Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anarchism/Archive 7

Credibility bot
As this is a highly active WikiProject, I would like to introduce you to Credibility bot. This is a bot that makes it easier to track source usage across articles through automated reports and alerts. We piloted this approach at Vaccine safety and we want to offer it to any subject area or domain. We need your support to demonstrate demand for this toolkit. If you have a desire for this functionality, or would like to leave other feedback, please endorse the tool or comment at WP:CREDBOT. Thanks! Harej (talk) 17:45, 5 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Support. If other members of the project are up for this, then I'd be more than happy for us to sign up. It would certainly help us with keeping track of reliable sources on a more macro-scale, rather than popping into this talk page any time we have individual queries. Personally, I think the credibility framework sounds like an excellent tool for Wikipedia as a whole. -- Grnrchst (talk) 20:59, 5 August 2023 (UTC)


 * It's unclear what exactly this is? Is it Vaccine safety/Reports? If so, it looks like a semi-automated version to track problem domains that we would normally track through Special:LinkSearch, but I don't know what "unknown domain" is meant to signify in this model report. Realistically, I'm not sure what we're meant to do with Vaccine safety/Alerts. Oftentimes problem domains are being used as primary sources, so they can potentially be replaced but also aren't necessarily urgent for replacing. So this would be a worklist that doesn't necessarily signify work. czar  10:42, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Staffan Jacobson
Anyone have additional sources for this article? Otherwise the next step is AfD. czar 02:59, 3 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I just spent a bunch of time trying to search for him in English, not much luck there. There's a scientist of the same name who publishes in English, which makes it complicated. Someone should probably try https://www.kb.se/hitta-och-bestall/hitta-i-samlingarna.html. We're definitely missing something, but I don't know if it's anything substantial. -- asilvering (talk) 16:53, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Symbol watching blue lashes high contrast.svg Articles for deletion/Staffan Jacobson czar  11:14, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Recent literature (2023 H2)
For not-as-recent lit, see WikiProject Anarchism/Recent literature

New thread for the second half of 2023. Feel free to add! czar 04:55, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Books and articles
 * – Press
 * – Press
 * – Paperback edition of last year's hardcover
 * – Press
 * – Press
 * – Press
 * – Press

Book reviews



Recent literature
Is there any interest in creating a permanent subpage in project space for the "recent literature" lists? I think they're a good idea for coping with ever-growing body of scholarship on anarchism and for providing a way for editors with less time to contribute, but are always at risk of getting archived and forgotten, or simply ignored, on this talk page. We could even rethink the format a bit, e.g. adding space for a brief list of relevant articles for each publication. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 15:53, 4 August 2023 (UTC)


 * @Arms & Hearts: This sounds like it'd be a good idea aye. I've actually been thinking about us establishing a project-wide bibliography along these lines. -- Grnrchst (talk) 20:57, 5 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I like using this page as a noticeboard, as it's easy to track anything that requires group attention, whether it's a thread/discussion of new sources, new articles, noteworthy page actions (moves, deletions), or anything else that might interest the group. Would this idea to just have a bibliography of all related sources organized by year? The aspect of being archived or forgotten, I think, is part of its nature. At least there's visibility on this page versus burying it on another, and eventually prior years should be archived on any dedicated page as well. czar  10:53, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * We could use this page as a noticeboard and once the discussion is archived, transfer that to a new subpage specifically for archiving these lists? -- asilvering (talk) 17:56, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Started a draft and feel free to edit: WikiProject Anarchism/Recent literature. czar  04:22, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks all; I'll have a look and try out some possibilities in due course. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:03, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I've had a go at reformatting the lists as tables that should present the information a bit more clearly and allow some additional information to be included. This is obviously provisional and still needs a bit of tidyig up so anyone should feel free to add/remove/tweak/revert wholesale if you think necessary. If this seems agreeable it could be a foundation for a more comprehensive bibliography that projects further back, and shouldn't at all prelude continuing to have regular "recent literature" sections on this page. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 13:28, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Most bibliographies are bulleted lists for easier sorting. I don't find the "Relevant articles" column as needed because the sources will be added there once and don't necessarily need to be categorized in a column beyond that. czar  01:33, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Essay on the member list
I just had a look at our member list and noticed that there is an essay on there titled Solidarity Among Rogues?. While I think that having an introductory essay for prospective members is probably a good idea, I don't think this is it. It's very focused on ideology, spending more time going on about ideological differences between anarchist schools of thought and anarchist Wikipedians than anything to do with the WikiProject. While this may have been relevant to an earlier version of the WikiProject and Wikipedia, I don't think this essay represents what our project is now, and could very much do with a rewrite. Does anyone here have ideas for what an introductory WikiProject essay could be? -- Grnrchst (talk) 10:19, 30 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I'd remove/delete it as a relic of another time. There used to be a page that showed active editors within a topic area without requiring overt membership but it looks like the bot is down. I found that to be more helpful than signing a roster. In any event, I'm not sure we need an intro essay, no? czar  11:54, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Makhno at FAC
@Grnrchst's yearlong work on the Nestor Makhno is now up for Featured Article Candidacy. All are welcome to provide a review against the FAC criteria. It's a good place to jump in if you care about quality content and want a good read on a subject important to our project. czar 13:04, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Editathon
Hi everyone! This October, Women in Green will be hosting its 5th Editathon: Around the World in 31 Days. The aim of this event is to get articles on women and/or women's works from at least 31 different countries reviewed to GA rating, which would help improve both the gender and geographic balance among recognised articles. This is a project I'm very happy to be a part of and I hope some of you will be interested in joining. There's no shortage of anarchist women from all over the world whose articles we can work on, so if you fancy taking some up, here's some suggestions:


