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Apache's ErrorDocument directive lets you write a CGI script that will be invoked for all 404s. IkiWiki could offer one as an optional wrapper; it would do much the same thing that the existing recentchanges_link (or [[generic___39__do__61__goto__39___for_CGI]]) does when encountering a nonexistent page.

I think it'd probably have to be a separate CGI script because the environment with which 404 handlers are invoked is somewhat odd, and because it needs to return a 404 status (having said that, it might make sense for recentchanges_link to return 404 rather than 200 anyway if the page doesn't exist).

This would give IkiWiki the behaviour of many other wikis, where visiting a page that does not yet exist prompts you to create it, without having to invoke the CGI for successful requests.

Due to a well-known MSIE misfeature, error output needs to be at least 512 bytes long, so some padding might also be required.

I'm happy to write such a script if there is interest. --[[smcv]]