How this wiki was setup

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I am placing links to pages here about steps that I took in setting up this wiki.

Short URLs (I choose the "wikipedia" style method):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

Syntax coloring of code (via the <source> tag):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi