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Contributions from LLMs
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How to fix this build error?
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plans for next release
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paged feeds (RFC 5005)
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postcommit errors during site rebuilding
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applications for htmx in ikiwiki
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Can't get ikiwiki to display more than 10 posts.
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theme poll
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Why does ikiwiki refer to markdown files as "mdwn"
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site build time error: Wide character at /opt/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.38.0/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm line 395
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How to move RSS button to bottom of page?
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How to integrate ikiwiki on wordpress site?
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discordian
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Looking to make a Collaborative Fiction tool
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problems with git push on openbsd
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convention for signing posts to ikiwiki.info
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How can i specify an altermate smtp for email auth? (with credentials)
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Globally reverse sort order
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Non-interactive setup
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Best way to setup LDAP authentication ?
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Does anyone have the latest version of the AsciiDoc plugin?
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Is the Chinese quotation marks for book titles bad for source file names?
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Tried to change Title of my blog
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backslash and other unusual characters in page names
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Working docker images
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How to delete a post
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how to put a permalink on each post
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A new ikiwiki logo
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Office-like "track changes" visualization for page edits
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How to make inline and po work together?
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Some thoughts about Ikiwiki
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How to truncate blog posts?
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An assets directory for my wiki with git lfs or annex?
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How to install Text:Multimarkdown?
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How to use themes?
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Error: template albumviewer not found
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How to use multiple template files directories?
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Limit pagespec to a certain depth
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ikwiki with AsciiDoc: page cannot be rendered
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Inconsistency in pages behaviour
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Password protect whole wiki
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How to parse ":/etc/localtime" timezone?
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large wiki: is running ikiwiki in steps possible?
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laptop wiki with git - but the other way around?
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How to translate "Last edited..." etc. for static ikiwiki site
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404 plugin won't stay enabled
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Most TMPL_VAR variables are empty in a template
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How to add additional math delimites for pandoc plugin
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Using ikiwiki via command line: Workflow and permission problem
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emailauth: Not enough arguments for IkiWiki::cgi_getsession
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Attachment file doesn't get attached to page
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Questions about a new plugin
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Archive with sub-titles
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ikiwiki can't find imagemagick
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table plugin and Markdown side effects on data
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bootstrap theme
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An error occurred while writing CGI reply
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can't connect to local url after installing ikiwiki
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Instant Articles
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lockedit help
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Can I disable discussion links?
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[Solved]FastCGI problem on Arch
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Let rss point to https
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How to fix wide character syslog error?
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How to configure the position of the automatically created links?
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Inline, sort and show - is it possible to achieve equivalent to tail command
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"S." gets replace by "a." in my ikiwiki
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Language variable
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Moving everything so far into a folder
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Best way to share settings between repositories
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zombie-ish "org.com" email address
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Git push failure
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Cannot run ikiwiki due to Encode.pm
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Autotag transient pages
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tables with 1 cell in 1st row
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IkiWiki error 126 on Slackware
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Appropriate way to share low quality patches
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Build time error: Cannot decode string with wide characters
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refresh and setup
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Blog pages
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global_sidebars breaks my web setup page
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proposal: mailing list and forum integration
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Federated wiki?
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Problems with img directive on nearly free speech
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Can someone add Ikiwiki in Homebrew?
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HTTPS edit required no authentication
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Encoding problems when editing through browser
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Serving Blog under different Subdomain
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Changing when a page is posted
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Are %destsources really _pages_?
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best way to update setup file after an ikiwiki update?
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email notifications?
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PO and RTL support
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Spaces in URLs
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How to have a plugin delete a file?
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Right-to-left support
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Trail plugin links with Actiontabs theme
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Wrongfully blocked by blogspam
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File wiki.setup
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Formatting algorithms
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Can't call method "distribution" on an undefined value at FirstTime.pm
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How to properly create -- in a wiki -- 'page/index.html' files
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Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
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I do not know anything abut git
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Error "is locked and cannot be edited"
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Adding a custom header and footer
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Export images when building the wiki
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default paths. Are there better defaults?
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How to rename all markdown files from *.mdwn to *.md?
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How can I invert the banned_user check?
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"Error: cannot decode string with wide characters" on Mageia Linux x86-64 Cauldron
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Cannot manage to inject preprocess_tag
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Using reverse proxy; base URL is http instead of https
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Force rebuild of page using some plugin
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converting binary files
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Remove tags and backlinks on particular pages?
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Dot CGI pointing to localhost. What happened?
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ikiwiki.info blogspam problem
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ikiwiki not usable when installed with toast (because of symlinks)
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How to suppress sidebar for a particular page?
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Template variables
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ikiwiki with album & underlay plugins
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search plugin questions
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download links for attachments
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How to disable "Add a new post titled:" submission form?
