+ the index though.
+
+ > At least for this wiki, I turned out to have a use for [[ikiwiki]]
+ > pointing to a different page, though the general point might still
+ > stand.
+
+* The toplevel [[ikiwiki/Discussion]] page has some weird parentlinks
+ behavior. This could be special cased around with the following patch.
+ However, I'm unsure if I like the idea of more special cases around this.
+ It would be better to find a way to make the toplevel index page not be a
+ special case at all.
+
+Here is a patch:
+
+ --- IkiWiki/Render.pm (revision 1187)
+ +++ IkiWiki/Render.pm (working copy)
+ @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
+ my $path="";
+ my $skip=1;
+ return if $page eq 'index'; # toplevel
+ + $path=".." if $page=~s/^index\///;
+ foreach my $dir (reverse split("/", $page)) {
+ if (! $skip) {
+ $path.="../";
+
+ > Came up with a better patch for this, [[done]] --[[Joey]]
+
+---
+
+> I would like to suggest another tack, namely a bigger, better special case.
+> The basic idea is that all indices of the form foo/bar/index get the wiki path foo/bar.
+> You could do this today using [[todo/index.html_allowed]], except that the toplevel
+> page "index" becomes "", which causes all sorts of chaos. The discussion page would
+> become /discussion, and the weird parentlinks behavior would go away. --Ethan