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This thing is only about 50-60% complete. Thankfully ProleWiki is not that difficult to edit compared to say, Wikipedia.

This month, as an admin of ProleWiki I've been working on "professionalising" the encyclopedia. It's become much more active in May, and we realised we needed something to help new editors find their way around. The goal is that they become autonomous as soon as possible and we don't need to oversee them. This frees up time in the administration for other things. Also helps reduce easily answered questions new editors have about formatting and other formalities.

Other changes included an editor onboarding page, as well as a clarification page (all linked in the tutorial if you start following the links so I won't link them in this post).

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!

That's it that's the post.

Oh, I need to write more?

There's a lot of bs in the fitness industry, and often that bs is repeated by athletes themselves.

It irks me especially when new gym-goers turn towards the geared buff guys for their advice. You have to understand that the difference between you and these guys is that you're never gonna reach their level. These guys can go to the gym twice a day every day of the week and make gains like it's nothing. You'd be lucky to be in condition to go back the next day if you put yourself through an intense workout as a natty.

It's an assumption that because someone looks strong, they must know what they're doing. It doesn't apply to people on gear solely; at my gym people go to the big guys for advice, some of whom are not loading. But the "tiny" guy whom I sometimes work out with has some great science and biomechanics advice to give out, some of which I've put into practice myself.

But certainly if they get results they have a good workout plan. Ask them about that first before asking about how much you should eat or how you can maximise your gains if you take creatine. (Although in my experience people are quick to praise their training routine yet never actually want to share it lol)

Though sometimes you see people like V Shred who look muscular but have no idea what they're talking about, and it does kinda comfort me to know that if it worked for them and their terrible advice, then it can only work for me and my sound advice.

I don't really like coffee, but it's a great pre-workout supplement for more than just the caffeine. A cup of coffee can also be very cheap, much cheaper than pre-workout powders.

What I do is drink my coffee iced. For that, you just need to make yourself a cup of coffee the way you like and fill a cup about halfway up.

Then, fill a quarter of the rest with milk of your choice -- not cream (not for iced coffees). This can be dairy milk, or almond, soy, whichever you prefer.

Add your sugar to taste and stir already.

After the sugar has dissolved, add ice cubes to your cup and stir while adding more. What you want is to keep stirring and adding cubes until they no longer dissolve. At this point your iced coffee is ready.

This process dilutes the coffee and the cold also changes the taste so that you don't get a cup as strong as when it comes out of the pot.

Super easy to make once you have a cup of coffee, doesn't have to be complicated.

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Wisconcom alt. It seems he doesn't learn and he wants to gather the ire of both lemmygrad and prolewiki again.

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Enjoy this account request we just received.

And yes it's Wisconcom, this dweeb doesn't even know how to use a VPN.

It took me three days of nonstop writing. I thought it was gonna be an easy one, but nope. There's just too much to say.

Anyway, enjoy. If you need to diet (either weight gain or weight loss) or want to get into fitness, this is the guide you need. No chuds guarantee.

Our very first fundraiser, raising 528 USD to save for 2 years of hosting costs on a new plan we desperately needed, was a real success!

From start to finish, we raised 518 USD, just 10 short of our goal.

"Okay but isn't that a failure then if you're missing 10 dollars?" I hear you say.

Not in the least! Because our new hosting plan will only take effect after our current contract runs out, in May, we have plenty of time to raise 10$ and can even cover it ourselves as the admins tbh.

We also had some crypto we could not get rid of until recently, which means ProleWiki, as of today, holds 816 USD, more than enough for the fundraiser and enough for almost 4 years of hosting! Wow!

Therefore I declare this fundraiser a success and as of now, we do not need any more money, comrades! We wouldn't know what to do with it except save it for hosting anyway.

All of our financials are transparently relayed here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Donate

The outpouring of support has been amazing!

We can now safely pay for 1 year of our new hosting plan with 80 gigs of space against our current 40!

Our next milestone is 2 years worth of hosting, after which all collected donations will form an excess which we will spend democratically (if ever).

2 years of hosting is essentially enough to form a safety net for us so that we might never have to worry about paying for hosting again.

If you want to donate, we have several methods here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Donate

Thank you very much comrades!

[to be clear this is not official leftypedia stance but, you guessed it, wisconcom striking again]

Apparently we claim to have 10k users (despite the auto-generated widgets saying 7.77k total). Not even one paragraph in and there's two lies already lol

But the best part was this:

Which I guess is part of our lore now.

But I urge you to read the whole page because the whole thing is pretty funny. Like linking to a lemmy thread to talk about our rules lol

Also once again I know wisconcom reads this so hi. Please find something better to do with your time. Leftypedia lets you edit and clearly doesn't care enough to ban you after repeated warnings, why don't you edit stuff about history or anti-revisionism? Like who actually spends this amount of time writing an entire essay full of fabricated facts and bad faith lies?