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Recent literature (2024 Q1/Q2)

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For not-as-recent lit, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Anarchism/Recent literature

New thread for 2024 and anything we've previously missed. Feel free to add! czar 03:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Books

  • Johnson, Steven (May 14, 2024). The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective. New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-593-44395-8.

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czar 03:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Timelines on country articles

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Do we need Timeline sections on the "anarchism in X country" articles? Since they were added to a few lately (for example) I figured we should discuss before continuing. I'm of two minds: Since they should be sourced to remain in the article, I think they're largely duplicative of what is already in the article. I can see the argument that it's a useful navigational aid, but I'd sooner see that as a sidebar in the related section than rehashing all of the events in the article. I think they make the most sense when the dates can otherwise span multiple articles, like Timeline of the Spanish Civil War or Chronology of the Paris Commune. Courtesy ping @AnarchistHistory czar 22:36, 18 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

First I'd like to say that I am not a big fan of the timelines, even the ones I've made. If there is a better alternative I am in favour of it.
However, my issue is that there is a lot of information about anarchism across Wikipedia that cannot be easily accessed from a central place. So I think if the timelines were to be deleted and those bits of information were slowly added that could be good. AnarchistHistory (talk) 03:51, 19 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
@AnarchistHistory: In terms of a centralised place for links to other articles, we have the Outline of anarchism, the anarchism sidebar, anarchism bottombar and the Anarchism Portal. Are these along the lines of what you're looking for? Would you be interested in expanding and maintaining any of these? --Grnrchst (talk) 08:12, 19 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Those are very interesting - I wasn't aware of how good Outline of anarchism in particular is. Since you are both more experienced editors of Wikipedia I will defer to your judgement. I will probably do some work on Outline of anarchism soon. AnarchistHistory (talk) 09:59, 19 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
If your aim is to improve navigability, which I think is a very important and valuable task to take on, then the outline and our various sidebars and bottombars are the way to go. I look forward to seeing the improvements you have in store for it! --Grnrchst (talk) 10:32, 19 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
By the way, I'd recommend reading the Manual of Style on Lists as well. It may prove helpful for developing the outline. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:19, 19 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Believe it or not, the anarchism portal has 2k views/month. That's not huge compared to many articles, but it's miles and miles ahead of the views by page watchers (which is... 9. not a typo). -- asilvering (talk) 22:16, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
I had no idea the portal was that popular! Maybe we should do a wee drive to improve it then, because from the looks of it, it's definitely in need of some TLC. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:15, 22 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Now that AH has explained their reasoning for including them is for navigability, I'm definitely questioning their inclusion more. So many of them seem to just be repeating information that's already in the article, which makes me question why they're needed at all (wouldn't this just make timelines a "see again" section?). Sometimes they introduce new information, but then I'm left wondering why that info hasn't been incorporated into the prose rather than shoved into an undetailed list. Also citations are completely absent from many entries in many of the lists, which carries its own set of problems.
We definitely could be taking more steps to improve navigability and simplify our presentation of information, but I don't think timelines in pre-existing regional history articles are the way to go about it. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:32, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Do you think we might do well to break out the timeline from Outline of anarchism into a separate Timeline of anarchist history? -- asilvering (talk) 22:13, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
I think if the timeline grows long enough it'd be worth doing a content fork, ditto for the other sections in the outline. We'll see how AH's work on it goes :) --Grnrchst (talk) 08:51, 22 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'm done with the timeline, but that's only because I'm not including events that I don't think are significant enough to warrant inclusion. If we were to include every time a major book was published or an anarchists was assassinated or executed... I'd be happy to do that but I feel like it could clutter that Outline of anarchism too much. AnarchistHistory (talk) 13:09, 22 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
That's good to hear you're being selective! Don't worry about adding things you think aren't vital to know about, we don't want this to be an indiscriminate collection of information, just the most important events. :) --Grnrchst (talk) 13:14, 22 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yes, ideally (imo) a timeline should only contain items that are parts of a larger narrative. That is, it should be reasonably apparent to a reader that the items link to each other in some way, which is a higher bar than simply assembling items that are about similar things or could be categorized in similar ways. They don't need to be so directly linked that each entry follows directly to the next (ie, "this happened, and so this happened"), but you'd want them to be related enough that you could write a narrative paragraph (or paragraphs) that included all of them without having to reach too far. -- asilvering (talk) 16:09, 22 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
(edit conflict) I've removed them. Feel free to restore the text from the article history as non-list prose where there are reliable secondary sources.
I think the best example of a timeline article on Wikipedia is likely Timeline of the far future. If there is a useful way to display the timeline events, perhaps in a multicolumn format (I'm thinking of a bibliography article on I can't remember), it could be worth splitting the timeline from the outline. For now, the outline article is likely sufficient. czar 22:15, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

FAR for Anarky

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The Murder of Björn Söderberg contains no interlanguage links to the Swedish language https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_S%C3%B6derberg

I tried to do this but get error messages and I'm afraid my knowledge of the more technical aspects of Wikipedia is pretty limited AnarchistHistory (talk) 11:36, 27 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

