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, 01:40, 19 February 2007NinWiki Newsletter Issue #1.
If you'd like to test out stuff before you do it in articles, use the [[NinWiki:Sandbox|Sandbox]], so it doesn't mess up pages :-) --[[User:Tony|Tony]] 16:43, 18 February 2007 (PST)
:Or you can do "Show Preview". -[[User:Heroicraptor|Heroicraptor]] 16:52, 18 February 2007 (PST)
== [[NinWiki:Newsletter|NinWiki Newsletter]] Issue #1. ==
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|style="color:#000"|What can you do to help out in the NIN Wiki?
* Give categories to [[Special:Uncategorized pages|articles which do not have any]]
* [[Special:Dead-end pages|Dead-end pages]] need to have links added to them
* Work on the [[Nine Inch Nails]], the [[Trent Reznor]] article, or
* Work on [[:Category:Expand|other pages which need expanding]]
* Help new users!
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| style="color:#000"|The '''NinWiki IRC''' channel is located on Freenode. You can access it with many IRC clients by clicking [irc://irc.freenode.net/ninwiki this link], or if you don't have an IRC client, go [http://java.freenode.net/ here] and enter your NinWiki name in the nickname space, and ninwiki in the channel space.
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| style="color:#000"|[[User:Pomte|Pomte]] has created a [[Template:Song|fantastic new Song template]]. Go to the [[Template:Song|its page]] to see how to use it. It will be great for standardizing everything!
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Let's focus on what we have now for articles. [[Special:Statistics|With about 1,730 articles]], let's give ourselves some time to expand the articles we have currently, especially the [[Nine Inch Nails]] article.
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Wikipedia can be a great resource to study when writing NinWiki articles, but it's important to remember to '''never copy word for word what Wikipedia says'''. It's not illegal, it's just bad practice. Let's build a great wiki from the ground up :-).
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|style="color:#000"|<div align="right">[[NinWiki:Staff|The Staff]]<br><span style="font-size:10px">[[User:Buzzbot|Buzzbot]] handled the distribution of this newsletter.</span></div>
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