Introducing: HexAtlas

hex_atlas [comrade/them, he/him] · edit-2 8 months ago

Introducing: HexAtlas

hex_atlas [comrade/them, he/him] · edit-2 7 months ago

Ahh sweet! Didn't know about https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Library and I see it's also linking to marxists.org (albeit seems not as extensive yet), which I wanted to link too

in the Library: namespace, which is added before the page name in the URL

Do you know how the from/to parameters ( "Display pages at") work? Is there a way to filter by county?

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=3000&hideredirects=1

At the very least I'll be able to link to the Library, but it would be cool to filter marxists works by country also

CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml · 7 months ago

Editors rely on marxists.org a lot but I want to move away from them because they outright remove parts they don't like without telling the reader :( they do have one of the largest repos of (socialist) texts on the web and the HTML format makes it very easy to import to mediawiki, but yeah down the line I would want all marxists org sourced texts to be replaced by other sources, even if we need to hunt down and import a pdf copy (which is a pain and slower).

We filter by categories as well for countries, the format is always "Library works about X", X being the country. and there is a public-facing API (though it's bonked right now)

More generally we have two library category schemas: Library works by X, Library works about X. Sometimes you might have 'about the', e.g. "the USSR". The Cuba category for example: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Category:Library_works_about_Cuba (refer to the URL for the schema and not the displayed title, which we can change on the front-end)

I assume the from and to parameters use the page's ID which there is no way to predict unfortunately.

The library homepage is here, it should make more sense with the visuals: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Library

hex_atlas [comrade/them, he/him] · edit-2 7 months ago

Thank you for you patience and taking the time to explain. I don't have much experience with Wiki, apart as a casual reader, and appreciate you taking the time.

Editors rely on marxists.org a lot but I want to move away from them because they outright remove parts they don't like without telling the reader :(

The more you know.. Thank you.

and there is a public-facing API (though it's bonked right now)

(refer to the URL for the schema and not the displayed title, which we can change on the front-end)

Could you kindly elaborate some more?

Atm I was only able to add a simple " 📚📕 All library works about {activeAdministrativeRegion.country} on ProleWiki." to https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Category:Library_works_about_${activeAdministrativeRegion.country} on Top of the ProleWiki Tab.

Sometimes you might have 'about the', e.g. "the USSR".

Unfortunately I don't have solution for this atm, but looking to add user defined regions in order to lay the way to for linking to USSR, BRICS, etc

I assume the from and to parameters use the page's ID which there is no way to predict unfortunately.

Hmm ok. If there's an API that gives me a JSON response of the book (pages) I would be able to integrate it similar to the Anarchist Library or the 72T Bulletins.. The current implementation (not the Library, but the Country pages) uses the HTML response from the API (https://en.prolewiki.org/api.php?action=parse&page=germany&format=json&redirects). Is there something like this?

Also, unfortunately the HTML body has relative links and these aren't working (click on any of the wiki article links and you see what I mean). I thought I had a solution to make the links absolute by injecting the wiki base URL on Click, but i broke the sources as these are absolute links already. Not sure how to go about solving this. Do you have experience with this?