 * 🇦🇷 Virginia Bolten
 * 🇦🇺 Ellen José
 * 🇧🇾 Helene Minkin
 * 🇧🇪 Alexandra David-Néel
 * 🇧🇴 Petronila Infantes
 * 🇧🇷 Maria Lacerda de Moura
 * 🇨🇦 Ann Hansen
 * 🇨🇱 Teresa Wilms Montt
 * 🇨🇳 He Zhen
 * 🇨🇴 Blanca de Moncaleano
 * Luisa Landová-Štychová
 * 🇪🇨 Piedad Moscoso
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Charlotte Wilson
 * 🇫🇷 Louise Michel
 * 🇩🇪 Milly Witkop
 * 🇬🇷 Katerina Gogou
 * 🇭🇺 Ilona Duczyńska
 * 🇮🇸 Birgitta Jónsdóttir
 * 🇮🇪 Nannie Dryhurst
 * 🇮🇹 Anna Kuliscioff
 * 🇯🇵 Kaneko Fumiko
 * 🇱🇻 Louise Berger
 * 🇲🇽 Elisa Acuña
 * 🇳🇱 Clara Wichmann
 * 🇳🇿 Lola Ridge
 * 🇵🇪 Miguelina Acosta Cárdenas
 * 🇵🇱 Leah Feldman
 * 🇵🇹 Deolinda Lopes Vieira
 * 🇵🇷 Luisa Capetillo
 * 🇷🇺 Marie Goldsmith
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Ethel MacDonald
 * 🇪🇸 Federica Montseny
 * 🇸🇩 Layla AbdelRahim
 * 🇸🇪 Elise Ottesen-Jensen
 * 🇨🇭 Victorine Brocher
 * 🇹🇼 Audrey Tang
 * 🇹🇳 Amina Tyler
 * 🇺🇦 Maria Nikiforova
 * 🇺🇸 Voltairine de Cleyre
 * 🇺🇾 María Emilia Islas

I look forward to participating in this and hope to see some of you there as well. --Grnrchst (talk) 12:23, 19 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Busy this month, but if you want to work together on Louise Michel in October I'd be game. Nathalie Lemel also worth adding to this list as a possible one to work on concurrently. -- asilvering (talk) 20:47, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * The @ project got 5 nominations out for this edit-a-thon! nominated 🇺🇸 Le Guin's  and I nominated 🇨🇭, 🇺🇦 , 🇦🇷  and 🇲🇽 . Ortega and Thalmann were even expanded from stub! -- Grnrchst (talk) 10:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Vital articles/Level/5
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/5, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Grnrchst (talk) 12:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC) --

Category:Massacres committed by anarchists has been nominated for discussion
Category:Massacres committed by anarchists has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. czar 13:35, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Apologies for FAC comments
Hey @Czar; @Mujinga; @Asilvering. I just wanted to apologise for some of my comments during the FAC process for the article on Nestor Makhno. I went too far and let my frustrations get the better of me, I shouldn't have taken them out on my fellow colleagues and I'm very sorry for that. It appears that the review process may be over now, so I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of it. Wish you all the best with the articles you're improving. Mujinga's article on Phoolan Devi looks to be coming along very nicely. --Grnrchst (talk) 17:31, 11 November 2023 (UTC)


 * You certainly never said anything offensive at me, no apologies needed there. :) -- asilvering (talk) 10:11, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries, Grnrchst. Everyone gets hot sometimes and I sympathize with what made it frustrating as a first-time nominator. It was a particularly hard topic to nominate but the the resulting article is a triumph, worth printing and framing and appreciating. You've done so much for the articles on the Makhnovschina, so on behalf of readers everywhere, thank you. czar  13:08, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your kind words. The process has forced me to reevaluate what the FA status means, as what precisely fits into its criteria severely narrows the scope of my potential submissions. Of the dozen or so biographies I've gotten to GA so far, I think only Gaetano Bresci would meet its standards, as Bresci died before 1903 and was high-profile enough at the time that western reports on him are trivial to find. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:49, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/5/People
You are invited to join the discussions at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/5/People, regarding the proposed removal of Voltairine de Cleyre, Luigi Galleani, Johann Most and Lucy Parsons, which are within the scope of this WikiProject. Grnrchst (talk) 12:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC) --

