Did you know ProleWiki has a library?
On it, we self-host dozens (maybe even 100) of books, texts, transcripts, documents and other things of interest to communists.
You can visit it here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Library
Now, if you’re me, you might be thinking it’s kind of a mess right now. Truth is, we quickly added this library in 2020 and it just kept growing since then. We’re now in a situation where the model we use (pile everything up on top of each other) is quickly becoming saturated.
I have some ideas to fix the library, but for that I need some feedback. And possibly some help, if this is something you’re interested in. I could use some UI/UX specialists, and maybe a PHP/mediawiki programmer to implement our new library lol
But first things first, I’ve prepared a short survey to help us collect some feedback and prepare for the next step. You can take the survey here:
https://questionpro.com/t/AX7J7ZySkD
It’s completely anonymous!
Done. It looks great comrade. I made a few suggestions, mainly that mediawiki might have some smart table sorting and filtering extensions, so that you could potentially put every book in a single table, but filter by author, and sort by year.
Thanks! Yeah, we might use a table depending on our abilities 😬
I have no idea what’s possible on mediawiki (technically everything if you edit the PHP I guess, but still) and I made the mockup in a card display cause it’s modern and easy to browse – and people love it in the survey too
But when I mocked it up in photoshop I had no idea if this was even viable for us lol. A table might be sort of a hacky way to do it, like they used to do in the 90s.