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@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ provided by ikiwiki on top of regular markdown is the [[WikiLink]] and
 If you prefer to use some other markup language, ikiwiki allows others to
 easily be added by [[plugins]]. For example it also supports traditional
 [[plugins/WikiText]] formatted pages, pages written as pure
-[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]].
+[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]]
+or [[Textile|plugins/textile]].
 
 ikiwiki also supports files of any other type, including plain text,
 images, etc. These are not converted to wiki pages, they are just copied
@@ -67,9 +68,9 @@ you would care to syndicate.
 ## Valid html and [[css]]
 
 ikiwiki aims to produce 
-[valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer).
-ikiwiki generates html using [[templates]], and uses [[css]], so you can 
-change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like.
+[valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer). ikiwiki
+generates html using [[templates|wikitemplates]], and uses [[css]], so you
+can change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like.
 
 ## [[Plugins]]
 
@@ -128,8 +129,12 @@ and can be enabled by enabling [[CGI]].
 
 ### User registration
 
-Can optionally be configured to allow only registered users to post
-pages; online user registration form, etc.
+Can optionally be configured to allow only registered users to edit
+pages.
+
+User registration can be done using a web form, or ikiwiki can be
+configured to accept users authenticated with OpenID, or HTTP basic
+authentication, or other methods implemented via plugins.
 
 ### Discussion pages
 
@@ -137,14 +142,17 @@ Thanks to subpages, every page can easily and automatically have a
 /Discussion subpage. By default, these links are included in the
 [[templates]] for each page.
 
-### Page locking
+### Edit controls
 
-Wiki admins can lock pages so that only other admins can edit them.
+Wiki admins can [[lock_pages|page_locking]] so that only other admins can
+edit them. Or a wiki can be set up to allow anyone to edit Discussion
+pages, but only registered users to edit other pages. These are just two
+possibilities, since page edit controls can be changed via plugins.
 
 ### [[PageHistory]]
 
 Well, sorta. Rather than implementing YA history browser, it can link to
-[[ViewCVS]] or the like to browse the history of a wiki page.
+[[ViewVC]] or the like to browse the history of a wiki page.
 
 ### Full text search