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@@ -22,6 +22,21 @@ I have manage to recover most of the site using the Internet Archive. What
 I was unable to retrieve I have rewritten. You can find a copy of the code
 at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>
 
+> This is excellent news. However, I'm still keen on there being a
+> comprehensive and up-to-date set of instructions on *this* site. I wouldn't
+> suggest importing that material into ikiwiki like-for-like (not least for
+> [[licensing|freesoftware]] reasons), but it's excellent to have it available
+> for reference, especially since it (currently) is the only set of
+> instructions that gives you the whole history.
+> 
+> The `mediawiki.pm` that was at u32.net is licensed GPL-2. I'd like to see it
+> cleaned up and added to IkiWiki proper (although I haven't requested this
+> yet, I suspect the way it (ab)uses linkify would disqualify it at present).
+>
+> I've imported Scott's initial `mediawiki.pm` into a repository at
+> <http://github.com/jmtd/mediawiki.pm> as a start.
+> -- [[Jon]]
+
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 The iki-fast-load ruby script from the u32 page is given below: