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Today, ProleWiki turns 3 years old! 🎉🥳

Has it been this long already? We almost can't believe it. We've grown so much in 2023, and continue to grow every day!

THANK YOU to all our readers and our editors, here's to communism and 300 more years!

Why you should join us ⬇️

Here are some facts: the graph below shows how steadily our readership is increasing day by day. This is only the difference from one year ago! Today, if you write something on ProleWiki, you can get it seen by THOUSANDS of people.

We recorded 10k visits in August alone and 50k page views. We are being linked more and more on the web, recording 4000 clicks on Google alone in the past month. Some of our editors' essays posted exclusively to ProleWiki have actually reached fairly far out!

ProleWiki really took off a year ago. It took us some time to get a team assembled and invested. But we've grown really, really fast.

We are especially looking for knowledgeable marxists to join us, as we want to be sure we offer authoritative sources and facts.

In other words, if you decide to join ProleWiki, you will become part of an active and welcoming community where you'll be able to put your knowledge down in writing (or more!) to help educate other communists, both new and old.

Editors are free to work on the projects that interest them, and can put other skills outside of writing to use somewhere on ProleWiki, we guarantee there's something for everyone. There are no quotas or assignments, everyone contributes voluntarily, where and when they want.

We promote democratic centralism more and more with each passing day. Account requests for example are voted on by the editorship. So is the use of excess funds (funded entirely through donations from our readers).

The account request process takes a bit of time to go through (we ask a lot of questions to make sure our editors are knowledgeable and will fit into the project) but you only have to do it just once.

Request your account here: en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Special:R…

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https://twitter.com/prolewiki/status/1666083356210249734

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https://twitter.com/prolewiki/status/1666083356210249734

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