2023: A Year in Review
Happy new year everyone! Last year was quite the productive year for our wee project, so I wanted to briefly highlight what we accomplished. This year roughly 250 new articles were created or added to the Anarchism WikiProject's purview; interesting facts about 16 articles were featured on Did You Know?; 17 articles were brought up to Good Article status; 2 articles were brought up to Featured Article status; and 3 of our articles were featured in the news, although sadly these were all recent deaths. Each day we improve the encyclopedia's coverage of anarchism as a subject, and I hope that's something we can all be proud of. Wishing you all the best in the new year, and happy editing. :D --Grnrchst (talk) 10:41, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Drafts and requests revival
Hey all. I noticed a while back that the WikiProject's drafts and requests had been largely stagnant for quite some time. Inspired by Women in Red's redlists, I decided to attempt building it into something more useful for moving forward with the WikiProject over the longer term. So far I've mostly focused on collecting red links for anarchists, and have combed our sister Wikipedias for help expanding. I still need to finish the Spanish anarchists subpage, as the Spanish, Basque, Galician and Catalan Wikipedias have all done such impressive jobs on writing about their local anarchist histories that collecting it all is its own big task. I'll also have a look at organizations at some point. But for now, I think this will be a better resource for users new and old that want to help create more articles for the WikiProject. If you want to help build the redlist, please by all means feel free. :)

I'm not sure what to do with what's left in the drafts section. All of the users that posted the drafts there have been inactive for a fair few years, so there hasn't been any movement with them. Personally I think SwitChar's List of anarchists and Zazaban's Timeline of anarchist history have the most potential for the main space. The other two I'm not sure about, as the "Anarchist defendants" draft strikes me as incredibly synthetic in scope and the Ramor Ryan draft is little more than a collection of the subject's writings. Would anybody be interested in helping take one of these drafts to main space? And does anybody have ideas for how we can use the drafts section more effectively for future WikiProject tasks? I personally prefer to keep my drafts off-wiki in files I can edit offline, so I'm not sure I would end up contributing much to this section. --Grnrchst (talk) 14:23, 3 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for this, it's extremely useful! Especially all the interlanguage links. -- asilvering (talk) 23:28, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * This list would be great for an edit-a-thon. It's a hard list, though, as many of the interlanguage links are missing sources so it's tough to source, for instance, Haiducii lui Cotovschi without advanced knowledge of the Romanian language and they're likely to stay red for a while if not forever. It's possible to add Wikidata links in place of the for each entry, which would help give some background info to use in search. We also have WikiProject Anarchism/Missing anarchists to use as a worklist, which sorts Wikidata-tagged anarchists based on how many other language Wikipedias have articles, i.e., most likely for us to have enough to source an article. As for the old draft entries, I think they can boldly be removed based on the amount of work they'd need.  czar  02:01, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Aye, I expected that quite a number of items in the list would probably stay on there a while. Maybe we can make periodical removals of low-information entries as we work down the list. Holding an edit-a-thon in the future would also be a good idea! As for the Haiducii, I know libcom translated an article about them a while back, if you're interested in learning a bit about them. And thanks for informing me about the Missing anarchists worklist! I actually didn't know that existed but think it works nicely as a companion to the longer redlist, so I added it as a link in there. --Grnrchst (talk) 14:03, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * For the entries that are hard-to-impossible to source, it might be useful to split off another page to move those to, once we start coming across them. ie, a "missing anarchists who do not meet GNG in English sources" list, to save someone else the trouble of duplicating that search work. -- asilvering (talk) 15:57, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I like this idea, but don't think it should be limited to English sources. WP:GNG specifically states that sources "do not have to be available online or written in English." --Grnrchst (talk) 16:36, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd also be into a source-a-thon in which we source a portion of the list to make it easier for someone to take up. czar  19:52, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh sure, I don't mean to say "these don't pass GNG", but "these don't pass GNG on English-language sources alone", ie, someone without multiple-language fluency is going to get stuck. People who do have that fluency can easily pick possible articles off that list. -- asilvering (talk) 20:27, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Though, I suppose a more accurate way to describe what I had in mind originally was something like "I checked and can't prove that this person meets GNG, but we should keep them on the list anyway since there may be sources in the relevant language". -- asilvering (talk) 20:36, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No bother! Hope it continues to be useful for our future editing activities. :) -- Grnrchst (talk) 14:04, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Project scope
, re: adding Martin Buber and Camille Pissarro into project scope, does either have a strong connection with anarchism? The standard I try to apply is similar to the standard of inclusion in categories, i.e., whether the trait is "defining" of the subject. For example, in the case of Buber or Pissarro, an affiliation with anarchism is not noteworthy enough to include in the lede of the article, so is it a strong enough connection to warrant an anarchism-related category to define the subject or to include in the Anarchism project scope? Some articles need to be expanded to include anarchism-related material that has yet to be paraphrased, so I leave room for that here as well, but if it isn't a prominent connection, I err towards not including these two in scope. czar 04:19, 7 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I was actually being discriminatory when I was adding people into the project scope. There were quite a few cases where I came across an artist that had been tagged as an "anarchist" in another language Wikipedia, but it either wasn't mentioned in the article or its mention was something like "they were briefly around anarchists" or "they were called an anarchist". I added Pissarro because the French Wikipedia article on him includes an entire section about his anarchist politics and his influence on the French anarchist movement. (Impressionism and anarchism were indeed very closely connected).
 * As for Buber, he's actually someone I've done a fair amount of research on so I can say with a matter of certainty that he is absolutely relevant to the WikiProject. Buber was a close friend and associate of Gustave Landauer, and together they were part of an anarchist communist group "Neue Gemeinschaft". After Landauer's death, Buber was the main translator of his work. Buber developed a non-state and non-violent socialist approach to Jewish emancipation, which he offered as an alternative to the statism of Herzl's project. Much of Buber's work was exceptionally critical of state forms and was incredibly influential on the Kibbutz movement.
 * Ruth Kinna depicts Buber's work as in the tradition of "anarchist utopianism", as did Rhiannon Firth, who focused on him as a central anarchist theorist on the subject of utopian communities. Avraham Yassour described Buber as having adopted parts of Landauer's social anarchism. Furio Bagnini said that Buber defined Judaism in religious anarchist terms. Erhard Doubrawa noted Buber's influence on Paul Goodman, and went as far as to call him an anarchist. Uri Gordon claimed him to be a key influence on Bookchin.
 * I know of more sources, I just wanted to show that I didn't hastily add Buber to our WikiProject's scope without reason. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:26, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Haha, this reminds me to put Gustave Courbet back in (sorry czar). He has a whole chapter in Allan Antliff's Anarchy and Art, which has been sitting on my desk for probably a year now. -- asilvering (talk) 03:15, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's all well and good. I'm mainly saying that unless those same broad strokes are covered in the article, especially its lead, then the connection isn't readily apparent, especially if it's meant to be a "defining" trait of the subject. A sourced sentence or two along the lines you've added here would be a fine place to start, or a link dump on the talk page, but those articles don't have anything like this right now. czar  13:55, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup open
Hi all, a reminder that WikiCup signups are open, in case you want to fly the black flag for the project. I've previously found the Cup to be a good way to get extra visibility for articles that need reviews, as this group tends to be more heavily engaged. czar 14:08, 10 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Decided to sign up. This could be fun :) I decided to use the Zapatista flag. Conceptual symmetry but not monotony like. --Grnrchst (talk) 16:28, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/5/People
You are invited to join the discussions at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/5/People, regarding the proposed removal of Voltairine de Cleyre, Luigi Galleani, Johann Most and Lucy Parsons, which are within the scope of this WikiProject. Grnrchst (talk) 13:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC) --


