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Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the bugs and todo pages.

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Translating ikiwiki interface
Posted Tue Jun 18 17:36:58 2013
Can ikiwiki be configured as multi user blog?
Posted Sat May 18 17:24:51 2013
How can I prevent spam?
Posted Fri May 17 06:52:49 2013
Ikiwiki themes for mobile devices?
Posted Sat Mar 30 12:56:42 2013
Refresh or recreate style.css?
Posted Sat Mar 30 07:13:55 2013
How do I enable OpenID?
Posted Fri Mar 29 08:50:52 2013
How to set up a page as internal?
Posted Mon Feb 25 15:21:22 2013
Email notifications for comment moderation
Posted Sun Feb 17 21:45:18 2013
Error: CGI::tmpFileName failed to return the uploaded file name
Posted Wed Jan 2 01:04:44 2013
po plugin doesn't create po files (only pot).
Posted Fri Dec 21 12:35:03 2012
How to set up git repository hook ?
Posted Tue Dec 18 11:42:24 2012
How to add additional links to the gray horizontable bar under page title?
Posted Sun Oct 21 20:03:44 2012
CGI script and HTTPS
Posted Thu Oct 11 04:34:31 2012
Multiple urls
Posted Mon Oct 8 18:37:22 2012
Setting http_proxy
Posted Thu Oct 4 15:27:38 2012
how could i generate a flat textfile from metadata in multiple pages
Posted Fri Sep 14 01:29:08 2012
which file ikiwiki --setup is processing right now?
Posted Sun Sep 9 22:56:24 2012
Problem with local git commit
Posted Tue Aug 28 10:28:09 2012
How to style main sidebar and SubPage sidebar differently using CSS?
Posted Fri Aug 17 21:37:14 2012
What's the difference between tag and taglink?
Posted Fri Aug 17 18:06:33 2012
Background picture and css
Posted Mon Aug 13 06:05:33 2012
possible utf-8 problem?
Posted Tue Aug 7 16:40:59 2012
How to generate blog archive pages in /blog subdir but not ikiwiki root path?
Posted Wed Jul 25 12:44:22 2012
How to add link to previous and next blog on blog pages?
Posted Wed Jul 25 12:32:58 2012
Slow ikiwiki after first run
Posted Thu Jul 5 08:47:31 2012
ikiwiki --setup creates tmp/ directory in destdir
Posted Fri Jun 29 12:41:47 2012
How to create a WikiLink to a page in a subdirectory?
Posted Tue Jun 26 12:03:51 2012
How to inline a page from another git repository
Posted Thu Jun 21 07:05:13 2012
Google searches of ikiwiki.info are broken. :(
Posted Wed Jun 13 18:29:26 2012
How to set the meta author field from user name?
Posted Fri Jun 8 03:01:28 2012
Everyone can remove comments
Posted Wed Jun 6 16:41:12 2012
Can not advance past first page of results using search plugin
Posted Tue Jun 5 11:24:26 2012
Error: "do" parameter missing
Posted Tue May 22 06:30:48 2012
Parent Links all link to root
Posted Mon May 21 14:30:48 2012
Anyone mirroring ikiwiki inline feed to identi.ca?
Posted Sat May 19 10:44:47 2012
When do tags like a/b get listed as a/b and not only b?
Posted Thu Apr 19 08:38:40 2012
access restrictions: for extranet
Posted Sun Apr 15 15:55:47 2012
Include attachment in a page
Posted Mon Apr 2 08:40:47 2012
howto install the pagedown plugin
Posted Mon Apr 2 05:39:20 2012
See rendered old revisions via pagehistory
Posted Thu Mar 29 15:08:28 2012
Attachment and sub-directory
Posted Mon Mar 26 13:52:51 2012
problem with git after a commit of ikiwiki
Posted Sun Mar 25 16:34:08 2012
Empty sha1sum messages
Posted Tue Mar 20 19:11:56 2012
Commiting all moderated comments into special branch?
Posted Tue Mar 13 19:50:28 2012
build error: Cannot decode string with wide characters
Posted Mon Mar 12 20:55:57 2012
attachments fail to upload
Posted Wed Feb 29 20:56:28 2012
How to show recent changes for individual pages?
Posted Mon Feb 27 22:27:00 2012
links to diff on recentchanges?
Posted Thu Feb 23 13:31:09 2012
How to add a mouse-over pop-up label for a text?
Posted Wed Feb 22 16:13:53 2012
Problem with gitweb
Posted Tue Feb 7 15:58:09 2012
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