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# DONE Contact Andy Oram about getting a copy of the O'Reilly MediaWiki book; invite
 
# DONE Contact Andy Oram about getting a copy of the O'Reilly MediaWiki book; invite
 
# 85% Write outline, get more detail out at BostonPHP website
 
# 85% Write outline, get more detail out at BostonPHP website
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# 100% Publicize // sent notice to local groups, O'Reilly, facebook, Meetup etc.
 
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== Intro ==
 
== Intro ==
MediaWiki is the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under the auspices of the [http://www.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation]. @TODO insert images
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MediaWiki is the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under the auspices of the [http://www.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation].  
  
 
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.
 
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)
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Plus our organizer Mark Withington has arranged through the BostonPHP association with O'Reilly Media for some free books to be given away as well.
  
 
== Using it ==
 
== Using it ==
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Does your wiki have a foundation to keep it going?
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Does your wiki have [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home a foundation] to keep it going?
  
 
I do want to point out that MediaWiki does not use <ref>CamelCase</ref> words in order to make a link.  This means a lot to all the Irish people of the world, and also the marketers who seem pretty convinced of the coolness of McWords like ThinkPad, etc.
 
I do want to point out that MediaWiki does not use <ref>CamelCase</ref> words in order to make a link.  This means a lot to all the Irish people of the world, and also the marketers who seem pretty convinced of the coolness of McWords like ThinkPad, etc.

Revision as of 21:49, 12 January 2009

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