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'''Welcome, newcomers!'''

'''SwarmWiki''' is a collaborative resource for agent-based modelling.  It is created and managed interactively by users, researchers and anyone else interested or involved in agent-based modelling.

The site is a [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki WikiWiki], meaning that anyone, including you, can edit any article right now by first [[Special:Userlogin|logging in]], then clicking on the ''edit this page'' link that appears in every SwarmWiki article.  The project was started in August 2003 and there are {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles.
We disabled anonymous editing in September 2005 because of spam.

All of the site's content is dual-licensed under the [[GNU FDL|GNU Free Documentation License]] and the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Share-alike Attribution license]. Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the copyleft licensing ensures that the content will always remain freely distributable and reproducible. 
See [[SwarmWiki:Copyrights|copyrights]] for more information. 

You can also read our [[SwarmWiki:Policies and guidelines|policies]] and [[SwarmWiki:FAQ|FAQ]].

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The SwarmWiki runs on a customized version of the '''MediaWiki''' software that drives Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia project found at http://www.wikipedia.org.

The '''MediaWiki''' (phase II wikipedia) software can be found at http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net.   '''MediaWiki''' is released under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GNU GPL] license.