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two new contrib plugins: newpage, jssearchfield
Posted Sat Jan 28 19:18:18 2012

Encoding problem in french with ikiwiki-calendar
Posted Sat Jan 28 06:30:47 2012

Run script on markdown source
Posted Fri Jan 20 13:12:28 2012

How to change registration page
Posted Wed Jan 18 12:44:31 2012

OpenID not working / where to define wiki's ID?
Posted Wed Jan 18 07:01:58 2012

Debian squeeze still on 3.20100815.7 - update recommended?
Posted Mon Jan 16 10:23:37 2012

How to allow .markdown and .md at the same time as valid extensions for source files?
Posted Sun Jan 15 22:03:49 2012

If there's no Windows ikiwiki, how about a WYSIWYG ikiwiki editor for Windows?
Posted Fri Jan 13 15:35:00 2012

How to create first translation page using po plugin?
Posted Wed Jan 11 13:02:53 2012

index attachments
Posted Tue Jan 10 23:20:55 2012

Perhaps I'm doing it wrong - tracking non-post files in a blog
Posted Mon Jan 2 23:51:34 2012

Are these revisions legit or accidentally committed jiberish?
Posted Fri Dec 30 13:23:42 2011

Error: cannot write to /home/user/myiki2/.ikiwiki/lockfile: Permission denied
Posted Wed Dec 28 12:54:44 2011

Migrated ikiwiki to new host. Web page is not updated
Posted Fri Dec 23 12:41:46 2011

Can't login using Google, or openID, but can use Ikiwiki login
Posted Thu Dec 22 10:16:36 2011

Should files in .ikiwiki be committed and pushed?
Posted Thu Dec 22 01:34:28 2011

Need some help on starting to use po plugin for creating pages in multiple languages
Posted Tue Dec 20 20:48:47 2011

Broken after upgrading Ikiwiki
Posted Tue Dec 20 02:50:48 2011

How to configure po plugin?
Posted Tue Dec 20 00:54:59 2011

Xapian search: empty postlist table
Posted Fri Dec 16 04:10:02 2011

Recent changes on main site or on a sidebar
Posted Sun Dec 11 06:32:10 2011

Split a wiki
Posted Sat Dec 3 14:10:22 2011

Different behaviour when editing with editor than with web-edit
Posted Sat Dec 3 13:16:28 2011

w3mmode [Save Page] results in 403
Posted Fri Dec 2 01:03:36 2011

Disable account creation for new users
Posted Wed Nov 30 11:12:24 2011

ikiwiki generates html files with 600 permission.
Posted Sun Nov 27 07:54:34 2011

Last visited pages
Posted Sun Nov 27 06:24:35 2011

Calendar: listing multiple entries per day
Posted Sat Nov 19 17:24:42 2011

Can I have different favicons for each folder?
Posted Sat Nov 19 12:36:53 2011

How to use ~/bin/multimarkdown instead of Text::MultiMarkdown
Posted Mon Nov 14 19:02:48 2011 by tjgolubi

Can Ikiwiki recognize multimarkdown meta tags?
Posted Sun Nov 13 09:18:08 2011 by tjgolubi

Help with tag_autocreate
Posted Thu Nov 10 15:32:18 2011

Can I change the default menu items?
Posted Wed Oct 26 10:18:26 2011

How to use number as bullet labels but not letter in toc plugin
Posted Fri Oct 14 19:37:56 2011

Allow only specific OpenIDs to login
Posted Sun Oct 9 03:16:34 2011

Clarification on --cgi option
Posted Wed Oct 5 04:22:59 2011

Wikilink to a symbolic link
Posted Tue Sep 27 13:59:22 2011

Revision history for single pages
Posted Mon Sep 26 14:19:53 2011

How to format [[foobar]] in code blocks?
Posted Thu Sep 15 14:14:33 2011

wmd editor double preview
Posted Sun Sep 11 08:04:13 2011

create download link
Posted Sun Sep 11 05:23:01 2011

Wikilink to section of a wikipage
Posted Wed Sep 7 08:39:22 2011

Hide text
Posted Wed Sep 7 05:46:12 2011

how to get nice pdf from ikiwiki pages?
Posted Mon Sep 5 12:13:56 2011

field_tags not linking
Posted Mon Sep 5 09:48:29 2011

Define custom commands
Posted Tue Aug 30 03:23:49 2011

Setting template variable from config file?
Posted Mon Aug 29 14:58:09 2011

How to migrate multiple pages in root directory into a new subdirectory?
Posted Sat Aug 20 13:18:16 2011

