The consensus I see both inside and outside PW is that the library is pretty cool but a bit too empty still.

To help grow it, I've been thinking about letting in library editors. You could create a library editing account, which would be much easier to get than a "full" editor account.

This account would only have access to the library however, so as to add, edit and format books. With those permissions you could even translate books (chatGPT works great for this, much better than you'd expect), make reading lists, and probably do other stuff I haven't thought of yet. You would have access to all pages preceded by "Library:" essentially.

This would allow people who do not qualify for a full account or that we refuse for whatever reason to still participate in some capacity. Getting a library account would be much, much easier; there would be barely any questions (maybe 3-5).

For reference, this is the questions to get a full account: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount. There's even gonna be more questions soon, and we refuse a lot of requests, mostly from baby marxists and non-MLs.

It could also get you a foot in the door to later become a full editor more easily, doing the full vetting whenever you like after getting your library account and getting to know our processes, how we work, and just interacting with the community.

Now come the questions for this survey:

  • Would you be interested in becoming a library editor over a full editor? Or would you just prefer to go through the "full" vetting process? Detail as much as you want here.
  • If yes, how many hours a week do you think you could involve on the library? It's not a quota, it's just to get an idea of if this is worth pursuing.
  • Is it clear to you what a library account is, and how it differs from the full account?

For now, we're just gauging interest in this. There's no process yet to add library editors, but if we go ahead with this we'll contact the interested comrades and invite them to make a library account.

(This is open to both Lemmygrad and Hexbear btw)

Thanks for reading and answering, as always your feedback is very much appreciated.

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      We found out we can block individual users from editing entire namespaces, so it would be as simple as blocking 2 or 3 namespaces for them, leaving only the library.

      Could probably also do it with user roles but then you'd still have to do it individually and create it in the backend which is a mess.

      Currently you can import texts from anywhere, though we try to distance ourselves from Marxists.org. I have a guide or two to help import from pdfs, we're looking at making them more prominent for newer editors.