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 mw - VCS-like nonsense for MediaWiki websites
-Copyright (C) 2009  Ian Weller <ian@ianweller.org>
+Copyright (C) 2011  Ian Weller <ian@ianweller.org> and others
 
-For now, see HACKING for how to run this. This is far from complete and
-we're hoping to have awesome features soon. If you would like to help
-out, patches are greatly welcomed.
+== Basic workflow ==
+We don't have a nice installation process yet, so set the following alias:
+  alias mw="PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:PATH_TO/mw/src PATH_TO/mw/bin/mw"
+where PATH_TO is the path to your local mw repository.
 
+mw init http://example.com/w/api.php
+mw login  # if you need/want to
+mw pull 'Main Page'
+$EDITOR Main_Page.wiki
+mw commit
+mw status
+
+== Status command ==
+
+Will show whether a file has been locally modified ('M') or is clean ('C').
+
+== Pull command ==
+
+The pull command has the following features:
+
+* Can pull a new page/file, or update one.
+* Can be provided a page name or file name.
+* If the wiki has updates, it will pull those unless they conflict 
+  with local changes. The user must then resolve/merge conflicts.
+
+
+== License ==
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or