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          <rev user="ChaoZhang" timestamp="2022-03-11T21:04:46Z" comment="" xml:space="preserve">Welcome to the Electronic Detector Group (EDG) Wiki.  

=== Home Page ===

Our new group [https://www.phy.bnl.gov/edg/ home page] can be found at https://www.phy.bnl.gov/edg/


=== About this wiki ===

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For now 
[http://www.phy.bnl.gov/edg/old-wiki/index.php/Main_Page the old wiki] is still available.  An even [http://www.phy.bnl.gov/edg/edg.html older page] from the days of static HTML is also kept around.</rev>
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