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==Selected Articles==
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==Selected Recent Contributions==
* [[Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team]]
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* [[Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering]]
 
* [[Computer Science|Computer Science at Virginia Tech]]
 
* [[DREAMS Laboratory]]
 
* [[Free information]]
 
 
* [[German Club]]
 
* [[German Club]]
* [[Hokie Passport]]
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* [[Hellenic Student Association]]
* [[Hokie Stone]]
 
* [[International Street Fair]]
 
 
* [[Linux and Unix Users Group]]
 
* [[Linux and Unix Users Group]]
* [[L2Ork]]
 
* [[People Search]]
 
* [[Scholar]]
 
* [[Slusher Hall]]
 
* [[Student Engineers' Council]]
 
* [[Student Services Building]]
 
 
* [[Supermarkets near Blacksburg]]
 
* [[Supermarkets near Blacksburg]]
 
* [[Transportation to Blacksburg]]
 
* [[Transportation to Blacksburg]]
* [[Math Emporium|Virginia Tech Math Emporium]]
 
* [[Whittemore Hall]]
 
* [[WUVT]]
 
  
 
==Status==
 
==Status==
Gobblerpedia has been online since Friday, February 11th, 2011. Please add (or import from an appropriately licensed source) any information you think might be worth sharing. The contents of this wiki are slowly being populated with content from the [http://vtluug.org/wiki/ LUUG Wiki] and [http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia]. Work is also ongoing on templates that will ease the documentation of common classes of articles, such as courses, textbooks, and departments.
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Gobblerpedia has been online since Friday, February 11th, 2011. Please add (or import from an appropriately licensed source) any information you think might be worth sharing. Work is ongoing on templates that will ease the documentation of common classes of articles, such as courses, textbooks, and departments, but the templates can easily be added to existing material so don't wait on them to add material.
 
 
==Logo Contest==
 
Thanks to [[User:Alex|Alex L.]] for our new logo. See the [[Talk:Main page|discussion page]] for source files if you'd like to offer improvements to it.
 
  
 
==Editing==
 
==Editing==
Be bold. During the initial growth phase, write first and ask questions later. As for guidelines, no hard rules are yet in place.
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Be bold. During the initial growth phase, write first and ask questions later. Leaving off "at Virginia Tech" is an easy way to keep article names short(er). If you are looking for guidelines, Wikipedia's conventions and the [http://www.branding.unirel.vt.edu/style-guides/index.html University Style Guide] are the best starting points.
 
 
It is preferable to use proper names as the main page for an article and redirect with any abbreviations or nicknames. Also, Virginia Tech is the assumed namespace, if you will. Leaving off "at Virginia Tech" is an easy way to keep article names short. If you are looking for guidlines, Wikipedia's conventions and the [http://www.branding.unirel.vt.edu/style-guides/index.html University Style Guide] are the best starting points.
 

Revision as of 13:58, 26 June 2011

Gobblerpedia is a community-made repository of free information about Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, and the surrounding area. While this wiki isn't necessarily restricted to Virginia Tech, it can be expected that much of the content will focus specifically on the university.

Selected Recent Contributions

Status

Gobblerpedia has been online since Friday, February 11th, 2011. Please add (or import from an appropriately licensed source) any information you think might be worth sharing. Work is ongoing on templates that will ease the documentation of common classes of articles, such as courses, textbooks, and departments, but the templates can easily be added to existing material so don't wait on them to add material.

Editing

Be bold. During the initial growth phase, write first and ask questions later. Leaving off "at Virginia Tech" is an easy way to keep article names short(er). If you are looking for guidelines, Wikipedia's conventions and the University Style Guide are the best starting points.