Leftypedia
Leftypedia | |
|---|---|
| Type | Online encyclopedia, wiki |
| Founded | 2019 |
| Founder | CyberSynGang (original version) |
| Key people | Harrystein, RedParabola (2024) |
| Users |
98 registered users 1 active (Harrystein) |
| Espoused ideology |
Marxism (before 2024) Revisionism (2024 onward) |
| URL |
leftypedia.org (2019–2022) wiki.leftypol.org (2022–) |
Leftypedia is a failed[1] "left-unity" and "non-sectarian" encyclopedia founded in 2019.[2] Initially, the site existed at the leftypedia.org domain name until it was removed after its founder stopped participating in the project in July 2022,[3][4] but was revived under the wiki.leftypol.org domain later that year, hosted and maintained by leftypol.org.[5] In 2024, a revisionist section of the site administration purged all Marxist–Leninist editors and installed a tiny rump editorship of mostly left-communists and anarchists.[6] The project has never recovered since.
Although Leftypedia had many flaws during even its height, its external platforms allowed many anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist editors to organize and eventually form the basis for Revolupedia later in 2024.
History
Founding and early development
Leftypedia was founded in 2019 by users of Marxistpedia, a Trotskyist website,[7] after it ceased to exist earlier that year. The initial goals of Leftypedia related to preserving content from Marxistpedia, resulting in Leftypedia inheriting much of the biased content from its predecessor.[8] By early 2022, the initial version of Leftypedia would stagnate and become become plagued with constant spam attacks.[9] In July 2022, the project's sole administrator, CyperSynGang, became inactive and discontinued Leftypedia, making it permanently inaccessible for the public.
Revival on Leftypol.org
By August 2022, Leftypedia was revived under wiki.leftypol.org, with its servers being maintained by administrators of the leftist message board leftypol.org.[8] After importing a portion of the previous Leftypedia's content to the new site, administrator Nonmakina and the revived project generally became inactive, with only sporadic and meager contributions from other users.[10]
2023 edit warring
Activity on Leftypedia would suddenly increase notably in late January 2023 when editors of a Dengist website, ProleWiki, attempted to create a promotional article about their project.[11] In response, anti-revisionist user Wisconcom would create an account and remove promotional content. Following this, ProleWiki editors would begin a protracted edit war with Wisconcom on Leftypedia as part of their greater harassment effort against him and other anti-revisionists. The Leftypedia administrators sided with ProleWiki editors and permitted them to maintain their vanity pages which contained attacks on other users,[11] even after they had engaged in uncivil conduct and even made legal threats on the site.[12]
Later in 2023, user Harrystein was made an administrator after the others in that position were becoming inactive. Immediately afterwards, he banned multiple Marxist–Leninist users, claiming that they were alternative accounts of Wisconcom.[13]
See also
References
- ↑ Leftypedia's Purge of Marxist–Leninists on June 18, 2024
- ↑ Leftypedia's main page
- ↑ Comment on "The beginnings of our new leftypol project" (July 14 2022) Leftypol.org
- ↑ Archived snapshot of Leftypedia main page (July 18 2022) Internet Archive Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Leftypedia lived - Leftypedia lives - Leftypedia will live!" (19 Aug 2023) Leftypol.org
- ↑ Topic on Leftypedia's Community Hub
- ↑ "FAQ – About Marxistpedia" (19 Aug 2018). Internet Archive Wayback Machine
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Leftypedia". Leftypedia
- ↑ "Recent Changes" (29 Jan 2022). Internet Archive Wayback Machine
- ↑ "User contributions for Nonmakina". Leftypedia
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "ProleWiki". Leftypedia
- ↑ "Talk:Lemmygrad". Leftypedia
- ↑ "Block log". Leftypedia