User:Harrystein

"That's what I've been saying, they're fucking commulists!"

— Political philosopher Jon Jafari

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• Sandbox
• Administrative categories
• Useful namespace categories

Specials

• Gallery of new files
• Uncategorized files

Projects

CIA operations/codenames

Separate pages, collected in Category:CIA operations. Get reference at Wikipedia:Category:Central_Intelligence_Agency_operations and WikiSpooks if need be.

• QRHELPFUL, 1983-9(?): CIA funding and aid of Polish dissidents, to the tune of $20 mil. See also NED sending $9 mil.
• Project Artichoke, 1951-3: predecessor to MKUltra.
• Operation PBHistory, 1954: CIA searching over 500,000 documents in Guatemala in attempt to prove Jacobo Arbenz was connected to communists or the USSR
• Operation Lincoln, 1950s-60s: Civilians recruited by CIA and sent to USSR as "tourists" to gather information

Interesting people

• Leon Theremin
  

Other pages

• Primitive communism: Nuance incorporating 150 years of research. Concept of "primitive communism" and prevalence. Scrutinize mainstream "band society" concept.
  • Supportive sources:
    • Cockshott, HTWW Chapter 2.
    • Cosmonaut article on Grabgrow
  • Critical sources:
    • Annoying smug liberal at Aeon.co
• European Middle Ages / Dark Ages
  • Supportive sources:
    • The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Chapter 5-??
• Brainwashing: Really created by the Army in response to the Korean defectors? Did the CIA really believe it was true even when it was American BS? Some starting sources are in a comment on the page.

Todo

Priorities

Wanted important pages

• Relations of production
  
• Marxian economics
  
• Economic planning
  
• Productive forces
  
• Proletarian revolution
  
• Strike action
  
• Neoliberalism
  
• Cooperative
  

Important pages that are sad

• Capitalism
• Money

Wanted pages

Manually sorted and combined from Special:WantedPages and Special:BrokenRedirects. Ideally someone should make a bot to do this.

• Italy
  
• Rightism
  
• European Union
  
• Weimar Republic
  
• Romania
  
• List of political ideologies
  
• Political economy
  
• Leftism
  
• A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
  
• Allies (WWII)
  
• Anarcho-capitalism
  
• Industrial Workers of the World
  
• Mao Zedong Thought
  
• Marginal utility theory
  
• Neoliberalism
  
• Nikita Khrushchev
  
• Patriarchy
  
• Revisionism
  
• Species-being
  
• People's republic
  
• Collapse of the Eastern Bloc
  
• Empiricism
  
• Education
  

Wanted categories

From Special:WantedCategories.

• Category:Argumentation
  

Other

Specials

• Special:BrokenRedirects
• Special:DoubleRedirects
• Special:OrphanedPages
• Special:WantedCategories
• Special:WantedPages

Etc

• Communism (disambiguation): Double redirect caused by multiple meanings of communism, communist, Communist party, etc. - sort out this nonsense.
  
• Slave Society, Slavery, Ancient slavery: Most likely need to be merged.
• Neoimperialism vs. neocolonialism: Double redirect caused by identity of the two, when they are not necessarily the same thing and may deserve separate articles.
• Template:NavPoAV1: Imported from Marxistpedia. I have slightly broken it with merges like Debtor-creditor relationship. Decide whether to revert this, or to transcend it.
• Template:Infobox political party won't align Right. Why?
• Authoritarian vs. authoritarianism: Article title? Concept? "Authoritarian-libertarian dichotomy"?
• Post-colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and others: Don't know where to redir these. Idk what teh fuck post-colonialism even is.

Templates and plugins

• Add Wikipedia:Template:Use_British_English etc., as well as EngvarB, a script which automatically fixes English variants based on such templates.

Help needed from admins or mods

• Add relevant MediaWiki pages such as this one.
• MediaWiki modules:
  • MediaWiki:Dot-separator: Necessary to fix this module (I think) and thereby Template:More citations needed. See for instance Slavery. Yes, it is that convoluted. Yes, we already have {{dot}}. This Template just wants the MediaWiki version. I don't make the rules. This has been done, meaning template:find sources mainspace can be a) revised for LP use and b) re-implemented in relevant citation headers.

Help needed from users with access to server files

Extensions

• Video Player and related stuff to enable MP4s.
• Install the MediaWiki YouTube extension by following this guide. Necessary for Template:YouTubeThumb to work. I'm not sure if this has been done but devs have gotten YouTubeThumb to work now!
• Extension:UploadWizard, or something similar, for mass-uploading files - mainly to get the old server files back to where they need to be quickly. Alternatively, reinstate all of the missing image files by directly inserting them into the server files if possible/necessary.
• Extension:Disambiguator: would allow __DISAMBIG__ to work.
• Scribunto extension, allowing for Template:Italic title to work among other things.
• Gadget extension, which would allow powerful tools for users to edit more efficiently.

