Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home, just please pick up after yourselves. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Thank you for the very in-depth response! This has me even more hyped up :)
I think you have a great read on how to make the list(s) as useful and accessible as possible for different audiences (though I do share your worry on the potential ‘fedbait’ aspect of some sections).
Once you are comfortable with a more-or-less ‘finalised’ version of the list, would you like to see this turn into more of a team or community project?
Less so in terms of changing the content, rather having contributors with different skills and focuses such as localisation, hosting a website or a wiki, collecting and digitising books, ‘marketing’ so-to-say by designing posters, stickers, or even shareable memes, etc.
I wonder if it could become a canonical list for something like Prolewiki as it would already mesh well with things Prolewiki already does such as the library and collecting ebooks, as well as adding editor’s notes to existing works. Maybe @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml could share their thoughts on this.
We easily rehost reading lists as category pages, and then located inside https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Category:Reading_lists. The upside is they can directly contain links, the downside is after that it’s up to people to find them in the midst of all our pages. I am actually (very slowly) in the process of making a bunch of reading lists based on our absolute beginner’s; very short lists but lots of them on all sorts of different topics instead of every topic all at once.
Interesting! I might end up doing that. If you’ve seen my list, it’s kind of like what you describe, one large list but with a dozen smaller sections like imperialism, colonialism, feminism, party work, etc. It’s meant to build up over time, but can be skipped around to specific sections.
My goal is to eventually let anyone do anything they want with it, so the community aspect is nice! I want to finalize it, maybe make minor tweaks and edits, but essentially step away from it any let people use it for their own local conditions, make changes, tear it apart, etc.
What I don’t want is a competitor to Prolewiki. I like Prolewiki as it is, and if the team there wants to include my guide, then that’s great! That’s why I link Prolewiki more than any other work. The problem is that Prolewiki doesn’t have everything I want, and I also really like the epubs from ComLib when applicable.
All that being said, yes, my goal is to let people localize, do whatever they want, use it as a template, and then do whatever it is they want.