>
+ProleWiki's ultimate purpose of existence is to provide a resourceful source of information to workers from all nations, so they can have the theoretical knowledge to understanding their own realities. By spreading the word of the project, you are also helping us immensely, and helping other people get acquainted with Marxism-Leninism as well.