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Can someone update ikiwki in Macports?
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what generates user name for recent changes page?
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creating redirect index.mdwn?
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debconf13 ikiwiki bof
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How to remove the linebreak in license
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copyright and license template variables (where are they set?)
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Howto add tag from plugin code
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Translating ikiwiki interface
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Can ikiwiki be configured as multi user blog?
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How can I prevent spam?
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Ikiwiki themes for mobile devices?
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Refresh or recreate style.css?
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How do I enable OpenID?
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How to set up a page as internal?
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Email notifications for comment moderation
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Error: CGI::tmpFileName failed to return the uploaded file name
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po plugin doesn't create po files (only pot).
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How to set up git repository hook ?
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How to add additional links to the gray horizontable bar under page title?
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CGI script and HTTPS
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Multiple urls
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Setting http_proxy
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how could i generate a flat textfile from metadata in multiple pages
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which file ikiwiki --setup is processing right now?
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Problem with local git commit
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How to style main sidebar and SubPage sidebar differently using CSS?
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What's the difference between tag and taglink?
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Background picture and css
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possible utf-8 problem?
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How to generate blog archive pages in /blog subdir but not ikiwiki root path?
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How to add link to previous and next blog on blog pages?
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Slow ikiwiki after first run
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ikiwiki --setup creates tmp/ directory in destdir
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How to create a WikiLink to a page in a subdirectory?
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How to inline a page from another git repository
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Google searches of ikiwiki.info are broken. :(
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How to set the meta author field from user name?
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Everyone can remove comments
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Can not advance past first page of results using search plugin
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Error: "do" parameter missing
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Parent Links all link to root
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Anyone mirroring ikiwiki inline feed to identi.ca?
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When do tags like a/b get listed as a/b and not only b?
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access restrictions: for extranet
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Include attachment in a page
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howto install the pagedown plugin
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See rendered old revisions via pagehistory
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Attachment and sub-directory
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problem with git after a commit of ikiwiki
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Empty sha1sum messages
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Commiting all moderated comments into special branch?
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build error: Cannot decode string with wide characters
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attachments fail to upload
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How to show recent changes for individual pages?
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links to diff on recentchanges?
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How to add a mouse-over pop-up label for a text?
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Problem with gitweb
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two new contrib plugins: newpage, jssearchfield
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Encoding problem in french with ikiwiki-calendar
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Run script on markdown source
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How to change registration page
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OpenID not working / where to define wiki's ID?
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Debian squeeze still on 3.20100815.7 - update recommended?
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How to allow .markdown and .md at the same time as valid extensions for source files?
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If there's no Windows ikiwiki, how about a WYSIWYG ikiwiki editor for Windows?
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How to create first translation page using po plugin?
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index attachments
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Perhaps I'm doing it wrong - tracking non-post files in a blog
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Are these revisions legit or accidentally committed jiberish?
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Error: cannot write to /home/user/myiki2/.ikiwiki/lockfile: Permission denied
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Migrated ikiwiki to new host. Web page is not updated
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Can't login using Google, or openID, but can use Ikiwiki login
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Should files in .ikiwiki be committed and pushed?
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Need some help on starting to use po plugin for creating pages in multiple languages
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Broken after upgrading Ikiwiki
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How to configure po plugin?
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Xapian search: empty postlist table
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Recent changes on main site or on a sidebar
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Split a wiki
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Different behaviour when editing with editor than with web-edit
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w3mmode [Save Page] results in 403
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Disable account creation for new users
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ikiwiki generates html files with 600 permission.
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Last visited pages
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Calendar: listing multiple entries per day
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Can I have different favicons for each folder?
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How to use ~/bin/multimarkdown instead of Text::MultiMarkdown
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Can Ikiwiki recognize multimarkdown meta tags?
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Help with tag_autocreate
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Can I change the default menu items?
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How to use number as bullet labels but not letter in toc plugin
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Allow only specific OpenIDs to login
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Clarification on --cgi option
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Wikilink to a symbolic link
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Revision history for single pages
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How to format [[foobar]] in code blocks?
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wmd editor double preview
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create download link
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Wikilink to section of a wikipage
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Hide text
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how to get nice pdf from ikiwiki pages?
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field_tags not linking
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Define custom commands
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Setting template variable from config file?
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How to migrate multiple pages in root directory into a new subdirectory?
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How to list all pages in a wiki instance?
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error 302 (Found) when editing page
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Log in error
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move pages
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section editing
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How is TITLE evaluated in inline archive templates?
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Chinese file name corruption
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Link to a local pdf file
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getsource from gitweb with cgi disabled , Is it possible?
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Have creation time for new pages fetched from the VCS
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java script slideshow
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Can one tell if a page is added rather than changed?
