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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.

Contributing to pages

Editing an article

In the top right, click the "Edit" button to open VisualEditor. You'll be able to edit most text directly, using the toolbar to modify how the text is shown. As for templates, you can double-click those to edit their parameters.

Click "Save changes..." and write a short description of the changes you made.

Creating a new article

Click the search icon and type the name of the article you'd like to create. If it doesn't already exist, you can click on the red link (highlighted in the image below).

Note: recently created accounts do not have permission to create pages, this permission is granted after the user has contributed enough through editing. While this permission is not granted, anyone can request for pages to be created to Forte or CriticalResist.

Click the red link of the page name to create a new page

You can also create a new page from inside an already existing page

"Where should I start?"

Here are some pages that can help you get inspiration for pages to create:

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
Articles needing cleaning up - mostly old pages or pages imported from another source

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

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.

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

We also have some editorial guidelines, which helps us have a consistent work throughout the encyclopedia.

How to find sources?

See main article: ProleWiki:How to contribute/Sources

There are many resources you can use to find sources to give certain claims a minimum threshold of verifiability.

Search for the subject on Reddit's r/communism, r/communism101, and r/informedtankie and on Lemmygrad. Many users in these communities share sources so users can read further about certain subjects.
Search for the subject on Google Scholar. It's recommended that you take a good read on the article before you uncritically use it.
If you know a book, see if it's available on Library Genesis
You can use Google to give you a certain direction, but using Yandex and DuckDuckGo can be very useful as well, as these search engines give different results.

If you are writing about current events, you can search for your subject on these resources to give you material to write your articles with:

You can also find sources in these categories:

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 a 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://hosted.weblate.org/projects/prolewiki/

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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-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.
+{{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|Marxism-Leninism]] and make our worldview more accessible to all.
-Here is a list of current things you can do:
+== Contributing to 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 unless you [https://en.prolewiki.org/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=ProleWiki%3AHow+to+contribute 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 [https://www.ecured.cu/EcuRed:Enciclopedia_cubana EcuRed] is not only allowed, but also encouraged. Do it.
+=== Editing an article ===
-** '''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 [https://lemmygrad.ml/u/felipeforte leave Felipe Forte a message] in Lemmygrad and we'll create one for your language.
+In the top right, click the "Edit" button to open VisualEditor. You'll be able to edit most text directly, using the toolbar to modify how the text is shown. As for templates, you can double-click those to edit their parameters.
-* '''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] or [https://www.ecured.cu/EcuRed:Enciclopedia_cubana 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 [https://pt.prolewiki.org/index.php?title=Marxismo-leninismo&oldid=110 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 [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) are transparently shown [[ProleWiki:How to contribute/Monetary|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.
-[[pt:ProleWiki:Como contribuir]]
+Click "Save changes..." and write a short description of the changes you made.
+=== Creating a new article ===
+Click the search icon and type the name of the article you'd like to create. If it doesn't already exist, you can click on the red link (highlighted in the image below).
+'''Note:''' recently created accounts do not have permission to create pages, this permission is granted after the user has contributed enough through editing. While this permission is not granted, anyone can request for pages to be created to [[Comradeship:Forte|Forte]] or [[Comradeship:CriticalResist|CriticalResist]].
+[[File:Creating_a_new_page_form_1.png|center|thumb|291x291px|Click the red link of the page name to create a new page]]
+[[File:Creating_new_page_form_2.png|center|thumb|291x291px|You can also create a new page from inside an already existing page]]
+=== "Where should I start?"===
+Here are some pages that can help you get inspiration for pages to create:
+*[[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
+*[[:Category:Articles needing cleaning up|Articles needing cleaning up]] - mostly old pages or pages imported from another source
+Over time, we might add more [[:Category:Maintenance categories|maintenance category]] pages to help contributors to tackle pending tasks. If you need any help on how to write articles on MediaWiki, take a look at this handbook [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents provided by Wikimedia]. We are also happy to help you on the [https://discord.gg/uz5dbxgQ Discord server] as well.
+===Article guidelines===
+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.
+Wanted pages can be created with small stub articles, but try to cite at least one reference for it.
+We also have some [[ProleWiki:Editorial guidelines|editorial guidelines]], which helps us have a consistent work throughout the encyclopedia.
+====How to find sources? ====
+{{Main article|ProleWiki:How to contribute/Sources}}
+There are many resources you can use to find sources to give certain claims a minimum threshold of verifiability.
+*Search for the subject on [[Reddit]]'s [https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/ r/communism], [https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/ r/communism101], and [https://www.reddit.com/r/InformedTankie/ r/informedtankie] and on [https://lemmygrad.ml/ Lemmygrad]. Many users in these communities share sources so users can read further about certain subjects.
+*Search for the subject on [https://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar]. It's recommended that you take a good read on the article before you uncritically use it.
+*If you know a book, see if it's available on [https://libgen.rs/ Library Genesis]
+*You can use [https://www.google.com/ Google] to give you a certain direction, but using [https://yandex.com/ Yandex] and [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] can be very useful as well, as these search engines give different results.
+If you are writing about current events, you can search for your subject on these resources to give you material to write your articles with:
+*[https://blackagendareport.com Black Agenda Report] (<small>[[Black Agenda Report|article]]</small>)
+*[https://www.cgtn.com/ CGTN] <small>([[China Global Television Network|article]])</small>
+*[https://liberationnews.org Liberation News] (<small>[[Liberation News|article]]</small>)
+*[https://mronline.org Monthly Review] (<small>[[Monthly Review|article]]</small>)
+*[https://sputniknews.com/ Sputnik] <small>([[Sputnik (news agency)|article]])</small>
+*[https://www.telesurenglish.net/ TeleSUR] <small>([[TeleSUR|article]])</small>
+*[https://thegrayzone.com The Grayzone] (<small>[[The Grayzone|article]]</small>)
+You can also find sources in these categories:
+*[[:Category:Anti-imperialist news outlets|Anti-imperialist news outlets]]
+*[[:Category:Socialist media outlets|Socialist media outlets]]
+==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.
+==Financial contributions==
+<blockquote>''See: [[ProleWiki:Donate]]''</blockquote>
+Not only we live in a class society and are part of the [[Proletariat|lower class]], but we also live in a [[market economy]]. Hosting websites has its expenses, and to keep ProleWiki, we have to pay a 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==
+<blockquote>''See: [[ProleWiki:Development]]''</blockquote>
+To summarize, we need more comrades available to do this work:
+*Development of MediaWiki templates and modules
+*Website administration
+*'''<u>Fork [https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia Wikipedia's app] to work with ProleWiki</u>'''
+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://hosted.weblate.org/projects/prolewiki/
+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.
+==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.
+==See also==
+*[[ProleWiki:Editorial guidelines]]
+*[[ProleWiki:Code of conduct]]
+[[Category:Contribute to ProleWiki]]