Editing Marxists Internet Archive (section)

== Archival structure ==
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Most of material on the website is formatted in [[HTML]], and the style of the documents is determined with [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]]. [[PDF]] is sometimes used, especially for languages which don't yet have computer [[font]]s or [[Optical character recognition|OCR software]] available. Many PDFs have been added for the purposes of putting up revolutionary and socialist publications, presented as they were printed. This has added to the bulk of the growth of the MIA.

The [[Markup language|markup]] and style of the archive varies from one section to the other, depending on the volunteers who work there, but all are built on a common basic document template. The archive includes section dedicated to specific historical topics, such as the history of the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Paris Commune]], as well as broader subject topics, such as [[philosophy]]. It also includes a reference section called the "Encyclopedia of Marxism", containing definitions of Marxist terms, short biographies, and historical material.

The MIA is divided into a number of non-English language sections. {{As of|2020|4|6}}, the MIA website included content in 80 languages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marxists Internet Archive, Cross-Language Index |url=https://www.marxists.org/xlang/index.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815010823/https://www.marxists.org/xlang/index.htm |archive-date=2019-08-15}}</ref> Although each of the non-English sections is intended over time to replicate the basic structure of the main (English-language) section, in practice these vary widely in size and scope.   Some of these language sections house only a few documents by Marx and Engels, while others are more extensive—for example, the [[Chinese language|Chinese]] section has the complete collected works of Marx, Engels, and Lenin.