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        <revisions>
          <rev user="Admin" timestamp="2016-04-25T01:30:18Z" comment="/* Welcome to Colorpedia */" contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">= Welcome to Colorpedia =

[[Colorpedia]] is an encylopedia of colors. It&#039;s a constantly growing source of information about [[color theory]], [[color perception]] and [[color psychology]], [[color vision]] and [[color blindness]] and many more information related to colors, including [[color combinations]], [[color schemes]], [color palettes]] and overal [[color usage]].</rev>
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