How to list all pages in a wiki instance?
Posted Wed Aug 17 14:00:38 2011

error 302 (Found) when editing page
Posted Thu Aug 11 05:58:35 2011

Log in error
Posted Fri Aug 5 15:33:41 2011

move pages
Posted Fri Aug 5 09:04:39 2011

section editing
Posted Thu Aug 4 05:11:17 2011

How is TITLE evaluated in inline archive templates?
Posted Wed Aug 3 20:22:45 2011

Chinese file name corruption
Posted Wed Aug 3 15:03:47 2011

Link to a local pdf file
Posted Sun Jul 31 09:47:08 2011

getsource from gitweb with cgi disabled , Is it possible?
Posted Wed Jul 20 19:57:40 2011

Have creation time for new pages fetched from the VCS
Posted Mon Jul 18 08:31:28 2011

java script slideshow
Posted Wed Jun 22 17:20:26 2011

Can one tell if a page is added rather than changed?
Posted Sun Jun 19 20:13:04 2011

Need help installing h1title plugin
Posted Mon Jun 6 19:14:07 2011

How to apply a background color to a page?
Posted Sun Jun 5 15:47:58 2011

How to make a table of content at the top of page?
Posted Sun Jun 5 12:52:25 2011

How long does server delay newly pushed revisions?
Posted Sat Jun 4 19:54:06 2011

pandoc-iki plugin
Posted Wed Jun 1 08:44:36 2011

nginx: 404 plugin not working
Posted Wed May 25 16:16:45 2011

lockedit: pages don't get locked
Posted Wed May 25 15:51:40 2011

teximg not working
Posted Sun May 22 20:42:32 2011

How best to manage a bilingual ikiwiki site?
Posted Sun May 22 18:17:25 2011

How to customize page title?
Posted Sun May 22 17:53:59 2011

How to lock all pages except discussions and comments to blog posts?
Posted Sat May 21 22:47:29 2011

*.html source file containing <script>...</script> not working?
Posted Sat May 21 19:08:47 2011

Is it possible to change default mdwn suffix?
Posted Fri May 20 16:01:14 2011

Need help setting up ikiwiki CGI
Posted Fri May 20 16:01:14 2011

square brackets inside backticks generates incorrect html (interpreted as wikilinks)?
Posted Thu May 19 16:31:08 2011

Processing non-pages
Posted Wed Apr 20 22:51:58 2011

tags acting strangely: not picking up all pages, not populating feeds
Posted Tue Apr 19 15:40:27 2011

wishlist: support staging area
Posted Fri Apr 15 05:17:47 2011

wishlist: Allow OpenID users to set a display name
Posted Wed Apr 13 22:24:50 2011

Doing related links based on tags
Posted Sun Apr 10 05:18:05 2011

Apache XBitHack
Posted Tue Mar 15 00:01:52 2011

postsignin redirect not working
Posted Tue Mar 1 23:14:01 2011

Setting up a development environment
Posted Thu Feb 24 04:48:25 2011

Error Code 1
Posted Wed Feb 23 19:05:07 2011

screenplay plugin
Posted Wed Feb 23 02:24:46 2011

TMPL_VAR IS_ADMIN
Posted Wed Feb 23 02:19:50 2011

Can custom themes live somewhere inside srcdir?
Posted Sat Jan 29 04:21:05 2011

Debian 5.0.7: Can't locate IkiWiki/Setup/Automator.pm
Posted Tue Jan 25 15:14:34 2011

