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ikiwiki uses the HTML::Template module as its template engine. This
supports things like conditionals and loops in templates and is pretty easy
to learn.
I aim to keep almost all html out of ikiwiki and in the templates.
It ships with some basic templates which can be customised:

templates/page.tmpl - Used for displaying all regular wiki pages.
templates/misc.tmpl - Generic template used for any page that doesn't
have a custom template.
templates/recentchanges.tmpl - Used for the RecentChanges page.
templates/editpage.tmpl - Create/edit page.
templates/passwordmail.tmpl - Not a html template, this is used to
generate the mail with the user's password in it.
templates/rsspage.tmpl - Used for generating rss feeds for [[blog]]s.
templates/inlinepage.tmpl - Used for adding a page inline in a blog
page.
templates/inlinepagetitle.tmpl - Used for listing a page inline in a blog
archive page.

If you like, you can add these to further customise it:

templates/signin.tmpl - If it exists, it is used for customising the
layout of the SignIn form and all assciated forms. The misc.tmpl is
wrapped around this, so it should only be a template for the form.
templates/prefs.tmpl - If it exists, it is used for customising the
layout of the Prefs form and all assciated forms. The misc.tmpl is
wrapped around this, so it should only be a template for the form.

Note that the SignIn and Prefs forms are implemented using
CGI::FormBuilder, which interfaces to HTML::Template, so not all of it can
be customised with templates, although most of it can, by creating these
templates. Without the templates, CGI::FormBuilder creates the page bodies
by itself.