+_NB! this page has been refactored, hopefully it is clearer now_
+_I propose putting discussion posts somewhere in the vincity of
+the secttion Individual reStructuredText Issues_
+
+## Design ##
+
+**Goal**
+
+To be able to use rst as a first-class markup language in ikiwiki. I think
+most believe this is almost impossible (ikiwiki is built around markdown).
+
+## Wikilinks ##
+
+**WikiLinks**, first and foremost, are needed for a wiki. rST already allows
+specifying absolue and relative URL links, and relative links can be used to
+tie together wiki of rst documents.
+
+1. Below are links to a small, working implementation for resolving
+ undefined rST references using ikiwiki's mechanism. This is **Proposal 1**
+ for rst WikiLinks.
+
+2. Looking over at rST-using systems such as trac and MoinMoin; I think it
+ would be wiser to implement wikilinks by the `:role:` mechanism, together
+ with allowing a custom URL scheme to point to wiki links. This is
+ **Proposal 2**.
+
+ This is a simple wiki page, with :wiki:`WikiLinks` and other_ links
+
+ .. _other: wiki:wikilink
+
+ We can get rid of the role part as well for WikiLinks::
+
+ .. default-role:: wiki
+
+ Enables `WikiLinks` but does not impact references such as ``other``
+ This can be made the default for ikiwiki.
+
+Benefits of using a `:role:` and a `wiki: page/subpage` URL scheme are
+following:
+
+1. rST documents taken out of the context (the wiki) will not fail as bad as
+ if they have lots of Proposal-1 links: They look just the same as valid
+ references, and you have to edit them all.
+ In contrast, should the `:wiki:` role disappear, one line is enough
+ to redefined it and silence all the warnings for the document:
+
+ .. role:: wiki (title)
+
+### Implementation ###
+
+Implementation of Proposal-2 wikilinks are in the branch
+[rst-wikilinks][rst-wl]
+
+
+ This is a simple wiki page, with :wiki:`WikiLinks` and |named| links
+
+ .. |named| wiki:: Some Page
+
+ We can get rid of the role part as well for WikiLinks::
+
+ .. default-role:: wiki
+
+ Enables `WikiLinks` but does not impact references such as ``named``
+ This can be made the default for ikiwiki.
+
+[rst-wl]: http://github.com/engla/ikiwiki/commits/rst-wikilinks
+
+**rst-wikilinks** patch series includes changes at the end to use ikiwiki's
+'htmllink' for the links (which is the only sane thing to do to work in all configurations).
+This means a :wiki:`Link` should render just exactly like [[Link]] whether
+the target exists or not.
+
+On top of **rst-wikilinks** is [rst-customize][rst-custom] which adds two
+power user features: Global (python) file to read in custom directives
+(unsafe), and a wikifile as "header" file for all parsed .rst files (safe,
+but disruptive since all .rst depend on it). Well, the customizations have
+to be picked and chosen from this, but at least the global python file can
+be very convenient.
+
+Some rst-custom [examples are here](http://kaizer.se/wiki/rst_examples/)
+
+[rst-custom]: http://github.com/engla/ikiwiki/commits/rst-customize
+
+## Directives ##
+
+Now **Directives**: As it is now, ikiwiki goes though (roughly):
+filter, preprocess, htmlize, format as major stages of content
+transformation. rST has major problems to work with any HTML that enters the
+picture before it.
+
+1. Formatting rST in `htmlize` (as is done now): Raw html can be escaped by
+ raw blocks:
+
+ .. raw:: html
+
+ \[[!inline and do stuff]]
+
+ (This can be simplified to alias the above as `.. ikiwiki::`)
+ This escape method works, if ikwiki can be persuaded to maintain the
+ indent when inserting html, so that it stays inside the raw block.
+
+2. Formatting rST in `filter` (idea)
+ 1. rST does not have to see any HTML (raw not needed)
+ 2. rST directives can alias ikiwiki syntax:
+
+ ..ikiwiki:: inline pages= ...
+
+ 3. Using rST directives as ikiwiki directives can be complicated;
+ but rST directives allow a direct line (after :: on first line),
+ an option list, and a content block.
+
+### Implementation ###
+
+Preserving indents in the preprocessor are in branch [pproc-indent][ppi]
+
+(These simple patches come with a warning: _Those are the first lines of
+Perl I've ever written!_)
+
+[ppi]: http://github.com/engla/ikiwiki/commits/pproc-indent
+
+## Discussion ##
+
+I guess you (or someone) has been through this before and knows why it
+simply won't work. But I hoped there was something original in the above;
+and I know there are wiki installations where rST works. --ulrik
+
+**Individual reStructuredText Issues**
+
+* We resolve rST links without definition, we don't help resolving defined
+ relative links, so we don't support specifying link name and target
+ separately.
+
+ * Resolved by |replacement| links with the wiki:: directive.
+
+**A first implementation: Resolving unmatched links**
+
+I have a working minimal implementation letting the rst renderer resolve
+undefined native rST links to ikiwiki pages. I have posted it as one patch at: