User:MarioGom/WikiProject Socialism Newsletter Draft

TODO: Lede note: first issue

New Project Page: 10th Year Edition
WikiProject Socialism was founded in 2009 by TIAYN. Ten years later, we still had the same project main page. Meanwhile, other projects, like Video games, Women in Red or Molecular Biology, have experimented with different layouts. It was about time we started experimenting with a more user-friendly interface too. In 2015, Harej and Isarra started working on WikiProject X, a new user interface (UI) for WikiProjects, covering not only design but also better content automation. The new UI, which is still a work in progress, was already adopted by a few projects. Our new project page is now based on WikiProject X and partially maintained by Reports bot.

While the cleaner UI is the most noticeable change, we also reworked the content, hoping that it will be more useful to project members. Here is a summary of the changes.

New membership system
''NOTE: At the time of writting, the Join WikiProject button does not work. Members can still be added manually by creating a WikiProject card.''

The new membership system, based on Wikipedia X, uses WikiProject cards. When you click that blue button on the main project page, a dialog is opened to fill membership details. On submission, the system will create a WikiProject card in your userspace, on Special:MyPage/WikiProjectCards/WikiProject Socialism.

Reports bot automatically adds members to the active member list, and it moves those who did not edit in the last 30 days to the inactive member list.

The old membership system could be somewhat confusing. It invited members to sign up in the member list (see old version) or add the member userbox to their talk pages. While we migrated the full member list over to the new system, we did not add those who only used the userbox. Those users are invited to join the project themselves formally.

Article alerts page
Important events, such an article being nominated for deletion, were notified by RMCD bot in our main discussion page. We migrated to the new article alerts system. Now Reports bot automatically updates our article alerts section and RMCD bot no longer notifies them in our discussion page. Project members are encouraged to watch the new alerts section.

Discussions summary page
Reports bot adds links to every new discussion in any article under the scope of the project to the discussions section. Project members are encouraged to watch it.

New talk page header
We added a new talk page header, inspired by WikiProject Medicine's.

New logo
The WikiProject logo was changed to an alternative version, which has been used in Portal:Socialism since 1 May 2009. The new version is, in our humble opinion, more visually appealing.

The old version, designed by Nikodemos in 2007, is part of a series of flags used in multiple templates for different political tendencies. It is likely to remain in use in navigation templates such as for consistency. Credit for the new flag goes to Ssolbergj.

Redlinks
Lists of missing articles, also known as redlinks, have been a common practice in Wikipedia for years. In 2016, the Women in Red (WiR) project took this to the next level, using them to counter the gender bias on Wikipedia, which is one of the most cited forms of systemic bias.

We started experimenting with their approach for topics related to socialism. Our redlinks section is an index of lists of missing articles, which are automatically updated by ListeriaBot based on Wikidata.

We currently have lists for communist organizations and communist women. If you would like to see another topic covered, please, propose it on our discussion page.

Redlinks lists will be helpful for any editor looking for potentially notable subjects for article creation.

Alerts Report
Add WikiProject Socialism/Article alerts to your watchlist to keep up with new alerts.


 * Articles for deletion

Important: Before participarting in a articles for deletion (AfD) discussion, make sure you read the guidelines. AfD discussions are not polls. They are not resolved based on quantity of votes, but based on the presented arguments according to policies. In particular, Notability.

Articles for six small socialist organizations are currently under deletion discussion. Workers Party, USA was already closed as delete, while the discussion is still open for Marxist–Leninist Party, USA, New Union Party, Independent-Socialist Party, All-African People's Revolutionary Party, Internationalist Communist Tendency and Trotskyist League (United States).


 * Redirects for discussion

A number of redirects are proposed for deletion. These included Joseph Stalin in different languages, as well as a few variations of Mao Zedong. We found particularly amusing the later: Mousie Dung, Mall Zedong, More Zedong.


