advantages to using one that are not possible with a standard wiki.
Instead of editing pages in a stupid web form, you can use vim and commit
-changes via [[Subversion]]. Or work disconnected using svk and push your
-changes out when you come online. Or use [[git]], [[tla]], or [[mercurial]]
-to work in a distributed fashion all the time. (It's also possible to
-[[plugins/write]] a plugin to support other systems.)
+changes via [[Subversion|rcs/svn]], [[rcs/git]], or any of a number of other
+[[Revision_Control_Systems|rcs]].
ikiwiki can be run from a [[post-commit]] hook to update your wiki
immediately whenever you commit a change using the RCS.
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.
-## [[Blogging|blog]]
+## Blogging
You can turn any page in the wiki into a [[blog]]. Pages matching a
specified [[PageSpec]] will be displayed as a weblog within the blog
Ikiwiki's backend RCS support is also pluggable, so support for new
revision control systems can be added to ikiwiki.
+The standard language for ikiwiki plugins is perl, but ikiwiki also supports
+[[plugins/write/external]] plugins: Standalone programs that can be written in
+any language and communicate with ikiwiki using XML RPC.
+
## [[todo/utf8]]
After rather a lot of fiddling, we think that ikiwiki correctly and fully