Communpedia:People's Congress/Archive

Non-leftists
I think that non-leftists should be able to write essays because they would think we are a propaganda site, they vandalize because they can't and we will debunk it anyways so what is the worry? 00:09, May 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * , but they shouldn't be allowed to use insults/sarcasm/compare communism with what it is obviously not:anarchy, nazism, etc.


 * 01:18, May 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * Why no sarcasm? -- Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 01:26, May 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, if they use sarcasm offensively, the essay shall be deleted. Same as leftists who write insults, etc. Well, that's what I think.. But Ok, they may use sarcasm as long as it's not offensive. 02:11, May 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * Think—since we approve of it—it should be in effect. — Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 01:54, May 20, 2011 (UTC)

02:40, May 20, 2011 (UTC)

Awards
I'm working on something similar to Wikipedia's "barnstars". Should we use Soviet medals for awarding users who outstandingly contribute to the encyclopedia? 23:49, May 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Why not is the question to ask? I approve! — Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 00:05, May 20, 2011 (UTC)
 * Great, I'll finish the project ASAP 00:06, May 20, 2011 (UTC)

. Nobody seems to object. (or be active, lately..) 02:40, May 20, 2011 (UTC)

Short time?
I think that the 1st Congress was too short. I say we have like a year—or even a month—instead of 4 days. — Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 00:22, May 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, I thought there wasn't anything else to discuss, and since no one objected, I decided to close the discussion. 22:41, May 23, 2011 (UTC)

How to get more editors
We could have talked about how to get more editors. — Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 01:41, May 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * We should post links to Communpedia in political forums, etc. 00:27, May 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't that be spamming?
 * Ok, only in forums where the link is truly relevant, example: http://www.revleft.com/vb/there-socialist-wikii-t98533/index.html 00:33, May 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * So are you getting a RevLeft account? — Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 00:50, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

Nobody objects, I now support. — Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 05:10, May 28, 2011 (UTC)

Neutrality
I think we need to make a more balanced POV, this site seems to be purely Maosim/Stalinism Alexanders 01:41, June 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, you can help by tagging articles you believe are not neutral, and adding neutral information to articles 01:40, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

Wikia achievements
Wikia's new achievements are similar to Communpedia:Awards, the advantage is that these do not have to be awarded manually, and that leaderboards are kept automatically. I have temporarily enabled them so you can test them, see Special:AchievementsCustomize and Special:WikiaLabs. This does not mean that we will be officially enabling awards, this is why I have started this discussion. There are some disadvantages if we changed Communpedia:Awards to these achievements, for example, they cannot be fully customized as can manual awards. Please, try out these achievements and then vote whether to keep Communpedia:Awards or Wikia achievements. 01:40, June 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * . Keep current Communpedia:Awards only. 01:40, June 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * . They're annoying as hell. — Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 04:49, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! (call me!) 03:02, 19 June 2011 (MSD)

Fascists?
Should fascists have the right to membership or should we ban them from the wiki? — Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 04:49, June 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * . Well, I don't think fascists would even want to edit here, if fascists were allowed to create essays, I think fascists and leftists would probably attack and insult each other. Perhaps fascists should create a "fascistpedia" to post their racist-nationalist BS, not here. However, if a fascist makes neutral contributions, then he is welcome to edit. Fascists should be like capitalists, except fascists cannot post POV, not even in essays. 21:43, June 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * The closest to thing to a fascistpedia is a wiki I didn't not create and I try to make it in a NPOV.
 * P. S. All fascists are men? "However, if a fascist makes neutral contributions, then "he" is welcome to edit." — Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 23:31, June 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * If a fascist makes neutral contributions, then he/she is welcome to edit xD 23:39, June 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * Why should FASCISTS contribute here? --Nocomrade 01:58, 13 September 2011 (MSD)
 * What I said, lol. I don't think we'll be seeing any fascists around except fascist vandals, and yes, they will get banned. 02:10, 13 September 2011 (MSD)

Adding fascist propaganda to either an article or an essay will result in an infinite block. 00:52, 15 August 2012 (MSK)

Republic of Communpedia
I proposed we secede from the Union, for the lolz. P. S., they the government won't care unless we stop paying taxes. I mean the flag and the coat of arms are taken care of all we need is a constitution and an anthem.

