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Welcome to the BBS Wiki.

The BBS Wiki is a project to document everything related to BBSes. This is a wiki, so anyone can create or edit a page. So far we have created 131 articles. For the basics on editing, you can refer to "how to edit a page" on Wikipedia. One of the easiest ways to contribute is by making an article about your area code's BBS scene, favorite BBS, or BBS software!

Many of the articles currently consist of material from Jason Scott's BBS Documentary library and timeline, used with permission. The content has been wikified with the intent that other users contribute and expand what is already there; the BBS Documentary material is only meant as a foundation to get this wiki started.

BBS information sources:

• textfiles.com is a vast collection of BBS history that can provide an excellent foundation for new wiki articles. Writing articles about topics covered in the textfiles.com collection is encouraged, rather than simply copying the textfiles into the wiki.
• bbslist.textfiles.com Jason Scott's North American BBS List includes well over 100,000 BBSes in the US and Canada.
• bbslist.org.uk The International BBS List consists of about 13,000 BBSes in 36 countries outside of North America, with each entry in the list linked to its own article in this wiki.

TIP: Unless the BBS wiki's entry on a particular subject is going to be more specific than Wikipedia's entry on the subject we should try to link directly to the Wikipedia article by linking like this: Wikipedia:FOO versus just linking to FOO, that way we don't duplicate efforts.