This policy has earned them the trust of many political actors world wide, so I doubt they would change, as it could result in diplomatic disruptions in many countries. This could be used by the US in attempts to isolate the country. But only time will tell.
That title is Meta 😂
Thank you for your response, comrade. And thank you further for your honest criticism. I'm being honest too, so if I'm sound judgemental it's my difficulty to empathize and arrogance speaking. I'm grateful for you pointing it out to me.
Do you have any loved ones that will miss you? If so, have you talked to them about your decision?
EDIT: My previous comments were removed per request of the administrators.
reducing his cult of personality is a good thing as long as it’s executed right
It's not like this "cult" is imposed from above and could be gone with a decree. The people has admiration and respect for their leader, who comes from a family of historical revolutionaries.
I play Catan sometimes, I have family members and my partner to play with c:
The main impediment in dumping daily prolewiki backups is storage
Thanks for the reply!
We need to store 30 GB (safe estimate for 2-3 years) for publicly accessible images and documents. These would be constantly accessed by users. As far as I've measured, this could peak up to 2GiB/hour of network transfer
We also need to store up to hundreds of GBs (but less than a TiB in total) for files related to our server and backups, but these would have slow transfer rates, as they are not meant to be constantly touched. We plan on expanding towards other operations besides merely the wiki, so that would take extra space eventually
This is precisely why I asked for advice beforehand. Thank you!
I actually don’t understand how a wiki with 22,000 pages of text and 4,000 files can be “very costly” to host. Please don’t go the wikipedia route with the expenses.
It's not, we're fine, but we need to think long-term for growth. We serve more than just one language, and they are growing. Plus, we are thinking of hosting our own communication server, something like Matrix or better. And we need to have storage ready for that.
On July 18th, 2024, after almost a week of discussions, the editorship elected comrades General_KJ and ulaan to the position of administrators with an unanimous 16 votes!
The main reason for this is to fulfill demands of a growing project. This was an initiative of the founder admins, me and Critical, and we brought the discussions to the editorship so we could elect members there.
To me, personally, this is a great achievement. Years ago, when I first created ProleWiki, with my own money and labor, I promoted the project in Lemmygrad, sharing my thoughts on the development, issues, demands, etc. Though I was a bit more idealistic back then about the future of the project, I had a correct reasoning:
We hope that in about a year or so, ProleWiki is able to exist without me individually and becomes a valuable resource to revolutionaries from all over the world, socially owned by all contributors.
It definitely took longer than a year 😂, but we managed to do that, and now even more so. We will be training the newly elected admins over time so that they can fulfill demands on every aspect of the project. That way, ProleWiki can be much more resilient against anything that may happen with an individual admin's personal life or health. Giving the CIA a harder time trying to shut us down 😁
Welcome, comrades General_KJ and ulaan!
Recently, we started using a MediaWiki extension which helps us "moderate" edits coming from those who do not have accounts. This help us prevent spam and vandalism from ever reaching front pages, while allowing those who don't have accounts to contribute to collective knowledge.
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I agree with you, pedophiles need treatment. It's obvious their sexual attraction is not under their conscious control, since the condemnation and judgement of pedophiles is so big, no one would consciously choose to be a pedophile. There are studies which links sexual attraction to children to sexual abuse in childhood too.
I disagree however with watering down, or diluting that with a lighter term, MAP, because it's inadvertently promoting pedophilia through euphemism. Whether they are a rapist or not, a person can be a pedophile, and that's it, we need to accept that situation. But the act itself, to have sexual attraction to children, is a dangerous thing, because we know children cannot truly consent.
So the negative charge that comes with the term pedophilia did not come out of the blue, it's a historical development. Pederasts in Greece certainly did not have this taboo over the word describing them. Creating a "neutral" word only removes this historical meaning describing the act. So the question is, should we use euphemisms for pedophilia?