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Welcome to VassarWiki!
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== What is VassarWiki? ==
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A wiki is a collaboratively edited internet publication. VassarWiki is simply a wiki for Vassar College. The aim of the project is to collectively organize and publicize community knowledge about Vassar—its academic programs, student life, and ongoing history.
= Welcome to [[VassarWiki:About|VassarWiki]]! =
 
    <div class="vw-main-subtitle">[[VassarWiki:An encyclopedia and more|An encyclopedia and more]], built by and for the Vassar College community.</div>
Anyone with a Vassar email address can register. People with connections to Vassar but who lack a Vassar email (e.g. alumni, former faculty) may apply to have their email approved.
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== What kind of content is allowed? ==
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VassarWiki is deliberately open-ended to adapt to community needs. There are a few main types of pages.
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    <div>[[VassarWiki:Improvements|Suggest improvements]]</div>
=== Encyclopedia pages ===
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Encyclopedia pages are about things like student orgs, events, classes, departments, and college lore. Content should be written from a neutral point of view and reflect group consensus.
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All content here must be sourced. Sources fall into three categories, listed in decreasing order of authority:
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# Reliable publications like external newspapers/journals, ''The Miscellany News'', and official Vassar websites
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# Public statements by VSA-recognized student organizations
== <span style="float:left;">📌</span> <span style="margin-left:-1.2em;">[[Bulletin]]</span> ==
# Current or past Vassar individuals (including you!)
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Events occurring within the next two weeks may be listed on Upcoming Events.
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=== Profiles ===
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Unlike other pages, profiles can only be edited by the relevant individual. You can put anything in your profile (within reason), like interests, projects, club memberships, essays / freeform content, and contact information. No sourcing is required—the individual is the authority on their own page.
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== <span style="float:left; margin-top:auto;">⭐</span> <span style="margin-left:-1.2em;">[[VassarWiki:Featured Page|Featured Page]]:<span> <br/>[[User:EdwardNWM/On VassarWiki's Future|On VassarWiki's Future]] ==
Essays addressing VassarWiki issues may be elevated to wider standing after consensus is reached on the Village Pump.
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=== Categories ===
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Pages can be assigned to multiple categories. The aim of categories is to assist in navigation and organization.
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=== Project pages ===
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Project pages deal with the governance of VassarWiki. These pages have the prefix "VassarWiki:"  
 
* [[VassarWiki:Village Pump|Village Pump]]''':''' Suggestions and discussions about improving this project
* [[VassarWiki:Policies|Policies]]''':''' Basic principles of the site
* [[VassarWiki:Guidelines|Guidelines]]''':''' Records of consensus regarding groups of pages (e.g. reliable sources, style)
* [[VassarWiki:Reports|Reports]]''':''' Policy violations should be reported and discussed here
 
=== Chat pages ===
Every page has a corresponding Chat page. Here, you can resolve disputes about page content, or otherwise talk freely.

Latest revision as of 18:09, 12 June 2026

Welcome to VassarWiki!

An encyclopedia and more, built by and for the Vassar College community.

📌 Bulletin

Welcome to the wiki! While it's currently in early stages, feel free to start contributing! If you have a chance, take a look at the About and Policies pages and give your thoughts, questions, support, criticisms, etc. Please reach out if you have any questions. Ewelchmorgan (talk) 18:52, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

⭐ Featured Page:
On VassarWiki's Future

I want to begin this open letter by thanking all of you who have contributed to VassarWiki so far! I know it's not a small request to ask you to dedicate your time amidst the busiest time of the year. At the end of the day, the project doesn't exist without you.

Since I spearheaded this project and I'm graduating, I feel a responsibility to make my thoughts about its future transparent, hence writing this open letter. I believe this next time period is really critical for the success of this project. So I would really appreciate your help!

I think our ultimate goal at this point should be to achieve greater participation, which means getting both more contributors and more readers. Using the language of the technology adoption lifecycle, we are very much in the first stage of "innovators". Our challenge is to cross the "chasm" to get early adopters.

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