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diff --git a/doc/index.mdwn b/doc/index.mdwn index 327e685af..00a8badf6 100644 --- a/doc/index.mdwn +++ b/doc/index.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ -[[Ikiwiki]] is a wiki compiler. It converts a directory full of wiki pages +Ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts a directory full of wiki pages into html pages suitable for publishing on a website. Unlike a traditional wiki, ikiwiki does not have its own means of storing page history, its own markup language, or support for editing pages online. -To use [[ikiwiki]] to set up a wiki, you will probably want to use it with a +Why call it IkiWiki? Well, partly because I'm sure some people will find +this a pretty Iky Wiki, since it's so different from other Wikis. Partly +because "ikiwiki" is a nice palindrome. Partly because its design turns +the usual design for a Wiki inside-out and backwards. + +To use ikiwiki to set up a wiki, you will probably want to use it with a revision control system, such as [[Subversion]], for keeping track of past versions of pages. ikiwiki can run as a Subversion post-commit hook, so that each committed change to your wiki is immediatly compiled and @@ -31,6 +36,5 @@ ikiwiki also supports making one page that is a [[SubPage]] of another. would consider it a full-fledged wiki. All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does to. -If you'd like to try editing pages on this wiki, do whatever you'd like in -[[ikiwiki]] is developed by JoeyHess. +ikiwiki is developed by [[JoeyHess]]. |