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+I need to display part of my pages' path in the `<title>` meta HTML
+header instead of their basename ; e.g. for /abs/path/to/basename, I'd
+like to set it to path/to/basename.
+
+Of course, one might consider it's my own problem, as I could
+workaround this in my templates, and replace, in the `<title>` meta
+HTML header, `<TMPL_VAR TITLE>` with a `TMPL_LOOP` on `PARENTLINKS`,
+but...
+
+- it's ugly (call it a semantic hijacking if you want) ; a side-effect
+ of this ugliness is :
+- it defeats any further plugin's (e.g. [[plugins/meta]])
+ attempt to override the default title with a nicer one ;
+- all parents appear : there is no way to specify how deep to go up in
+ the parents tree.
+
+So I really want to avoid this ugly workaround.
+
+Looking at `Render.pm`, the second solution I thought of was :
+
+- add a `parents_in_page_title` configuration option (default=0, i.e.
+ the current behaviour) ;
+- modify `Render.pm` to insert as much parents as possible (up to
+ `N=parents_in_page_title`), separated by '/', in the `title`
+ template parameter, before the actual page basename ; I personally
+ would use N=2.
+
+The only problems I can see with this approach are :
+
+- it requires modification of the core, which may not be desirable
+- the resulting title would be unconditionally overridden by the meta
+ plugin, and I can think of no clean solution to make this
+ configurable without hacking [[plugins/meta]], which I'd rather not
+ to ; I don't care, but once you add a ad-hoc feature to the core,
+ you can be sure someone will want a more generic version in less than
+ three months ;)
+
+I'm not too convinced writing a plugin for such a small feature isn't
+overdoing it, so I'm tempted to implement this solution in the
+simplest way : the generated title would be the default and could be
+overridden later by plugins.
+
+Joey, what do you think ?
+
+(Before starting to write any single line of code, I need to know how
+much you are on the "if you can do it as a plugin, don't ever modify
+the core" side... :)
+
+In case you're on the hardcore side, I would probably write
+a dedicated plugin, called `genealogictitle` or whatever, and :
+
+- use the pagetemplate hook to modify the `title` template parameter,
+ and maybe set `title_overridden`, as does the meta plugin
+- add a `genealogictitle_depth` configuration option to tell how many
+ parents to display
+- maybe add a `genealogictitle_overrides_meta` or whatever to decide
+ whether a title overridden by [[plugins/meta]] should be overridden
+ by genealogictitle ; but anyway, I've not found, in the plugins
+ documentation, any hint about the order in which the plugins are
+ called for a given hook, so the "choose the strongest between meta
+ and genealogictitle" thing might just be more complicated... (no,
+ I did not Read The Nice Source, yet).
+
+-- intrigeri
diff --git a/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn b/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn
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--- a/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
When converting an existing blog to ikiwiki it would be useful to be able to preserve any existing UUIDs on posts, in order to [avoid flooding aggregators](/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators/).
-Also, it should be possible to change the canonical URL of a post, i.e. the atom `<link>` (e.g. leaving a redirector behind) while keeping the same UUID (so that aggregators don't get confused).
+Also, it should be possible to change the permalink (the Atom `<link>`) of a post (e.g. moving the content and leaving a redirector behind), while keeping the same Atom `<id>` (so that aggregators don't get confused).
Ideally UUIDs for [blog posts](/ikiwiki/blog/) should be chosen when the post is created, and frozen permanently by checking them in along with the content.
Perhaps ikiwiki's blogging functionality could be hooked up to the [meta plugin](/meta/plugin/), with a new meta keyword (uuid? feed-uuid? atom-uuid?) to achieve this.
+
+> I've now knocked together a [[patch]], which is in the "force-uuids" branch of git://git.debian.org/git/users/smcv/ikiwiki.git (see also [gitweb](http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/ikiwiki.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/force-uuids)).
+>
+> I'm not convinced that "uuid" is the best name for this functionality - the `<id>` in an Atom feed can be any URI, and one of the use-cases I have for this functionality in my own blog needs to have its `<id>` set to a URI that is not, in fact, its own address (it was a typo). "id" is a bit arrogant (forcing Atom terminology into a flat namespace!), "atom-id" is slightly misleading because it's also used for RSS... any ideas?
+>
+> While I was there, I noticed that the quality of the generated Atom/RSS feeds could be improved by making more use of the meta plugin if it's also enabled - would anyone object to me hacking on this some more?
+>
+> -[smcv](http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/)
diff --git a/doc/todo/multiple_repository_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/multiple_repository_support.mdwn
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+I'd like to be able to use one git repository for my basic website, and
+another one for the big files (pictures, videos), and another one for temp
+files. This way I'd not bloat the basic repo, and I could toss temp files
+up, and throw the temp repo away periodically.
+
+For this to work really well, ikiwiki would need multiple repository
+support. Possibly it could be tied into 'mr'?
+
+Another thought is that it would be good if ikiwiki could determine the
+type of repo a subdirectory is in by itself, eliminating the need to
+manually configure it in the setup file.
+
+--[[Joey]]
+
+[[tag wishlist]]