And what a year has 2023 been. But we’ll leave all that for the end of year review ;)
Anyway, I want to thank all our editors, and our readers of course, who support us on the daily by using and promoting ProleWiki around them, showing that our model works.
See you next year! (Joking there will be plenty more things happening throughout the rest of 2023 and 2024)
I was planning on starting a translation effort to translate pages from english to portuguese today. Didn’t know that it was Prolewiki’s anniversary today though.
edit: I’m literally turning on my computer right now to start translating.
edit2: Just noticed that I don’t have permission to create new articles, so I’m gonna stick with completing the ones that already exist for now.
Leave a message on Forte’s discussion page about it! He maintains the PT instance
I’ll do that, thank you.
I think the idea was that each language of ProleWiki would create its articles organically rather than having everything translated from English.
I think that would be too idealistic. No chinese person had to reinvent marxism just because Marx was german, they just read Marx and then adapted it to China.
I think the same would be nice to PW. First translate everything so that our comrades that do not speak english can have the information, and then modify the existing pages to reflect the ideas of the people who speak that language.
Obviously, if the PW community doesn’t like this, I won’t force it. But I think that growing each language independently would discourage people to contribute at first, since only people who come explicitly to contribute would visit a website without content.
edit: Also, there is no reason to translate pages about things that aren’t relevant to portuguese-speaking countries, so I don’t plan on doing that.
edit2: I forgot to mention that in general most people in the 3rd world do not speak english, so they rely heavily on translations of works to their languages.