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Project News

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New Project Page: 10th Year Edition

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WikiProject Socialism was founded in 2009 by TIAYN. Ten years later, we still had the same project main page. Meanwhile, other projects, like Video games, Women in Red or Molecular Biology, have experimented with different layouts. It was about time we started experimenting with a more user-friendly interface too. In 2015, Harej and Isarra started working on WikiProject X, a new user interface (UI) for WikiProjects, covering not only design but also better content automation. The new UI, which is still a work in progress, was already adopted by a few projects. Our new project page is now based on WikiProject X and partially maintained by Reports bot.

While the cleaner UI is the most noticeable change, we also reworked the content, hoping that it will be more useful to project members. Here is a summary of the changes.

New membership system

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NOTE: At the time of writting, the Join WikiProject button does not work. Members can still be added manually by creating a WikiProject card.

The new membership system, based on Wikipedia X, uses WikiProject cards. When you click that blue button on the main project page, a dialog is opened to fill membership details. On submission, the system will create a WikiProject card in your userspace, on Special:MyPage/WikiProjectCards/WikiProject Socialism.

Reports bot automatically adds members to the active member list, and it moves those who did not edit in the last 30 days to the inactive member list.

The old membership system could be somewhat confusing. It invited members to sign up in the member list (see old version) or add the member userbox to their talk pages. While we migrated the full member list over to the new system, we did not add those who only used the userbox. Those users are invited to join the project themselves formally.

Article alerts page

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Important events, such an article being nominated for deletion, were notified by RMCD bot in our main discussion page. We migrated to the new article alerts system. Now Reports bot automatically updates our article alerts section and RMCD bot no longer notifies them in our discussion page. Project members are encouraged to watch the new alerts section.

Discussions summary page

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Reports bot adds links to every new discussion in any article under the scope of the project to the discussions section. Project members are encouraged to watch it.

New talk page header

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We added a new talk page header, inspired by WikiProject Medicine's.

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The WikiProject logo was changed to an alternative version, which has been used in Portal:Socialism since 1 May 2009. The new version is, in our humble opinion, more visually appealing.

Old logo
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New logo
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The old version, designed by Nikodemos in 2007, is part of a series of flags used in multiple templates for different political tendencies. It is likely to remain in use in navigation templates such as {{Socialism}} for consistency. Credit for the new flag goes to Ssolbergj.

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Lists of missing articles, also known as redlinks, have been a common practice in Wikipedia for years. In 2016, the Women in Red (WiR) project took this to the next level, using them to counter the gender bias on Wikipedia, which is one of the most cited forms of systemic bias.

We started experimenting with their approach for topics related to socialism. Our redlinks section is an index of lists of missing articles, which are automatically updated by ListeriaBot based on Wikidata.

We currently have lists for communist organizations and communist women. If you would like to see another topic covered, please, propose it on our discussion page.

Redlinks lists will be helpful for any editor looking for potentially notable subjects for article creation.

Alerts Report

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Add Wikipedia:WikiProject Socialism/Article alerts to your watchlist to keep up with new alerts.

Articles for deletion

Important: Before participarting in a articles for deletion (AfD) discussion, make sure you read the guidelines. AfD discussions are not polls. They are not resolved based on quantity of votes, but based on the presented arguments according to policies. In particular, Wikipedia:Notability.

Articles for six small socialist organizations are currently under deletion discussion. Workers Party, USA was already closed as delete, while the discussion is still open for Marxist–Leninist Party, USA, New Union Party, Independent-Socialist Party, All-African People's Revolutionary Party, Internationalist Communist Tendency and Trotskyist League (United States).

Redirects for discussion

A number of redirects are proposed for deletion. These included Joseph Stalin in different languages, as well as a few variations of Mao Zedong. We found particularly amusing the later: Mousie Dung, Mall Zedong, More Zedong.

DYK
Nominations

Discussions Report

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Antifa controversies
Antisemitism in the Labour party controversies
Socialist state, Communist state, Marxist-Leninist state
Excessive colour in navigation templates?

Traffic Report

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This traffic report analyzes the top 10 articles by traffic increase in May and June.[note 1]

May Traffic Report

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International Workers' Day

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the International Workers' Day (#5) was big on traffic during May, with a peak of 203,753 page views during the 1st of the month alone. Together with May Day (#4) and Labour Day (#7), the total number of page views during May was 934,467.

International Workers' Day and Labour Day are currently assessed as C-Class. Maybe you can help improving them and offer a better experience to readers on 1 May 2020?

Indian communists

The 2019 Indian general election had a significant traffic impact. The Communist Party of India (#1) had an increase of 865,278 page views.

