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-Ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts a directory full of wiki pages
-into html pages suitable for publishing on a website. Unlike a traditional
-wiki, ikiwiki does not have its own means of storing page history, its own
-markup language, or support for editing pages online. 
-
-Why call it IkiWiki? Well, partly because I'm sure some people will find
-this a pretty Iky Wiki, since it's so different from other Wikis. Partly
-because "ikiwiki" is a nice palindrome. Partly because its design turns
-the usual design for a Wiki inside-out and backwards.
+Welcome to the ikiwiki documentation wiki.

 
 

-To use ikiwiki to set up a wiki, you will probably want to use it with a
-revision control system, such as [[Subversion]], for keeping track of past
-versions of pages. ikiwiki can run as a Subversion post-commit hook, so
-that each committed change to your wiki is immediatly compiled and
-published. (It can also be run by hand, by cron, or integrated with any
-other revision control system.) 
+ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts a directory full of wiki pages
+into html pages suitable for publishing on a website. Unlike a traditional
+wiki, ikiwiki does not have its own means of storing page history or its own
+markup language. Instead it uses [[Subversion]] and [[MarkDown]].

 
 

-[[Subversion]] also offers a way to let others edit pages on your wiki.
-Just configure subversion to let appropriate users (or everyone) commit to
-the wiki's repository. There are some things you should keep in mind about
-[[Security]] when allowing the world to edit your ikiwiki.
+* See [[Features]] for a current list of ikiwiki's features. [[TODO]] and [[bugs]] might also be of interest.

 
 

-ikiwiki supports pages using [[MarkDown]] as their markup language. Any
-page with a filename ending in ".mdwn" is converted from markdown to html
-by ikiwiki. Markdown understands text formatted as it would be in an email,
-and is quite smart about converting it to html. The only additional markup
-provided by ikiwiki aside from regular markdown is the [[WikiLink]].
+* [[Setup]] has a tutorial for setting up ikiwki, and [[Usage]] documents the parameters and usage of the ikiwiki program.

 
 

-ikiwiki also supports files of any other type, including raw html, text,
-images, etc. These are not converted to wiki pages, they are just copied
-unchanged by ikiwiki as it builds your wiki. So you can check in an image,
-program, or other special file and link to it from your wiki pages.
-ikiwiki also supports making one page that is a [[SubPage]] of another.
+* [[Security]] lists potential security problems. ikiwiki is still being developed, and is being written with security as a priority, so don't expect things to stay in this list for long.

 
 

-[[TODO]] lists things that need to be added to ikiwiki before most people
-would consider it a full-fledged wiki.
+Ikiwiki is _not_ yet formally released, although it's very close to being ready for a release now. If you really have to have it: `svn://svn.kitenet.net/ikiwiki/trunk`

 
 

-All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does to.
+All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too.

 
 

-ikiwiki is developed by [[JoeyHess]].
+ikiwiki is developed by [[Joey]].