# DESCRIPTION
`ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from
-`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, and writes it out to `destination`.
+`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language (or others), and writes it out to
+`destination`.
Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean
flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
a [[blog]].
-* --url http://url/
+* --pingurl url
+
+ Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
+ updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
+ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
+
+ This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
+ url to ping.
+
+* --url url
Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.