First commit of partial RosettaCode contents.

Pushing this for testing purposes. Lots of work still needed.

README.md

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+## RosettaCode GitHub Mirror
+
+This Git Repository will eventually be a mirror of all the code samples
+available on http://rosettacode.org, along with instructions and supplemental
+tools to help get them running on your local machine.
+
+## Goals
+
+The primary goal here is to get the codes into the most easily usable format,
+so that more programmers are exposed to them and actually run them.
+
+* Extract all (or most) of the code samples from RosettaCode.
+* Give proper reference to their sources and authors.
+* Provide automation for installing languages on common OSes.
+* Provide automation for running the code samples. (Testing)
+
+If the primary goals are successful, consider pushing code back to the wiki
+from the Git repository. This could make it easier for people to contribute
+content via Pull Requests and such.
+
+## Implementation
+
+The mirroring of RosettaCode.org is being perform by a program whose repository
+is here:
+
+    https://github.com/ingydotnet/rosettacode-pm
+    http://search.cpan.org/dist/RosettaCode
+
+The tool accesses the RosettaCode wiki via the MediaWiki REST API, using the
+CPAN module: MediaWiki::Bot.
+
+## About the Author and Project
+
+Ingy döt Net is an Acmeist (http://acmeism.org) hacker who likes programming
+his ideas equivalently in multiple Open Source languages. His works are
+available at https://github.com/ingydotnet/.
+
+Ingy has been communicating with Mike Mol, the proprietor of RosettaCode,
+regarding this mirroring attempt.