diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 34cf122..2244a24 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 *~
 *#
 *.swp
+gpl-2.0.txt
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 660ea94..7763598 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 LinkTitles
 ==========
 
-MediaWiki extension that automatically adds links to words that match titles of existing pages.
\ No newline at end of file
+MediaWiki extension that automatically adds links to words that match titles of existing pages.
+
+For more information, see [[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkTitles]]
diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
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index 0000000..12ecdda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# This script packs the relevant files of the LinkTitles
+# extension into two archive files that contain the current
+# git tag as the version number.
+
+tar cvzf release/LinkTitles-`git describe --tags`.tar.gz gpl-*.txt LinkTitles.* --exclude '*~' --transform 's,^,LinkTitles/,'
diff --git a/release/LinkTitles-0.0.1.tar.gz b/release/LinkTitles-0.0.1.tar.gz
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