Comrade:CriticalResist/sandbox/new essays
en.prolewiki.org

I should work on it more before showing it off, but I can’t wait any longer lol.

What do you think of it so far?

This is still a prototype mind you and I’m still working on the aesthetics, but what we have so far is that every essay will automatically be transcluded on this page, ordered from newest to oldest.

edit: there’s now pictures to illustrate the essays

My big question I think is: is this more conducive to reading and getting clicks than the legacy page? (https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Essays).

Secondly, does this look pretty self-explanatory to you? There are only two essays in it mind you because it’s still a prototype, but we have more than 20-30 to put on this page eventually.

What more would you see to spice this page up? And maybe drive the blog style home a little bit more.

  • pigginz@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    I like it a lot, it feels more immediately approachable than the old format. However the blog-style format does seem to favor new content over old content. As Marxists we know well the importance to reading older material! Perhaps in addition to the “last updated” box, above it even, maybe add an index, separated by author or topic, to retain the quick access and condensed overview the old layout had going for it.

    I suspect this is just an oversight/formatting error but I don’t like how clicking “read more” leads to a duplication of content. Perhaps it’s just in inevitable result of the way the page parses articles that duplication is necessary but it looks ugly.

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately I don’t think it’s possible to remove the template from appearing on the essay, at least not in v1. Maybe we’ll edit the essays to integrate that part or maybe I’ll find a solution in a dream

      • pigginz@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        Could you just put the summary in it’s own little hidden block and then set up the CSS for the homepage to override the hidden setting? Or vice versa? So that it’s still there and can still be fetched by the homepage but just isn’t rendered on the essay page. I’ve never played with wiki setups though, so maybe that level of HTML/CSS junk isn’t really feasible.

        • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          lmao you’re a fucking genius, I had to use !important on the display and this was only possible after I’d made the required templates, but yes it works.