I did this because we do have a form of self-government and for the lulz. — Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 06:02, June 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Will you be creating an article, or a Communpedia: page for this? -- 15:06, June 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. — Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! 16:26, June 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * seccede from what union?? im confused Alexanders 01:43, June 13, 2011 (UTC)
 * The United Nations. Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! (call me!) 23:25, 18 June 2011 (MSD)
 * I propose we stay in the Union --Bobb 23:59, 29 June 2011 (MSD)

Moved to Kommynist.Ru :)
I propose keeping our old name (Communpedia, the communist encyclopedia) 02:10, 18 June 2011 (MSD)

The old logo might be copyrighted. I can't find the webpage where I took it from. Should we design a new logo, keep the old one, or the current (hammer-and-sickle in a red-star) logo?

I propose releasing all content to the public domain.

What should we do? 02:10, 18 June 2011 (MSD)
 * Old name, current logo, agree, idk. Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! (call me!) 02:56, 18 June 2011 (MSD)

Couple of comments by Bobb and responses to them
Hi this is alexanders, it said i needed to make an account so I changed my name.--Bobb 00:53, 29 June 2011 (MSD)

Quite Frankly I do not Belive Wikipeida is biased.. do you think so. --Bobb 23:55, 29 June 2011 (MSD)

Today Rupert Merdock and his empire is falling apart! YAY!!!--Bobb 18:17, 19 July 2011 (MSD)
 * YAH! I knew when I heard his stupid "newspaper" was busted he's his stupid empire(and the part of the empire that made the lies) would be gone! Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! (call me!) 02:00, 20 July 2011 (MSD)

David Cameroon might lose his job too.. EVEN BETTER!!!
 * Hey should we add this to template:Recent news? :D 18:39, 21 July 2011 (MSD)

Yes! We should also have news about the U.S budget talks --Bobb 20:08, 21 July 2011 (MSD)
 * That's really good that about Murdock! That fucking criminal capitalist swine deserved it! That about that mobile telephone of that girl was the worst thing. HE deserves DEATH! A young communist 18:40, 5 August 2011 (MSD)
 * About that with David, I agree that that is even better... THat capitalist swine. He's the new Margareth Tatcher! He also think it's funny that people are loosing their jobs and are starving... VERY funny! FUCK YOU, David! Even Gordon was better. A young communist 18:43, 5 August 2011 (MSD)

Files from Wikimedia Commons
Hi all. There is technical possibility to use files from Wikimedia Commons in our wiki project. If you support it then we can enable this feature. --ComIntern 02:42, 24 July 2011 (MSD)


 * I it. A young communist 03:13, 24 July 2011 (MSD)
 * , this would be useful. If nobody objects, please set it up 03:24, 24 July 2011 (MSD)
 * Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! (call me!) 03:56, 29 July 2011 (MSD)
 * I know how to do this if needed. Images from Wikipedia can also be used in the same way. User:Fred Bauder Talk 06:30, 21 September 2011 (MSD)

Feature has been enabled in English and Spanish sections. --ComIntern 08:38, 13 October 2011 (MSK)
 * Thanks comrade, but how does this work? 00:54, 14 October 2011 (MSK)
 * Easy as pie, Lammert Karl Marx.jpg Lammert Karl Marx.jpg User:Fred Bauder Talk 08:03, 14 October 2011 (MSK)

Public domain
releasing all content to the public domain 18:09, 30 July 2011 (MSD)
 * Hs.png Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! (call me!) 01:04, 1 August 2011 (MSD)
 * The Public Domain is the irreproachable counterpart of Communism in the "Intellectual Properties" or lack thereof.  Bawga 09:10, 9 August 2012 (MSD)
 * We can't release copyleft material into the public domain. Copyleft is the open source material from Wikipedia and other sources such as that licensed under . User:Fred Bauder Talk 16:01, 23 November 2011 (MSK)

per User:Fred Bauder 00:52, 15 August 2012 (MSK)