 * Also one to add  czar  20:53, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

New featured picture
File:Sergius Stepniak by Elliott & Fry.jpg, a portrait of anarchist Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky restored by, will be featured on the main page on February 23. Nicely done! czar 22:13, 12 January 2024 (UTC)


 * That's great! Nice work Adam! I may be interested in improving his article over the next month, before the featured date. He's popped up a couple times in my research, and seems like quite the interesting fellow. --Grnrchst (talk) 12:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Glad I could do something. It's such a nice image, and such an interesting person. Read some of his (English-language) works, and he writes very well. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs. 00:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

May Day on the main page
I have a little tradition of nominating an anarchism/labor-related article for the main page's WP:TFA section each May Day.

I nominated La Salute è in voi for this year: 👀 Today's featured article/requests/La Salute è in voi czar  15:57, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Unreferenced articles
Hi everyone! This month WPUA is holding unreferenced article backlog drive. We currently have only three explicitly-tagged unreferenced articles: José María Leyva, José Santos González Vera and Roland Vila. So now might be a good opportunity to get a citation or two into those articles! --Grnrchst (talk) 12:29, 4 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Found sources for Leyva! --Grnrchst (talk) 12:47, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Added some sources to Vera and Vila is at AfD. Any interest in a cleanup drive next? czar  14:32, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think if we picked specific sections to do drives on, that'd be more manageable than a generalised cleanup drive. Say one month we focus on "Clarification needed" and the next on "Dead external links" or something. --Grnrchst (talk) 15:25, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Good idea. We could use the existing cleanup categories groupings: BLP, Clarity, Content, General, Links, Neutrality, References. References is the hardest and can definitely be broken into subdivisions but I would be up for starting with:
 * BLPs, Clarity, and Content at once (66 issues), then
 * General, Links, Neutrality (61 issues), then
 * (52 issues)
 * (42 issues)
 * All remaining References and others (106 issues but I also think this count will be lower by then)
 * Thoughts? And when's best to start? czar  23:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd say let's wait until we reach the above stub expansion goal (29 to go!), so we don't divide our energies. Personally I'm rather burnt out right now, so I'm struggling to even do the things I want to do, aside from necessary clean-up work... :/ Grnrchst (talk) 10:31, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * If anyone has ever deserved a wikibreak, it's you. -- asilvering (talk) 19:59, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry to hear that and no rush to this, of course! Maybe we can revisit as "spring cleaning"?
 * When that has happened to me on larger projects, I've personally found it helpful to turn my attention to smaller projects, which gives me more steam to return to the larger one (or the realization that it's not worth pursuing). czar  16:01, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Recent literature (2023 Q4)
For not-as-recent lit, see WikiProject Anarchism/Recent literature