Other

• Deal with whatever this is, so that we can upload images to the site.
• Fix the broken spam filter, presumably by editing the blacklist file.
• Edit namespaces to include custom namespaces. Not pressing, but will eventually be necessary to manipulate namespaces for various reasons.
• Add SVG support. This would make the file Flag of Ukraine.svg only 182 bytes.
• Change files to modify user rights
• Mass import templates (such as {{Citation needed}}, {{Clarify}}, etc.), or give someone the permissions to do so using one of these methods. I have been importing the most common ones individually but this may still be of use. Not a priority
• Add support for Skins.

Help needed from smart people

• Ever since I updated MediaWiki:Common.css it seems like lines 259-263 of that page have added "From Leftypedia" to the top of basically every page. It would be awesome to be able to a) modify this to say something else, b) make it italic, or c) remove it entirely. In other words, to have power over it at all. The actual text isn't present I also started a discussion at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#"From Leftypedia"

Main pages

Major

History
Bourgeois revolution
Bourgeois democracy
Exploitation
Austrian economics
Tankie
Cold War
Christianity
Reaction
Space Race
Yoav Gallant
Liberalism
2023 Israel-Hamas war

Minor

Reform versus revolution
The Origin of the Family
NSDAP
Union republic
Reading guides
Conspiracy theory
Xinjiang vocational education and training centers
Richard Stallman
2008 economic crisis
History of the United States
United Kingdom
English Revolution

Started

Idealism
Ideology
Liberalism
Grundrisse
Right-libertarianism
West Germany
Europe
Anti-communism
The Civil War in France
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
Western world
Jewish Bolshevism
American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
England's 17th Century Revolution (article)
COVID-19 pandemic
Communist Party of China
Cultural Revolution
Mikhail Bakunin

Empty

Reconstruction (United States)

Todo

Economic planning
Historiography
Teleology
Democratic socialism
Bernie Sanders
Bonapartism/Caesarism

Manual of style

Redirect and page titles

Made a list of redirect suggestions which are intended to roughly balance user expectations (i.e. "Germany" = the BRD) with user traffic (i.e. People's Socialist Republic of Albania vs. modern Albania). This is a tricky question to solve; the most obvious solution is to just pick something consistent and stick with it, and then reverse that decision on a case by case basis based on who complains, basically. (based)

Input text	Redirect target	Disambiguation	Disambiguation 2	Disambiguation 3
Germany	Federal Republic of Germany (1990–present)	German Democratic Republic	West Germany	Germany (disambiguation)
France
Spain
Korea	Korea: Page on Korea and its history as a whole.	North Korea	South Korea
Vietnam	Page on history from 1945-present.	History of Vietnam??
Yugoslavia	Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia (disambiguation)	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-2003)
Albania	People's Socialist Republic of Albania ??
Romania
China
Taiwan	Its own article about the history of the island and its status in international law etc.	Republic of China
Russia	its own disambig page. has enough uses of historical russia, tsarist russia, etc.	Russian Federation	History of Russia
RSFSR
America	United States of America	You show me a good article about "America", and I'll say "touche" and then title it "New World" or "The Americas" and put it in the hatnote on this page.
American	United States of America	You show me a good article about "America", and I'll say "touche" and then title it "New World" or "The Americas" and put it in the hatnote on this page.
Kazakhstan (et al.)	????
Kazakh (et al)	????
Cambodia	Page with history of Cambodia as a post-colonial region/nation?? I'm not knowledgeable abt history of Cambodia.	People's Republic of Kampuchea	Democratic Kampuchea	Kingdom of Cambodia
Bolivia
Czechoslovakia	Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the name of the country for the longest period of time	Interwar Czechoslovakia or First Czechoslovak Republic
Bulgaria	People's Republic of Bulgaria	(modern Bulgaria)
Moldova
Hungary
Belarus
Ukraine
Mongolia
Poland	Polish People's Republic?	Republic of Poland?
Estonia (et al.)
Kampuchea	People's Republic of Kampuchea
Byelorussia
Moldavia
Burma/Burmese
Siam/Siamese

Input text	Redirect target	Disambiguation	Disambiguation 2	Disambiguation 3
Communism
Maoism

Other

Non-breaking characters

See Non-breaking characters.
This is not based on any formal style guide. Just on what looks right to me.

1. Non-breaking space:   To be used with:

• Names such as V. I. Lenin: V. I. Lenin
• Terms like World War II: World War II

2. Non-breaking hyphen: ‑ To be used with:

• Super-imperialism and the like: Super‑imperialism
  

Typography

Em dash: —