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Need help installing h1title plugin
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How to apply a background color to a page?
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How to make a table of content at the top of page?
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How long does server delay newly pushed revisions?
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pandoc-iki plugin
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nginx: 404 plugin not working
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lockedit: pages don't get locked
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teximg not working
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How best to manage a bilingual ikiwiki site?
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How to customize page title?
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How to lock all pages except discussions and comments to blog posts?
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*.html source file containing <script>...</script> not working?
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Is it possible to change default mdwn suffix?
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Need help setting up ikiwiki CGI
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square brackets inside backticks generates incorrect html (interpreted as wikilinks)?
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Processing non-pages
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tags acting strangely: not picking up all pages, not populating feeds
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wishlist: support staging area
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wishlist: Allow OpenID users to set a display name
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Doing related links based on tags
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Apache XBitHack
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postsignin redirect not working
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Setting up a development environment
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Error Code 1
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screenplay plugin
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TMPL_VAR IS_ADMIN
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Can custom themes live somewhere inside srcdir?
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Debian 5.0.7: Can't locate IkiWiki/Setup/Automator.pm
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How to specify repository is on a remote host?
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Possible to use meta variables in templates?
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Can't get ikiwiki working again after reinstall
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Flowplayer
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using l10n'd basewiki
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how can I use '/' as tagbase?
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Need something more powerful than Exclude
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How to list new pages, inline?
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Blog posting times and ikiwiki state
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ikiwiki + mathjax
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Moving wiki.git folder?
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Different templates for subdirectories? (Blogging and Wiki pages)
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PageSpec results from independent checkout
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Map Plugin, would like to add ?updated to all links
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Discussion PageSpec?
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Dump plugin
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field and forms
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ikiwiki vim integration
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recovering original title with meta directive
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using svn+ssh with ikiwiki
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404 - not found
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Forward slashes being escaped as 252F
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Can't get comments plugin working
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editing a comment
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multi domain setup possible?
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cutpaste.pm not only file-local
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report pagination
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how to enable multimarkdown?
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use php-markdown-extra with ikiwiki?
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remove css?
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html source pages in version 3.20100704
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ikiwiki vim syntaxfile
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recentchanges dir should be under control of RCS?
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The requested URL /~jean/blog/ikiwiki.cgi was not found on this server.
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tag plugin: rebuilding autocreated pages
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wiki clones on dynamic IPs
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formating: how to align text to the right
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link autocompletion in vim
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ikiwiki development environment tips
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what is the easiest way to implement order: disallow all, allow chosen_few page editing policy?
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how to load an external page and still have it under ikiwiki template
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how do I revert edits in the web mode?
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debian backports update someone please
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double forward slash '//' in the address bar
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how to login as admin
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suppressing output of pages included only for their side effects
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PERL5LIB, wrappers and homedir install
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how to add post titles in ikiwiki blog?
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utf8 warnings for "\xAB"
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how to setup ikiwiki on a remote host
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wishlist-discussion: Editformular showing existing tags
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where are the tags
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Error: bad page name
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navigation of wiki pages on local filesystem with vim
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Render more than one dest page from same source page
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link to an image inside the wiki without inlining it
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an alternative approach to structured data
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web service API, fastcgi support
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ikiwiki and big files
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transition from handwritten html to ikiwiki
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Cannot write to commitlock
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cleaning up discussion pages and the like
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ever-growing list of pages
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Ikiwiki CGI not working on my server, and it's a binary file?
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missing pages redirected to search-SOLVED
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google openid broken?
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Sidebar with links?
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ikiwiki over database?.wiki
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appear if you are login or not in a page
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Accessing meta values in pages?
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Can OpenID users be adminusers?
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speeding up ikiwiki
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is it possible to NOT add openid2 meta tags
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How to fix "does not map to Unicode" errors?
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How does ikiwiki remember times?
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ikiwiki's notion of time
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managing todo lists
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Migrating old repository to new ikiwiki system?
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usedirs & indexpages using problem
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chinese character problem
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Adding new markup to markdown
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wiki name in page titles
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What is wrong with my recentchange page ?
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Darcs as the RCS ?
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Is there a pagespec for creation dates relative to today?
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understanding filter hooks
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multi-user setup of ikiwiki, gitosis and apache2 in Debian Sid
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bashman
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LaTeX Error
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perl5lib and wrappers
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News site where articles are submitted and then reviewed before posting
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Upgrade steps from RecentChanges CGI to static page
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Regex for Valid Characters in Filenames
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installation as non-root user
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paths to files outside the wiki root
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installation of selected docs
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upgrade steps
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Various ways to use Subversion with ikiwiki
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Spaces in wikilinks
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installation and setup questions
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Should not create an existing page
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editing the style sheet
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how do I translate a TWiki site
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