Help:Editing Leftypedia

Wikitext is roughly the same among different Mediawiki wikis. You can use the resources offered by Wikipedia to learn how to properly edit pages on Leftypedia. Nevertheless, there are a few points that are specific to this site and need to be clarified.

Userpages

We've restricted the editing of userpages (even your own) to trusted contributors. This was done because of an issue with spam bots only editing their own userpage. If you want to edit your own userpage please make a couple of edits on the wiki first so we can tell that you're legit.

Templates

Because of technical reasons involving the current webhosting plan of Leftypedia, the wiki cannot import LUA based templates from Wikipedia. This means you cannot copy templates using any "#invoke" statements. For the time being, we will have to make due with the ParserFunctions, Variables, and Loops extensions, which offer much of the same functionality. This nonetheless means that instead of using the very general modules supplied by Wikipedia, many of our templates will have to depend on dirty hacks. (Looking at the bright side, dirty hacks are more fun.)

• Wikimedia documentation of the ParserFunctions extension.
• Wikimedia documentation of the Variables extension.
• Wikimedia documentation of the Loops extension.

You can request additional extensions (that don't require root access) and find help building the templates you need by contacting User talk:CyberSynGang.

Original templates

See also: Category:Original templates

One of the long-running objectives of this site is to make navigating leftist topics easier than on other wikis. To this end, we have several original templates related to leftist topics to facilitate leftist study and discourse.

The following is not a comprehensive list and is not likely to be up to date. Please see Category:Original templates for other Leftypedia templates.

For a complete list of templates, including technical templates and those imported from Wikipedia, see here.

Navigation templates

• Socio-economic classes
• (Post-)Hegelians
• Leftist tendencies
• Path of argument in Capital Volume I

Works by Marx and Engels

• Marx and Engels navbox: Contains all three of the following, which can also be used individually:

• NavTMarxEngBoth: Texts coauthored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• NavTMarxAlone: Texts by Karl Marx
• NavTEngAlone: Texts by Friedrich Engels

Sidebar templates

• Marxism
• Political economy
• Politics of the Soviet Union

Infobox templates

• Country
• Political party

Issue templates

• Citation needed (in-line)
• Something's wrong here (in-line)
• Instances needed (in-line)
• More/better citations needed (entire article)
• Quotation needed (in-line)
• Rewrite needed (entire article or section)
• Tendency-based slant (in-line)
• Stub (entire article)

User page templates

Put these templates on your userpage. Please don't use them in articles on the site.

• Tendency templates: see Communism user templates (submit a request to have this template restored)
• User banned from Conservapedia (submit a request to have this template restored)
• Userbox

Citing sources

For help citing sources, see these links.

• "Magnus's Tools": Very useful for citing sources.
  • Citer: Automatic citer tool, which accepts URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, OCLCs, and more. Very quick and useful, but error-prone. Check the output before submitting.
  • MakeRef: More manual citing option with individual fields.
• Wikipedia help page on footnotes
• Wikipedia citation templates: Most of these are also present on Leftypedia.
• Citing sources with Zotero: Wikipedia guide to using Zotero to organise and generate references