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.

Note: As of October 2023 this feature needs to be fixed.

Templates

Templates are separate pages of wikitext which can be imported ("transcluded") directly into an article in order to make standardized tables, navigation boxes, sidebars, and more. Templates exist in the Template: namespace and can be "called" in the Visual Editor by clicking Insert > Template and entering their name. In the source editor, templates use the syntax {{template name}}. The "This is a Help page" box at the top of this page is an example of a template. Templates function almost identically to Wikipedia and other Wikis, allowing for importing templates and using them to create new ones. LUA-based Modules used by templates which contain #invoke statements appear to be working as of October 2023.

For examples of original templates created by users at Leftypedia, see below.

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

Userbox templates can be used to easily identify yourself, your tendencies, or even your interests. These templates belong on your userpage–don't use them in articles on the site.

Visit the Userbox gallery for some examples of tendency-related templates, including communist and anarchist versions.

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