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This page is a place to document tips and techniques for using ikiwiki.

wikiannounce

One thing I use ikiwiki for is the web pages for software projects I maintain. Each of my projects has a news page with an announcements feed, and to automatically update this when I release a new version, generating an announcement from the debian/changelog and debian/NEWS files, I use a wikiannounce program. It's somewhat specific to dealing with Debian packages, and uses a special announcedir target in debian/rules, but the general idea could be useful. --[[Joey]]

blog script

I should mention that I also have a blog program that I use to write blog posts in a text editor. The first line I enter is used as the title, and it automatically comes up with a unique page name based on the title and handles all the details of posting to my blog. --[[Joey]]

using the web interface with a real text editor

If you use Firefox or Iceweasel, the It's All Text extension allows you to use a real text editor like Emacs or Vim to edit the contents of text areas. This allows you to edit ikiwiki pages with a real text editor through the ikiwiki web interface, rather than only with direct commit access. --[[JoshTriplett]]