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If you're using MediaWiki, then you are accustomed to being able to quickly and efficiently organize your thoughts. It's a natural extension then to want to use those same "notes" in a presentation. There are many ways to achieve such a result.
One method is to simply parse the wiki markup itself and turn that into slides by effectively walking through the structure of the page (one slide for each section, and stepping through the bullets). For this approach, a Greasemonkey script will do. The downside of the Greasemonkey script is that it doesn't offer the nice visual presentation aspects that most users would expect.
Another approach that is more visually rich is to combine [[Presentation|Eric Meyer's S5 system]] with MediaWiki.
In fact, somebody already has done that at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BR/S5_slide_for_mediawiki_documentation/en
== Greasemonkey script ==
[http://phiffer.org Dan Phiffer] created the following Greasemonkey script (which I found courtesy of [http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/05/02/mediawiki-as-a-presentation-application/ D'Arcy Norman]) that [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6372 turns any MediaWiki article into a slide presentation]. The [[CSS]] was changed just a bit by Greg Rundlett to ensure compatibility with projectors.
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