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While ikiwiki supports hierarchically categorising pages by creating
[[SubPage]]s, that's often not flexible enough, and it can also be useful
to tag pages in various non-hierarchical ways.
Since this is a wiki, tagging is just a form of linking. The general rule
is that all tags are links, but not all links are tags. So a tag is a
special link that ikiwiki knows is intended to be used as a tag.
Generally you will tag a page without putting a visible link on it.
The [[tag_plugin|plugins/tag]] allows you to do so, like this:
\[[tag mytag othertag thirdtag]]

You can also tag a page with a visible link:
\[[taglink mytag]]

This tag will be displayed just like a regular [[WikiLink]].
One way to use these tags is to create a [[blog]] of pages that have a
particular set of tags. Or just look at the [[BackLinks]] to a tag page to
see all the pages that are tagged with it. [[Plugins]] can be written to do
anything else with tags that you might desire.
Once you have tags, you can use the [[plugins/pagestats]] plugin to
generate tag clouds.