@AnarchistHistory: This comes down to Wikidata categorisation. en-wiki's "Murder of Björn Söderberg" is categorised as an event, while the other wiki's "Björn Söderberg" articles are categorised separately as biographies, so they each have different separate wikidata entries. It does seem a little silly on the encyclopedia's end not to have these linked, but wikidata can be fickle about these things sometimes. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
This is strange. It should be possible to add it to the redirect - I recall a relatively recent discussion about that. -- asilvering (talk) 16:41, 27 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Okay, I sorted that out from the other direction (Swedish to English). Edit here. This could be fixed in the English-to-Swedish direction by creating a redirect page on sv-wiki called "Murder of Björn Söderberg" (but in Swedish) and doing the same type of edit, but since my Swedish knowledge is barely more than zero I'll leave that for someone else. -- asilvering (talk) 16:47, 27 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
wikidata:Wikidata:Sitelinks to redirects is the Wikidata guidance on when and how to add an enwiki redirect as a sitelink on a Wikidata entry. What asilvering did and suggests sounds right but I've also seen Wikidata entries (perhaps mistakenly) just link the event as a sitelink under the biography's Wikidata entry. czar 12:48, 28 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'd say linking the event is a mistake these days, since it throws a bit of a wrench into the metadata. Wikidata metadata gets picked up everywhere, so we should be avoiding cludgy fixes where we can. This ability to add redirects to wikidata items is pretty new, so I'm sure there are loads and loads of articles out there still dependent on the cludgy version. -- asilvering (talk) 17:40, 28 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for sorting it asilvering! --Grnrchst (talk) 13:19, 28 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Recent literature (2024 Q3/Q4)

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For not-as-recent lit, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Anarchism/Recent literature

New thread for the rest of 2024 and anything we've previously missed. Feel free to add! czar 13:11, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Books

  • Avery-Natale, Edward Anthony (2016). Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-1999-1.
  • Ciccariello-Maher, George (2011). "An Anarchism That Is Not Anarchism". In Klausen, Jimmy Casas; Martel, James (eds.). How Not to Be Governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left. Lexington Books. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-7391-5036-8.
  • Davis, Laurence; Kinna, Ruth, eds. (June 4, 2024). Anarchism and utopianism. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-8370-5.
  • Torres, Anna Elena (February 6, 2024). Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-27468-4.
  • Williams, Brian (2023). Anarchism and Social Revolution: An Anarchist Politics of the Transitionary State. Contributions to Political Science. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-39462-1. ISBN 978-3-031-39461-4.

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czar 13:11, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Category:Spanish anarchists

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This category might need some TLC but I wanted to ask around. Some thoughts:

  1. Remove Spanish anarcho-syndicalists and put everything in Spanish anarchists?
  2. Rename Anarchists from Catalonia to Catalan anarchists?
  3. Remove anarchists from the CNT members category, leaving the CNT members category for people not identified as anarchists who were in the CNT? Similar to how the FAUD in German anarchists and USI in Italian anarchists works.
  4. Potentially add a new category for Basque anarchists?

Link: Category:Spanish anarchists AnarchistHistory (talk) 14:54, 8 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

  1. This category definitely seems redundant. With the exception of Farga i Pellicer and Saperas Mirò, all the entries were members of the CNT. Feel free to submit it as a category for discussion.
  2. See Category:Politicians from Catalonia; the "from Catalonia" thing is standardised as Catalonia is not (yet) a sovereign state.
  3. I would oppose this, the CNT was an enormous organisation (and is still pretty big!) and its membership is independently notable as a category.
  4. I'd go further and say we should have categories for each of the autonomous communities of Spain, following the lead of the Spanish Wikipedia's categories. This would help with the overlap between the Spanish anarchists and CNT members categories, as we could better sort between anarchists of different regions.
--Grnrchst (talk) 15:22, 8 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
For #3, this strikes me as more likely to be a problem with the Germany/FAUD and Italian/USI categories than with Spanish/CNT. -- asilvering (talk) 15:55, 8 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
@AnarchistHistory: Hey I see you've created the category for Basque anarchists, would you be interested in making categories for the other nationalities of Spain as well? --Grnrchst (talk) 14:44, 10 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
My only issue is that nationalities outside of Catalan and Basque are generally not mentioned in the specific biographies of Spanish anarchists. AnarchistHistory (talk) 17:25, 10 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
@AnarchistHistory: I'd be interested to know what sources you're looking at, as it's quite common to find references for other nationalities. E.g. Joaquín Ascaso as Aragonese;[1] José Pellicer Gandía as Valencian;[2] Francisco Jordán as Andalusian;[3] and Secundino Delgado as Canarian.[4] I understand that the Catalans and Basques are the best known nationalities outside of Spain, but I don't think it's the case that other nationalities aren't mentioned. --Grnrchst (talk) 15:07, 12 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
This might just be my own ignorance of Spain's nationalities then. I can begin work :)
Following up on Category: Spanish anarcho-syndicalists, I have no idea how to submit it as a category of discussion. AnarchistHistory (talk) 16:14, 12 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
@AnarchistHistory: I've opened a merge discussion. --Grnrchst (talk) 16:48, 12 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Women in Green's 7th edit-a-thon

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Hey all. Next month, October 2024, Women in Green is hosting the second edition of our Around the World in 31 Days edit-a-thon. The aim is to write and review good articles about women from at least 31 different countries. In case anyone else here is interested, I thought I'd repost another list of anarchist women from around the world, this time based on the highest number of interwiki links:

If you fancy improving one of these articles, or even some others, I hope you take the opportunity to do so. You'll be able to find me coordinating the edit-a-thon and can ask any questions you have over at the event talk page. --Grnrchst (talk) 15:33, 10 September 2024 (UTC)Reply