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Start a new discussion. What do you know about? Do you know some excellent Byzantine chant CDs? Share the knowledge! Have you read an excellent book? Post a review. See something missing? Add it! If you're serious about helping us, please register. Then you can go to [[Special:Listusers]] and click on your name to create your custom profile page.
 
Start a new discussion. What do you know about? Do you know some excellent Byzantine chant CDs? Share the knowledge! Have you read an excellent book? Post a review. See something missing? Add it! If you're serious about helping us, please register. Then you can go to [[Special:Listusers]] and click on your name to create your custom profile page.
  
===Internationalization===
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Want to adopt OrthodoxWiki in a language besides English? Let us know! <br>Driven to submit a new logo? We'd love to see it!
Want to adopt another language? Let us know!
 
  
 
===Guidelines===
 
===Guidelines===
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Based on Wikipedia's Guidelines
 
Based on Wikipedia's Guidelines
  
==Stuff the Site Needs==
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==Places to Start==
 
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*[[Pages under development]]
Hmm... We need a logo...
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*[[Suggestions for future development]]
 
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*[[Relevant Wikipedia Articles]]
Yeah, I was thinking a Pantocrator Icon or else a IC XC NIKA seal. [[User:FrJohn|FrJohn]]
 
  
 
==Pages under development==
 
==Pages under development==
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*[[Why are Vigil Lamps lit before Icons?]] - by St. Bishop Nicholai (Velimirovich)
 
*[[Why are Vigil Lamps lit before Icons?]] - by St. Bishop Nicholai (Velimirovich)
 
*[[Abortion]]
 
*[[Abortion]]
 
==Sample suggestions for future development==
 
===Categories for Development===
 
*[[:Category:Church Fathers]]
 
*[[:Category:Ecumenism]]
 
*[[:Category:Liturgical Texts and Translations]]
 
*[[:Category:Theologians]]
 
*[[:Category:Biographies]]
 
*[[:Category:Jurisdictions]]
 
*[[:Category:Saints]]
 
*[[:Category:Monasteries]]
 
*[[:Category:Scripture]]
 
*[[:Category:Icons]]
 
*[[:Category:Parish Resources]]
 
*[[:Category:Bishops]] (biographies)
 
*[[:Category:Orthodox Folk Traditions]]
 
 
===Other Ideas===
 
*Scandinavian Orthodoxy
 
*Young Adult Links
 
*Campus Ministry Links
 
*Sermons
 
*Groups that Call themselves Orthodox
 
*[[Orthodoxy and the Environment]]
 
*Intentional Communties
 
*Link Farms
 
*Orthodox Web Evangelism
 
**[[Bulgakov]]
 
**[[Schmemann]]
 
**[[Romanides]]
 
*[[Sophiology]]
 
*Canon Law
 
*[[Liturgical English]]
 
*Articles on Liturgy
 
*Brotherhoods
 
*Profiles of Specific Monasteries
 
*[[Elder Ephrem]]
 
*[[General Principles of Biblical Interpretation]]
 
*[[Japanese Orthodoxy]]
 
*[[Theophan Noli]]
 
*Missions and Evangelism
 
*The [[Theotokos]]
 
*The [[Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed]]
 
*Church School resources
 
*Notable Parish Websites
 
*Anti-Western Polemics
 
*Clerical Ranks, Titles, and Awards
 
*Major resource sites
 
*[[Byzantine Notation]]
 
*Liturgical Music
 
*Best Byzantine Chant CDs
 
*[[John Climacus]]
 
*[[Gregory of Nyssa]]
 
*[[Origen]]
 
 
*Marketplace:
 
** [[Internet Products and Software]] (Webhosting, domains, software for churches)
 
** [[Vestments & Church Supplies]]
 
** [[Icons and Home Items]]
 
** [[Wood Carving]]
 
**[[Iconographers]]
 
 
==Relevant Wikipedia Articles==
 
*[[Wikipedia:Filioque]]
 
*[[Wikipedia:Septuagint]]
 
 
==Regional Links==
 
*Asia
 
*Africa
 
*Europe
 
*North America
 
*South America
 
*Oceana
 

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Start a new discussion. What do you know about? Do you know some excellent Byzantine chant CDs? Share the knowledge! Have you read an excellent book? Post a review. See something missing? Add it! If you're serious about helping us, please register. Then you can go to Special:Listusers and click on your name to create your custom profile page.

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Based on Wikipedia's Guidelines

Places to Start

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