How to specify repository is on a remote host?
Posted Mon Jan 24 16:56:28 2011

Possible to use meta variables in templates?
Posted Mon Jan 24 10:52:23 2011

Can't get ikiwiki working again after reinstall
Posted Tue Jan 18 20:45:57 2011

Flowplayer
Posted Sun Jan 2 16:32:29 2011

using l10n'd basewiki
Posted Sun Dec 5 16:10:32 2010

how can I use '/' as tagbase?
Posted Sun Dec 5 09:25:56 2010

Need something more powerful than Exclude
Posted Mon Nov 22 22:47:38 2010

How to list new pages, inline?
Posted Sat Nov 6 03:51:29 2010

Blog posting times and ikiwiki state
Posted Wed Nov 3 19:34:53 2010

ikiwiki + mathjax
Posted Sat Oct 30 16:26:45 2010

Moving wiki.git folder?
Posted Wed Oct 27 16:51:34 2010

Different templates for subdirectories? (Blogging and Wiki pages)
Posted Thu Oct 21 01:27:08 2010

PageSpec results from independent checkout
Posted Wed Oct 20 18:52:46 2010

Map Plugin, would like to add ?updated to all links
Posted Tue Oct 12 23:03:24 2010

Discussion PageSpec?
Posted Tue Oct 12 10:46:35 2010

Dump plugin
Posted Sat Oct 2 01:06:10 2010

Asciidoc plugin
Posted Fri Oct 1 18:48:29 2010

field and forms
Posted Fri Sep 17 21:08:49 2010

ikiwiki vim integration
Posted Sun Sep 12 20:25:51 2010

recovering original title with meta directive
Posted Fri Sep 10 16:50:05 2010

using svn+ssh with ikiwiki
Posted Fri Sep 10 09:00:03 2010

404 - not found
Posted Sun Sep 5 14:31:16 2010

Forward slashes being escaped as 252F
Posted Fri Sep 3 14:17:43 2010

Can't get comments plugin working
Posted Sun Aug 22 13:42:13 2010

editing a comment
Posted Sun Aug 15 13:22:40 2010

multi domain setup possible?
Posted Sun Aug 15 07:11:21 2010

cutpaste.pm not only file-local
Posted Wed Aug 11 04:23:04 2010

report pagination
Posted Wed Jul 28 22:47:26 2010

how to enable multimarkdown?
Posted Wed Jul 14 06:42:39 2010

use php-markdown-extra with ikiwiki?
Posted Sat Jul 10 08:06:23 2010

remove css?
Posted Sat Jul 10 02:40:43 2010

html source pages in version 3.20100704
Posted Fri Jul 9 16:31:10 2010

ikiwiki vim syntaxfile
Posted Tue Jul 6 00:34:47 2010

recentchanges dir should be under control of RCS?
Posted Mon Jul 5 06:36:39 2010

The requested URL /~jean/blog/ikiwiki.cgi was not found on this server.
Posted Thu Jun 17 02:22:19 2010

tag plugin: rebuilding autocreated pages
Posted Mon Jun 14 23:41:34 2010

wiki clones on dynamic IPs
Posted Sun Jun 13 08:37:16 2010

formating: how to align text to the right
Posted Mon Jun 7 20:09:20 2010

link autocompletion in vim
Posted Mon May 24 21:10:32 2010

ikiwiki development environment tips
Posted Mon May 17 13:18:58 2010

what is the easiest way to implement order: disallow all, allow chosen_few page editing policy?
Posted Fri May 14 14:21:45 2010

how to load an external page and still have it under ikiwiki template
Posted Fri May 14 10:11:04 2010

how do I revert edits in the web mode?
Posted Fri May 7 19:02:55 2010

debian backports update someone please
Posted Fri May 7 17:56:56 2010

double forward slash '//' in the address bar
Posted Fri May 7 13:55:08 2010

how to login as admin
Posted Fri May 7 13:22:20 2010

suppressing output of pages included only for their side effects
Posted Tue May 4 11:41:56 2010

PERL5LIB, wrappers and homedir install
Posted Mon May 3 19:28:27 2010

how to add post titles in ikiwiki blog?
Posted Sun May 2 15:19:33 2010

utf8 warnings for "\xAB"
Posted Mon Mar 22 19:01:00 2010

how to setup ikiwiki on a remote host
Posted Thu Mar 18 08:03:34 2010

wishlist-discussion: Editformular showing existing tags
Posted Wed Mar 10 11:26:27 2010

where are the tags
Posted Wed Feb 3 23:47:26 2010

Error: bad page name
Posted Sat Jan 23 15:03:32 2010

navigation of wiki pages on local filesystem with vim
Posted Fri Jan 22 18:46:31 2010

