web commit by JoshTriplett: Reference OpenID bug.

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@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ see [[commit-internals]].
 
 You browse and web-edit the wiki on W.
 
+W "belongs" to ikiwiki and should not be edited directly.
+
 
 ## [darcs](http://darcs.net/) (not yet included)
 
@@ -103,6 +105,18 @@ by Ikiwiki.
 This approach might be applicable to other distributed VCSs as well, although they're not as oriented
 towards transmitting changes with standalone patch bundles (often by email) as darcs is.
 
+> The mercurial plugin seems to just use one repo and edit it directly - is
+> there some reason that's okay there but not for darcs? I agree with tuomov
+> that having just the one repo would be preferable; the point of a dvcs is
+> that there's no difference between one repo and another. I've got a
+> darcs.pm based on mercurial.pm, that's almost usable... --bma
+
+>> IMHO it comes down to whatever works well for a given RCS. Seems like
+>> the darcs approach _could_ be done with most any distributed system, but
+>> it might be overkill for some (or all?) While there is the incomplete darcs
+>> plugin in the [[patchqueue]], if you submit one that's complete, I will
+>> probably accept it into ikiwiki.. --[[Joey]]
+
 ## [[Git]]
 
 Regarding the Git support, Recai says: