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==Selected ArticlesRecent Contributions==* [[Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team]]* [[Bradley Department Here's a list of Electrical and Computer Engineering]]recently-created articles that people may find useful or interesting:* [[Computer Science<categorytree |Computer Science at Virginia Tech]]* [[DREAMS Laboratory]]* [[Free information]]* [[German Club]]* [[Hokie Passport]]* [[Hokie Stone]]* [[Linux and Unix Users Group]]* [[L2Ork]]* [[People Search]]* [[Scholar]]* [[Slusher Hall]]* [[Student Engineers' Council]]* [[Math Emporium|Virginia Tech Math Emporium]]* [[Whittemore Hall]]mode=pages>Featured content</categorytree>

==StatusCategories==Gobblerpedia has been online since Friday, February 11th, 2011See this list of top-level categories for a list of what's currently available. Please add (or import from an appropriately licensed source) any information If you think might be worth sharing. The contents of this wiki are slowly being populated with content from the [http://vtluugcreating a page, we would prefer if you stick to these pre-existing categories or their subcategories to keep things well-organized.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 coursesIf an appropriate category doesn't yet exist, textbooks, and departmentsplease contact a moderator before creating it.<categorytree | mode=pages>Root</categorytree>

==Logo ContestEditing==While the current logo is functional Gobblerpedia differs from Wikipedia in that sources do not necessarily need to be cited. Since we aim to gather original history from students, faculty, alumni, and properly symbolictownies, it could use improved uniformity and stylingwe realize that printed or online sources may not necessarily be available. If Please add (or import from an appropriately licensed source) ''any'' information you submit a nicer version of think might be worth sharing. Be bold; during the current logoinitial growth phase, or a better logo, you can win comestibles write first and ask questions later. Leaving off "at Virginia Tech" is an easy way to keep article names short(er). Should this ever be negotiated a problem (e.g. beer or pizzafor example in documenting[[Radford University]]), we may re-evaluate this precedent.

==Editing==Be boldSee the the list of categories above for an overview of what's currently available. During the initial growth phaseIf you don't really know where to start, write first there are several requested pages on our [[wanted pages|wanted pages list]]. Many of them already exist and ask questions laterjust need their content to be expanded. As If you are looking for guidelines, no hard rules Wikipedia's conventions and the [http://www.branding.unirel.vt.edu/style-guides/index.html University Style Guide] are yet the best starting points.  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. If you have experience in creating MediaWiki templates, we invite you to assist in placethis process. Several [[template:infobox|infobox]] templates have been imported from Wikipedia for general use, until more specialized ones can be created.

It is preferable to use proper names as Among the main page for an article and redirect with any abbreviations or nicknamesinteresting sources we've found are:* [https://that70sblacksburg.blogspot.com/ That 70s Blacksburg Blog]* [https://web.archive. Also, Virginia Tech is the assumed namespace, if you willorg/web/*/bev. Leaving off "at Virginia Tech" is an easy way to keep article names shortnet Internet Archive of BEV. If you are looking for guidlines, Wikipedia's conventions and the net]* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170208150838/http://www.branding.unirelphys.vt.edu/style-guidesabout/indexhistory.html University Style Guideshtml Internet Archive of Physics department history page] are * [http://spec.lib.vt.edu/ Library Special collections]Please keep in mind that these sources and others may have restrictive usage terms for content and images. '''If you''''''wish to re-use content or images, please contact the best starting pointsauthors, even if it falls under fair-use'''. If you can prove thatcontent is public domain (e.g. public records), this stipulation is not an expectation.