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{{Gobblerpedia<div style="border:About}}1px solid black; padding: 5px;">Unfortunately, gobblerpedia has not seen serious updates since 2017 (six years ago, at the time of writing). While it will be hosted indefinitely by the [https://vtluug.org Linux & Unix Users Group] the information may not be accurate. If you are interested in maintaining the wiki, or just making updates, feel free to =).</div>

==Status==[[{{Gobblerpedia]] has been online since Friday, February 11th. 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.About}}

==Logo ContestSelected Recent Contributions==While the current logo is functional and properly symbolic, it could use improved uniformity and stylingHere's a list of recently-created articles that people may find useful or interesting:<categorytree | mode=pages>Featured content</categorytree> ==Categories==See this list of top-level categories for a list of what's currently available. If you submit are creating a nicer version of the current logopage, we would prefer if you stick to these pre-existing categories or a better logo, you can win comestibles their subcategories to be negotiated (ekeep things well-organized.g. beer or pizza)If an appropriate category doesn't yet exist, please contact a moderator before creating it.<categorytree | mode=pages>Root</categorytree>

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 townies, we realize that printed or online sources may not necessarily be available. Please add (or import from an appropriately licensed source) ''any'' information you think might be worth sharing. Be bold. During ; during the initial growth phase, write first and ask questions later. As Leaving off "at Virginia Tech" is an easy way to keep article names short(er). Should this ever be a problem (for example in documenting[[Radford University]]), we may re-evaluate this precedent. See the the list of categories above for an overview of what's currently available. If you don't really know where to start, there are several requested pages on our [[wanted pages|wanted pages list]]. Many of them already exist and just need their content to be expanded. 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 placecreating MediaWiki templates, we invite you to assist in this 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.