* Add an orphans plugin for finding pages that nothing links to.

* Removed backlinks page, which it turns out nothing used.

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+This plugin generates a list of orhpaned pages -- pages that no other page
+links to.
+
+The optional parameter "pages" can be a [[GlobList]] specifying the pages
+to check for orphans, default is search them all.
+
+Note that it takes backlinks into account, but does not count inlining a
+page as linking to it, so will generally count many blog-type pages as
+orphans.
+
+This plugin is included in ikiwiki, but is not enabled by default.
+If it is turned on, here's a list of orphaned pages on this wiki:
+
+[[orphans ]]