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@@ -7,6 +7,20 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an `apt-get install ikiwiki` away.
If you're not, see the [[download]] and [[install]] pages.
+## Quick start
+
+If you'd like to set up a wiki now, and learn more later, just run this command
+and answer a couple of questions.
+
+ % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/simple.setup
+ What will the wiki be named? mywiki
+ What revision control system to use? git
+
+Wait for it to tell you an url for your new wiki.. Done!
+
+(If the CGI doesn't seem to let you edit pages, you might need to
+[[configure_apache|apache_cgi]]).)
+
## Decide where your wiki's files will go.
As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,