Also, it should be possible to change the permalink (the Atom `<link>`) of a post (e.g. moving the content and leaving a redirector behind), while keeping the same Atom `<id>` (so that aggregators don't get confused).
-Ideally UUIDs for [blog posts](/ikiwiki/blog/) should be chosen when the post is created, and frozen permanently by checking them in along with the content.
+Ideally UUIDs for [[blog]] posts should be chosen when the post is created, and frozen permanently by checking them in along with the content.
Perhaps ikiwiki's blogging functionality could be hooked up to the [meta plugin](/meta/plugin/), with a new meta keyword (uuid? feed-uuid? atom-uuid?) to achieve this.
> While I was there, I noticed that the quality of the generated Atom/RSS feeds could be improved by making more use of the meta plugin if it's also enabled - would anyone object to me hacking on this some more?
>
> -[smcv](http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/)
+
+> [[merged|done]], thank you!
+>
+> I chose to use the term guid, since it's both a generic term that fits
+> very well and describes both using a uuid and an url, and also happens
+> to be the term rss uses. ;-)
+>
+> Of course I'm happy if you can improve the feeds. They do already
+> use some meta information (author, copyright). --[[Joey]]