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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 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 and make our science more accessible to all.


Here is a list of current things you can do:
== Editing ==
=== Article contributions ===
There is currently no academic criteria for citation of sources. You should visit these two pages once in a while:
*[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]]
*[[Special:WantedPages|Wanted pages]]


* '''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)''. 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. One comrade writing an article may feel like a burden, but a hundred comrades writing parts of a bigger article will produce quality accessible text in no time. You can also copy articles from other projects such as Leftypedia and Wikipedia. Just try to clean most of their liberalism before you publish it 😉 Also, check the encyclopedia for every language you speak, so you can translate parts that may be missing between languages. If we don't have a language that you can contribute to, please [https://lemmygrad.ml/u/felipeforte leave Felipe Forte a message] in Lemmygrad.
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.
* '''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 [https://prolewiki.org 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|main page]].''' As a reference, you can look at [https://leftypedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Leftypedia's homepage].
For reference on how wiki articles are written, check [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples this link from Wikimedia].
* '''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 [https://lemmygrad.ml/c/prolewiki 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) will be transparently showed here. 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.
Take a look at our [[ProleWiki:Editorial conventions|editorial conventions]] once in a while, too.
* '''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 social media to share ProleWiki around, make sure you're sharing with people you trust. We are not ready to avoid organized attacks yet.
 
=== Translation ===
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/
 
=== 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].
 
== Donate ==
<blockquote>''See: [[ProleWiki:Donate|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 enemies of our people.
 
== Share our work ==
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.
 
<blockquote>
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!
</blockquote>

Revision as of 18:08, 8 December 2020

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.

Editing

Article contributions

There is currently no academic criteria for citation of sources. You should visit these two pages once in a while:

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.

For reference on how wiki articles are written, check this link from Wikimedia.

Take a look at our editorial conventions once in a while, too.

Translation

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/

Development

See: ProleWiki:Development

We need comrades who are familiar with MediaWiki software and website administration. Any comrade who is able to fork Wikipedia's app to work with ProleWiki should let us know in our Telegram commune.

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 enemies of our people.

Share our work

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.

By sharing our work, you're helping revolutionary ideas spread.
By contributing, your effort becomes part of the collective effort.

Long live marxism-leninism!