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Welcome to [[LibrePlanet]], the free software wiki that anyone can edit. We have '''[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in English'''. [https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=96&hideredirects=1| All Pages (Group names)]
  
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