New thread for the end of 2023 and anything we've previously missed. Feel free to add! czar 12:04, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Books and articles Book reviews
 * – Press
 * – Paperback edition of last year's hardcover
 * – on Ravachol and insurrectionary anarchism
 * – Paperback edition of last year's hardcover
 * – on Ravachol and insurrectionary anarchism
 * – on Ravachol and insurrectionary anarchism
 * – on Ravachol and insurrectionary anarchism



Special issues


 * Nations and Nationalism themed section on anarchism and the national question – historical, theoretical and contemporary perspectives (January 2023) Guest edited by José Gutierrez and Ruth Kinna


 * Philosophies upcoming special issue in 2024: "Imagining Anarchist Futures: Possibilities and Potentials" (NB that this and other MDPI publications are not considered reliable for citation on Wikipedia)


 * Anarchist Studies (2023), vol. 31, no. 2.


 * Radical Teacher August 2023 special issue: "Teaching (About) Socialism"

The Serna vascectomy article in particular is fascinating. czar 12:04, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

"Anarchist revolutions"
Any ideas what to do with Template:Anarchist revolution and Category:Anarchist revolutions? The majority of the items are not social revolutions in part or whole but more uprisings. Some are revolutionary activities that may have some association with anarchism but, again, not "revolutions" per se. For the category, following the dissolution of the List of anarchist communities, it looks to me that most can either be reassigned as anarchist organizations/groups or anarchist uprisings. Some might be best categorized as both uprisings and a revolutionary commune. Others might be removed as having no "defining" connection. And that leaves whether to rescope or delete the nav template. My take is to depopulate the communities and revolutions category for categories that better fit the category members (organizations and uprisings), and likely to delete the nav template as having no essential connection between the listed articles. Thoughts? czar 11:30, 24 February 2024 (UTC)


 * , saw you tagging in the category, in case you have input czar  13:19, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The category seems to handle full-scale rebellions, while the communes category covers provisional governments. None of these topics are "communities", but see if you can fit in the organizations category-tree. Dimadick (talk) 13:23, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The anarchist revolutions template looks incredibly synthetically-defined. Anarchists were only one faction within the Paris Commune. The Cantonal Revolution was adjacent to anarchism, but I wouldn't describe it as anarchist (anarchists were actually more closely involved in the contemporary Petroleum Revolution, which is not included here). Anarchists were involved in the Mexican and German revolutions, but describing them as "anarchist revolutions" is totally false. The Biennio Rosso wasn't a revolution, it was a period of civil conflict between revolutionaries (including but not limited to anarchists) and reactionaries, immediately preceding the fascist takeover of power in Italy. I'm not sure by what metric the Ruhr uprising was remotely anarchist, as the FAU only played a minor role in the events. The Kronstadt uprising failed to turn into a revolution. I'm not sure the KPAM can be described as a revolution. The May 68 events can dubiously be described as a revolution, but again, anarchists were only one faction of many. The Zapatistas aren't anarchists and it's frankly offensive to continue claiming them as such. The Rojava Revolution is also not anarchist, though the SDF are partly inspired by anarchist ideas and some anarchists participated (in a minor role).
 * Honestly the only two here that make sense to call "anarchist revolutions" are the Makhnovshchina and the Spanish Revolution, but then why do we need an entire template just for them? --Grnrchst (talk) 16:47, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Symbol watching blue lashes high contrast.svg Templates for discussion/Log/2024 March 5 czar  13:58, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Add Template:Anarchies to the mix too, as the navbox for "Anarchist-related territories and autonomous zones" (i.e., the nebulous "anarchist communities" catch-all mentioned above). It probably needs to be split into categories for intentional communities, revolutionary communes, maybe some uprisings. Its designations of "mass societies" and autonomous territories ranging from the Bavarian Socialist Republic to the George Floyd Square occupied protest reads as an indiscriminate grouping. czar 17:45, 24 February 2024 (UTC)


