… To put it short: an Ikiwiki newbie.
-Currently, I run a couple of Ikiwiki instances. Namely:
+[Altai State University]: http://www.asu.ru/
+[Emacs]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
+[Lynx]: http://lynx.isc.org/
+[Software Freedom Day]: http://sf-day.org/
-* <http://lhc.am-1.org/lhc/>
- — to hold random stuff written by me, my colleagues,
- students, etc.
+## Wikis
+
+Currently, I run a few Ikiwiki instances. Namely:
+
+* <http://sfd.am-1.org/>
+ — [Software Freedom Day][]
+ event at [Altai State University][].
+
+* <https://spire.am-1.org/>
+ — introductory materials
+ on XML, Markdown, Ikiwiki, etc.
+ in Russian.
-* <http://rsdesne.am-1.org/rsdesne-2010/>
- — for some of the materials related to the
- &ldaquo;Remote Sensing in Education, Science and National
- Economy&rdaquo; (2010-03-29 … 2010-04-10, Altai State
- University) program I've recently recently participated in as
+* <http://am-1.org/~ivan/networks-2011/>
+ — bits & pieces related to the course on computer
+ networks I've read in 2011.
+
+* http://rsdesne.am-1.org/rsdesne-2010/
+ **(down since December, 2012)**
+ — used to hold some of the materials related to the
+ “Remote Sensing in Education, Science and National
+ Economy” (2010-03-29 … 2010-04-10, Altai State
+ University) program I've participated in as
an instructor.
+
+* http://lhc.am-1.org/lhc/
+ **(down since December, 2012)**
+ — used to hold random stuff written by me, my colleagues,
+ students, etc.
+
+## Preferences
+
+I prefer to use [Lynx][] along with [Emacs][] (via
+`emacsclient`) to work with the wikis. (Note the “Local
+variables” section below.)
+
+The things I dislike in the wiki engines are:
+
+* the use of home-brew specialized version control systems
+ — while there're a lot of much more developed general
+ purpose ones;
+
+* oversimplified syntax
+ — which (to some extent) precludes more sophisticated
+ forms of automated processing; in particular, this forces one
+ to reformat the material, once complete, to, say, prepare a
+ book, or an article, or slides.
+
+Out of all the wiki engines I'm familiar with, only Ikiwiki is
+free of the first of these. I hope that it will support more
+elaborate syntaxes eventually.
+
+----
+
+ Local variables:
+ mode: markdown
+ coding: utf-8
+ fill-column: 64
+ ispell-local-dictionary: "american"
+ End: