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News
Jun 9, 2013: Translations going live
Today, we are opening the page translation feature of the Gentoo Wiki to all editors.
To learn more (including how to become a translator), please see the translation help page.
Jun 17, 2012: Gentoo Wiki Summer of Documentation
In order to make this wiki an excellent resource to live up to Gentoo's fame, we are holding our first Summer of Documentation! With the help of users and developers we aim to double our content page count to 500 by September 23.
Please read more about it on the SoD page, and join us in this effort!
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- 17:10, 12 November 2013 /usr/portage (hist) [58 bytes] Flow (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The default value of make.conf's PORTDIR variable.")
- 17:10, 12 November 2013 PORTDIR (hist) [209 bytes] Flow (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Variable in make.conf defining the location of the portage tree. * metadata/ * virtual/ * <portage ebuild categories>/ * skel.Changelog * skel.ebuil...")
- 17:07, 12 November 2013 PORTDIR/metadata (hist) [162 bytes] Flow (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Directory for metadata used by portage: * glsa/ * dtd * md5-cache * news * herds.xml * timestamp * timestamp.chk * timestamp.x")