Render more than one dest page from same source page
Posted Fri Jan 22 03:36:24 2010

link to an image inside the wiki without inlining it
Posted Sat Jan 9 15:47:32 2010

an alternative approach to structured data
Posted Fri Dec 4 05:29:10 2009

web service API, fastcgi support
Posted Mon Nov 30 07:19:51 2009

ikiwiki and big files
Posted Thu Nov 5 19:27:16 2009

transition from handwritten html to ikiwiki
Posted Thu Nov 5 04:49:37 2009

Cannot write to commitlock
Posted Tue Oct 20 10:59:15 2009

cleaning up discussion pages and the like
Posted Sat Oct 17 08:43:11 2009

ever-growing list of pages
Posted Fri Oct 16 05:33:42 2009

Ikiwiki CGI not working on my server, and it's a binary file?
Posted Thu Oct 15 11:54:59 2009

missing pages redirected to search-SOLVED
Posted Sun Sep 27 18:05:52 2009

google openid broken?
Posted Thu Aug 13 16:56:26 2009

Sidebar with links?
Posted Thu Aug 6 13:40:26 2009

ikiwiki over database?.wiki
Posted Sun Aug 2 09:23:47 2009

appear if you are login or not in a page
Posted Sun Aug 2 09:16:54 2009

Accessing meta values in pages?
Posted Thu Jul 16 14:46:09 2009

Can OpenID users be adminusers?
Posted Tue Jul 7 07:19:22 2009

speeding up ikiwiki
Posted Fri Jun 19 09:19:45 2009

is it possible to NOT add openid2 meta tags
Posted Mon Jun 8 00:15:53 2009

How to fix "does not map to Unicode" errors?
Posted Thu Apr 2 09:07:53 2009

How does ikiwiki remember times?
Posted Wed Apr 1 07:26:06 2009

ikiwiki's notion of time
Posted Thu Mar 19 17:31:53 2009

managing todo lists
Posted Sun Mar 15 18:24:57 2009

Migrating old repository to new ikiwiki system?
Posted Tue Feb 17 23:19:33 2009

usedirs & indexpages using problem
Posted Tue Feb 17 02:55:10 2009

chinese character problem
Posted Sat Jan 24 13:37:53 2009

Adding new markup to markdown
Posted Fri Oct 31 19:34:49 2008

wiki name in page titles
Posted Wed Oct 29 23:25:34 2008

What is wrong with my recentchange page ?
Posted Fri Oct 17 18:30:03 2008

Darcs as the RCS ?
Posted Thu Oct 16 12:53:33 2008

Is there a pagespec for creation dates relative to today?
Posted Wed Oct 15 16:27:53 2008

understanding filter hooks
Posted Fri Sep 12 10:38:56 2008

multi-user setup of ikiwiki, gitosis and apache2 in Debian Sid
Posted Wed Sep 10 06:45:58 2008

bashman
Posted Tue Aug 5 18:16:10 2008

LaTeX Error
Posted Tue Aug 5 11:06:37 2008

perl5lib and wrappers
Posted Sat Jul 19 01:52:56 2008

News site where articles are submitted and then reviewed before posting
Posted Mon Apr 28 14:57:25 2008

Upgrade steps from RecentChanges CGI to static page
Posted Sat Feb 23 22:10:42 2008

Regex for Valid Characters in Filenames
Posted Sat Jan 19 00:40:02 2008

installation as non-root user
Posted Sun Jan 13 17:02:52 2008

paths to files outside the wiki root
Posted Thu Dec 20 17:06:47 2007

installation of selected docs
Posted Thu Sep 6 15:47:23 2007

upgrade steps
Posted Mon Aug 27 17:52:18 2007

Various ways to use Subversion with ikiwiki
Posted Thu Aug 16 23:54:10 2007

Spaces in wikilinks
Posted Mon Jul 2 09:21:29 2007

installation and setup questions
Posted Thu Mar 1 20:57:08 2007

Should not create an existing page
Posted Mon Jan 8 10:55:31 2007

editing the style sheet
Posted Fri Dec 29 00:19:51 2006

how do I translate a TWiki site
Posted Tue Dec 19 05:56:21 2006