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i've thrown up a media wiki (it's more or less what Wikipedia.org is based on) install at http://stageawiki.joshuafarry.com for anyone that's interested. all that it has on there at the moment is a copy and paste from wikipedia.org of the stagea section. i've split up C34 and M35 on to two pages.

i'm not entirely convinced that a wiki is what we need for this kind of application though. don't be discouraged from adding to it though, because if it changes i can just migrate the data to whatever it changes to.

i'm busy as hell for the next month or so, finishing uni + moving to adelaide + other projects on the go, so i can't do a lot to it a the moment. but i won't drop off the face of the planet or anything lol.

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I got your PMs and will reply on Thursday (just so you don't think I'm ignoring you :D) Hell Busy.

that's no problems mate :) i'm in the same boat :P just thought i'd see if anyone wants to contribute to it and give any ideas :)

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