diff --git a/sift/.gitignore b/sift/.gitignore
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+++ b/sift/.gitignore
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+__pycache__/
+/*.egg-info/
+/.venv/
diff --git a/sift/pyproject.toml b/sift/pyproject.toml
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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "sift"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Sift through wikipedia dumps and extract interesting info"
+dependencies = ["mwxml >= 0.3.3, < 0.4"]
+
+[project.scripts]
+sift = "sift:main"
diff --git a/sift/sift.py b/sift/sift.py
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+++ b/sift/sift.py
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+def main():
+    print("Hello world")