 * This falls into the same problems as the list, although it's arguably even worse with its "anarchist-related" thing. Some of these entries I don't even understand how they're remotely related to anarchism. --Grnrchst (talk) 16:52, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Symbol watching blue lashes high contrast.svg Templates for discussion/Log/2024 March 8 czar  15:33, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024
In case anyone reflexively clicked away from the giant banner, I thought I'd link this here, since we've got a fair few articles on Ukrainian anarchists already. -- asilvering (talk) 23:06, 13 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Dunno if I'll have the time or energy to contribute to this over the next couple weeks, but will give a broad overview of overall progress on Ukrainian anarchist topics:
 * We currently have 1 featured article and 5 good articles on Ukrainian anarchists, as well as another good article about an event in Ukrainian anarchist history.
 * Biographical articles are largely solid, most based on the available English language literature with some pulling from Russian and Ukrainian sources where necessary. I could probably submit a couple more for GA in their current state, but some (like Maria Nikiforova and Mykhailo Drahomanov) still need a bit of work before they're there.
 * I think the biographical article that still needs the most work, proportional to its importance, is the one on Sholem Schwarzbard. The article isn't in a very good state right now, but Schwarzbard's story is a very interesting one.
 * There's still over 60 uncreated articles on Ukrainian anarchists, which exist on the Russian or Ukrainian Wikipedias. If I had to shortlist what I thought were the most important ones, these would be Elena Ferrari (writer), Tryfon Hladchenko, Jacob Reich, Artem Parkhomenko, Herman Sandomirskyi, Vladimir Shatov and Osip Tsebriy.
 * The anarchism in Ukraine article provides a decent overview of the history but needs more diverse sourcing. Each section currently pulls largely from single sources.
 * The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine article still needs to be worked on. My plan is to eventually split the overly-long history sections into their own dedicated articles, with more robust sourcing. But I am thoroughly exhausted by this topic so an ETA on this is indefinite. Its sections on organisation could also do with expansion, and I think it needs a section on its tactics.
 * Think the article on the Makhnovshchina is as GA ready as it'll ever be at this point. Some of the more focused articles in that subject area are probably there as well. Really the main thing keeping me from submitting more of these for GA is the sluggish uptake of reviews. To my knowledge, there aren't any major gaps in the subject area, more areas where the amount of information could be improved or given greater focus.
 * I recently overhauled our articles on the Revolutionary Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists and the Resistance Committee, which were some interesting dives into modern Ukrainian organisations. Other modern organisations' articles, as well as some of the biographies, could still do with some improvement.
 * As more sources are published about anarchist participation in the Maidan uprising and the resistance to the Russian invasion, more information about modern history can be added.
 * There's definitely still more work to do on this subject area, but I'm quite happy with where we've gotten with it so far. My ability to contribute more is largely limited by my exhaustion with the subject matter. There's only so many times I can go over the same set of information before it gets too boring to bother. If anyone wants to help contribute to this topic, I'd be more than happy to provide advice or guidance on the matter. :) --Grnrchst (talk) 16:34, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Gauging interest in a broader tenant rights and history group
Hi! I'm LoomCreek and a member of the New York Housing and Tenant Rights Task Force where we've been documenting the history of land ownership and tenant advocacy in the state and city.

and I want to gauge interest in creating a larger task force for worldwide history and/or more regionally specific ones. If interested, please add your username to sandbox/Housing and Tenant Rights, let us know about what your interests are and whether you'd prefer a regional task force, a world-wide wikiproject, or both. In a couple weeks we'll start creating them based on requests (5+ for a regional task force, 10+ for a wikiproject). Best regards, LoomCreek (talk) 17:20, 20 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Don't forget to ping WP:SQUAT too! -- asilvering (talk) 20:49, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up! Will do :) - LoomCreek (talk) 21:20, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Stub tracker
With some help from the village pump, here's a new template we can use to catch newly assessed stubs for the project. I'll add it above if it's useful. czar 21:42, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

