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==News==
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==Willipedia News==
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'''3/15/2006''': Check out the new layout! We're trying to categorize the major articles to make Willipedia easier to browse. To add an article to a category, just add '''<nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category: ''category-name'']]''' to the top of the article, and it will show up in the appropriate index.
  
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'''Alumni''': As of 2/28, you can use your [http://alumni.ephnet.org Alumni Web Community] account to log in. Set one up if you haven't already; you can no longer log in with your WSO account.
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'''Writers:''' Willipedia now has a few pages that may help you start or edit articles.  You can now learn basic stuff [[Project:About|about Willipedia]] and browse its current [[Project:Policies|standards and policies]]. Still have a question? Add it to our [[Project:FAQ|FAQ]].
  
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'''Faculty and staff''' can now log in to edit pages using their Unix IDs.
 
  
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If either of these aren't working properly for you, please email <email>wiki@wso.williams.edu</email>.
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==Featured Articles==
  
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=Featured Articles=
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If you're a student still not sure what to do this summer, think about spending your [[summer in Williamstown]].
  
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Do you have a home page or keep a blog? Add it to '''[[Students with Web Presences]]''', '''[[Alumni with Web Presences]]''', or '''[[Professors with Web Presences]]'''.
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Do you have a home page or keep a blog? Add it to
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* [[Students with Web Presences]]
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* [[Alumni with Web Presences]]
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* [[Professors with Web Presences]]
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<div style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">[[Project:Previously featured articles|previously featured]]</div>
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==Recently Updated==
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<rss>http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss|date|short|max=8</rss>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">[[Special:Recentchanges|more changes]]</div>
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Keep track of all those buildings with '''[[Mnemonics for Buildings]]'''.
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==Major Categories==
  
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=Significant (but not all) articles=
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Willipedia is an unofficial source of information and diversion written by Williams students, faculty, and alumni. Here are some categories of interest:
  
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Below are non-trivial pages of interest. You can add to this list, or in fact edit any page on the wiki, by clicking "Edit this page" (at the bottom). If you're looking for something in particular, try out the Search box to the left.
 
  
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==People==
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* [[Students with Language Skills]]
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* [[Students who want to meet random people]]
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<div class="willipedia_category">[[:Category:Biography|Biography]]<br />
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* [[Students with Body Skills]]
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[Mark Hopkins]], [[Albert Hopkins]], more...</span></div>
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* [[Students with Automotive Skills]]
 
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* [[Students with Computer Skills]]
 
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* [[Students with Skills|Students with Other Skills]]
 
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* [[Wilbur]]
 
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* [[Your Mom]]
 
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* [[My Dad]]
 
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* [[Relationships]]
 
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* [[Ephs at War]]
 
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* [[Graduate Students]]
 
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* [[Campus DJ's]]
 
  
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==Academics==
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<div class="willipedia_category">[[:Category:Student Housing|Housing]]<br />
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* [[Winter Study]]
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[Currier Hall]], [[Thompson Hall]], more...</span></div><br />
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* [[Easy classes]]
 
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* [[Hard Classes]]
 
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* [[Interesting Classes]]
 
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* [[Boring Classes]]
 
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* [[Study abroad]]
 
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* [[Williams-Mystic Program]]
 
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* [[Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford]]
 
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* [[Fellowships and other cool opportunities]]
 
  
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==Places==
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<div class="willipedia_category">[[:Category:Building|Buildings]]<br />
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* [[Buildings]]
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[Taconic Golf Club]], [[Baxter Hall]], more...</span></div>
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* [[Dining hall]]
 
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* [[Taconic Golf Club]]
 
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* [[Dodd House]]
 
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* [[Thompson Hall]]
 
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* [[Mills]]
 
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* [[Prospect House|Prospect]]
 
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* [[Summer in Williamstown]]
 
  
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==The Outdoors==
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<div class="willipedia_category">[[:Category:How-To|How-To]]<br />
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[How to make a web page on WSO|Make a web page]], [[Getting to Boston|get to Boston]], more..</span></div><br />
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* [[Guide to Hiking]]
 
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* [[Guide to Waterways]]
 
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* [[Skiing]]
 
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* [[Williams Outing Club]]
 
  
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==Writings==
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<div class="willipedia_category">[[:Category:Games|Games]]<br />
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* [[Tray carvings]]
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[Mattress Dominoes]], [[Cribbage]], more...</span></div>
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* [[Ode to Harvard]]
 
  
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==Food and Drink==
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* [[Dining]]
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[Students with Automotive Skills|with car skills]], [[Poker players|who play poker]], more...</span></div><br />
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* [[Great sandwiches]]
 
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* [[Organic Food]]
 
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* [[Guide to Off-Campus Dining]]
 
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* [[Coffee]]
 
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* [[Campus Vending Machines]]
 
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* [[Good Beer]]
 
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* [[Bad beer]]
 
  
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==Petitions==
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<div class="willipedia_category">[[:Category:Guides|Guides]]<br />
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[Guide to Hiking|Hiking]], [[How to procrastinate|Procrastinating]], [[Guide to Off-Campus Dining|Dining]], more...</span></div>
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* [[Anchors Away]]
 
  
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==Things Students Own==
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<div class="willipedia_category">[[:Category:To-Dos|To-Do]]<br />
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* [[Books You're Welcome to Borrow]]
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[Stuff WSO Definitely Should Do|for WSO]], [[Stuff Morty Should Definitely Do|for Morty]], [[Stuff that You Should Do|for you]], more...</span></div><br />
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* [[DVDs You're Welcome to Borrow]]
 