  • Peak in 23 May (election results), much higher traffic than the BJP (government party)

Margaret Sanger (#2) Most visits on 31 May 2019 411,470

Eddie Izzard (#3) appeared as a guest on The Daily Show,[1] which may be the reason for an increase in 347,154 page views.

1989 Tiananmen Square protests (#8), see the #June Traffic Report

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (#9)

Rank Page title Views Increment Assessment Importance
#1 Communist Party of India 939,634 865,278 C High
#2 Margaret Sanger 500,634 433,347 C Mid
#3 Eddie Izzard 417,485 347,154 B Low
#4 May Day 399,469 322,043 B Top
#5 International Workers' Day 365,097 281,058 C Mid
#6 Mikhail Gorbachev 434,468 269,317 B Top
#7 Labour Day 221,238 169,901 C High
#8 1989 Tiananmen Square protests 408,410 122,165 B High
#9 Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats 120,043 97,953 Start Mid
#10 Boris Yeltsin 144,988 77,420 B Top

June Traffic Report

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1989 Tiananmen Square protests

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests (#1) article was the most visited. It went from 399,600 page views in May to 1,267,566 in June. The rise in traffic is most likely because media coverage[2] of the recent full blocking of Wikipedia by the People's Republic of China. Tank Man (#3), Tiananmen Square (#10)

HBO's Chernobyl disaster
  • Mikhail Gorbachev (#2) June 573,243, May 428,221, April 160,533, first peak 14 May 2019 26,868 (after airing Chernobyl miniseries episode 2)
  • Boris Yeltsin (#7), first peak 14 May 2019 (first episode) 7,794 and highest peak 4 June 2019 (last episode) 16,626
  • KGB (#8), first peak 21 May 2019 11,396, after airing the 3rd episode of Chernobyl, highest peak on 4 June 2019 after last episode, 11,628
  • Soviet Union (#6), highest peak on 6 June 2019, after last episode, 25,722
  • TODO: link to the Signpost traffic report

Sadiq Khan (#4)

1907 Tiflis bank robbery (#5), featured on the main page on 26 June 2019.

Scottsboro Boys (#9)

Rank Page title Views Increment Assessment Importance
#1 1989 Tiananmen Square protests 1,168,635 836,655 B High
#2 Mikhail Gorbachev 581,730 327,271 B Top
#3 Tank Man 299,169 214,569 C High
#4 Sadiq Khan 207,583 155,854 C High
#5 1907 Tiflis bank robbery 132,072 129,049 FA Low
#6 Soviet Union 555,958 126,285 B Top
#7 Boris Yeltsin 215,696 121,592 B Top
#8 KGB 206,074 97,678 B High
#9 Scottsboro Boys 91,441 60,079 B High
#10 Tiananmen Square 99,039 59,722 B Low
1989 Tiananmen Square protests

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests article was the most visited during June. It went from 399,600 page views in May to 1,267,566 in June. The rise in traffic is most likely because media coverage[3] of the recent full blocking of Wikipedia by the People's Republic of China.

Chernobyl TV series

Mikhail Gorbachev

AOC

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

July Traffic Report

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Rank Page title Views Increment Assessment Importance
#1 Antifa (United States) 662,425 549,206 C Mid
#2 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1,188,209 498,277 B Low
#3 Nelson Mandela 356,673 50,922 FA Top
#4 Chandra Shekhar Azad 77,677 46,736 Start Mid
#5 Robert Mugabe 108,575 40,969 GA High
#6 Gordon Brown 114,986 39,420 GA High
#7 Li Peng 56,111 37,182 B Mid
#8 MeRA25 46,319 35,367 Start Low
#9 Vladimir Lenin 251,632 34,945 FA Top
#10 Bolsheviks 94,580 33,296 C High

More information

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Check our Popular pages for an up-to-date table of the top 1000 pages under the scope of WikiProject Socialism by monthly page views. This table is automatically updated by the Community Tech bot, operated by NKohli (WMF) and MusikAnimal (WMF).

If you want to check page views of any Wikipedia article, you can use the Paveviews Analysis tool.

What Is to Be Done?

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Create or translate an article
  • Redlinks
Improve an article
Add reliable sources
Assess quality and importance
Have an idea?

Share it in our discussion page.

Notes

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  1. ^ Overall top articles do not change much from month to month, so we pick those with the highest traffic increased compared with the average from three previous months.

References

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  1. ^ "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah - Extended - May 6, 2019 - Eddie Izzard". Comedy Central. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  2. ^ Harrison, Stephen (21 May 2019). "Why China Blocked Wikipedia in All Languages". Slate.
  3. ^ Harrison, Stephen (21 May 2019). "Why China Blocked Wikipedia in All Languages". Slate.