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+## Prerequisites
+
+You will need [Leiningen](https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen) 2.0 or above installed.
+
+You will need [node](https://nodejs.org/en/) and [bower](https://bower.io/) installed.
+
+## Running in development
+To start a web server for the application during development, run:
+
+    lein bower install
+    lein ring server
+
+This should start a development server, and open a new window or tab in your default browser with the default page of the wiki loaded into it.
+
+## Editing
+I generally use [LightTable](http://lighttable.com/) as my `Clojure` editor, but it doesn't really matter what you use; if you run Smeagol as described above, then all changes you make in the code (and save) will instantly be applied to the running system. This makes for a productive development environment.
+
+## Documentation
+It is my intention that the code should be sufficiently well documented to be easy to understand. Documentation may be generated from the code by running
+
+    lein codox
+
+## Contributing
+If you make changes to Smeagol which you think are useful, please contribute them in the form of a [pull request on github](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/).