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== Newburyport GNUS ==
 
== Newburyport GNUS ==
''(pronounced like 'News')''
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Welcome to Newburyport Gnus - a site about [[FreeSoftware|free technology]].
  
See the [[NbptGnus:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] for the quick overview of what is here.
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This is the ''[[wp:Wiki|wiki]]'' section that ''you'' can edit.  It is a collaborative knowledge base to supplement the [http://www.freephile.com/cms/ main website] and [http://freephile.com/cms/blog/ blog] You can either '''gain value''' by learning from what's here, or you can '''add value''' by sharing what you know in this community.
  
The wiki generally serves for free-form documentation and collaborative knowledge base to supplement content in the [http://www.freephile.com/cms/ main website]
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== Interests ==
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* [[Interests]] describes some of the technology, hardware and/or software-related things that are covered in this wiki and may include projects that people are workin on.
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{{#icon: Tux.png|People|128|People}} [[People]] and [[Local experts]] are available to answer your specific questions and go beyond what you can do on your own.
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[[Site Goals]] provides more details about the vision for this website.
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{{#icon: Krfb.svg|Free Software|128|Applications}} [[Applications]] are specific tools that you can use in business, home, education and life.
--[[User:Freephile|freephile]] 00:22, 25 February 2006 (EST)
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== Index ==
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See the [[Index]] for a complete list of articles
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The [[Help:Contents|Help system]] will get you started quickly, and is a trusty resource whenever you need it.
  
== New Features ==
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As the software (mediawiki) that runs this wiki site gets updated, we'll let you know in the changelog.  We'll also let you know about new 'extensions' that offer new functionality to wiki contributors.
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The Interwiki Extension has been added which makes it easy to manipulate the interwiki table. http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialInterwiki  But what is the Interwiki table you say?  The Interwiki table sets up internal namespaces making it convenient for authors to create links to other wikis.  For example, you can link to a '''Wikipedia''' article with the following syntax: '''<nowiki>[[WikiPedia:Thomas_Jefferson]]</nowiki>'''.  [[Special:Interwiki|There is a long list of wikis and sites already included]] in the Interwiki table.  If you are aware of some wiki or website that we should add to the interwiki table, please tell Greg.
 
 
 
See the changelog at [[NbptGnus:Current_events]]
 
  
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The [[Special:Search|powerful search]] in this wiki will help you find whatever you are looking for.
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Revision as of 10:32, 10 October 2008

Newburyport GNUS[edit | edit source]

Welcome to Newburyport Gnus - a site about free technology.

This is the wiki section that you can edit. It is a collaborative knowledge base to supplement the main website and blog You can either gain value by learning from what's here, or you can add value by sharing what you know in this community.

{{#icon: Tux.png|People|128|People}} People and FREE Directory are available to answer your specific questions and go beyond what you can do on your own.

{{#icon: Krfb.svg|Free Software|128|Applications}} Applications are specific tools that you can use in business, home, education and life.

{{#icon: Help-contents.svg|Help|128|Help:Contents}} The Help system will get you started quickly, and is a trusty resource whenever you need it.

{{#icon: Edit-find.svg|Search|128|Special:Search}} The powerful search in this wiki will help you find whatever you are looking for. See the Index for a complete list of articles