The `meta` directive is supplied by the [[!iki plugins/meta desc=meta]] plugin.

This directive allows inserting arbitrary metadata into the source of a page.
Enter the metadata as follows:

	\[[!meta field="value"]]
	\[[!meta field="value" param="value" param="value"]]

The first form sets a given field to a given value, while the second form
also specifies some additional sub-parameters.

The field values are treated as HTML entity-escaped text, so you can include
a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on.

Supported fields:

* title

  Overrides the title of the page, which is generally the same as the
  page name.

  Note that if the title is overridden, a "title_overridden" variable will
  be set to a true value in the template; this can be used to format things
  differently in this case.

  An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
  [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(title)`:

	\[[!meta title="The Beatles" sortas="Beatles, The"]]

	\[[!meta title="David Bowie" sortas="Bowie, David"]]

* license

  Specifies a license for the page, for example, "GPL". Can contain
  WikiLinks and arbitrary markup.

* copyright

  Specifies the copyright of the page, for example, "Copyright 2007 by
  Joey Hess". Can contain WikiLinks and arbitrary markup.

* author

  Specifies the author of a page.

  An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
  [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(author)`:

	\[[!meta author="Joey Hess" sortas="Hess, Joey"]]

* authorurl

  Specifies an url for the author of a page.

* description

  Specifies a short description for the page. This will be put in
  the html header, and can also be displayed by eg, the [[map]] directive.

* permalink

  Specifies a permanent link to the page, if different than the page
  generated by ikiwiki.

* date

  Specifies the creation date of the page. The date can be entered in
  nearly any format, since it's parsed by [[!cpan TimeDate]].

* stylesheet

  Adds a stylesheet to a page. The stylesheet is treated as a wiki link to
  a `.css` file in the wiki, so it cannot be used to add links to external
  stylesheets. Example:

	\[[!meta stylesheet=somestyle rel="alternate stylesheet"
	title="somestyle"]]

* openid

  Adds html <link> tags to perform OpenID delegation to an external
  OpenID server. This lets you use an ikiwiki page as your OpenID.

  By default this will delegate for both `openid` and `openid2`. To only
  delegate for one, add a parameter such as `delegate=openid`.

  An optional `xrds-location`
  parameter lets you specify the location of any [eXtensible Resource
  DescriptorS](http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/05/using_xrds.shtml).

  Example:

	\[[!meta openid="http://joeyh.myopenid.com/"
	server="http://www.myopenid.com/server"
	xrds-location="http://www.myopenid.com/xrds?username=joeyh.myopenid.com""]]

* link

  Specifies a link to another page. This can be used as a way to make the
  wiki treat one page as linking to another without displaying a user-visible
  [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]]:

       \[[!meta link=otherpage]]

  It can also be used to insert a html <link> tag. For example:

       \[[!meta link="http://joeyh.myopenid.com/" rel="openid.delegate"]]

  However, this latter syntax won't be allowed if the 
  [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
  insert unsafe content.

* redir

  Causes the page to redirect to another page in the wiki.

  	\[[!meta redir=otherpage]]

  Optionally, a delay (in seconds) can be specified. The default is to
  redirect without delay.

  It can also be used to redirect to an external url. For example:

  	\[[!meta redir="http://example.com/"]]

  However, this latter syntax won't be allowed if the 
  [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
  insert unsafe content.

  For both cases, an anchor to jump to inside the destination page may also be
  specified using the common `#ANCHOR` syntax.

* robots

  Causes the robots meta tag to be written:

        \[[!meta robots="index, nofollow"]]

  Valid values for the attribute are: "index", "noindex", "follow", and
  "nofollow". Multiple comma-separated values are allowed, but obviously only
  some combinations make sense. If there is no robots meta tag, "index,
  follow" is used as the default.

  The value is escaped, but its contents are not otherwise checked.

* guid

  Specifies a globally unique ID for a page. This guid should be a URI
  (in particular, it can be `urn:uuid:` followed by a UUID, as per
  [[!rfc 4122]]), and it will be used to identify the page's entry in RSS
  and Atom feeds. If not given, the default is to use the page's URL as its
  guid.

  This is mostly useful when a page has moved, to keep the guids for
  pages unchanged and avoid_flooding_aggregators
  (see [[!iki tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]]).

* updated

  Specifies a fake modification time for a page, to be output into RSS and
  Atom feeds. This is useful to avoid flooding aggregators that sort by
  modification time, like Planet: for instance, when editing an old blog post
  to add tags, you could set `updated` to be one second later than the original
  value. The date/time can be given in any format that
  [[!cpan TimeDate]] can understand, just like the `date` field.

If the field is not one of the above predefined fields, the metadata will be
written to the generated html page as a <meta> header. However, this
won't be allowed if the [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled,
since it can be used to insert unsafe content.

[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]