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* [[Stuff to buy, sell, loan and borrow]]
 
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* [[Books Students Are Reading]]
 
  
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==Games Students Play==
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<div class="willipedia_category">[[:Category:History|History]]<br />
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* [[Halo]]
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[Campus controversies]], [[Pranks]], more...</span></div>
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* [[Beirut]]
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<div class="willipedia_category">[[:Category:Tradition|Tradition]]<br />
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* [[Capball]]
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<span class="willipedia_examples">[[Tray carvings]], [[Polar bear swim]], more...</span></div><br />
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* [[The Greatest Game in the World]] / Telepictionary
 
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* [[Game With Four]]
 
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* [[Mattress Dominoes]]
 
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* [[My Dad]], apparently
 
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* [[Telephone Oracle]]
 
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* [[Poker]]
 
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==Stuff that should be done==
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* [[Pranks]]
 
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* [[Stuff OIT Definitely Should Do]]
 
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* [[Stuff WSO Definitely Should Do]]
 
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* [[Stuff Morty Should Definitely Do]]
 
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* [[Stuff College Council Should Definitely Do]]
 
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* [[Stuff All Campus Entertainment (ACE) Should Definitely Do]]
 
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* [[Stuff The Student Body Should Definitely Do]]
 
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* [[Stuff Buildings and Grounds Should Definitely Do]]
 
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* [[Stuff the CUL Should Do]]
 
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* [[Stuff that You Should Do]]
 
  
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==Getting/Being Elsewhere==
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* [[Getting to Boston]]
 
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==Student Groups with Articles Longer Than 5 Complete Sentences==
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[[:Category:Advice|Advice]], [[:Category:Alumni|Alumni]], [[:Category:Academic programs|Academic programs]], [[Dining]], [[:Category:Athletics|Athletics]], [[:Category:Resources|Resources]]
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* '''See also: [[List of student groups|Full list of student groups]]'''
 
  
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* [[(Moocho Macho Moocow Military) Marching Band]]
 
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* [[Anchors Away]]
 
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* [[College Bowl]]
 
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* [[Crew]]
 
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* [[Debate Team]]
 
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* [[Deviants]]
 
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* [[Elizabethans]]
 
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* [[Good Question]]
 
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* [[The Gulielmensian]]
 
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* [[Lehman Community Service Council]]
 
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* [[Mad Cow]]
 
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* [[Peer Health]]
 
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* [[Rugby Football Club]]
 
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* [[Springstreakers]]
 
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* [[WARP]] or [[Williams Association of Role Players]]   
 
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* [[WCFM Williamstown 91.9 FM]]
 
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* [[Williams Students Online]]
 
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==History and Controversy==
 
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* [[Anchor housing]]
 
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* [[Campus controversies]]
 
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* [[Noteworthy E-mails]]
 
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* [[QBE]] (Queer Bash E-mails)
 
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===Door Modification===
 
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===PeopleSoft/Listserv Hell===
 
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* [[How to unsubscribe from a list that seems impossible to get off]]
 
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* [[Navigating PeopleSoft]]
 
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===The Williams Network===
 
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* [[How to Use Microsoft Outlook or Similar Clients for your Email]]
 
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* [[Getting the most out of iTunes]]
 
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* [[How to get along with Novell]]
 
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* [[How to print to network printers]]
 
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===Mac OS X===
 
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* [[How to trick out your Mac]]
 
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* [[How to configure Apple iCal to send email reminders of events to anyone]]
 
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* [[How to connect to a network PC from an Apple]]
 
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* [[How to wiki-fy a Delicious Library]]
 
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===Slacking===
 
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* [[How to procrastinate]]
 
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* [[How to search the network for media using Windows]]
 
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* [[Trivia]]: [[Trivia On-Air Guide|On-Air Writing]]
 
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*[[How to log into WSO]]
 
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*[[How to move files off of WSO]]
 
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*[[How to transfer files to WSO]]
 
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*[[How to put bookmarks on WSO using the Scuttle Extension for Firefox]]
 
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===Making something on WSO===
 
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*[[How to make a web page on WSO]]
 
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*[[How to deploy a web service on WSO]]
 
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*[[How to hack on the WSO site]]
 
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*[[How to write a web service on WSO]]
 
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==Other==
 
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* [[Free Stuff]]
 
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* [[How to migrate to Linux]]
 
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* [[Weekly Happenings]]
 
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* [[How to trick out Firefox]]
 
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* [[How to donate your organs]]
 
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* [[Guide to Fist Pounds]]
 
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* [[Common Courtesy]]
 
  
 
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==Wiki-ness==
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* [[Project:About|About Willipedia]] (or, how to contribute)
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* [[Project:Policies|Willipedia Policies]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Williams College|Wikipedia's entry on Williams College]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Williams College|Wikipedia's entry on Williams College]]
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Revision as of 23:51, March 15, 2006

Willipedia News

3/15/2006: Check out the new layout! We're trying to categorize the major articles to make Willipedia easier to browse. To add an article to a category, just add [[Category: category-name]] to the top of the article, and it will show up in the appropriate index.

Writers: Willipedia now has a few pages that may help you start or edit articles. You can now learn basic stuff about Willipedia and browse its current standards and policies. Still have a question? Add it to our FAQ.


Featured Articles

If you're a student still not sure what to do this summer, think about spending your summer in Williamstown.

Do you have a home page or keep a blog? Add it to

Recently Updated

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Major Categories

Willipedia is an unofficial source of information and diversion written by Williams students, faculty, and alumni. Here are some categories of interest:


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