 * DYK


 * Nominations

Discussions Report

 * Antifa controversies


 * Antisemitism in the Labour party controversies


 * Socialist state, Communist state, Marxist-Leninist state


 * Excessive colour in navigation templates?

Traffic Report
This traffic report analyzes the top 10 articles by traffic increase in May and June.

May Traffic Report

 * International Workers' Day

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the International Workers' Day (#5) was big on traffic during May, with a peak of 203,753 page views during the 1st of the month alone. Together with May Day (#4) and Labour Day (#7), the total number of page views during May was 934,467.

''International Workers' Day and Labour Day are currently assessed as C-Class. Maybe you can help improving them and offer a better experience to readers on 1 May 2020?''

The 2019 Indian general election had a significant traffic impact. The Communist Party of India (#1) had an increase of 865,278 page views.
 * Indian communists
 * Peak in 23 May (election results), much higher traffic than the BJP (government party)

Margaret Sanger (#2) Most visits on 31 May 2019 411,470
 * Related to Clarence Thomas?
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/opinion/sunday/clarence-thomas-abortion.html
 * https://www.lifenews.com/2019/05/31/justice-clarence-thomas-was-right-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger-was-a-racist/
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/05/30/what-clarence-thomas-gets-wrong-about-ties-between-abortion-eugenics/?utm_term=.09e9972da715
 * https://www.lifenews.com/2019/05/28/justice-clarence-thomas-slams-eugenic-abortions-abortion-is-an-act-rife-with-potential-for-eugenic-manipulation/
 * https://www.lifenews.com/2019/05/30/cnn-host-alisyn-camerota-why-shouldnt-we-just-abort-all-babies-with-disabilities/
 * Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc.

Eddie Izzard (#3) appeared as a guest on The Daily Show, which may be the reason for an increase in 347,154 page views.


 * Mikhail Gorbachev (#6)
 * Boris Yeltsin (#10)

1989 Tiananmen Square protests (#8), see the

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (#9)

June Traffic Report
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests (#1) article was the most visited. It went from 399,600 page views in May to 1,267,566 in June. The rise in traffic is most likely because media coverage of the recent full blocking of Wikipedia by the People's Republic of China. Tank Man (#3), Tiananmen Square (#10)
 * 1989 Tiananmen Square protests


 * HBO's Chernobyl disaster
 * Mikhail Gorbachev (#2) June 573,243, May 428,221, April 160,533, first peak 14 May 2019 26,868 (after airing Chernobyl miniseries episode 2)
 * Boris Yeltsin (#7), first peak 14 May 2019 (first episode) 7,794 and highest peak 4 June 2019 (last episode) 16,626
 * KGB (#8), first peak 21 May 2019 11,396, after airing the 3rd episode of Chernobyl, highest peak on 4 June 2019 after last episode, 11,628
 * Soviet Union (#6), highest peak on 6 June 2019, after last episode, 25,722
 * TODO: link to the Signpost traffic report

Sadiq Khan (#4)

1907 Tiflis bank robbery (#5), featured on the main page on 26 June 2019.

Scottsboro Boys (#9)

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests article was the most visited during June. It went from 399,600 page views in May to 1,267,566 in June. The rise in traffic is most likely because media coverage of the recent full blocking of Wikipedia by the People's Republic of China.
 * 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Mikhail Gorbachev
 * Chernobyl TV series

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
 * AOC

More information
Check our Popular pages for an up-to-date table of the top 1000 pages under the scope of WikiProject Socialism by monthly page views. This table is automatically updated by the Community Tech bot, operated by NKohli (WMF) and MusikAnimal (WMF).

If you want to check page views of any Wikipedia article, you can use the |Dog Paveviews Analysis tool.

What Is to Be Done?

 * Create or translate an article
 * Redlinks


 * Improve an article


 * Add reliable sources


 * Assess quality and importance

Share it in our discussion page.
 * Have an idea?