The Spiral project



Spiral aims to formulate an ideology for freedom lovers. We discuss and define ideas, calls to action, and connections with related initiatives. We translate our texts in as many languages as possible. We invite anybody to spread Spiral and get involved.

The current iteration of this project started in July 2013. registered users have been interested so far, from which about have contributed in the past month (see more statistics).

The first Espiral project was created in 2001 by an heterogeneous group of Spanish-speaking activists spread through Europe and Latin America. More at About Spiral.

News

 * 2013-11-26: German translations: Glück für alle (updated), Was tun? (new).
 * 2013-11-21: Any change starts with you marked for translation, and Democracy? Plutocracy! marked for review.
 * 2013-10-30: The distribution of wealth marked for translation, and Follow Spiral marked for review.
 * 2013-10-24: Transición espiral thread started at the Transición Estructural forum (in Spanish).
 * 2013-10-14: Website migrated to http://orain.org, where we get free hosting and community sysadmin support. Thank you!
 * 2013-10-13: The distribution of wealth marked for review.
 * 2013-10-09: Homepage redesigned.
 * 2013-09-24: Now you can subscribe to project announcements.
 * 2013-09-17: Another spiral iteration (Catalan - Spanish)
 * 2013-09-09: First translations, in Italian, Russian, Finnish, Arabic, Ukrainian and Japanese.
 * 2013-09-07: Anonymous users can translate pages now. It's also a spam/vandalism test.
 * 2013-09-07: Homepage rewritten. Hopefully it is clearer now. It could have a better design...
 * 2013-08-29: MobileFrontend installed! The mobile version should Just Work.
 * 2013-08-28: this page is created.
 * 2013-07-28: ConfirmAccount extension installed to prevent the creation of spam accounts.
 * 2013-07-16: MediaWiki 1.21.1 and MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.06 installed - Project started.

Workflow
Anyone can edit and discuss any page in the language that is written. Pages marked for translation can be translated in any language.

This is the usual process that a Spiral page goes through:


 * 1)  Anyone can create a page in English from scratch or from the pool of wanted pages.
 * 2) New pages are marked as drafts.
 * 3) When a draft is considered completed it is marked for review at least during one week.
 * 4) When the review phase is completed, the page is announced and marked for translation.
 * 5) Changes made to the original text in English will be communicated to the registered users that created the related translations.

Priorities
Three maintenance tasks that we want to complete as soon as possible.


 * 1) Structure of a regular page.
 * 2) Template for welcoming new users.
 * 3) Instructions to create a new page.

Backlog
Candidates to become project priorities.


 * 1) Instructions for translators.
 * 2) Check and eventually fine tune the defaults for Search.
 * 3) Install VisualEditor for simple editing. Blocker: Bug 48891 - Translate extension's and fail to appear in extensiontags
 * 4) Experiment with Flow to have a better way to support discussions.
 * 5) When there is enough stable content, find a way to export to PDF.