The Core Contest
Hey everyone! In a couple weeks time, the 2024 edition of the Core Contest will be starting. This event has a focus on improving vital articles, and as we currently have 85 vital articles under our project (16 of which are already at GA or FA), I thought it might be worth getting involved. I've already gotten four VAs to GA status, with another getting a review soon (thanks asilvering!), so I'm eyeing up what to do next. I've already started working on improving our article on anarcho-syndicalism, although there's still a lot of work to go there, and have been considering a few of our vital biographies (namely Buenaventura Durruti, Johann Most, Subcomandante Marcos and Sergey Nechayev). Raising this here in case anyone else fancies adopting a VA for this event. :) --Grnrchst (talk) 10:25, 29 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Worth pointing out that Voltairine de Cleyre and Simone Weil are relevant to the WiR/WiG theme this year. Louise Michel too, if you stretch a bit. -- asilvering (talk) 16:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * You've convinced me to start work on the article about de Cleyre. It's not in a great state right now, and I think it's got a lot of room for improvement. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:01, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Highlighting Romani anarchists (and anarchist solidarity)
Hi everyone! This coming Monday, 8 April, is International Romani Day and Wikimedia is hosting an IRD edit-a-thon in order to celebrate. I thought it would be a good time to highlight some of our articles on GRT anarchists, as written about in María Sierra and Juan Pro's article Gypsy Anarchism: Navigating Ethnic and Political Identities:
 * Helios Gómez was an Andalusian Calé poet and painter who was a central figure in the CNT's propaganda department. If you've seen a selection of CNT propaganda posters from the 1930s, you've likely seen something drawn up by Gómez.
 * Marià Rodríguez i Vázquez, also known by his nickname "Marianet", was a Catalan Calé anarcho-syndicalist who served as general secretary of the CNT during the civil war. He was a key figure in driving forward the anarchist collaboration with the Republican government and before his premature death advocated for a guerrilla struggle against the Francoist dictatorship, which eventually became the Maquis.
 * Konrad Bercovici was a Romanian Jewish journalist who was raised among Romani people and continued to live among Romani community in New York upon emigrating to America. He became publicly known as a "Gypsy-Jew" and his anti-racism is reflected in his writings, which gathered appreciation from the film-maker (and anarchist) Charlie Chaplin, himself of Romani descent.
 * Romany Marie was also a Romanian emigrant to America. She established a number of Bohemian cafés that were draped in Romanian decour and served Romanian food, while Marie herself took on a Romani affect and clothing as hostess. Her cafes hosted numerous radicals and dissidents, with Marie being a personal follower of Emma Goldman.
 * Leda Rafanelli was an Italian anarchist publisher who claimed Romani ancestry and consciously adopted Romani culture, considering it to be an expression of individualist anarchism. She saw anarchism and Romani culture as an alternative to hegemonic Western European civilisation, and continued to practice both even during the time of Mussolini's dictatorship.

I've also come across a couple other Romani anarchists during my research. The one that sticks in my mind is Kasilda Hernáez, a Basque Calé anarchist who supported anti-fascist resistance and played a role in the rise of ETA. Anarchists have also played a role in countering anti-GRT racism throughout Europe: including the Workers' Solidarity Movement in Ireland; Paul Polansky in Kosovo; Raoul Vaneigem in Belgium and Rev Dia in Ukraine. If you know of any other Romani anarchists or stories of anarchist solidarity with GRT people, please share them here, I would be happy to read about them. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:46, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red's Central and Eastern Europe edit-a-thon
Hey everyone. This month, Women in Red is doing a geofocused edit-a-thon about women from Central and Eastern Europe. We have no shortage of women from this region in our redlist, so if you fancy creating some articles for this event, consider some of these ones:


 * Belarus
 * Bulgaria
 * Rachila Angelova and Ivanka Simeonova
 * Ivanka Boteva
 * Yonka Kordelska
 * Petra Lisichkova
 * Nadezhda Popova (anarchist)
 * Penka Stafunska
 * Marika Stoyanova
 * Croatia
 * Hermina Fabijanović
 * Czechia
 * Marie Hergetová
 * Germany
 * Anna Götze
 * Ulrike Heider
 * Hanna Poddig
 * Eva Maria Steiger
 * Greece
 * Maria Pantazi
 * Poland
 * Zofia Hajkowicz-Brodzikowska
 * Stefania Marek
 * Iza Zielińska
 * Russia
 * Sofia Spasskaya
 * Serbia
 * Sonja Drljević
 * Switzerland
 * Goldy Parin-Matthèy
 * Ukraine
 * Elena Ferrari (writer)
 * Switzerland
 * Goldy Parin-Matthèy
 * Ukraine
 * Elena Ferrari (writer)

