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Willipedia is governed by the [[Willipedia Board]] and hosted by [[Williams Students Online]]. It is not officially related to the college. Anyone can read any article, but only students, faculty, and alumni may edit.
 
  
Feel free to contribute! We want this site to become a definitive source of information about Williams. Articles, biographies, stories, and how-to's are welcome, and on nearly any subject: buildings, people, organizations, classes, computing, hiking, anything of, about, or near the college. To edit an article, click "Edit this page" at the bottom of the article. To create a new article, there first needs to be a link to it; you can edit an existing, related article to create that link. You will probably want to consult [[Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page|Wikipedia's editing guide]] to learn the proper syntax.  Feel free to experiment in the [[Sandbox]].
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Willipedia is governed by the [[Willipedia board]] and hosted by [[Williams Students Online|WSO]]. It is not officially related to the college. Anyone can read any article, but only students, faculty, and alumni may edit (after [[Special:Userlogin|logging into Willipedia]] with a [[Unix ID]] or [[AWC]] account).
  
Willipedia uses [http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ MediaWiki], the same software that powers the free and famous [[Wikipedia:Main page|Wikipedia]]. In addition, Willipedia uses the following MediaWiki Extensions, which let you insert cool components into an article page:
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Feel free to contribute! We want this site to become a definitive source of information about Williams, and an expression of the Williams consciousness. Articles, stories, and [[:Category:How-To|how-to's]] are welcome, and on nearly any subject: [[:Category:Building|buildings]], [[:Category:Biography|people]], [[:Category:Groups|organizations]], [[classes]], [[:Category:History|history]], [[hiking]] -- anything of, about, or near the college. You might want to consult:
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* '''[[Help:Getting started|Getting started]]'''
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* [[Help:Editing|Basic editing help]]
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* [[Project:Extensions|Advanced features]]
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* [[Project:Policies|Willipedia policies]]
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* [[Help:Restricting an article's readership|Restricting an article's readership]]
  
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula Math]: allows for equations like this:
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== Willipedia In The News ==
<math>
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e^{\pi i} + 1 = 0
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* [http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/519172/ What's on College Students' Minds? A Good Humored Guide] (''Newswise.com'', 28 Mar 2006)
</math>
 
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Emiller/GoogleMapsExtension Google Maps]: enables Google Maps with little markers:
 
<googlemap lat="42.716644" lon="-73.2029" zoom="0" controls="small" width="300" height="200" type="satellite">
 
42.716644,-73.2029,Mission Park
 
</googlemap>
 
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Easytimeline Easytimeline]: actually not all that easy and not all that pretty, but it's there if you want it.
 
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tdittmar/MailObfuscator MailObfuscator]: if you put an email address in between <nowiki><email></nowiki> tags, then spam robots won't be able to see it. But people will. See, it looks normal:
 
** <email>wiki@wso.williams.edu</email>
 

Latest revision as of 16:49, June 16, 2019

Willipedia is governed by the Willipedia board and hosted by WSO. It is not officially related to the college. Anyone can read any article, but only students, faculty, and alumni may edit (after logging into Willipedia with a Unix ID or AWC account).

Feel free to contribute! We want this site to become a definitive source of information about Williams, and an expression of the Williams consciousness. Articles, stories, and how-to's are welcome, and on nearly any subject: buildings, people, organizations, classes, history, hiking -- anything of, about, or near the college. You might want to consult:

Willipedia In The News