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MediaWiki is the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation.
 
MediaWiki is the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation.
  
I'm Greg Rundlett, a free software advocate who lives in Newburyport, MA with my wife and two sons.  I'm here to show you a lot of things about the wiki system called MediaWiki and hope that you'll take away a lot from this presentation.  The great thing about sharing knowledge; like sharing free software; is that you can take away as much as you possibly can and I may take away an even greater knowledge than I started with just from our sharing.  Nobody has less, everybody has more.
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I'm Greg Rundlett [http://iic.harvard.edu/people] [http://freephile.com] [http://rundlett.com], a free software advocate who lives in Newburyport, MA with my wife and two sons.  I'm here to show you a lot of things about the wiki system called MediaWiki and hope that you'll take away a lot from this presentation.  The great thing about sharing knowledge; like sharing free software; is that you can take away as much as you possibly can and I may take away an even greater knowledge than I started with just from our sharing.  Nobody has less, everybody has more.
  
 
Oh, and I do have some tangible free and cool stuff too. Freebies (books, commons)
 
Oh, and I do have some tangible free and cool stuff too. Freebies (books, commons)
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##<pre>[[Special:ListGroupRights]]</pre> Image searching
 
##<pre>[[Special:ListGroupRights]]</pre> Image searching
 
# Protection
 
# Protection
# Microformats  Wikipedia implements microformats easily because through the power of templates, an author can fill out a template and not even know that he is using microformats in the final product.  Firefox, through the tails extension, can [http://vimeo.com/192962/ export microformats via bluetooth], so that an employee directory on your intranet can talk to your mobile phone.  @TODO: write up a contact template, a contact page and test the export  
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# Microformats  Wikipedia implements microformats easily because through the power of templates, an author can fill out a template and not even know that he is using microformats in the final product.  Firefox, through the tails extension, can [http://vimeo.com/192962/ export microformats via bluetooth], so that an employee directory on your intranet can talk to your mobile phone.  @TODO: write up a contact template, a contact page and test the export
  
 
== Creating Structure ==
 
== Creating Structure ==

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