I'd be happy to take a look at the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian entries, and maybe a couple of the Bulgarian ones. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:59, 2 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I notice you've been creating a lot of articles about Polish anarchists lately, excellent work on that by the way! Would you be interested in helping create articles about any of the above-listed Polish women? --Grnrchst (talk) 12:01, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * . Thank you for the feedback! Yes, I think I could have a go at a couple of these.Wikociewie (talk) 18:51, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Reminder to anyone reading this that if you're translating from another language wikipedia, you need to attribute the translation in an edit summary. If you're using the translation widget (WP:CXT), it will do this for you. Otherwise, see WP:HOWTRANS for a statement you can copy.
 * Also a sad reminder that you should always, always check for copyvio first. Copyvio is often accidentally laundered by translation, and it's a real bummer to figure this out when you do a source check after having already translated the article. I've been burned by this twice because I didn't learn my lesson the first time; I just had to CSD a huge article that was recently translated by an en-wiki editor since the original fr-wiki editor added copyvio years and years ago and it was never caught. You can use earwig to catch the obvious stuff - just make sure to set the language correctly (it defaults to English). -- asilvering (talk) 17:50, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Roll call?
Hi everyone. It feels like this noticeboard has never been as active as it has been these past few months, with collective drives to cleanup articles, expand stub and create new articles, as well as discussions on other parts of the project. But it's also worth noting that, while discussion is active, it's limited to only a few of us. This is in contrast to the dozens of people in our participants list and who have identified themselves as members with userboxes. I was wondering if, in light of more recent collective action, it would be useful for us to do a roll call of participants. Maybe either a mass ping of listed participants or dedicated talk page messages asking if they would be interested in more closely collaborative participation? --Grnrchst (talk) 08:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm in favor of sending a one-time message to editors on that participants list and to those who have received a welcome/invite message about this noticeboard. They might not know about recent activity and would want to join in. My suggestion would be that we deprecate the "Participants" list afterwards, as it quickly goes out of date and doesn't necessarily indicate activity. (There used to be a bot that would create an active participant list but it's dead.) Instead, we can create an opt-in mailing list for those who want updates about coordinated efforts, like edit drives or newsletters related to the project. I'll create WikiProject Anarchism/Subscribe if that sounds good. czar  13:32, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @czar, do you know anything about why it's dead? I guess what I'm wondering here is whether it's something broken that will take a lot of work to fix, or whether it needs someone to adopt it and perform some comparatively minor fixes. Sorry if I've asked before. I have a feeling I did but can't remember the answer. -- asilvering (talk) 03:25, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Asilvering, the bot's maintainer, @Harej, hasn't answered questions about it in a while. My understanding is that there was some funding for the WikiProject X initiative and eventually it was mothballed. It's a shame because this bot was one of the more generally useful features and ultimately had little to do with the WikiProject X features. In any event, maintaining a mailing list is, to my eyes, even more generally useful than a participant list. czar  03:36, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I've sent out a talk page message to users in the members list/category that haven't been recent participants either in the subject area or in the project. For people that have been active in the subject area, but not on the noticeboard or the project's collective efforts, I've sent a more personalised message. Also, I left off regular participants on the message board, for obvious reasons. In the category, I ended up doing some cleanup, as almost half of the users were inactive, some for over a decade, some had even been blocked.
 * Am hoping the messages stimulate some additional activity, but at the very least, it's nice to be able to inform people about what we've been doing. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:38, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! It's a nice message. Inactive (unblocked) users might still be worth contacting even if they don't participate often, as sometimes they come back. czar  21:12, 13 May 2024 (UTC)


 * If anyone wants to coordinate a project revival, participation drive, or reorientation, then doing an interview for The Signpost is an established media channel for that. Past interviews are listed at Wikipedia_Signpost/Series/WikiProject_report and other resources for doing this are at Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Resources. This WikiProject has never done an interview in that venue. It would be more ambitious than just a roll call, but if there were an interview, then sharing the interview at the time of the roll call could be a way to get registered but disengaged users more excited. I am an editor for The Signpost and can help with some of this but I would not submit content for any interview.  Bluerasberry   (talk)  15:23, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Bluerasberry, would you be open to conducting the interview? czar  03:19, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, I could conduct an interview. I probably need till June or July, but here is a template with some questions to get started.
 * WikiProject_Anarchism/signpost_2024
 * Coordinate some basic information into this, and then I will come up with some more targeted questions. When we have some content then I will bring this into Signposts editorial process.  Bluerasberry '  (talk)  17:22, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I'll see if I can get around to answering some of these soon. I've got a busy week ahead. Thanks for doing this Lane! --Grnrchst (talk) 08:36, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

My citogenesis report
So after probably too long of this sitting in my drafts, I finally managed to put together a report on the "Free Territory" citogenesis incident and The Commoner agreed to publish it. A lot of this is old news on here, but if you're interested in reading: "We Carry a Free Territory in Our Hearts" --Grnrchst (talk) 08:38, 14 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Very, very interesting summary. I noted the problems with the Makhno movement's flag before, but I didn't realize that even the term free territory itself was anachronistic. Nice work, Grnrchst! ときさき   くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 13:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Great story! Very readable. czar  14:58, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I actually already knew about the most widely-known flag being technically incorrect and the name "Free Territory" originating from Wikipedia, but I didn't realize that it was that transient as a political area. Iostn (talk) 22:27, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes same lostn! I assumed the zone Makhno's forces controlled lasted for longer. Nice one Grnrchst, I stumbled across the article on patreon and was like hang on a minute this must be you know who! I wasn't sure if you wanted it linked to your wiki identity or not (even if it would be fairly easy to connect) but since you've let the cat out of the bag already that's ok :) Mujinga (talk) 10:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh! Which patreon was it? The Commoner's or a different one? --Grnrchst (talk) 11:18, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah the commoner! Which I must've randomly joined by searching for anarchism or somesuch. I just joined patreon to follow a podcast about the neolithic age which i really like and hadn't realised went paywalled a year ago. Mujinga (talk) 20:01, 3 June 2024 (UTC)