ProleWiki

ProleWiki "The proletarian encyclopedia" Type "Collaborative online encyclopedia" (self-declared), propaganda outlet Available in 7 languages Founded 30 September, 2020 Founder Felipe Forte Key people CriticalResist,MxAsh, Jucheguevara Users 90> (claimed) ~5 (active users) URL prolewiki.org

ProleWiki is a Marxist-Leninist collaborative encyclopedia founded in September 2020. It is based on MediaWiki software.

ProleWiki spans several subjects, including information on history, current events, communist parties worldwide, and countries, as well as hosting a library of texts related to Marxism. The site is greatly connected to another community on the online left, Lemmygrad. The site has several languages, but it's usually more active in English.

History

Founding and early development

ProleWiki was founded on 30 September 2022 by a Brazilian user called Felipe Forte and other users of the internet forum Lemmygrad. The concept for ProleWiki originated as a reaction to the liberal bias found on Wikipedia. The then-sole administrator of ProleWiki, Forte, would firstly attempt to attract editors via promoting the project on Lemmygrad. He also attempt to promote his site on Wikipedia shortly. The website faced several spam bot attacks and eventually established an "account request" system.

The site had a short-lived spike of editors and general activity for the first weeks of its existence, and the adminstrator Forte delegated sysop roles to several other people. However, this strategy did not work because the admins were generally not interested in the administrative work. Eventually, the administration was restricted to those who continued to work in the project – CriticalResist and Jucheguevara. These adminstrators were greatly commited to their positions, and this action was done in order to ensure ProleWiki would have a stable administration.

See also

• Lemmygrad
• Friends of Socialist China