Deletion policy
We need another 10 original, featured articles, rather than another 10,000 stubs/articles copied from Wikipedia. So I propose a new deletion policy. I believe, this will encourage users to write better articles, and pay attention to what they are writing. Also, stubs make it look as if those pages had already been covered (blue links), I think, sometimes it's better to have them as red links so users know the article is missing information. What do you think of the policy? And the given time periods? If this is approved, what should we do with the articles already tagged with a maintenance template?
 * As author of such policy 09:10, 3 August 2011 (MSD)
 * Not a fan of this policy, but it is viable and perhaps wise. For the purpose of attracting both readers and contributors a few well-referenced articles of substantial quality are worth more than thousands of articles imported from Wikipedia or poor unreferenced, half-finished stubs. I prefer a more relaxed policy but only on personal basis. Serious work requires a much more disciplined approach. User:Fred Bauder Talk 06:37, 21 September 2011 (MSD)
 * Considering that we a living through a profound crisis of capitalism I think articles analyzing the causes, nature, and consequences of that crisis would be most useful. Capitalism Hits the Fan is work of that nature although it seems to address only United States issues. User:Fred Bauder Talk 21:46, 21 September 2011 (MSD)
 * How may we say we are true to our beliefs, when we refuse to allow others to spread them?
 * What do we earn by nipping articles in the bud, unless we have problems with hard disk space? Policies like this are periodically proposed on wikipedia, and the fact that they are systematically refused is a good part of the continued success of our big brother. Even if there were sense in the policy, we are few, pressed for time, and a week is not enough. Take a realistic example: I write about the Comintern. I am now left with two options, bluelinking all important members and filling complete biographies within two weeks, or placing no sign whatsoever of which member are important. This is not a reasonable approach: and we are not the ones who destroy both documents and the labour of productive, if not massively so, comrades. Communistscientist 22:08, 22 April 2012 (MSK)

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Change
Thought I should tell you guys that I am now a communist, a troskyist/luxembargist to be precise... No longer a Social Democrat in any means of the word

Account creation bot
This:


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Is done by a bot, which seems to plague all wikis. It rotates between proxy servers all over the world which I why I always block the ip they use for 1 year, however there are hundreds of thousands of vulnerable computers that can be abused in this way. Because it is a bot, it follows a formula for creation of user names, and articles, or spammy user talk pages. It is always possible, of course, that a legitimate use might accidentally create a similar user name. Which makes preemptive blocking based on the formulaic name problematic. User:Fred Bauder Talk 18:48, 27 October 2011 (MSK)
 * I believe common sense is still enough to decide which accounts to block in sight, if in doubt you can use the checkuser page and search for the IP at http://www.whatismyipaddress.com, this page lets you know whether the Ip is a proxy. 00:56, 28 October 2011 (MSK)

Post-anarchism
How do we want to handle Post-anarchism and Post-left anarchy and the theories behind them? User:Fred Bauder Talk 16:25, 23 November 2011 (MSK)
 * There is a certain amount of truth in this. One does not discuss Hegel at the union meeting. Or Jacques Lacan, for that matter. User:Fred Bauder Talk 18:16, 23 November 2011 (MSK)
 * Communpedia:We are all leftists answers my question. User:Fred Bauder Talk 19:02, 25 November 2011 (MSK)

Inactivity
We should do something about inactivity. Your Commie comrade, Rebel Fighter! (call me!) 06:49, 11 February 2012 (MSK)

Extension:ConfirmEdit
Please see if you can't install

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

This might help with spambots. User:Fred Bauder Talk 21:25, 19 March 2012 (MSK)

. I will install this extension, but please think of question for him. Ateist 20:29, 11 June 2012 (MSK)


 * I've had good luck with things like a middle name. Simple arithmetic is a bad idea.

Or similar questions. We know the answers, spammers have to look them up. User:Fred Bauder Talk 18:10, 22 August 2012 (MSK) You can make them more complicated but at a cost: Just factoids from Wikipedia. User:Fred Bauder Talk 18:10, 22 August 2012 (MSK)
 * One word name for Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov: Lenin
 * Birthplace of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov: Ulyanovsk
 * One word name for Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili: Stalin
 * Birthplace of Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili: Gori
 * Soviet missile designer born in the same town as Stalin: Alexander Nadiradze
 * What year was Alexander Nadiradze born: 1914
 * What year did Alexander Nadiradze die: 1987
 * I think some people wouldn't know those answers. I would suggest even easier questions (What is the color commonly used to symbolize communism? Was Russia a socialist country before the 1917 revolution? (yes/no)) 00:06, 23 August 2012 (MSK)
 * It doesn't take much, just something that has to be thought about will serve. Spambots pretty much don't think, or have time to think; however, they can do arithmetic. User:Fred Bauder Talk 14:58, 26 August 2012 (MSK)